Adversarially Guided Diffusion for LiDAR Range Image Synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09787v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:35:05 GMT
• Title: Adversarially Guided Diffusion for LiDAR Range Image Synthesis
• Abstract summary: The proposed method is to the best of our knowledge, the first diffusion-based unrestricted adversarial attack against 2D range-image segmentation.<n>By applying guidance directly during sampling, the method produces unrestricted adversarial examples that remain close to the learned LiDAR data manifold while inducing structured segmentation errors.<n>Compared with norm-bounded FGSM and SegPGD baselines, the proposed attack offers a distinct effectiveness-realism trade-off, achieving controllable white-box and transfer degradation while maintaining competitive distributional and visual realism.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: LiDAR semantic segmentation is a key perception task in autonomous driving, where false predictions can affect downstream planning and safety-critical decision-making. Although adversarial attacks, and specifically adversarial examples, have been widely studied for image classification and 3D point cloud segmentation, unrestricted adversarial examples remain largely unexplored in the space of 2D range images, which are projections of 3D point clouds. The proposed method is, to the best of our knowledge, the first diffusion-based unrestricted adversarial attack against 2D range-image segmentation, using adversarial guidance from a segmentation loss. By applying guidance directly during sampling, the method produces unrestricted adversarial examples that remain close to the learned LiDAR data manifold while inducing structured segmentation errors. Experiments on the SemanticKITTI dataset using RangeNet++ and CENet segmentation networks demonstrate that the attack provides adjustable degradation across guidance strengths and transfers across segmentation architectures. Compared with norm-bounded FGSM and SegPGD baselines, the proposed attack offers a distinct effectiveness-realism trade-off, achieving controllable white-box and transfer degradation while maintaining competitive distributional and visual realism.

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