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Modern smartphones contain motion sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. These sensors have many useful applications; however, they can also be used to uniquely identify a phone by measuring anomalies in the signals, which are a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

As a biometric palmprints have been largely under-utilized, but they offer some advantages over fingerprints and facial biometrics. Recent improvements in imaging capabilities on handheld and wearable consumer devices have re-awakened…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Adrian-S. Ungureanu , Saqib Salahuddin , Peter Corcoran

Throughout recent years, the importance of internet-privacy has continuously risen. [...] Browser fingerprinting is a technique that does not require cookies or persistent identifiers. It derives a sufficiently unique identifier from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sebastian Neef

Browser fingerprinting enables persistent cross-site user tracking via subtle techniques that often evade conventional defenses or cause website breakage when script-level blocking countermeasures are applied. Addressing these challenges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami , Dylan Cutler , Igor Bilogrevic

Node forgery or impersonation, in which legitimate cryptographic credentials are captured by an adversary, constitutes one major security threat facing wireless networks. The fact that mobile devices are prone to be compromised and reverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Qiang Xu , Rong Zheng , Walid Saad , Zhu Han

Fingerprint recognition has been utilized for cellphone authentication, airport security and beyond. Many different features and algorithms have been proposed to improve fingerprint recognition. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Shervin Minaee , Elham Azimi , Amirali Abdolrashidi

We propose Material Fingerprinting, a new method for the rapid discovery of mechanical material models from direct or indirect data that avoids solving potentially non-convex optimization problems. The core assumption of Material…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Moritz Flaschel , Denisa Martonová , Carina Veil , Ellen Kuhl

With the growing popularity of smartphone photography in recent years, web photos play an increasingly important role in all walks of life. Source camera identification of web photos aims to establish a reliable linkage from the captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Feng Qian , Sifeng He , Honghao Huang , Huanyu Ma , Xiaobo Zhang , Lei Yang

Browser fingerprinting is a pervasive online tracking technique used increasingly often for profiling and targeted advertising. Prior research on the prevalence of fingerprinting heavily relied on automated web crawls, which inherently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Igor Bilogrevic , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Wireless fingerprinting refers to a device identification method leveraging hardware imperfections and wireless channel variations as signatures. Beyond physical layer characteristics, recent studies demonstrated that user behaviors could…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Teng-Hui Huang , Thilini Dahanayaka , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Philip H. W. Leong , Hesham El Gamal

In the previous decade, there has been a considerable rise in the usage of smartphones.Due to exorbitant advancement in technology, computational speed and quality of image capturing has increased considerably. With an increase in the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Saksham Gupta , Sukhad Anand , Atul Rai

Prior measurement studies on browser fingerprinting have unfortunately largely excluded Web Audio API-based fingerprinting in their analysis. We address this issue by conducting the first systematic study of effectiveness of web audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shekhar Chalise , Phani Vadrevu

Network protocol fingerprinting is used to identify a protocol implementation by analyzing its input-output behavior. Traditionally, fingerprinting operates under a closed-world assumption, where models of all implementations are assumed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Loes Kruger , Paul Kobialka , Andrea Pferscher , Einar Broch Johnsen , Sebastian Junges , Jurriaan Rot

People are becoming increasingly concerned with their online privacy, especially with how advertising companies track them across websites (a practice called cross-site tracking), as reconstructing a user's browser history can reveal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Alisha Ukani

Recent device fingerprinting approaches rely on deep learning to extract device-specific features solely from raw RF signals to identify, classify and authenticate wireless devices. One widely known issue lies in the inability of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub

Recent developments in online tracking make it harder for individuals to detect and block trackers. Some sites have deployed indirect tracking methods, which attempt to uniquely identify a device by asking the browser to perform a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Julissa Milligan , Sarah Scheffler , Andrew Sellars , Trishita Tiwari , Ari Trachtenberg , Mayank Varia

Device fingerprinting leverages attributes that capture heterogeneity in hardware and software configurations to extract unique and stable fingerprints. Fingerprinting countermeasures attempt to either present a uniform fingerprint across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Hari Venugopalan , Kaustav Goswami , Zainul Abi Din , Jason Lowe-Power , Samuel T. King , Zubair Shafiq

Users' website browsing history contains sensitive information, like health conditions, political interests, financial situations, etc. Some recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of inferring website fingerprints based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Han Wang

Browser fingerprinting can be used to identify and track users across the Web, even without cookies, by collecting attributes from users' devices to create unique "fingerprints". This technique and resulting privacy risks have been studied…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Alex Berke , Enrico Bacis , Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Robin Lassonde , Pasin Manurangsi , Umar Syed

In recent years fingerprinting of various physical and logical devices has been proposed with the goal of uniquely identifying users or devices of mainstream IT systems such as PCs, Laptops and smart phones. On the other hand, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Aditya Mathur , Martin Ochoa