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With just a few speech samples, it is possible to perfectly replicate a speaker's voice in recent years, while malicious voice exploitation (e.g., telecom fraud for illegal financial gain) has brought huge hazards in our daily lives.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhisheng Zhang , Qianyi Yang , Derui Wang , Pengyang Huang , Yuxin Cao , Kai Ye , Jie Hao

The recently proposed facial cloaking attacks add invisible perturbation (cloaks) to facial images to protect users from being recognized by unauthorized facial recognition models. However, we show that the "cloaks" are not robust enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jing Wen

Voice anonymization has been developed as a technique for preserving privacy by replacing the speaker's voice in a speech signal with that of a pseudo-speaker, thereby obscuring the original voice attributes from machine recognition and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong AiK Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

Adversarially perturbed images of text can cause sophisticated OCR systems to produce misleading or incorrect transcriptions from seemingly invisible changes to humans. Some of these perturbations even survive physical capture, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Bhagyesh Kumar , A S Aravinthakashan , Akshat Satyanarayan , Ishaan Gakhar , Ujjwal Verma

This paper presents a new voice conversion (VC) framework capable of dealing with both additive noise and reverberation, and its performance evaluation. There have been studied some VC researches focusing on real-world circumstances where…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yeonjong Choi , Chao Xie , Tomoki Toda

Personalized AI applications such as DreamBooth enable the generation of customized content from user images, but also raise significant privacy concerns, particularly the risk of facial identity leakage. Recent defense mechanisms like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhen Chen , Yi Zhang , Xiangyu Yin , Chengxuan Qin , Xingyu Zhao , Xiaowei Huang , Wenjie Ruan

Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) codec-based audio synthesis systems can mimic anyone's voice with just a 3-second sample from that specific unseen speaker. Unfortunately, malicious attackers may exploit these technologies, causing misuse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Haibin Wu , Yuan Tseng , Hung-yi Lee

Solutions for defending against deepfake speech fall into two categories: proactive watermarking models and passive conventional deepfake detectors. While both address common threats, their differences in training, optimization, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chia-Hua Wu , Wanying Ge , Xin Wang , Junichi Yamagishi , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

The rapid advancement of voice generation technologies has enabled the synthesis of speech that is perceptually indistinguishable from genuine human voices. While these innovations facilitate beneficial applications such as personalized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Aditya Pujari , Ajita Rattani

Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms. From small- and large-scale financial fraud to disinformation campaigns, the need for reliable methods to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Sarah Barrington , Romit Barua , Gautham Koorma , Hany Farid

Speaker anonymization seeks to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving the utility of their speech. The achieved privacy is commonly evaluated with a speaker recognition model trained on anonymized speech. Although this represents a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Carlos Franzreb , Arnab Das , Tim Polzehl , Sebastian Möller

Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Raha Moraffah , Shubh Khandelwal , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Huan Liu

Face modification systems using deep learning have become increasingly powerful and accessible. Given images of a person's face, such systems can generate new images of that same person under different expressions and poses. Some systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal , Stan Sclaroff

Personalized concept generation by tuning diffusion models with a few images raises potential legal and ethical concerns regarding privacy and intellectual property rights. Researchers attempt to prevent malicious personalization using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Xiaoyue Mi , Fan Tang , You Wu , Juan Cao , Peng Li , Yang Liu

The rapid progress in personalized speech generation technology, including personalized text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC), poses a challenge in distinguishing between generated and real speech for human listeners, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Shihao Chen , Liping Chen , Jie Zhang , KongAik Lee , Zhenhua Ling , Lirong Dai

Various forefront countermeasure methods for automatic speaker verification (ASV) with considerable performance in anti-spoofing are proposed in the ASVspoof 2019 challenge. However, previous work has shown that countermeasure models are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Haibin Wu , Songxiang Liu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee

Voice cloning (VC)-resistant watermarking is an emerging technique for tracing and preventing unauthorized cloning. Existing methods effectively trace traditional VC models by training them on watermarked audio but fail in zero-shot VC…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Haiyun Li , Zhiyong Wu , Xiaofeng Xie , Jingran Xie , Yaoxun Xu , Hanyang Peng

Deepfake technology, driven by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), poses significant risks to privacy and societal security. Existing detection methods are predominantly passive, focusing on post-event analysis without preventing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mengxiao Huang , Minglei Shu , Shuwang Zhou , Zhaoyang Liu

With the advancement of personalized image generation technologies, concerns about forgery attacks that infringe on portrait rights and privacy are growing. To address these concerns, protection perturbation algorithms have been developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zelin Li , Ruohan Zong , Yifan Liu , Ruichen Yao , Yaokun Liu , Yang Zhang , Dong Wang