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With the advances in deep learning, speaker verification has achieved very high accuracy and is gaining popularity as a type of biometric authentication option in many scenes of our daily life, especially the growing market of web services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ke Li , Cameron Baird , Dan Lin

An adversarial attack is an exploitative process in which minute alterations are made to natural inputs, causing the inputs to be misclassified by neural models. In the field of speech recognition, this has become an issue of increasing…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Krishan Rajaratnam , Kunal Shah , Jugal Kalita

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

Speech recognition systems driven by DNNs have revolutionized human-computer interaction through voice interfaces, which significantly facilitate our daily lives. However, the growing popularity of these systems also raises special concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiahe Lan , Jie Wang , Baochen Yan , Zheng Yan , Elisa Bertino

People are not always receptive to their voice data being collected and misused. Training the audio intelligence systems needs these data to build useful features, but the cost for getting permissions or purchasing data is very high, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Yunjie Ge , Qian Wang , Jingfeng Zhang , Juntao Zhou , Yunzhu Zhang , Chao Shen

In a transfer-based attack against Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, attacks are unable to access the architecture and parameters of the target model. Existing attack methods are mostly investigated in voice assistant scenarios…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Qi Gege , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Yao Zhu , Binyuan Hui , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

A powerful category of (invisible) data poisoning attacks modify a subset of training examples by small adversarial perturbations to change the prediction of certain test-time data. Existing defense mechanisms are not desirable to deploy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Yu Yang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

The ubiquitous presence of machine learning systems in our lives necessitates research into their vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures. In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of adversarial attacks and defenses against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Piotr Żelasko , Sonal Joshi , Yiwen Shao , Jesus Villalba , Jan Trmal , Najim Dehak , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Adversarial data poisoning is an effective attack against machine learning and threatens model integrity by introducing poisoned data into the training dataset. So far, it has been studied mostly for classification, even though regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Nicolas Michael Müller , Daniel Kowatsch , Konstantin Böttinger

Machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to poisoning attacks: An adversary can inject malicious points in the training dataset to influence the learning process and degrade the algorithm's performance. Optimal poisoning attacks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Luis Muñoz-González , Bjarne Pfitzner , Matteo Russo , Javier Carnerero-Cano , Emil C. Lupu

Adversarial attacks have become a major threat for machine learning applications. There is a growing interest in studying these attacks in the audio domain, e.g, speech and speaker recognition; and find defenses against them. In this work,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jesús Villalba , Sonal Joshi , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak

Machine learning is used in a number of security related applications such as biometric user authentication, speaker identification etc. A type of causative integrity attack against machine learning called Poisoning attack works by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Ricky Laishram , Vir Virander Phoha

As modern neural machine translation (NMT) systems have been widely deployed, their security vulnerabilities require close scrutiny. Most recently, NMT systems have been found vulnerable to targeted attacks which cause them to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Chang Xu , Jun Wang , Yuqing Tang , Francisco Guzman , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, a type of adversarial attack that poisons the training data to manipulate the behavior of models trained on such data. Clean-label attacks are a more stealthy form of backdoor attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Quang H. Nguyen , Nguyen Ngoc-Hieu , The-Anh Ta , Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Kok-Seng Wong , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Khoa D. Doan

Data hiding is essential for secure communication across digital media, and recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) provide enhanced methods for embedding secret information effectively. However, previous audio hiding methods often…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Wei Fan , Kejiang Chen , Xiangkun Wang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

As machine learning becomes widely used for automated decisions, attackers have strong incentives to manipulate the results and models generated by machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we perform the first systematic study of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Matthew Jagielski , Alina Oprea , Battista Biggio , Chang Liu , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Bo Li

Speech emotion recognition aims to identify emotional states from speech signals and has been widely applied in human-computer interaction, education, healthcare, and many other fields. However, since speech data contain rich sensitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Tanja Schultz

Adversarial training (AT) is a robust learning algorithm that can defend against adversarial attacks in the inference phase and mitigate the side effects of corrupted data in the training phase. As such, it has become an indispensable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Song , Bo Han , Lei Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Machine learning approaches for speech enhancement are becoming increasingly expressive, enabling ever more powerful modifications of input signals. In this paper, we demonstrate that this expressiveness introduces a vulnerability: advanced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Rostislav Makarov , Lea Schönherr , Timo Gerkmann

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu