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Recent advances in naturalistic physical adversarial patch generation show great promise in protecting personal privacy against detector-based malicious surveillance while remaining inconspicuous to human observers. In this work, we present the first systematic categorization and in-depth re-examination of existing methods into three representative paradigms, revealing a pervasive imbalance: enforcing naturalness constraints inherently restricts the adversarial search space, thus limiting attack performance. To address this challenge, we propose a novel paradigm based on class-optimized diffusion, termed \textbf{Diff-NAT}. Diff-NAT leverages pretrained diffusion models as powerful natural image priors and introduces a unified iterative framework that jointly optimizes two complementary components: semantic-level textual prompts and instance-level latent codes. Specifically, prompt optimization enables broad traversal across inter-class semantic regions, while latent refinement allows for fine-grained manipulation within class objectives. This dual-level optimization facilitates progressive navigation toward adversarial distributions embedded within the natural semantic manifold. Extensive experiments in both digital and physical settings demonstrate that Diff-NAT outperforms existing SOTA approaches in terms of both visual realism and aggressiveness.
