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CAPTCHAs are widely used by websites to block bots and spam by presenting challenges that are easy for humans but difficult for automated programs to solve. To improve accessibility, audio CAPTCHAs are designed to complement visual ones.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ziqi Ding , Yunfeng Wan , Wei Song , Yi Liu , Gelei Deng , Nan Sun , Huadong Mo , Jingling Xue , Shidong Pan , Yuekang Li

CAPTCHAs are designed to prevent malicious bot programs from abusing websites. Most online service providers deploy audio CAPTCHAs as an alternative to text and image CAPTCHAs for visually impaired users. However, prior research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Md Imran Hossen , Xiali Hei

Robust speaker recognition, including in the presence of malicious attacks, is becoming increasingly important and essential, especially due to the proliferation of several smart speakers and personal agents that interact with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Arindam Jati , Chin-Cheng Hsu , Monisankha Pal , Raghuveer Peri , Wael AbdAlmageed , Shrikanth Narayanan

The advancements in generative AI have enabled the improvement of audio synthesis models, including text-to-speech and voice conversion. This raises concerns about its potential misuse in social manipulation and political interference, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Hong-Hanh Nguyen-Le , Van-Tuan Tran , Dinh-Thuc Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

CAPTCHAs are employed as a security measure to differentiate human users from bots. A new sound-based CAPTCHA is proposed in this paper, which exploits the gaps between human voice and synthetic voice rather than relays on the auditory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-13 Haichang Gao , Honggang Liu , Dan Yao , Xiyang Liu , Uwe Aickelin

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Truing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely used technology to distinguish real users and automated users such as bots. However, the advance of AI technologies weakens many CAPTCHA tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Rulin Shao , Zhouxing Shi , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Deep learning technology has made it possible to generate realistic content of specific individuals. These `deepfakes' can now be generated in real-time which enables attackers to impersonate people over audio and video calls. Moreover,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lior Yasur , Guy Frankovits , Fred M. Grabovski , Yisroel Mirsky

Nowadays, CAPTCHAs are computer generated tests that human can pass but current computer systems can not. They have common usage in various web services in order to be able to detect a human from computer programs autonomously. In this way,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Ahmet Faruk Cakmak , Muhammet Balcilar

Speaker embedding based zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems enable high-quality speech synthesis for unseen speakers using minimal data. However, these systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where an attacker introduces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Ze Li , Yao Shi , Yunfei Xu , Ming Li

As speech translation (ST) systems become increasingly prevalent, understanding their vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring robust and reliable communication. However, limited work has explored this issue in depth. This paper explores…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chang Liu , Haolin Wu , Xi Yang , Kui Zhang , Cong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Jie Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models have been widely adopted in real-world applications due to their ability to generate realistic images from textual descriptions. However, recent studies have shown that these methods are vulnerable to backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Oscar Chew , Po-Yi Lu , Jayden Lin , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Various adversarial audio attacks have recently been developed to fool automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We here propose a defense against such attacks based on the uncertainty introduced by dropout in neural networks. We show…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Tejas Jayashankar , Jonathan Le Roux , Pierre Moulin

We construct audio adversarial examples on automatic Speech-To-Text systems . Given any audio waveform, we produce an another by overlaying an audio vocal mask generated from the original audio. We apply our audio adversarial attack to five…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Kai Yuan Tay , Lynnette Ng , Wei Han Chua , Lucerne Loke , Danqi Ye , Melissa Chua

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, short for CAPTCHA, is an essential and relatively easy way to defend against malicious attacks implemented by bots. The security and usability trade-off limits the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Zisheng Xu , Qiao Yan , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

Over the last few years, a rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems that adopt voice as the primary user input have emerged. These systems have been shown to be vulnerable to various types of voice spoofing attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

Speaker recognition systems (SRSs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising significant security concerns. In this work, we systematically investigate transformation and adversarial training based defenses…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Guangke Chen , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Feng Wang , Jiashui Wang

Text CAPTCHA has been an effective means to protect online systems from spams and abuses caused by automatic scripts which pretend to be human beings. However, nearly all the Text CAPTCHA designs in nowadays are based on English characters,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Junnan Yu , Xuna Ma , Ting Han

Speaker recognition has become very popular in many application scenarios, such as smart homes and smart assistants, due to ease of use for remote control and economic-friendly features. The rapid development of SRSs is inseparable from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Jiahe Lan , Rui Zhang , Zheng Yan , Jie Wang , Yu Chen , Ronghui Hou

Warning: this paper contains content that maybe offensive or upsetting. Recent research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has advanced the development of various toxicity detection models with the intention of identifying and mitigating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ninareh Mehrabi , Ahmad Beirami , Fred Morstatter , Aram Galstyan

Recently, few certified defense methods have been developed to provably guarantee the robustness of a text classifier to adversarial synonym substitutions. However, all existing certified defense methods assume that the defenders are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jiehang Zeng , Xiaoqing Zheng , Jianhan Xu , Linyang Li , Liping Yuan , Xuanjing Huang
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