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Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, where a perturbation in the input space leads to an amplified shift in the latent network representation. In this paper, we combine canonical supervised learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Changhao Shi , Chester Holtz , Gal Mishne

Previous works have shown that automatic speaker verification (ASV) is seriously vulnerable to malicious spoofing attacks, such as replay, synthetic speech, and recently emerged adversarial attacks. Great efforts have been dedicated to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Haibin Wu , Xu Li , Andy T. Liu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

Speech synthesis, voice cloning, and voice conversion techniques present severe privacy and security threats to users of voice user interfaces (VUIs). These techniques transform one or more elements of a speech signal, e.g., identity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

Voice assistive technologies have given rise to far-reaching privacy and security concerns. In this paper we investigate whether modular automatic speech recognition (ASR) can improve privacy in voice assistive systems by combining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

Voice anonymization systems aim to protect speaker privacy by obscuring vocal traits while preserving the linguistic content relevant for downstream applications. However, because these linguistic cues remain intact, they can be exploited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ahmad Aloradi , Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Daniel Tenbrinck

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are increasingly popular and built into smartphones, home assistants, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Despite offering an always-on convenient user experience, VUIs raise new security and privacy concerns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

The proliferation of large AI models trained on uncurated, often sensitive web-scraped data has raised significant privacy concerns. One of the concerns is that adversaries can extract information about the training data using privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Dominik Hintersdorf , Lukas Struppek , Daniel Neider , Kristian Kersting

Despite their overwhelming success on a wide range of applications, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely recognized to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This intriguing phenomenon led to a competition between adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges in 3D object recognition, especially in scenarios involving multi-view analysis where objects can be observed from varying angles. This paper introduces View-Invariant Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Christian Green , Mehmet Ergezer , Abdurrahman Zeybey

Privacy-preserving voice conversion aims to remove only the attributes of speech audio that convey identity information, keeping other speech characteristics intact. This paper presents a mechanism for privacy-preserving voice conversion…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jacob J Webber , Oliver Watts , Gustav Eje Henter , Jennifer Williams , Simon King

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Adversaries can mislead the policies of DRL agents by perturbing the state of the environment observed by the agents. Existing attacks are feasible in principle,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Buse G. A. Tekgul , Shelly Wang , Samuel Marchal , N. Asokan

Stable Diffusion (SD) often produces degraded outputs when the training dataset contains adversarial noise. Adversarial purification offers a promising solution by removing adversarial noise from contaminated data. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Li Zheng , Liangbin Xie , Jiantao Zhou , He YiMin

Embodied agents in vision navigation coupled with deep neural networks have attracted increasing attention. However, deep neural networks have been shown vulnerable to malicious adversarial noises, which may potentially cause catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chengyang Ying , You Qiaoben , Xinning Zhou , Hang Su , Wenbo Ding , Jianyong Ai

Audio is an important medium in people's daily life, hidden information can be embedded into audio for covert communication. Current audio information hiding techniques can be roughly classed into time domain-based and transform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yehao Kong , Jiliang Zhang

Preserving the utility of published datasets while simultaneously providing provable privacy guarantees is a well-known challenge. On the one hand, context-free privacy solutions, such as differential privacy, provide strong privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Chong Huang , Peter Kairouz , Xiao Chen , Lalitha Sankar , Ram Rajagopal

Many speech enhancement methods try to learn the relationship between noisy and clean speech, obtained using an acoustic room simulator. We point out several limitations of enhancement methods relying on clean speech targets; the goal of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Geonmin Kim , Hwaran Lee , Bo-Kyeong Kim , Sang-Hoon Oh , Soo-Young Lee

In wiretap model of secure communication the goal is to provide (asymptotic) perfect secrecy and reliable communication over a noisy channel that is eavesdropped by an adversary with unlimited computational power. This goal is achieved by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Pengwei Wang , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep learning models. However, research on adversarial detection methods, especially in the multi-modal domain, is very limited. In this work, we propose an efficient and straightforward detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Pingchuan Ma , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Evasion attacks pose significant threats to AI systems, exploiting vulnerabilities in machine learning models to bypass detection mechanisms. The widespread use of voice data, including deepfakes, in promising future industries is currently…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chanwoo Park , Chanwoo Kim

Deep learning models achieve excellent performance in numerous machine learning tasks. Yet, they suffer from security-related issues such as adversarial examples and poisoning (backdoor) attacks. A deep learning model may be poisoned by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiaoyun Xu , Oguzhan Ersoy , Stjepan Picek