PointAPA: Towards Availability Poisoning Attacks in 3D Point Clouds

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Wang, Xianlong
Li, Minghui
Xu, Peng
Liu, Wei
Zhang, Leo Yu
Hu, Shengshan
Zhang, Yanjun
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Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin

Kozik, Rafał

Choraś, Michał

Katsikas, Sokratis

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2024
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Bydgoszcz, Poland

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Recently, the realm of deep learning applied to 3D point clouds has witnessed significant progress, accompanied by a growing concern about the emerging security threats to point cloud models. While adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks have gained continuous attention, the potentially more detrimental availability poisoning attack (APA) remains unexplored in this domain. In response, we propose the first APA approach in 3D point cloud domain (PointAPA), which utilizes class-wise rotations to serve as shortcuts for poisoning, thus satisfying efficiency, effectiveness, concealment, and the black-box setting. Drawing inspiration from the prevalence of shortcuts in deep neural networks, we exploit the impact of rotation in 3D data augmentation on feature extraction in point cloud networks. This rotation serves as a shortcut, allowing us to apply varying degrees of rotation to training samples from different categories, creating effective shortcuts that contaminate the training process. The natural and efficient rotating operation makes our attack highly inconspicuous and easy to launch. Furthermore, our poisoning scheme is more concealed due to keeping the labels clean (i.e., clean-label APA). Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets of 3D point clouds (including real-world datasets for autonomous driving) have provided compelling evidence that our approach largely compromises 3D point cloud models, resulting in a reduction in model accuracy ranging from 40.6% to 73.1% compared to clean training. Additionally, our method demonstrates resilience against statistical outlier removal (SOR) and three types of random data augmentation defense schemes. Our code is available at https://github.com/wxldragon/PointAPA.

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Computer Security – ESORICS 2024: 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 16–20, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

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14982

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Wang, X; Li, M; Xu, P; Liu, W; Zhang, LY; Hu, S; Zhang, Y, PointAPA: Towards Availability Poisoning Attacks in 3D Point Clouds, Computer Security – ESORICS 2024: 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 16–20, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, 2024, 14982, pp. 125-145