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Recently, significant advancements have been made in face recognition technologies using Deep Neural Networks. As a result, companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Naver offer highly accurate commercial face recognition web services for…

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Generative AI is being leveraged to solve a variety of computer-use tasks involving desktop applications. State-of-the-art systems have focused solely on improving accuracy on leading benchmarks. However, these systems are practically…

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Detecting user interface (UI) controls from software screenshots is a critical task for automated testing, accessibility, and software analytics, yet it remains challenging due to visual ambiguities, design variability, and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Milad Moradi , Ke Yan , David Colwell , Matthias Samwald , Rhona Asgari

Multiple prompt injection attacks have been proposed against web agents. At the same time, various methods have been developed to detect general prompt injection attacks, but none have been systematically evaluated for web agents. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yinuo Liu , Ruohan Xu , Xilong Wang , Yuqi Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Privacy protection has become a critical requirement in the era of ubiquitous visual data sharing, imposing higher demands on efficient and robust privacy detection algorithms. However, current robust detection models are severely hindered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiaobin Hu , Enpu Zuo , Lanping Hu , Kaiwen Yang , Dianshu Liao , Tianyi Zhang , Bo Yin , Yinsi Zhou , Shidong Pan , Xiaoyu Sun

E-commerce risk management requires aggregating diverse, deeply embedded web data through multi-step, stateful interactions, which traditional scraping methods and most existing Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents cannot handle. These…

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Users interacting with large language models (LLMs) under their real identifiers often unknowingly risk disclosing private information. Automatically notifying users whether their queries leak privacy and which phrases leak what private…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Hang Zeng , Xiangyu Liu , Yong Hu , Chaoyue Niu , Fan Wu , Shaojie Tang , Guihai Chen

Online tracking is a widespread practice on the web with questionable ethics, security, and privacy concerns. While web tracking can offer personalized and curated content to Internet users, it operates as a sophisticated surveillance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Seyed Ali Akhavani , Engin Kirda , Amin Kharraz

The proliferation of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents in web browsing scenarios present complex unintended consequences (UCs). This paper characterizes three UCs from three perspectives: phenomena,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shuning Zhang , Jingruo Chen , Zhiqi Gao , Jiajing Gao , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Modern browsers give access to several attributes that can be collected to form a browser fingerprint. Although browser fingerprints have primarily been studied as a web tracking tool, they can contribute to improve the current state of web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Nampoina Andriamilanto , Tristan Allard , Gaëtan Le Guelvouit , Alexandre Garel

Phishing emails continue to pose a significant threat, causing financial losses and security breaches. This study addresses limitations in existing research, such as reliance on proprietary datasets and lack of real-world application, by…

Diffusion Models (DMs) benefit from large and diverse datasets for their training. Since this data is often scraped from the Internet without permission from the data owners, this raises concerns about copyright and intellectual property…

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Web agents have emerged as an effective paradigm for automating interactions with complex web environments, yet remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks that embed malicious instructions into webpage content to induce unintended…

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One of the most important aspects of security organization is to establish a framework to identify security significant points where policies and procedures are declared. The (information) security infrastructure comprises entities,…

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Email tracking allows email senders to collect fine-grained behavior and location data on email recipients, who are uniquely identifiable via their email address. Such tracking invades user privacy in that email tracking techniques gather…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Johannes Haupt , Benedict Bender , Benjamin Fabian , Stefan Lessmann

Recently, private inference (PI) has addressed the rising concern over data and model privacy in machine learning inference as a service. However, existing PI frameworks suffer from high computational and communication costs due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yuke Zhang , Dake Chen , Souvik Kundu , Haomei Liu , Ruiheng Peng , Peter A. Beerel

De-identification of medical images is a critical step to ensure privacy during data sharing in research and clinical settings. The initial step in this process involves detecting Protected Health Information (PHI), which can be found in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Tuan Truong , Ivo M. Baltruschat , Mark Klemens , Grit Werner , Matthias Lenga

Cyber-security analysts face an increasingly large number of alerts received on any given day. This is mainly due to the low precision of many existing methods to detect threats, producing a substantial number of false positives. Usually,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Iwona Hawryluk , Henrique Hoeltgebaum , Cole Sodja , Tyler Lalicker , Joshua Neil

Phishing websites now rely heavily on visual imitation-copied logos, similar layouts, and matching colours-to avoid detection by text- and URL-based systems. This paper presents a deep learning approach that uses webpage screenshots for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 K. Acharya , S. Ale , R. Kadel

Online users often post facial images of themselves and other people on online social networks (OSNs) and other Web 2.0 platforms, which can lead to potential privacy leakage of people whose faces are included in such images. There is…

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