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This study provides evidence that personality can be reliably predicted from activity data collected through mobile phone sensors. Employing a set of well informed indicators calculable from accelerometer records and movement patterns, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Wun Yung Shaney Sze , Maryglen Pearl Herrero , Roger Garriga

Wearable technologies are today on the rise, becoming more common and broadly available to mainstream users. In fact, wristband and armband devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers already took an important place in the consumer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Tony Beltramelli , Sebastian Risi

Speech data conveys sensitive speaker attributes like identity or accent. With a small amount of found data, such attributes can be inferred and exploited for malicious purposes: voice cloning, spoofing, etc. Anonymization aims to make the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava , Nathalie Vauquier , Md Sahidullah , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Emmanuel Vincent

We show that the new hover (floating touch) technology, available in a number of today's smartphone models, can be abused by any Android application running with a common SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW permission to record all touchscreen input into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Enis Ulqinaku , Luka Malisa , Julinda Stefa , Alessandro Mei , Srdjan Capkun

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), equipped with numerous sensors such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and ultrasonic sensor, are revolutionizing the transportation industry. These sensors are expected to sense reliable information from a physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jianzhi Lou , Qiben Yan , Qing Hui , Huacheng Zeng

Fake audio detection is expected to become an important research area in the field of smart speakers such as Google Home, Amazon Echo and chatbots developed for these platforms. This paper presents replay attack vulnerability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Khalid Mahmood Malik , Hafiz Malik , Roland Baumann

The paper applies reinforcement learning to novel Internet of Thing configurations. Our analysis of inaudible attacks on voice-activated devices confirms the alarming risk factor of 7.6 out of 10, underlining significant security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Forrest McKee , David Noever

Smart speakers and voice-based virtual assistants are core components for the success of the IoT paradigm. Unfortunately, they are vulnerable to various privacy threats exploiting machine learning to analyze the generated encrypted traffic.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Andrea Ranieri , Davide Caputo , Luca Verderame , Alessio Merlo , Luca Caviglione

In light of the widespread application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, their security concerns have received much more attention than ever before, primarily due to the susceptibility of Deep Neural Networks. Previous studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weifei Jin , Yuxin Cao , Junjie Su , Qi Shen , Kai Ye , Derui Wang , Jie Hao , Ziyao Liu

Information on speaker characteristics can be useful as side information in improving speaker recognition accuracy. However, such information is often private. This paper investigates how privacy-preserving learning can improve a speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Filip Granqvist , Matt Seigel , Rogier van Dalen , Áine Cahill , Stephen Shum , Matthias Paulik

In this paper, we consider the parameter estimation in a bandwidth-constrained sensor network communicating through an insecure medium. The sensor performs a local quantization, and transmits a 1-bit message to an estimation center through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Jin Guo , Yanlong Zhao

The widespread of powerful personal devices capable of collecting voice of their users has opened the opportunity to build speaker adapted speech recognition system (ASR) or to participate to collaborative learning of ASR. In both cases,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Salima Mdhaffar , Jean-François Bonastre , Marc Tommasi , Natalia Tomashenko , Yannick Estève

Physical layer authentication relies on detecting unique imperfections in signals transmitted by radio devices to isolate their fingerprint. Recently, deep learning-based authenticators have increasingly been proposed to classify devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Samurdhi Karunaratne , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

While Audio Large Language Models (ALLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in understanding and generation, their potential privacy implications remain largely unexplored. This paper takes the first step to investigate whether ALLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jin Wang , Liang Lin , Kaiwen Luo , Weiliu Wang , Yitian Chen , Moayad Aloqaily , Xuehai Tang , Zhenhong Zhou , Kun Wang , Li Sun , Qingsong Wen

We describe a large vocabulary speech recognition system that is accurate, has low latency, and yet has a small enough memory and computational footprint to run faster than real-time on a Nexus 5 Android smartphone. We employ a quantized…

In recent years, the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks have brought tremendous convenience. However, the training process of a highly effective model necessitates a substantial quantity of samples, which brings huge potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhisheng Zhang , Pengyang Huang

Automatic Speaker Recognition Systems (SRSs) have been widely used in voice applications for personal identification and access control. A typical SRS consists of three stages, i.e., training, enrollment, and recognition. Previous work has…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xinfeng Li , Junning Ze , Chen Yan , Yushi Cheng , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have significantly accelerated the adoption of speech recognition technology, leading to its widespread integration across various applications. However, this surge in usage also highlights…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiajie Zhu , Xia Du , Xiaoyuan Liu , Jizhe Zhou , Qizhen Xu , Zheng Lin , Chi-Man Pun

Human voices can be used to authenticate the identity of the speaker, but the automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems are vulnerable to voice spoofing attacks, such as impersonation, replay, text-to-speech, and voice conversion.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 You Zhang , Fei Jiang , Zhiyao Duan

Any audio recording encapsulates the unique fingerprint of the associated acoustic environment, namely the background noise and reverberation. Considering the scenario of a room equipped with a fixed smart speaker device with one or more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Francesco Nespoli , Daniel Barreda , Patrick A. Naylor