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ISSTA 2021
Sun 11 - Sat 17 July 2021 Online
co-located with ECOOP and ISSTA 2021

Automatically detecting the positions of key-points (e.g., facial key-points or finger key-points) in an image is an essential problem in many applications, such as driver's gaze detection and drowsiness detection in automated driving systems. With the recent advances of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Key-Points detection DNNs (KP-DNNs) have been increasingly employed for that purpose. Nevertheless, KP-DNN testing and validation have remained a challenging problem because KP-DNNs predict many independent key-points at the same time—where each individual key-point may be critical in the targeted application—and images can vary a great deal according to many factors.

In this paper, we present an approach to automatically generate test data for KP-DNNs using many-objective search. In our experiments, focused on facial key-points detection DNNs developed for an industrial automotive application, we show that our approach can generate test suites to severely mispredict, on average, more than 93% of all key-points. In comparison, random search-based test data generation can only severely mispredict 41% of them. Many of these mispredictions, however, are not avoidable and should not therefore be considered failures. We also empirically compare state-of-the-art, many-objective search algorithms and their variants, tailored for test suite generation. Furthermore, we investigate and demonstrate how to learn specific conditions, based on image characteristics (e.g., head posture and skin color), that lead to severe mispredictions. Such conditions serve as a basis for risk analysis or DNN retraining.

Wed 14 Jul

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19:40 - 20:20
Session 4 (time band 1) Testing Deep Learning Systems 2Technical Papers at ISSTA 2
Chair(s): Sebastian Elbaum University of Virginia
19:40
20m
Talk
DeepHyperion: Exploring the Feature Space of Deep Learning-Based Systems through Illumination Search
Technical Papers
Tahereh Zohdinasab USI Lugano, Vincenzo Riccio USI Lugano, Alessio Gambi University of Passau, Paolo Tonella USI Lugano
DOI File Attached
20:00
20m
Talk
Automatic Test Suite Generation for Key-Points Detection DNNs using Many-Objective Search (Experience Paper)
Technical Papers
Fitash Ul Haq University of Luxembourg, Donghwan Shin University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg; University of Ottawa, Thomas Stifter IEE, Jun Wang Post Luxembourg
DOI

Thu 15 Jul

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09:10 - 10:50
Session 9 (time band 3) Testing Deep Learning Systems 3Technical Papers at ISSTA 1
Chair(s): Mauro Pezze USI Lugano; Schaffhausen Institute of Technology
09:10
20m
Talk
Attack as Defense: Characterizing Adversarial Examples using Robustness
Technical Papers
Zhe Zhao ShanghaiTech University, Guangke Chen ShanghaiTech University, Jingyi Wang Zhejiang University, Yiwei Yang ShanghaiTech University, Fu Song ShanghaiTech University, Jun Sun Singapore Management University
DOI Media Attached
09:30
20m
Talk
Exposing Previously Undetectable Faults in Deep Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Isaac Dunn University of Oxford, Hadrien Pouget University of Oxford, Daniel Kroening Amazon, Tom Melham University of Oxford
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
09:50
20m
Talk
Automatic Test Suite Generation for Key-Points Detection DNNs using Many-Objective Search (Experience Paper)
Technical Papers
Fitash Ul Haq University of Luxembourg, Donghwan Shin University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg; University of Ottawa, Thomas Stifter IEE, Jun Wang Post Luxembourg
DOI
10:10
20m
Talk
DeepHyperion: Exploring the Feature Space of Deep Learning-Based Systems through Illumination Search
Technical Papers
Tahereh Zohdinasab USI Lugano, Vincenzo Riccio USI Lugano, Alessio Gambi University of Passau, Paolo Tonella USI Lugano
DOI File Attached
10:30
20m
Talk
DeepCrime: Mutation Testing of Deep Learning Systems Based on Real Faults
Technical Papers
Nargiz Humbatova USI Lugano, Gunel Jahangirova USI Lugano, Paolo Tonella USI Lugano
DOI