VideoFlip: Adversarial Bit Flips for Reducing Video Service Quality

Video compression is a critical component in streaming applications that maximizes users' quality of experience (QoE) while satisfying the underlying bandwidth constraints. In this paper, we demonstrate the first hardware-based fault-injection attack on video compression, dubbed VideoFlip. The...

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Published in2023 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Chang, Jung-Woo, Javaheripi, Mojan, Koushanfar, Farinaz
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 09.07.2023
Subjects
Analytical models
Bandwidth
Bit rate
Design automation
Pipelines
Streaming media
Video compression
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DOI10.1109/DAC56929.2023.10247863

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Summary:Video compression is a critical component in streaming applications that maximizes users' quality of experience (QoE) while satisfying the underlying bandwidth constraints. In this paper, we demonstrate the first hardware-based fault-injection attack on video compression, dubbed VideoFlip. The attack identifies and alters a few bits inside the video compression model to achieve one or more of the following adversarial goals: (1) increasing the bitrate and (2) degrading the quality of the compressed video. Extensive evaluations show VideoFlip irresistibly downgrades video compression performance for various models and video datasets while being resilient to contemporary defenses against hardware-based bit flips.
DOI:10.1109/DAC56929.2023.10247863