US Patent Issued to Washington University on April 29 for "Systems and methods for defending against physical attacks on image classification" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,376, issued on April 29, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for defending against physical attacks on image classification" was invented by Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (St. Louis), Tong Wu (St. Louis) and Liang Tong (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image classification system defends against physically realizable attacks. A training dataset of input images is retrieved and an adversarial image is generated based on one of the input images that is selected. The adversarial image is created by occluding a portion of the selected image by superimposing a predetermined shape (e.g., a rectangle) co...