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Motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes measure the instant acceleration and rotation of a device, in three dimensions. Raw data streams from motion sensors embedded in portable and wearable devices may reveal private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

The main challenges in large-scale people tracking are the recognition of people density in a specific area and tracking the people flow path. To address these challenges, we present SenseFlow, a lightweight people tracking system.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Kai Li , Chau Yuen , Salil S. Kanhere , Kun Hu , Wei Zhang , Fan Jiang , Xiang Liu

Mobile edge crowdsensing (MECS) enables large-scale real-time sensing services, but its continuous data collection and transmission pipeline exposes terminal devices to dynamic privacy risks. Existing privacy protection schemes in MECS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guanjie Cheng , Siyang Liu , Xinkui Zhao , Yishan Chen , Junqin Huang , Linghe Kong , Shiguang Deng

Securely exchanging contact information is essential for establishing trustworthy communication channels that facilitate effective online collaboration. However, current methods are neither user-friendly nor scalable for large groups of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Florentin Putz , Steffen Haesler , Thomas Völkl , Maximilian Gehring , Nils Rollshausen , Matthias Hollick

With the widespread adoption of Artificial intelligence (AI), AI-based tools and components are becoming omnipresent in today's solutions. However, these components and tools are posing a significant threat when it comes to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruba Nasser , Ahmed Alagha , Shakti Singh , Rabeb Mizouni , Hadi Otrok , Jamal Bentahar

Big data collection practices using Internet of Things (IoT) pervasive technologies are often privacy-intrusive and result in surveillance, profiling, and discriminatory actions over citizens that in turn undermine the participation of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Stefano Bennati , Evangelos Pournaras

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) engages large worker pools for location-based tasks, attracting growing research interest. However, prior SC task allocation approaches exhibit limitations in computational efficiency, balanced matching, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Kun Li , Shengling Wang , Hongwei Shi , Xiuzhen Cheng , Minghui Xu

A common approach to overcome the limited nature of sensor networks is to aggregate data at intermediate nodes. A challenging issue in this context is to guarantee end-to-end security mainly because sensor networks are extremely vulnerable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Claveirole , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Michel Abdalla , Yannis Viniotis

To overcome the limited coverage in traditional wireless sensor networks, \emph{mobile crowd sensing} (MCS) has emerged as a new sensing paradigm. To achieve longer battery lives of user devices and incentive human involvement, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Sergey Andreev , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

The proliferation of spam on the Web has necessitated the development of machine learning models to automate their detection. However, the dynamic nature of spam and the sophisticated evasion techniques employed by spammers often lead to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Noah Kader , Inwon Kang , Oshani Seneviratne

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is an increasing popular category of crowdsourcing in the era of mobile Internet and sharing economy. It requires workers to arrive at a particular location for task fulfillment. Effective protection of location…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Shun Zhang , Benfei Duan , Zhili Chen , Hong Zhong , Qizhi Yu

We consider the problem of optimal budget allocation for crowdsourcing problems, allocating users to tasks to maximize our final confidence in the crowdsourced answers. Such an optimized worker assignment method allows us to boost the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Angela Zhou , Irineo Cabreros , Karan Singh

Mobile crowdsensing is a people-centric sensing system based on users' contributions and incentive mechanisms aim at stimulating them. In our work, we have rethought the design of incentive mechanisms through a game-theoretic methodology.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Alessandro Di Stefano , Marialisa Scatà , Barbara Attanasio , Aurelio La Corte , Pietro Liò , Sajal K. Das

As the world becomes more and more interconnected, our everyday objects become part of the Internet of Things, and our lives get more and more mirrored in virtual reality, where every piece of~information, including misinformation, fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Robert Paluch , Łukasz G. Gajewski , Janusz A. Hołyst , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Today mobile crowdsourcing platforms invite users to provide anonymous reviews about service experiences, yet many reviews are found biased to be extremely positive or negative. The existing methods find it difficult to learn from biased…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Shugang Hao , Lingjie Duan

Recently, with the rapid development of big data, Internet of Things (IoT) brings more and more intelligent and convenient services to people's daily lives. Mobile healthcare crowd sensing (MHCS), as a typical application of IoT, is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Jingwei Liu , Huijuan Cao , Qingqing Li , Fanghui Cai , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Smartphone users install numerous mobile apps that require access to different information from their devices. Much of this information is very sensitive, and users often struggle to manage these accesses due to their lack of tech expertise…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Mamtaj Akter , Leena Alghamdi , Dylan Gillespie , Nazmus Miazi , Jess Kropczynski , Heather Lipford , Pamela Wisniewski

Recently, generative AI has attracted much attention from both academic and industrial fields, which has shown its potential, especially in the data generation and synthesis aspects. Simultaneously, secure and privacy-preserving mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Yaoqi Yang , Bangning Zhang , Daoxing Guo , Hongyang Du , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Crowdsourcing mobile user's network performance has become an effective way of understanding and improving mobile network performance and user quality-of-experience. However, the current measurement method is still based on the landline…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Daoyuan Wu , Rocky K. C. Chang , Weichao Li , Eric K. T. Cheng , Debin Gao

Modern distributed applications in healthcare, supply chain, and the Internet of Things handle a large amount of data in a diverse application setting with multiple stakeholders. Such applications leverage advanced artificial intelligence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rodrigo Dutra Garcia , Gowri Ramachandran , Kealan Dunnett , Raja Jurdak , Caetano Ranieri , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Jo Ueyama