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Evaluating the Impact of Adversarial Attacks on Traffic Sign Classification using the LISA Dataset

Published: September 8, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.06835v1

By: Nabeyou Tadessa, Balaji Iyangar, Mashrur Chowdhury

Potential Business Impact:

Makes self-driving cars see traffic signs better.

Business Areas:
Image Recognition Data and Analytics, Software

Adversarial attacks pose significant threats to machine learning models by introducing carefully crafted perturbations that cause misclassification. While prior work has primarily focused on MNIST and similar datasets, this paper investigates the vulnerability of traffic sign classifiers using the LISA Traffic Sign dataset. We train a convolutional neural network to classify 47 different traffic signs and evaluate its robustness against Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) attacks. Our results show a sharp decline in classification accuracy as the perturbation magnitude increases, highlighting the models susceptibility to adversarial examples. This study lays the groundwork for future exploration into defense mechanisms tailored for real-world traffic sign recognition systems.

Country of Origin
🇺🇸 United States

Page Count
4 pages

Category
Computer Science:
CV and Pattern Recognition