English
Related papers

Related papers: ADAGIO: Interactive Experimentation with Adversari…

200 papers

Although deep learning has made remarkable progress in processing various types of data such as images, text and speech, they are known to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations: perturbations specifically designed and added to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Tianzuo Luo , Yuyi Zhong , Siaucheng Khoo

In authentication scenarios, applications of practical speaker verification systems usually require a person to read a dynamic authentication text. Previous studies played an audio adversarial example as a digital signal to perform physical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Weiyi Zhang , Shuning Zhao , Le Liu , Jianmin Li , Xingliang Cheng , Thomas Fang Zheng , Xiaolin Hu

This paper introduces a novel adversarial algorithm for attacking the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems, namely DeepSpeech, Kaldi, and Lingvo. Our approach is based on developing an extension for the conventional distortion condition…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Substantial improvements have been achieved in recent years in voice conversion, which converts the speaker characteristics of an utterance into those of another speaker without changing the linguistic content of the utterance. Nonetheless,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Chien-yu Huang , Yist Y. Lin , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dong Lao , Yuxiang Zhang , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Yangchao Wu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Recent studies have highlighted adversarial examples as ubiquitous threats to the deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition systems. In this work, we present a U-Net based attention model, U-Net$_{At}$, to enhance adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Chin-Hui Lee

Adversarial attacks aim to disturb the functionality of a target system by adding specific noise to the input samples, bringing potential threats to security and robustness when applied to facial recognition systems. Although existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Qian Wang , Yongqin Xian , Hefei Ling , Jinyuan Zhang , Xiaorui Lin , Ping Li , Jiazhong Chen , Ning Yu

The widespread adoption of voice-activated systems has modified routine human-machine interaction but has also introduced new vulnerabilities. This paper investigates the susceptibility of automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Forrest McKee , David Noever

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven audio attacks has revealed new security vulnerabilities in voice control systems. While researchers have introduced a multitude of attack strategies targeting voice control systems (VCS),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yuanda Wang , Qiben Yan , Nikolay Ivanov , Xun Chen

Audio-visual active speaker detection (AVASD) is well-developed, and now is an indispensable front-end for several multi-modal applications. However, to the best of our knowledge, the adversarial robustness of AVASD models hasn't been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xuanjun Chen , Haibin Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies are highly susceptible to adversarial noise in observations, which poses significant risks in safety-critical scenarios. The challenge inherent to adversarial perturbations is that by altering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Roman Belaire , Arunesh Sinha , Pradeep Varakantham

Recently adversarial attacks on automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems attracted widespread attention as they pose severe threats to ASV systems. However, methods to defend against such attacks are limited. Existing approaches mainly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xu Li , Na Li , Jinghua Zhong , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Helen Meng

From face recognition systems installed in phones to self-driving cars, the field of AI is witnessing rapid transformations and is being integrated into our everyday lives at an incredible pace. Any major failure in these system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ayush Goel

We investigate the effectiveness of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, in the context of improving noise robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Prior work demonstrates that GANs can effectively…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Chris Donahue , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar

As speech translation (ST) systems become increasingly prevalent, understanding their vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring robust and reliable communication. However, limited work has explored this issue in depth. This paper explores…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chang Liu , Haolin Wu , Xi Yang , Kui Zhang , Cong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Jie Zhang

The emergence of large-scale automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper has greatly expanded their adoption across diverse real-world applications. Ensuring robustness against even minor input perturbations is therefore…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Xiaoxue Gao , Zexin Li , Yiming Chen , Nancy F. Chen

Many speech enhancement methods try to learn the relationship between noisy and clean speech, obtained using an acoustic room simulator. We point out several limitations of enhancement methods relying on clean speech targets; the goal of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Geonmin Kim , Hwaran Lee , Bo-Kyeong Kim , Sang-Hoon Oh , Soo-Young Lee

As a defense strategy against adversarial attacks, adversarial detection aims to identify and filter out adversarial data from the data flow based on discrepancies in distribution and noise patterns between natural and adversarial data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Qian Wang , Chen Li , Yuchen Luo , Hefei Ling , Shijuan Huang , Ruoxi Jia , Ning Yu

The generative adversarial networks (GANs) have facilitated the development of speech enhancement recently. Nevertheless, the performance advantage is still limited when compared with state-of-the-art models. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Renhua Peng , Cunhang Fan , Xiaodong Li

Voice authentication has become an integral part in security-critical operations, such as bank transactions and call center conversations. The vulnerability of automatic speaker verification systems (ASVs) to spoofing attacks instigated the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Andre Kassis , Urs Hengartner