Colour patch could throw self-driving vehicles off track

In our team of researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen we show that optical flow systems based on deep neural networks – a likely component of future autonomous cars – are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. The computer vision experts are shaking up the automotive industry by warning car manufacturers around the globe that it could take a simple color pattern to put the brakes on computer vision systems in autonomous cars.