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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

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems' growing use warrants robust auditing approaches to ensure equitable transcription quality, especially for people with speech disorders like aphasia who disproportionately depend on ASR. While…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Katelyn Xiaoying Mei , Anna Seo Gyeong Choi , Hilke Schellmann , Mona Sloane , Allison Koenecke

Automatic speaker verification systems are increasingly used as the primary means to authenticate costumers. Recently, it has been proposed to train speaker verification systems using end-to-end deep neural models. In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi , Moustapha Cisse , Joseph Keshet

Black-box adversarial attacks have demonstrated strong potential to compromise machine learning models by iteratively querying the target model or leveraging transferability from a local surrogate model. Recently, such attacks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanbin Hong , Xinyu Zhang , Binghui Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems can be used for voice-enabled applications for identity verification. However, recent studies have exposed these systems' vulnerabilities to both over-the-line (OTL) and over-the-air (OTA)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Li Wang , Xiaoyan Lei , Haorui He , Lei Wang , Jie Shi , Zhizheng Wu

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed by an adversary to cause an incorrect output. So far, adversarial examples have been studied most extensively in the image domain. In this domain, adversarial examples can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yao Qin , Nicholas Carlini , Ian Goodfellow , Garrison Cottrell , Colin Raffel

The widespread adoption of voice-activated systems has modified routine human-machine interaction but has also introduced new vulnerabilities. This paper investigates the susceptibility of automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Forrest McKee , David Noever

Language models can be manipulated by adversarial attacks, which introduce subtle perturbations to input data. While recent attack methods can achieve a relatively high attack success rate (ASR), we've observed that the generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yibo Wang , Xiangjue Dong , James Caverlee , Philip S. Yu

In this work, we aim to enhance the system robustness of end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) against adversarially-noisy speech examples. We focus on a rigorous and empirical "closed-model adversarial robustness" setting (e.g.,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Zeeshan Ahmed , Yile Gu , Joseph Szurley , Roger Ren , Linda Liu , Andreas Stolcke , Ivan Bulyko

It is known that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Although Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) built on top of deep neural networks exhibits robust performance in controlled scenarios, many studies confirm that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Li Wang , Jiaqi Li , Yuhao Luo , Jiahao Zheng , Lei Wang , Hao Li , Ke Xu , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi , Zhizheng Wu

Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) over the last decade opened new areas of speech-based automation such as in Air-Traffic Control (ATC) environment. Currently, voice communication and data links communications are the only way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Petr Motlicek , Qingran Zhan , Karel Vesely , Rudolf Braun

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems must be robust to the myriad types of noises present in real-world environments including environmental noise, room impulse response, special effects as well as attacks by malicious actors…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Muhammad A. Shah , Bhiksha Raj

Autonomous driving systems (ADS) increasingly rely on deep learning-based perception models, which remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we revisit adversarial attacks and defense methods, focusing on road sign…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Cheng Chen , Yuhong Wang , Nafis S Munir , Xiangwei Zhou , Xugui Zhou

Voice biometric systems based on automatic speaker verification (ASV) are exposed to \textit{spoofing} attacks which may compromise their security. To increase the robustness against such attacks, anti-spoofing or presentation attack…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Alejandro Gomez-Alanis , Jose A. Gonzalez-Lopez , Antonio M. Peinado

Recent developments in large speech foundation models like Whisper have led to their widespread use in many automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications. These systems incorporate `special tokens' in their vocabulary, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Vyas Raina , Rao Ma , Charles McGhee , Kate Knill , Mark Gales

Automatic Modulation Open Set Recognition (AMOSR) is a crucial technological approach for cognitive radio communications, wireless spectrum management, and interference monitoring within wireless networks. Numerous studies have shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yandie Yang , Sicheng Zhang , Kuixian Li , Qiao Tian , Yun Lin

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can fool a target classifier by imposing imperceptible perturbations onto natural examples. In this work, we consider the practical and challenging decision-based black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Qi-An Fu , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). Recent success all assumes that users will not notice or disrupt the attack process despite the existence of music/noise-like sounds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xinfeng Li , Chen Yan , Xuancun Lu , Zihan Zeng , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu