Laser Shield: A Physical Defense with Polarizer against Laser Attacks on Autonomous Driving Systems

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Abstract

Autonomous driving systems (ADS) are boosted with deep neural networks (DNN) to perceive environments, while their security is doubted by DNN's vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Among them, a diversity of laser attacks emerges to be a new threat due to its minimal requirements and high attack success rate in the physical world. Nevertheless, current defense methods exhibit either a low defense success rate or a high computation cost against laser attacks. To fill this gap, we propose Laser Shield which leverages a polarizer along with a min-energy rotation mechanism to eliminate adversarial lasers from ADS scenes. We also provide a physical world dataset, LAPA, to evaluate its performance. Through exhaustive experiments with three baselines, four metrics, and three settings, Laser Shield is proved to surpass SOTA performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798400706011
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Nov 2024
Event61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 23 Jun 202427 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings - Design Automation Conference
ISSN (Print)0738-100X

Conference

Conference61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period23/06/2427/06/24

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