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Websites are capable of learning a wide range of information about the platform on which a browser is executing. One major source of such information is the set of standardised Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided within the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Zhaoyi Fan

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks identify the websites visited over anonymized connections by analyzing patterns in network traffic flows, such as packet sizes, directions, or interval times using a machine learning classifier. Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chuxu Song , Zining Fan , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Advertisers are increasingly turning to fingerprinting techniques to track users across the web. As web browsing activity shifts to mobile platforms, traditional browser fingerprinting techniques become less effective; however, device…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Edward Chou , Muhammad Haris Mughees

In this paper, we provide an overview of fingerprint sensing methods used for authentication. We analyze the current fingerprint sensing technologies, from algorithmic, as well as from hardware perspectives. We then focus on methods to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Filipp Demenschonok , Jason Harrigan , Tamara Bonaci

Implicit authentication consists of a server authenticating a user based on the user's usage profile, instead of/in addition to relying on something the user explicitly knows (passwords, private keys, etc.). While implicit authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Qianhong Wu , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Parallel to our physical activities our virtual presence also leaves behind our unique digital fingerprints, while navigating on the Internet. These digital fingerprints have the potential to unveil users' activities encompassing browsing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Blerim Rexha , Arbena Musa , Kamer Vishi , Edlira Martiri

With wearable devices such as smartwatches on the rise in the consumer electronics market, securing these wearables is vital. However, the current security mechanisms only focus on validating the user not the device itself. Indeed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Elizabeth S. Bentley

In this paper we introduce a script identification method based on hand-crafted texture features and an artificial neural network. The proposed pipeline achieves near state-of-the-art performance for script identification of video-text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Anguelos Nicolaou , Andrew Bagdanov , Lluis Gomez-Bigorda , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Fingerspelling, in which words are signed letter by letter, is an important component of American Sign Language. Most previous work on automatic fingerspelling recognition has assumed that the boundaries of fingerspelling regions in signing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Device identification is the process of identifying a device on Internet without using its assigned network or other credentials. The sharp rise of usage in Internet of Things (IoT) devices has imposed new challenges in device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Emeroylariffion Abas

Many vision based applications have used fingertips to track or manipulate gestures in their applications. Gesture identification is a natural way to pass the signals to the machine, as the human express its feelings most of the time with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 J. L. Raheja , Karen Das , Ankit Chaudhary

The device fingerprinting technique extracts fingerprints based on the hardware characteristics of the device to identify the device. The primary goal of device fingerprinting is to accurately and uniquely identify a device, which requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Dawei Li , Di Liu , Yangkun Ren , Ziyi Wang , Yu Sun , Zhenyu Guan , Qianhong Wu , Jianwei Liu

Partial fingerprint recognition is a method to recognize an individual when the sensor size has a small form factor in accepting a full fingerprint. It is also used in forensic research to identify the partial fingerprints collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Mahesh Joshi , Bodhisatwa Mazumdar , Somnath Dey

Website fingerprinting attacks, which use statistical analysis on network traffic to compromise user privacy, have been shown to be effective even if the traffic is sent over anonymity-preserving networks such as Tor. The classical attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Anatoly Shusterman , Lachlan Kang , Yarden Haskal , Yosef Meltser , Prateek Mittal , Yossi Oren , Yuval Yarom

This paper presents a novel approach to the digital signing of electronic documents through the use of a camera-based interaction system, single-finger tracking for sign recognition, and multi commands executing hand gestures. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 P. Sarveswarasarma , T. Sathulakjan , V. J. V. Godfrey , Thanuja D. Ambegoda

The selection of algorithms is a crucial step in designing AI services for real-world time series classification use cases. Traditional methods such as neural architecture search, automated machine learning, combined algorithm selection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lars Böcking , Leopold Müller , Niklas Kühl

Robust governance of GPU chips is important for mitigating risks from unauthorized development of advanced AI models. Current methods for monitoring chip location rely on ping-based protocols backed by cryptographic keys stored on-chip.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wayne Tee , Jonathan Happel

Prior measurement studies on browser fingerprinting have unfortunately largely excluded Web Audio API-based fingerprinting in their analysis. We address this issue by conducting the first systematic study of effectiveness of web audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shekhar Chalise , Phani Vadrevu

Spambot detection in online social networks is a long-lasting challenge involving the study and design of detection techniques capable of efficiently identifying ever-evolving spammers. Recently, a new wave of social spambots has emerged,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Stefano Cresci , Roberto Di Pietro , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi , Maurizio Tesconi

In this paper we propose a novel fingerprint indexing approach for speeding up in the fingerprint recognition system. What kind of features are used for indexing and how to employ the extracted features for searching are crucial for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Gwang-Il Ri , Chol-Gyun Ri , Su-Rim Ji