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As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, audio has emerged as a key interface for human-AI interaction. However, this convenience also introduces new vulnerabilities, making audio a potential attack…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hiskias Dingeto , Taeyoun Kwon , Dasol Choi , Bodam Kim , DongGeon Lee , Haon Park , JaeHoon Lee , Jongho Shin

The radical advances in telecommunications and computer science have enabled a myriad of applications and novel seamless interaction with computing interfaces. Voice Assistants (VAs) have become a norm for smartphones, and millions of VAs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Domna Bilika , Nikoletta Michopoulou , Efthimios Alepis , Constantinos Patsakis

In this paper, we propose a novel continuous authentication system for smartphone users. The proposed system entirely relies on unlabeled phone movement patterns collected through smartphone accelerometer. The data was collected in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Rajesh Kumar , Partha Pratim Kundu , Diksha Shukla , Vir V. Phoha

Deep speech classification tasks, including keyword spotting and speaker verification, are vital in speech-based human-computer interaction. Recently, the security of these technologies has been revealed to be susceptible to backdoor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenhan Yao , Fen Xiao , Xiarun Chen , Jia Liu , YongQiang He , Weiping Wen

Speaker-independent speech recognition systems trained with data from many users are generally robust against speaker variability and work well for a large population of speakers. However, these systems do not always generalize well for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Khe Chai Sim , Petr Zadrazil , Françoise Beaufays

Low-power wide-area network technologies such as LoRaWAN are promising for collecting low-rate monitoring data from geographically distributed sensors, in which timestamping the sensor data is a critical system function. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Chaojie Gu , Linshan Jiang , Rui Tan , Mo Li , Jun Huang

In this work, we propose a multi-target backdoor attack against speaker identification using position-independent clicking sounds as triggers. Unlike previous single-target approaches, our method targets up to 50 speakers simultaneously,…

It is critical to understand the privacy and robustness vulnerabilities of machine learning models, as their implementation expands in scope. In membership inference attacks, adversaries can determine whether a particular set of data was…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Michael Lomnitz , Nina Lopatina , Paul Gamble , Zigfried Hampel-Arias , Lucas Tindall , Felipe A. Mejia , Maria Alejandra Barrios

Speaker verification has been widely and successfully adopted in many mission-critical areas for user identification. The training of speaker verification requires a large amount of data, therefore users usually need to adopt third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Tongqing Zhai , Yiming Li , Ziqi Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

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

Recent years have seen the increasing need of location awareness by mobile applications. This paper presents a room-level indoor localization approach based on the measured room's echos in response to a two-millisecond single-tone inaudible…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Qun Song , Chaojie Gu , Rui Tan

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Distributed machine learning paradigms, such as federated learning, have been recently adopted in many privacy-critical applications for speech analysis. However, such frameworks are vulnerable to privacy leakage attacks from shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zhuohang Li , Jiaxin Zhang , Jian Liu

Considering the microphone is easily affected by noise and soundproof materials, the radio frequency (RF) signal is a promising candidate to recover audio as it is immune to noise and can traverse many soundproof objects. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Running Zhao , Jiangtao Yu , Tingle Li , Hang Zhao , Edith C. H. Ngai

Mobile devices and technologies have become increasingly popular, offering comparable storage and computational capabilities to desktop computers allowing users to store and interact with sensitive and private information. The security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mohammed Abuhamad , Ahmed Abusnaina , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

The apps installed on a smartphone can reveal much information about a user, such as their medical conditions, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs. Additionally, the presence or absence of particular apps on a smartphone can inform an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Vincent F. Taylor , Riccardo Spolaor , Mauro conti , Ivan Martinovic

Investigating network covert channels in smartphones has become increasingly important as smartphones have recently replaced the role of traditional computers. Smartphones are subject to traditional computer network covert channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Bushra Aloraini , Daryl Johnson , Bill Stackpole , Sumita Mishra

Demand for smartwatches has taken off in recent years with new models which can run independently from smartphones and provide more useful features, becoming first-class mobile platforms. One can access online banking or even make payments…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bowen Du , Hongkai Wen , Sen Wang , Andrew Markham , Ivan Martinovic , Yiran Shen , Niki Trigoni

The number of mobile devices, such as smartphones and smartwatches, is relentlessly increasing to almost 6.8 billion by 2022, and along with it, the amount of personal and sensitive data captured by them. This survey overviews the state of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Paula Delgado-Santos , Giuseppe Stragapede , Ruben Tolosana , Richard Guest , Farzin Deravi , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

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