308 research outputs found
Attention guided global enhancement and local refinement network for semantic segmentation
The encoder-decoder architecture is widely used as a lightweight semantic
segmentation network. However, it struggles with a limited performance compared
to a well-designed Dilated-FCN model for two major problems. First, commonly
used upsampling methods in the decoder such as interpolation and deconvolution
suffer from a local receptive field, unable to encode global contexts. Second,
low-level features may bring noises to the network decoder through skip
connections for the inadequacy of semantic concepts in early encoder layers. To
tackle these challenges, a Global Enhancement Method is proposed to aggregate
global information from high-level feature maps and adaptively distribute them
to different decoder layers, alleviating the shortage of global contexts in the
upsampling process. Besides, a Local Refinement Module is developed by
utilizing the decoder features as the semantic guidance to refine the noisy
encoder features before the fusion of these two (the decoder features and the
encoder features). Then, the two methods are integrated into a Context Fusion
Block, and based on that, a novel Attention guided Global enhancement and Local
refinement Network (AGLN) is elaborately designed. Extensive experiments on
PASCAL Context, ADE20K, and PASCAL VOC 2012 datasets have demonstrated the
effectiveness of the proposed approach. In particular, with a vanilla
ResNet-101 backbone, AGLN achieves the state-of-the-art result (56.23% mean
IoU) on the PASCAL Context dataset. The code is available at
https://github.com/zhasen1996/AGLN.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Unveiling Single-Bit-Flip Attacks on DNN Executables
Recent research has shown that bit-flip attacks (BFAs) can manipulate deep
neural networks (DNNs) via DRAM Rowhammer exploitations. Existing attacks are
primarily launched over high-level DNN frameworks like PyTorch and flip bits in
model weight files. Nevertheless, DNNs are frequently compiled into low-level
executables by deep learning (DL) compilers to fully leverage low-level
hardware primitives. The compiled code is usually high-speed and manifests
dramatically distinct execution paradigms from high-level DNN frameworks.
In this paper, we launch the first systematic study on the attack surface of
BFA specifically for DNN executables compiled by DL compilers. We design an
automated search tool to identify vulnerable bits in DNN executables and
identify practical attack vectors that exploit the model structure in DNN
executables with BFAs (whereas prior works make likely strong assumptions to
attack model weights). DNN executables appear more "opaque" than models in
high-level DNN frameworks. Nevertheless, we find that DNN executables contain
extensive, severe (e.g., single-bit flip), and transferrable attack surfaces
that are not present in high-level DNN models and can be exploited to deplete
full model intelligence and control output labels. Our finding calls for
incorporating security mechanisms in future DNN compilation toolchains.Comment: Fix typ
Phase interaction induced texture in a plasma sprayed-remelted NiCrBSi coating during solidification: An electron backscatter diffraction study
Although considerable endeavors have been dedicated to investigate the microstructures of the remelting-enhanced NiCrBSi coatings, the textures in the remelted coatings, which may result in property anisotropy, are rarely studied. In this work, the recrystallized fractions, grain orientations and interphase boundaries for Ni, Ni3B and CrB in a plasma sprayed-remelted NiCrBSi coating were investigated by electron backscatter diffraction. The results demonstrate that the texture is induced by phase interaction during solidification. Cooling from the liquid, the firstly formed Ni grains possess a cube fiber texture of {001}〈001〉. The successively formed Ni3B colonies are randomly oriented and keep specific orientation relationships with the surrounding Ni grains, resulting in formation of some weak texture components of Ni. The finally formed CrB grains have a considerably high frequency (40.8%) of lattice correlation boundary of (002)Ni//(040)CrB, but no specific orientation relationships with Ni3B grains. Hence, the interaction of Ni and CrB grains leads to the formation of more texture components of Ni. As such, the phase interaction induced texture forms in the remelted NiCrBSi coating. This work would give an insight into the anisotropy in the remelted NiCrBSi coatings and provide a theoretical basis of further optimizing the remelting process technologies
- …