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In some sense, yes, optical illusions are simlar to such "adversarial examples". But if you think about it, any kind of image is somewhat delusive, since we perceive it as whatever object it depicts while actually staring at a piece of paper with some ink on it.

Also, adversarial in this case seems to refer to images perceived differently by machines than by humans, so it's not really possible to create such ones for humans.



No, adversarial simply means deliberately trying to engineer false positives and negatives. This can be done against humans, machines, ants, trees, viruses ...


What is a false positive or false negative in this case? The "ground truth" here is what human perceive.


Optical illusion?




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