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This paper presents a residential audio dataset to support sound event detection research for smart home applications aimed at promoting wellbeing for older adults. The dataset is constructed by deploying audio recording systems in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Gabriel Bibbó , Thomas Deacon , Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), more and more IoT devices are connected and communicate frequently. In this background, the traditional centralized security architecture of IoT will be limited in terms of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziqing Guo , Hua Zhang , Xin Zhang , Zhengping Jin , Qiaoyan Wen

The widespread smart devices raise people's concerns of being eavesdropped on. To enhance voice privacy, recent studies exploit the nonlinearity in microphone to jam audio recorders with inaudible ultrasound. However, existing solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Peng Huang , Yao Wei , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Li Lu , Feng Lin , Yang Wang , Kui Ren

Audio signals can reveal intimate details about a person's life, including their conversations, health status, emotions, location, and personal preferences. Unauthorized access or misuse of this information can have profound personal and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Bhawana Chhaglani , Jeremy Gummeson , Prashant Shenoy

Voice Service Providers (VSPs) participating in VoIP peering frequently want to withhold their identity and related privacy-sensitive information from other parties during the VoIP communication. A number of existing documents on VoIP…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-07-09 Charles Shen , Henning Schulzrinne

The widespread use of smart devices gives rise to both security and privacy concerns. Fingerprinting smart devices can assist in authenticating physical devices, but it can also jeopardize privacy by allowing remote identification without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

The cloud computing technique, which was initially used to mitigate the explosive growth of data, has been required to take both data privacy and users' query functionality into consideration. Symmetric searchable encryption (SSE) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Fan Yin , Rongxing Lu , Yandong Zheng , Jun Shao , Xue Yang , Xiaohu Tang

We provide an efficient and private solution to the problem of encryption-aware data-driven control. We investigate a Control as a Service scenario, where a client employs a specialized outsourced control solution from a service provider.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Andreea B. Alexandru , Anastasios Tsiamis , George J. Pappas

To facilitate monitoring and management, modern Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) are often equipped with wireless capabilities, which raise the risk of malicious access to IMDs. Although schemes are proposed to secure the IMD access, some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Haotian Chi , Longfei Wu , Xiaojiang Du , Qiang Zeng , Paul Ratazzi

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

Privacy by Design (PbD) is the most common approach followed by software developers who aim to reduce risks within their application designs, yet it remains commonplace for developers to retain little conceptual understanding of what is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Lamya Alkhariji , Nada Alhirabi , Mansour Naser Alraja , Mahmoud Barhamgi , Omer Rana , Charith Perera

In the IoT world, intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) is a popular service to interact with users based on voice command. For optimal performance and efficient data management, famous IVAs like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant usually…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Hyunji Chung , Sangjin Lee

Privacy-preserving voice protection approaches primarily suppress privacy-related information derived from paralinguistic attributes while preserving the linguistic content. Existing solutions focus particularly on single-speaker scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoxiao Miao , Ruijie Tao , Chang Zeng , Xin Wang

Data sharing can be granted using different factors one of which is something in a users or an IoT devices environment which is in this paper broadcast signals. Using broadcast signals to measure Received Signal Strength Indicator values…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Hosam Alamleh , Reem Alrawili

Speech recordings are being more frequently used to detect and monitor disease, leading to privacy concerns. Beyond cryptography, protection of speech can be addressed by approaches, such as perturbation, disentanglement, and re-synthesis,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Mehtab Ur Rahman , Martha Larson , Louis ten Bosch , Cristian Tejedor-García

Machine learning can analyze vast amounts of data generated by IoT devices to identify patterns, make predictions, and enable real-time decision-making. By processing sensor data, machine learning models can optimize processes, improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ted Shaowang , Shinan Liu , Jonatas Marques , Nick Feamster , Sanjay Krishnan

Recent breakthroughs in intelligent speech and digital human technologies have primarily targeted mainstream adult users, often overlooking the distinct vocal patterns and interaction styles of seniors and children. These demographics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haiying Xu , Haoze Liu , Mingshi Li , Siyu Cai , Guangxuan Zheng , Yuhuang Jia , Jinghua Zhao , Yong Qin

With the popularity of virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Alexa), the use of speech recognition is now becoming more and more widespread.However, speech signals contain a lot of sensitive information, such as the speaker's identity, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

Online medical consultation platforms, while convenient, are undermined by significant privacy risks that erode user trust. We first conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 users to understand their perceptions of security and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shuning Zhang , Ying Ma , Yongquan `Owen' Hu , Ting Dang , Hong Jia , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

The growing utilization of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, including smartwatches and wearable medical devices, has facilitated real-time health monitoring and data analysis to enhance healthcare outcomes. These gadgets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Musharraf N. Alruwaill , Saraju P. Mohanty , Elias Kougianos