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Applications using gesture-based human-computer interface require a new user login method with gestures because it does not have a traditional input method to type a password. However, due to various challenges, existing gesture-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Duo Lu , Dijiang Huang

Within the realm of computer vision, self-supervised learning (SSL) pertains to training pre-trained image encoders utilizing a substantial quantity of unlabeled images. Pre-trained image encoders can serve as feature extractors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Qiannan Wang , Changchun Yin , Zhe Liu , Liming Fang , Run Wang , Chenhao Lin

The rapid growth of Ethereum has made it more important to quickly and accurately detect smart contract vulnerabilities. While machine-learning-based methods have shown some promise, many still rely on rule-based preprocessing designed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Uisang Lee , Changhoon Chung , Junmo Lee , Soo-Mook Moon

Digital fingerprinting is a framework for marking media files, such as images, music, or movies, with user-specific signatures to deter illegal distribution. Multiple users can collude to produce a forgery that can potentially overcome a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-16 Dustin G. Mixon , Christopher J. Quinn , Negar Kiyavash , Matthew Fickus

Transformers have become keystone models in natural language processing over the past decade. They have achieved great popularity in deep learning applications, but the increasing sizes of the parameter spaces required by transformer models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yujia Zhai , Chengquan Jiang , Leyuan Wang , Xiaoying Jia , Shang Zhang , Zizhong Chen , Xin Liu , Yibo Zhu

Thousands of vulnerabilities are reported on a monthly basis to security repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database. Among these vulnerabilities, software misconfiguration is one of the top 10 security risks for web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno , Daniel Strüber

Website fingerprinting enables an eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting (WF) attacks have demonstrated effectiveness even against Tor-protected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xinhao Deng , Xiyuan Zhao , Qilei Yin , Zhuotao Liu , Qi Li , Mingwei Xu , Ke Xu , Jianping Wu

It is generally recognized that the traffic generated by an individual connected to a network acts as his biometric signature. Several tools exploit this fact to fingerprint and monitor users. Often, though, these tools assume to access the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Nino Vincenzo Verde , Giuseppe Ateniese , Emanuele Gabrielli , Luigi Vincenzo Mancini , Angelo Spognardi

BitLocker is a full-disk encryption feature available in recent Windows versions. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes and it makes use of a number of different authentication methods. In this paper we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Elena Agostini , Massimo Bernaschi

This paper investigates the semantic robustness of attention-based classifiers for design pattern detection, particularly focusing on their reliance on structural and behavioral semantics. We reproduce the DPDAtt, an attention-based design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Manthan Shenoy , Andreas Rausch

Content blocking is an important part of a performant, user-serving, privacy respecting web. Most content blockers build trust labels over URLs. While useful, this approach has well understood shortcomings. Attackers may avoid detection by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Quan Chen , Peter Snyder , Ben Livshits , Alexandros Kapravelos

With the surge of social media, maliciously tampered public speeches, especially those from influential figures, have seriously affected social stability and public trust. Existing speech tampering detection methods remain insufficient:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Lingfeng Yao , Chenpei Huang , Shengyao Wang , Junpei Xue , Hanqing Guo , Jiang Liu , Xun Chen , Miao Pan

Forensic science heavily relies on analyzing latent fingerprints, which are crucial for criminal investigations. However, various challenges, such as background noise, overlapping prints, and contamination, make the identification process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Andre Brasil Vieira Wyzykowski , Anil K. Jain

Sequence models for binary analysis are bottlenecked by byte-level tokenization: raw bytes waste precious context window capacity for transformers and other neural network architectures, and many existing text-oriented tokenizers fail on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Michael J. Bommarito

Existing language model safety evaluations focus on overt attacks and low-stakes tasks. In reality, an attacker can easily subvert existing safeguards by requesting help on small, benign-seeming tasks across many independent queries.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Davis Brown , Mahdi Sabbaghi , Luze Sun , Alexander Robey , George J. Pappas , Eric Wong , Hamed Hassani

Website fingerprinting (WF) is a well-know threat to users' web privacy. New internet standards, such as QUIC, include padding to support defenses against WF. Previous work only analyzes the effectiveness of defenses when users are behind a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Sandra Siby , Ludovic Barman , Christopher Wood , Marwan Fayed , Nick Sullivan , Carmela Troncoso

As online tracking continues to grow, existing anti-tracking and fingerprinting detection techniques that require significant manual input must be augmented. Heuristic approaches to fingerprinting detection are precise but must be carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Sarah Bird , Vikas Mishra , Steven Englehardt , Rob Willoughby , David Zeber , Walter Rudametkin , Martin Lopatka

Multimedia fingerprinting is a technique to protect the copyrighted contents against being illegally redistributed under various collusion attack models. Averaging attack is the most fair choice for each colluder to avoid detection, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jing Jiang , Cailin Wen , Minquan Cheng

Software analysis, debugging, and reverse engineering have a crucial impact in today's software industry. Efficient and stealthy debuggers are especially relevant for malware analysis. However, existing debugging platforms fail to address a…

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks on Tor can infer user destinations from encrypted traffic metadata. However, their real-world effectiveness remains debated due to laboratory settings that fail to capture network fluctuations, evaluate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammadhamed Shadbeh , Khashayar Khajavi , Tao Wang