Daeseon Choi

Prof. Daeseon Choi


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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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27 June 2019 in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
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HKHyun Kwon
Hyun Kwon
YKYongchul Kim
Yongchul Kim
HYHyunsoo Yoon
Hyunsoo Yoon
DCDaeseon Choi
Daeseon Choi
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used for image recognition, speech recognition, and other pattern analysis tasks. Despite the success of DNNs, these systems can be exploited by what is termed adversarial examples. An adversarial example, in which a small distortion is added to the input data, can be designed to be misclassified by the DNN while remaining undetected by humans or other systems. Such adversarial examples have been studied mainly in the image domain. Recently, however, studies on adversarial examples have been expanding into the voice domain. For example, when an adversarial example is applied to enemy wiretapping devices (victim classifiers) in a military environment, the enemy device will misinterpret the intended message. In such scenarios, it is necessary that friendly wiretapping devices (protected classifiers) should not be deceived. Therefore, the selective adversarial example concept can be useful in mixed situations, defined as situations in which there is both a classifier to be protected and a classifier to be attacked. In this paper, we propose a selective audio adversarial example with minimum distortion that will be misclassified as the target phrase by a victim classifier but correctly classified as the original phrase by a protected classifier. To generate such examples, a transformation is carried out to minimize the probability of incorrect classification by the protected classifier and that of correct classification by the victim classifier. We conducted experiments targeting the state-of-the-art DeepSpeech voice recognition model using Mozilla Common Voice datasets and the Tensorflow library. They showed that the proposed method can generate a selective audio adversarial example with a 91.67% attack success rate and 85.67% protected classifier accuracy.

26 April 2024 in IEEE Access
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DPDaeeol Park
Daeeol Park
HNHyunsik Na
Hyunsik Na
DCDaeseon Choi
Daeseon Choi
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have revolutionized the field of image generation. This has concurrently escalated social problems and concerns related to AI image generation, underscoring the necessity for an effective AI-generated-image detection method. Therefore, numerous methods for detecting AI-generated images have been developed, but there remains a need for research comparing the effectiveness of and visualizing these detection methods. In this study, we classify AI-generated-image detection methods by the image features they use and compare their generalization performance in detecting AI-generated images of different types. We selected five AI-generated-image detection methods for performance evaluation and selected vision transformer as an additional method for comparison. We use two types of training datasets, i.e., ProGAN and latent diffusion; combine existing AI-generated-image test datasets into a diverse test dataset; and divide them into three types of generative models, i.e., generative adversarial network (GAN), diffusion, and transformer, to evaluate the comprehensive performance of the detection methods. We also analyze their detection performance on images with data augmentation, considering scenarios that make it difficult to detect AI-generated images. Grad-CAM and t-SNE are used to visualize the detection area and data distribution of each detection method. As a result, we determine that artifact-feature-based detection performs well on GAN and real images, whereas image-encoder-feature-based detection performs well on diffusion and transformer images. In summary, our research analyzes the comparative detection performance of various AI-generated-image detection methods, identifies their limitations, and suggests directions for further research.

21 November 2020 in Multimedia Tools and Applications
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HKHyun Kwon
Hyun Kwon
YKYongchul Kim
Yongchul Kim
HYHyunsoo Yoon
Hyunsoo Yoon
DCDaeseon Choi
Daeseon Choi
Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide superior performance on machine learning tasks such as image recognition, speech recognition, pattern analysis, and intrusion detection. However, an adversarial example, created by adding a little noise to an original sample, can cause misclassification by a DNN. This is a serious threat to the DNN because the added noise is not detected by the human eye. For example, if an attacker modifies a right-turn sign so that it misleads to the left, autonomous vehicles with the DNN will incorrectly classify the modified sign as pointing to the left, but a person will correctly classify the modified sign as pointing to the right. Studies are under way to defend against such adversarial examples. The existing method of defense against adversarial examples requires an additional process such as changing the classifier or modifying input data. In this paper, we propose a new method for detecting adversarial examples that does not invoke any additional process. The proposed scheme can detect adversarial examples by using a pattern feature of the classification scores of adversarial examples. We used MNIST and CIFAR10 as experimental datasets and Tensorflow as a machine learning library. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect adversarial examples with success rates: 99.05% and 99.9% for the untargeted and targeted cases in MNIST, respectively, and 94.7% and 95.8% for the untargeted and targeted cases in CIFAR10, respectively.

1 September 2018 in Computers & Security
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HKHyun Kwon
Hyun Kwon
YKYongchul Kim
Yongchul Kim
Ki-Woong ParkKi-Woong Park
Ki-Woong Park
HYHyunsoo Yoon
Hyunsoo Yoon
DCDaeseon Choi
Daeseon Choi

10 December 2018 in Symmetry
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HKHyun Kwon
Hyun Kwon
YKYongchul Kim
Yongchul Kim
HYHyunsoo Yoon
Hyunsoo Yoon
DCDaeseon Choi
Daeseon Choi
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in machine learning areas such as image recognition, speech recognition, intrusion detection, and pattern analysis. However, it has been revealed that DNNs have weaknesses in the face of adversarial examples, which are created by adding a little noise to an original sample to cause misclassification by the DNN. Such adversarial examples can lead to fatal accidents in applications such as autonomous vehicles and disease diagnostics. Thus, the generation of adversarial examples has attracted extensive research attention recently. An adversarial example is categorized as targeted or untargeted. In this paper, we focus on the untargeted adversarial example scenario because it has a faster learning time and less distortion compared with the targeted adversarial example. However, there is a pattern vulnerability with untargeted adversarial examples: Because of the similarity between the original class and certain specific classes, it may be possible for the defending system to determine the original class by analyzing the output classes of the untargeted adversarial examples. To overcome this problem, we propose a new method for generating untargeted adversarial examples, one that uses an arbitrary class in the generation process. Moreover, we show that our proposed scheme can be applied to steganography. Through experiments, we show that our proposed scheme can achieve a 100% attack success rate with minimum distortion (1.99 and 42.32 using the MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets, respectively) and without the pattern vulnerability. Using a steganography test, we show that our proposed scheme can be used to fool humans, as demonstrated by the probability of their detecting hidden classes being equal to that of random selection.

17 August 2023 in International Journal of Information Security
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GRGwonsang Ryu
Gwonsang Ryu
DCDaeseon Choi
Daeseon Choi
Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved high performance across various applications, they are often deceived by adversarial examples generated by adding small perturbations. To combat adversarial attacks, many detection methods have been proposed, including feature squeezing and trapdoor. However, these methods rely on the output of DNNs or involve training a separate network to detect adversarial examples, which leads to high computational costs and low efficiency. In this study, we propose a simple and effective approach called the entropy-based detector (EBD) to protect DNNs from various adversarial attacks. EBD detects adversarial examples by comparing the difference in entropy between the input sample before and after bit depth reduction. We show that EBD can detect over 98% of the adversarial examples generated by attacks using fast-gradient sign method, basic iterative method, momentum iterative method, DeepFool and CW attacks when the false positive rate is 2.5% for CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets.