Hiding in Plain Sight: An Effective Physical Adversarial Patch Attack against Visual-Infrared Fused Face Detection

arXiv:2607.23292v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning-based visual-infrared fused face detection models are increasingly deployed across a wide range of applications, yet they remain susceptible to adversarial patch attacks. Most prior attacks target either the visual or the infrared image alone in the digital domain, which renders them ineffective against fused models in the physical world. Moreover, many of these methods are readily noticeable, as their patch patterns deviate substantially from those seen in the real world. In this paper, we introduce VIPatch (Visual-Infrared Patch), a novel physical adversarial patch attack that produces inconspicuous, realistic, and natural-looking patches for facial images. Specifically, VIPatch crafts a gradient-color mask together with a band-aid sticker across both the visual and infrared images, and jointly optimizes these two elements; the resulting digital patches further guide the fabrication of their physical counterparts. Experimental results show that VIPatch achieves competitive attack success rates (over 90%) in both the digital and physical domains, while keeping the patches unobtrusive to human observers.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-07-28