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arxiv: 2606.28416 · v1 · pith:2URYTRZWnew · submitted 2026-06-25 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

AEGIS: A Semantic GAN and Evidential Learning Frameworkfor Robust Adversarial Detection in Vision Sensors

Maher Boughdiri , Mounira Msahli , Albert Bifet This is my paper

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keywords adversarial detectionevidential deep learningsemantic GANvision sensorsimage classificationuncertainty calibrationTiny ImageNet
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AEGIS detects adversarial inputs by filtering them through a semantic GAN then classifying a five-dimensional instability vector with evidential deep learning.

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The paper presents AEGIS as a detection system for adversarial manipulations that can cause errors in image classifiers used by vision sensors. It first applies a SemantiGAN module to identify and remove visually inconsistent adversarial examples. Surviving inputs undergo stochastic augmentation to produce variations from which five handcrafted metrics are extracted and combined into a vector. An evidential deep learning model then processes this vector using a Dirichlet distribution to generate both a class prediction and a calibrated uncertainty score. The approach is tested on Tiny ImageNet against clean images and five families of attacks and reports higher AUROC, AUPRC, and accuracy than standard softmax detectors while also supplying uncertainty estimates.

Core claim

AEGIS combines a SemantiGAN multi-class semantic discriminator that filters inconsistent adversarial inputs with an Evidential Deep Learning classifier that receives a five-dimensional vector of instability metrics (FlipScore, Prediction Inconsistency, Layerwise Cosine Similarity in early and mid layers, and Entropy) computed from stochastic test-time augmentations; the EDL component models output evidence via a Dirichlet distribution to produce both predictions and uncertainty estimates, yielding 92.1% AUROC, 90.2% AUPRC, and 90.7% accuracy on Tiny ImageNet across clean, FGSM, PGD, patch-based, functional, and geometric inputs.

What carries the argument

The five-dimensional instability vector (FlipScore, Prediction Inconsistency, early-layer and mid-layer cosine similarity, Entropy) fed to an Evidential Deep Learning classifier that outputs Dirichlet-distributed evidence for both class and uncertainty.

If this is right

  • The two-stage pipeline (SemantiGAN filtering followed by EDL on the instability vector) produces both a detection decision and a calibrated uncertainty value.
  • Detection performance exceeds that of conventional softmax-based methods across six input categories on Tiny ImageNet.
  • The framework supplies interpretability through the explicit instability metrics and uncertainty estimates in addition to the binary detection output.
  • Robustness is claimed across FGSM, PGD, patch-based, functional, and geometric attacks without post-hoc tuning for each variant.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same instability metrics might be tested on video frames or sensor streams to check whether the separation property generalizes beyond static images.
  • Replacing the handcrafted metrics with learned features inside the EDL stage could reduce dependence on the current five-dimensional design.
  • Deployment in resource-constrained vision pipelines would require measuring the computational cost of the stochastic augmentation step.

Load-bearing premise

The five handcrafted instability metrics will continue to separate adversarial from clean inputs for attack variants and datasets not seen during development.

What would settle it

Evaluation on an entirely new attack family or dataset where the AUROC falls below 80% while the same metrics are used without retraining or reselection.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.28416 by Albert Bifet, Maher Boughdiri, Mounira Msahli.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Adversarial Deep Learning Attacks Adversarial attacks can be categorized based on the attacker’s level of knowledge into three settings: white-box [57], black-box [58], and gray-box [59]. In this work, a white-box adversary is considered, assuming complete access to the target model’s architecture, parameters, and gradients. This level of access enables the use of loss-driven backpropagation to construct a… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of AEGIS adversarial detection framework [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparison of instability metrics for clean and adversarial samples (example 1). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison of instability metrics for clean and adversarial samples (example 2). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of instability metrics for clean and adversarial samples (example 3). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗
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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown outstanding performance in visual recognition tasks within vision sensor networks; however, they are still vulnerable to adversarial manipulations and imperceptible perturbations that can lead to erroneous predictions. To address that, this paper presents AEGIS, a semantic aware and uncertainty guided adversarial detection framework designed for robust image classification in vision sensors pipelines. At its core, a SemantiGAN module functions as a multi class semantic discriminator, identifying and filtering visually inconsistent adversarial inputs before they propagate further in the pipeline. For inputs that pass this stage, a stochastic augmentation process generates test time variations, from which handcrafted instability metrics FlipScore, Prediction Inconsistency, Layerwise Cosine Similarity (early and mid layers), and Entropy are computed. These features are aggregated into a compact five dimensional vector and processed by an Evidential Deep Learning (EDL) classifier, which models output evidence using a Dirichlet distribution to yield both class predictions and calibrated uncertainty estimates. Evaluations on the Tiny ImageNet dataset across six categories clean, FGSM, PGD, patch based, functional, and geometric attacks demonstrate the effectiveness of AEGIS. The proposed framework achieves an AUROC of 92.1\%, an AUPRC of 90.2\%, and an accuracy of 90.7\%, outperforming conventional softmax-based detectors in terms of detection performance, robustness, interpretability, and uncertainty calibration.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents AEGIS, a framework for adversarial detection in vision sensors using a SemantiGAN module to filter inconsistent inputs and an Evidential Deep Learning (EDL) classifier on a five-dimensional vector of handcrafted instability metrics (FlipScore, Prediction Inconsistency, Layerwise Cosine Similarity in early and mid layers, Entropy) computed from stochastic augmentations. On Tiny ImageNet with clean and five attack families (FGSM, PGD, patch-based, functional, geometric), it reports AUROC 92.1%, AUPRC 90.2%, accuracy 90.7%, claiming better performance, robustness, interpretability, and uncertainty calibration than softmax-based detectors.

Significance. If the reported separation holds under proper cross-attack validation, the integration of semantic filtering with EDL-derived uncertainty could offer a practical, interpretable approach to robust detection in sensor pipelines. The handcrafted metrics provide an explicit, non-black-box feature set that may aid calibration, though this remains to be demonstrated.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central performance claims (AUROC of 92.1%, AUPRC of 90.2%, accuracy of 90.7%) are presented as aggregate numbers with no accompanying experimental protocol, baseline code or implementations, statistical significance tests, or ablation results. This information is load-bearing for verifying whether the five-metric vector plus EDL actually supports the robustness claim.
  2. [Evaluation] Evaluation section: No description is given of whether the EDL was trained under a leave-one-attack-out regime or whether the five instability metrics (and their aggregation) were fixed prior to seeing the test attacks. Without this, the reported separation on the five attack families does not establish generalization to unseen perturbations, which is required for the central robustness claim.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The acronym 'SemantiGAN' is introduced without expansion or reference to its definition or prior work.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the presentation of our experimental claims. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the description of our evaluation protocol and generalization analysis.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central performance claims (AUROC of 92.1%, AUPRC of 90.2%, accuracy of 90.7%) are presented as aggregate numbers with no accompanying experimental protocol, baseline code or implementations, statistical significance tests, or ablation results. This information is load-bearing for verifying whether the five-metric vector plus EDL actually supports the robustness claim.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise summary and conventionally omits full protocol details. The Evaluation section describes the Tiny ImageNet setup, six attack categories, stochastic augmentation process for the five instability metrics, and EDL training on the resulting vectors, with comparisons to softmax baselines. Ablations on individual metrics and the SemantiGAN component appear in Section 4.3, and results include standard deviations from multiple runs. We will revise the abstract to include a one-sentence reference to the evaluation protocol and add an explicit statement on baseline implementations. We will also ensure the main text cross-references all supporting tables. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation] Evaluation section: No description is given of whether the EDL was trained under a leave-one-attack-out regime or whether the five instability metrics (and their aggregation) were fixed prior to seeing the test attacks. Without this, the reported separation on the five attack families does not establish generalization to unseen perturbations, which is required for the central robustness claim.

    Authors: We agree that explicit clarification of the training regime is necessary to support the generalization claim. The five metrics were designed from general properties of adversarial instability (prediction flips, layer similarities, entropy) and fixed before any attack-specific testing. The EDL was trained on a combined set of clean and attacked samples across all families. However, the manuscript does not currently report leave-one-attack-out results. To address this, we will add leave-one-attack-out experiments in the revised Evaluation section, training on four attack families and testing on the held-out family, and report the resulting AUROC/AUPRC to demonstrate robustness to unseen perturbations. revision: yes

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The paper describes an empirical pipeline: SemantiGAN filtering followed by computation of five fixed handcrafted instability metrics aggregated into a vector and classified by EDL. No equations, predictions, or first-principles claims are shown to reduce by construction to their own inputs, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains. The reported AUROC/AUPRC/accuracy are direct empirical outcomes on the stated dataset and attack families; the derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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