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Similarity search is essential to many important applications and often involves searching at scale on high-dimensional data based on their similarity to a query. In biometric applications, recent vulnerability studies have shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Yi Wang , Jianwu Wan , Jun Guo , Yiu-Ming Cheung , Pong C Yuen

We address the possibility that intelligent civilisations that destroy themselves could present signatures observable by humanity. Placing limits on the number of self-destroyed civilisations in the Milky Way has strong implications for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Adam Stevens , Duncan Forgan , Jack O'Malley-James

This work describes the context and approach for the detection of spectroscopic signatures from planets in the habitable zone of nearby stars. By understanding the limitations of current observatories, future telescopes can be understood,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Vincent Kofman

The characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres through transit spectra is becoming increasingly feasible, and technology for direct detection remains ongoing. The possibility of detecting spectral features could enable quantitative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Jacob Haqq-Misra , Vincent Kofman , Ravi K. Kopparapu

Upcoming biosignature searches focus on indirect indicators to infer the presence of life on other worlds. Aside from just signaling the presence of life, however, some biosignatures can contain information about the state that a planet's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-11 McCullen Sandora , Joseph Silk

The discovery of inhabited exoplanets hinges on identifying biosignature gases. JWST can reveal biosignature gases, though current discoveries have yet to evidence life. The central challenge is attribution: how can we confidently identify…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Tereza Constantinou , Oliver Shorttle , Miles Cranmer , Paul B. Rimmer

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

As the Internet help us cross cultural border by providing different information, plagiarism issue is bound to arise. As a result, plagiarism detection becomes more demanding in overcoming this issue. Different plagiarism detection tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Chow Kok Kent , Naomie Salim

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility space of scenarios of 'contact'--the discovery of extra-terrestrial life, whether intelligent or not--using a morphological approach utilising seven principal parameters, chosen both…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Joseph Voros

Face signatures, including size, shape, texture, skin tone, eye color, appearance, and scars/marks, are widely used as discriminative, biometric information for access control. Despite recent advancements in facial recognition systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jennifer Hamblin , Kshitij Nikhal , Benjamin S. Riggan

SETI is not a usual point of departure for environmental humanities. However, this paper argues that theories originating in this field have direct implications for how we think about viable inhabitation of the Earth. To demonstrate SETI's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 Lukáš Likavčan

Gesture and signature passwords are two-dimensional figures created by drawing on the surface of a touchscreen with one or more fingers. Prior results about their security have used resilience to either shoulder surfing, a human observation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Can Liu , Shridatt Sugrim , Gradeigh D. Clark , Janne Lindqvist

Over the past two decades, enormous advances in the detection of exoplanets have taken place. Currently, we have discovered hundreds of earth-sized planets, several of them within the habitable zone of their star. In the coming years, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Enric Palle

The proliferation of digital technologies in the distribution of digital content has prompted concerns about the effects on cultural diversity in the digital era. The concept of discoverability has been presented as a theoretical tool…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Rebecca Salganik , Valdy Wiratama , Heritiana Ranaivoson , Adelaida Afilipoaie

Technological advancements have significantly transformed communication patterns, introducing a diverse array of online platforms, thereby prompting individuals to use multiple profiles for different domains and objectives. Enhancing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Shahar Somin , Keeley Erhardt , Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

This paper proposes a long term scheme for robotic exploration of the galaxy,and then considers the implications in terms of the `Fermi paradox' and our search for ETI. We discuss the parameter space of the `galactic ecology' of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Martin T. Barlow

Several technosignature techniques focus on historic events such as SN 1987A as the basis to search for coordinated signal broadcasts from extraterrestrial agents. The recently discovered SN 2023ixf in the spiral galaxy M101 is the nearest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 James R. A. Davenport , Sofia Z. Sheikh , Wael Farah , Andy Nilipour , Bárbara Cabrales , Steve Croft , Alexander W. Pollak , Andrew P. V. Siemion

Many password alternatives for web authentication proposed over the years, despite having different designs and objectives, all predominantly rely on the knowledge of some secret. This motivates us, herein, to provide the first detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Furkan Alaca , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

This report is the product of the NASA Technosignatures Workshop held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, in September 2018. This workshop was convened by NASA for the organization to learn more about the current field…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 NASA Technosignatures Workshop Participants

Using Low Cost Portable Eye Tracking for Biometric Identification Or Verification: Eye tracking technologies have in recent years become available outside of specialised labs, and are starting to become integrated in tablets and virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Per Bækgaard , Michael Kai Petersen , Jakob Eg Larsen