EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces are Vulnerable to Backdoor Attacks.
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng
; 31: 2224-2234, 2023.
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| ID: mdl-37145943
ABSTRACT
Research and development of electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have advanced rapidly, partly due to deeper understanding of the brain and wide adoption of sophisticated machine learning approaches for decoding the EEG signals. However, recent studies have shown that machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper proposes to use narrow period pulse for poisoning attack of EEG-based BCIs, which makes adversarial attacks much easier to implement. One can create dangerous backdoors in the machine learning model by injecting poisoning samples into the training set. Test samples with the backdoor key will then be classified into the target class specified by the attacker. What most distinguishes our approach from previous ones is that the backdoor key does not need to be synchronized with the EEG trials, making it very easy to implement. The effectiveness and robustness of the backdoor attack approach is demonstrated, highlighting a critical security concern for EEG-based BCIs and calling for urgent attention to address it.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Interfaces Cérebro-Computador
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article