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Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are increasingly popular and built into smartphones, home assistants, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Despite offering an always-on convenient user experience, VUIs raise new security and privacy concerns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ajinkya Kulkarni , Francisco Teixeira , Enno Hermann , Thomas Rolland , Isabel Trancoso , Mathew Magimai Doss

Attackers can deliberately perturb classifiers' input with subtle noise, altering final predictions. Among proposed countermeasures, adversarial purification employs generative networks to preprocess input images, filtering out adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Dario Serez , Marco Cristani , Alessio Del Bue , Vittorio Murino , Pietro Morerio

High-level representation-guided pixel denoising and adversarial training are independent solutions to enhance the robustness of CNNs against adversarial attacks by pre-processing input data and re-training models, respectively. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yihao Huang , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Lei Ma , Weikai Miao , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

Machine learning models can learn from data samples to carry out various tasks efficiently. When data samples are adversarially manipulated, such as by insertion of carefully crafted noise, it can cause the model to make mistakes. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Emma Andrews , Sahan Sanjaya , Prabhat Mishra

Voice anonymization masks vocal traits while preserving linguistic content, which may still leak speaker-specific patterns. To assess and strengthen privacy evaluation, we propose a dual-stream attacker that fuses spectral and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ridwan Arefeen , Xiaoxiao Miao , Rong Tong , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See , Timothy Liu

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Adversarial perturbations in speech pose a serious threat to automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker verification by introducing subtle waveform modifications that remain imperceptible to humans but can significantly alter system…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Daniyal Kabir Dar , Qiben Yan , Li Xiao , Arun Ross

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking-head generation enables realistic portrait animation, but also introduces risks of misuse, such as fraud and misinformation. Existing protection methods are largely limited to a single modality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wenli Zhang , Xianglong Shi , Sirui Zhao , Xinqi Chen , Guo Cheng , Yifan Xu , Tong Xu , Yong Liao

The Deepfake technology has raised serious concerns regarding privacy breaches and trust issues. To tackle these challenges, Deepfake detection technology has emerged. Current methods over-rely on the global feature space, which contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Weijie Zhou , Xiaoqing Luo , Zhancheng Zhang , Jiachen He , Xiaojun Wu

Deep learning-based image watermarking, while robust against conventional distortions, remains vulnerable to advanced adversarial and regeneration attacks. Conventional countermeasures, which jointly optimize the encoder and decoder via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiahui Chen , Zehang Deng , Zeyu Zhang , Chaoyang Li , Lianchen Jia , Lifeng Sun

Faced with the threat of identity leakage during voice data publishing, users are engaged in a privacy-utility dilemma when enjoying convenient voice services. Existing studies employ direct modification or text-based re-synthesis to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Meng Chen , Li Lu , Jiadi Yu , Yingying Chen , Zhongjie Ba , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

Voice authentication systems deployed at the network edge face dual threats: a) sophisticated deepfake synthesis attacks and b) control-plane poisoning in distributed federated learning protocols. We present a framework coupling…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alireza Mohammadi , Keshav Sood , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Asef Nazari

Security of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems is compromised by various spoofing attacks. While many types of non-proactive attacks (and their defenses) have been studied in the past, attacker's perspective on ASV, represents a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Rohan Kumar Das , Xiaohai Tian , Tomi Kinnunen , Haizhou Li

Generative models can reconstruct face images from encoded representations (templates) bearing remarkable likeness to the original face, raising security and privacy concerns. We present \textsc{FaceCloak}, a neural network framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sudipta Banerjee , Anubhav Jain , Chinmay Hegde , Nasir Memon

Despite the excellent performance of neural-network-based audio source separation methods and their wide range of applications, their robustness against intentional attacks has been largely neglected. In this work, we reformulate various…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Naoya Takahashi , Shota Inoue , Yuki Mitsufuji

The rapid advancement of generative AI has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish between deepfake audio and authentic human speech. To overcome the limitations of passive detection methods, we propose StreamMark, a novel deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Zhentao Liu , Milos Cernak

This paper investigates the feasibility of a proactive DeepFake defense framework, {\em FacePosion}, to prevent individuals from becoming victims of DeepFake videos by sabotaging face detection. The motivation stems from the reliance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Delong Zhu , Yuezun Li , Baoyuan Wu , Jiaran Zhou , Zhibo Wang , Siwei Lyu

Malicious actors may seek to use different voice-spoofing attacks to fool ASV systems and even use them for spreading misinformation. Various countermeasures have been proposed to detect these spoofing attacks. Due to the extensive work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik , James Ryan , Mikul Saravanan

Voice conversion (VC) stands as a crucial research area in speech synthesis, enabling the transformation of a speaker's vocal characteristics to resemble another while preserving the linguistic content. This technology has broad…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sandipan Dhar , Nanda Dulal Jana , Swagatam Das