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ARXIV:2604.06865 · PHYSICAL ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ON AI SURVEILLANCE · SUBMITTED 10 APR · 00:16 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.06865PHYSICAL ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ON AI SURVEILLANCESUBMITTED 10 APR · 00:16 UTCFRESHNESS STALEMiguel A. DelaCruz · Patricia Mae Santos · Rafael T. Navarro · arXiv
A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism.
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Pain A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism.
Evidence 59 refs | 3 sources | 67% coverage
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A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the…
Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the attack…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. A perturbation that suppresses a detector in one frame may have limited practical effect if identity is recovered over time; an RGB-only result may…
Physical Adversarial Attacks on AI Surveillance moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 3.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.06865A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism.
Abstract
Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the attack carrier all matter at once. This changes how the literature should be read. A perturbation that suppresses a detector in one frame may have limited practical effect if identity is recovered over time; an RGB-only result may say little about night-time systems that rely on visible and thermal inputs together; and a conspicuous patch can imply a different threat model from a wearable or selectively activated carrier. This paper reviews physical attacks from that surveillance-oriented viewpoint. Rather than attempting a complete catalogue of all physical attacks in computer vision, we focus on the technical questions that become central in surveillance: temporal persistence, sensing modality, carrier realism, and system-level objective. We organize prior work through a four-part taxonomy and discuss how recent results on multi-object tracking, dual-modal visible--infrared evasion, and controllable clothing reflect a broader change in the field. We also summarize evaluation practices and unresolved gaps, including distance robustness, camera-pipeline variation, identity-level metrics, and activation-aware testing. The resulting picture is that surveillance robustness cannot be judged reliably from isolated per-frame benchmarks alone; it has to be examined as a system problem unfolding over time, across sensors, and under realistic physical deployment constraints.
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unverified59 refs; 3 sources; 67% coverage.
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A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the attack carrier all m...
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Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the attack carrie...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. A perturbation that suppresses a detector in one frame may have limited practical effect if identity is recovered over time; an RGB-only result may say little about night-time systems that rely on visible...
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Physical Adversarial Attacks on AI Surveillance moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 3.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the attack carrier all matter at once.
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Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and the practical form of the attack carrier all matter at once.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. A perturbation that suppresses a detector in one frame may have limited practical effect if identity is recovered over time; an RGB-only result may say little about night-time systems that rely on visible and thermal inputs together; and a conspicuous patch can imply a different threat model from a wearable or selectively activated carrier. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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Physical Adversarial Attacks on AI Surveillance moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 3.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A review of physical adversarial attacks on AI surveillance systems, focusing on temporal persistence, sensing modality, and carrier realism.
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