# Steal Now and Attack Later: Evaluating Robustness of Object Detection against Black-box Adversarial Attacks Source: [Steal Now and Attack Later: Evaluating Robustness of Object Detection against Black-box Adversarial Attacks]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T02:38:38.445Z Authors: Erh-Chung Chen, Pin-Yu Chen, I-Hsin Chung, Che-Rung Lee Published: 2024-04-24T13:51:56.000Z ## Abstract Latency attacks against object detection represent a variant of adversarial attacks that aim to inflate the inference time by generating additional ghost objects in a target image. However, generating ghost objects in the black-box scenario remains a challenge since information about these unqualified objects remains opaque. In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of generating ghost objects in adversarial examples by extending the concept of "steal now, decrypt later" attacks. These adversarial examples, once produced, can be employed to exploit potential vulnerabilities in the AI service, giving rise to significant security concerns. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed attack achieves successful attacks across various commonly used models and Google Vision API without any prior knowledge about the target model. Additionally, the average cost of each attack is less than \\$ 1 dollars, posing a significant threat to AI security. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()