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Websites use third-party ads and tracking services to deliver targeted ads and collect information about users that visit them. These services put users' privacy at risk, and that is why users' demand for blocking these services is growing.…

Fast and safe navigation of dynamical systems through a priori unknown cluttered environments is vital to many applications of autonomous systems. However, trajectory planning for autonomous systems is computationally intensive, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sylvia L. Herbert , Mo Chen , SooJean Han , Somil Bansal , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

Modern visual object trackers show impressive results on general targets, yet their performance drops substantially when dealing with scene text. Although currently underexplored, tracking text in videos is essential for dynamic text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenmin Yu , Liu Yu , Daiqing Wu , Gengluo Li , Zeyu Chen , Yu Zhou

Millions of web users directly depend on ad and tracker blocking tools to protect their privacy. However, existing ad and tracker blockers fall short because of their reliance on trivially susceptible advertising and tracking content. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Sandra Siby , Umar Iqbal , Steven Englehardt , Zubair Shafiq , Carmela Troncoso

Various methods have been proposed for creating and maintaining lists of potentially filtered URLs to allow for measurement of ongoing internet censorship around the world. Whilst testing a known resource for evidence of filtering can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Alexander Darer , Oliver Farnan , Joss Wright

We propose TRACE, a structure-aware framework leveraging diffusion models for localized character encoding to embed data. Unlike existing methods that rely on edge features or pre-defined codebooks, TRACE exploits character structures that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiale Meng , Jie Zhang , Runyi Hu , Zhe-Ming Lu , Tianwei Zhang , Yiming Li

Web tracking has been extensively studied over the last decade. To detect tracking, previous studies and user tools rely on filter lists. However, it has been shown that filter lists miss trackers. In this paper, we propose an alternative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Imane Fouad , Nataliia Bielova , Arnaud Legout , Natasa Sarafijanovic-Djukic

Widely used data race detectors, including the state-of-the-art FastTrack algorithm, incur performance costs that are acceptable for regular in-house testing, but miss races detectable from the analyzed execution. Predictive analyses detect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jake Roemer , Kaan Genç , Michael D. Bond

Crack is one of the most common road distresses which may pose road safety hazards. Generally, crack detection is performed by either certified inspectors or structural engineers. This task is, however, time-consuming, subjective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Rui Fan , Mohammud Junaid Bocus , Yilong Zhu , Jianhao Jiao , Li Wang , Fulong Ma , Shanshan Cheng , Ming Liu

Modern visual trackers usually construct online learning models under the assumption that the feature response has a Gaussian distribution with target-centered peak response. Nevertheless, such an assumption is implausible when there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qintao Hu , Lijun Zhou , Xiaoxiao Wang , Yao Mao , Jianlin Zhang , Qixiang Ye

Search engines are a combination of hardware and computer software supplied by a particular company through the website which has been determined. Search engines collect information from the web through bots or web crawlers that crawls the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Ahmad Josi , Leon Andretti Abdillah , Suryayusra

Censorship of the Internet is widespread around the world. As access to the web becomes increasingly ubiquitous, filtering of this resource becomes more pervasive. Transparency about specific content that citizens are denied access to is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Alexander Darer , Oliver Farnan , Joss Wright

As the complexity of mobile applications grows exponentially and the fragmentation of user device environments intensifies, ensuring online application stability faces unprecedented challenges. Traditional methods, such as static logging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qi Hu , Jiangchao Liu , Xin Yu , Lin Zhang , Edward Jiang

In this work, we formulate and study the problem of image-editing detection and attribution: given a base image and a suspicious image, detection seeks to determine whether the suspicious image was derived from the base image using an AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zhengyuan Jiang , Yuyang Zhang , Moyang Guo , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems critically depend on effective document chunking strategies to balance retrieval quality, latency, and operational cost. Traditional chunking approaches, such as fixed-size, rule-based, or fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Uday Allu , Sonu Kedia , Tanmay Odapally , Biddwan Ahmed

With the rapid expansion of web-based applications and cloud services, malicious JavaScript code continues to pose significant threats to user privacy, system integrity, and enterprise security. But, detecting such threats remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Zhihong Liang , Xin Wang , Zhenhuang Hu , Liangliang Song , Lin Chen , Jingjing Guo , Yanbin Wang , Ye Tian

Adversarial attacks of deep neural networks have been intensively studied on image, audio, natural language, patch, and pixel classification tasks. Nevertheless, as a typical, while important real-world application, the adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Qing Guo , Xiaofei Xie , Felix Juefei-Xu , Lei Ma , Zhongguo Li , Wanli Xue , Wei Feng , Yang Liu

This articles surveys the existing literature on the methods currently used by web services to track the user online as well as their purposes, implications, and possible user's defenses. A significant majority of reviewed articles and web…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Tomasz Bujlow , Valentín Carela-Español , Josep Solé-Pareta , Pere Barlet-Ros

Most online multi-object trackers perform object detection stand-alone in a neural net without any input from tracking. In this paper, we present a new online joint detection and tracking model, TraDeS (TRAck to DEtect and Segment),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jialian Wu , Jiale Cao , Liangchen Song , Yu Wang , Ming Yang , Junsong Yuan

We propose an object tracking method, SFTrack++, that smoothly learns to preserve the tracked object consistency over space and time dimensions by taking a spectral clustering approach over the graph of pixels from the video, using a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Elena Burceanu