The fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks are critical to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines, which directly increase vulnerability for various spoofing attacks. Conventional cryptographic and physical layer authentication techniques are facing some chall…
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Traditional authentication systems use alphanumeric or graphical passwords, or token-based techniques that require "something you know and something you have". The disadvantages of these systems include the risks of forgetfulness, loss, and theft. To address these shortcomings, biometric authentication is rapidly repla…
Establishing unique identities for both humans and end systems has been an active research problem in the security community, giving rise to innovative machine learning-based authentication techniques. Although such techniques offer an automated method to establish identity, they have not been vetted against sophistica…
The first step of a secure communication is authenticating legible users and detecting the malicious ones. In the last recent years, some promising schemes proposed using wireless medium network's features, in particular, channel state information (CSI) as a means for authentication. These schemes mainly compare user's…
Mouse dynamics is a potential means of authenticating users. Typically, the authentication process is based on classical machine learning techniques, but recently, deep learning techniques have been introduced for this purpose. Although prior research has demonstrated how machine learning and deep learning algorithms c…
Aims to eliminate domain bias in authentication without domain labels.
problem Authentication models are biased due to domain differences.
method Discover latent domains and eliminate domain difference alternately, using a meta-learning framework.
result Eliminates domain difference in authentication without domain labels.
Authentication is a task aiming to confirm the truth between data instances and personal identities. Typical authentication applications include face recognition, person re-identification, authentication based on mobile devices and so on. The recently-emerging data-driven authentication process may encounter undesired …
New system uses wearable bio-signals for easy authentication.
problem Security of private information on wearables is a concern.
method Context-dependent soft-biometric authentication using heart rate, gait, and breathing audio.
result Binary SVM with RBF kernel achieves high accuracy and low EER.
This work investigates how context should be taken into account when performing continuous authentication of a smartphone user based on touchscreen and accelerometer readings extracted from swipe gestures. The study is conducted on the publicly available HMOG dataset consisting of 100 study subjects performing pre-defi…
The new financial European regulations such as PSD2 are changing the retail banking services. Noticeably, the monitoring of the personal expenses is now opened to other institutions than retail banks. Nonetheless, the retail banks are looking to leverage the user-device authentication on the mobile banking applications…
The growing trend of using wearable devices for context-aware computing and pervasive sensing systems has raised its potentials for quick and reliable authentication techniques. Since personal writing habitats differ from each other, it is possible to realize user authentication through writing. This is of great signif…
From the viewpoint of physical-layer authentication, spoofing attacks can be foiled by checking channel state information (CSI). Existing CSI-based authentication algorithms mostly require a deep knowledge of the channel to deliver decent performance. In this paper, we investigate CSI-based authenticators that can spar…
SONA improves conditional generation by balancing authenticity and alignment.
problem Challenges in balancing authenticity and conditional alignment in conditional generative models.
method SONA integrates unconditional discrimination, matching-aware supervision, and adaptive weighting to balance authenticity and alignment.
result SONA achieves superior sample quality and conditional alignment compared to state-of-the-art methods.
A Framework for Behavioral Biometric Authentication using Deep Metric Learning on Mobile Devicescs.LG
A new framework for mobile authentication using deep metric learning.
problem Challenges in mobile authentication using behavioral biometrics.
method Deep metric learning, private data protection, flexible training scheduling.
result 95% authentication accuracy on public datasets, robust against attacks.
Study provides long-term EMG data for multi-day biometric authentication.
problem Limited long-term EMG data for multi-day biometric authentication.
method Collected EMG data from 43 participants over three days.
result Multi-day biometric authentication results in low error rates.
FaceSigns embeds a secret watermark in images to authenticate and detect deepfakes.
problem Realistic image and video manipulation threats, especially deepfakes.
method Semi-fragile watermarking using neural networks, robust to face-swapping but fragile to deepfake manipulations.
result FaceSigns can reliably detect deepfake content with high accuracy.
FedUA trains UA models privately without raw data.
problem Training UA models requires raw user data, compromising privacy.
method Federated learning framework for privacy-preserving UA model training.
result FedUA reliably rejects unseen user data at high true positive rates.
User authentication and intrusion detection differ from standard classification problems in that while we have data generated from legitimate users, impostor or intrusion data is scarce or non-existent. We review existing techniques for dealing with this problem and propose a novel alternative based on a principled sta…
Active authentication is the problem of continuously verifying the identity of a person based on behavioral aspects of their interaction with a computing device. In this study, we collect and analyze behavioral biometrics data from 200subjects, each using their personal Android mobile device for a period of at least 30…
Paper explores vulnerabilities in image authenticity detection methods, especially printing and scanning attacks.
problem Vulnerability of image authenticity detection models to printing and scanning attacks.
method Demonstrates and proposes a new machine learning model to counter these attacks.
result Proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models when trained on images from a single printer.
Paper develops ML-based PLA verifiers that operate like the likelihood test.
problem Designing secure PLA verifiers when no attack information is available.
method Developed neural network and OCLSSVM models trained as two-class classifiers on legitimate data.
result One-class models can operate as the likelihood test at convergence.
Bayesian neural networks improve reliability in multimedia forensics.
problem Challenges with out-of-distribution data in multimedia authentication.
method Proposes Bayesian neural networks (BNN) for forensic tasks.
result BNNs provide distributions for better reliability and out-of-distribution detection.
Study on adversarial attacks on user identification systems using motion sensors.
problem Adversarial attacks on deep learning models for user identification based on motion sensors.
method Study of adversarial example generation methods and their impact on user identification systems.
result Deep neural networks trained for user identification based on motion sensors are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to high misclassification rates.
Detects AI-synthesized speech using cepstral and bispectral analysis.
problem Validating the authenticity of speech from AI-generated content.
method Integrates cepstral and bispectral analysis for distinguishing human from AI-synthesized speech.
result Higher-order statistics show less correlation for human speech compared to AI-synthesis, and cepstral analysis reveals unique power components.
The underlying objective of food authentication studies is to determine whether unknown food samples have been correctly labelled. In this paper we study three near infrared (NIR) spectroscopic datasets from food samples of different types: meat samples (labelled by species), olive oil samples (labelled by their geogra…
NFTs revolutionize art sales by providing proof of ownership.
problem Lack of provenance and authenticity in digital art.
method Analysis of major art NFT marketplaces.
result NFTs reduce the need for intermediaries in the art trade.
Adversarial attacks have long been developed for revealing the vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by adding imperceptible perturbations to the input. Most methods generate perturbations like normal noise, which is not interpretable and without semantic meaning. In this paper, we propose High-Resolution Featur…
ADSAGE detects anomalies in graph edge sequences for insider threat detection.
problem Detecting insider threats in fine-grained audit logs using graph and text features.
method Anomaly detection at edge level, supporting numeric, categorical, and text attributes.
result ADSAGE detects anomalies in authentications and email communications effectively.
Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing infrastructure makes Wi-Fi a possible candidate, yet, utilizing traditional signal processing…
We propose a multimodal approach for detection of students' behavioral engagement states (i.e., On-Task vs. Off-Task), based on three unobtrusive modalities: Appearance, Context-Performance, and Mouse. Final behavioral engagement states are achieved by fusing modality-specific classifiers at the decision level. Various…
A new CA-GAN architecture improves minority class data generation in health datasets.
problem Algorithmic bias due to health data poverty and underrepresentation of minority groups.
method Proposes CA-GAN architecture to address shortcomings of resampling and GAN-based approaches.
result CA-GAN outperforms SMOTE and WGAN-GP* in generating authentic minority class data and maintaining original distribution.
An empirical investigation of active/continuous authentication for smartphones is presented in this paper by exploiting users' unique application usage data, i.e., distinct patterns of use, modeled by a Markovian process. Variations of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are evaluated for continuous user verification, and chal…
Compared to other biometrics, gait is difficult to conceal and has the advantage of being unobtrusive. Inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are often used to capture gait dynamics. These inertial sensors are commonly integrated into smartphones and are widely used by the average person, which makes …
The problem of detecting data anomaly is considered. Under the null hypothesis that models anomaly-free data, measurements are assumed to be from an unknown distribution with some authenticated historical samples. Under the composite alternative hypothesis, measurements are from an unknown distribution positive distanc…
Subspace clustering (SC) refers to the problem of clustering high-dimensional data into a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Based on spectral clustering, state-of-the-art approaches solve SC problem within a two-stage framework. In the first stage, data representation techniques are applied to draw an affinity matrix…
The existing automatic fingerprint verification methods are designed to work under the assumption that the same sensor is installed for enrollment and authentication (regular matching). There is a remarkable decrease in efficiency when one type of contact-based sensor is employed for enrolment and another type of conta…
WISER detects watermarked segments in text via epidemic change-point analysis.
problem Identifying watermarked segments in mixed-source texts.
method Epidemic change-point perspective, WISER algorithm.
result WISER outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and speed.
We use automatic speech recognition to assess spoken English learner pronunciation based on the authentic intelligibility of the learners' spoken responses determined from support vector machine (SVM) classifier or deep learning neural network model predictions of transcription correctness. Using numeric features produ…
In the recent years Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated significant progress in generating authentic looking data. In this work we introduce our simple method to exploit the advancements in well established image-based GANs to synthesise single channel time series data. We implement Wasserstein GAN…
Edge augmentation connects disconnected graphs by elevating eigenvalues.
problem Connecting disconnected subgraphs in graphs with zero eigenvalues.
method Elevating zero eigenvalues of graph's spectrum to connect subgraphs.
result The algorithm consistently connects graph components, achieving >50% inter-community edges.
This paper is the first attempt to formalize a new field of economics; studding the Intangibles Goods available on the Internet. We are taking advantage of the digital world's specific rules, in particular the zero marginal cost, to propose a theory of trading & sharing unified. A function based money is created as a w…
Time is of the Essence: Machine Learning-based Intrusion Detection in Industrial Time Series Datacs.LG
The Industrial Internet of Things drastically increases connectivity of devices in industrial applications. In addition to the benefits in efficiency, scalability and ease of use, this creates novel attack surfaces. Historically, industrial networks and protocols do not contain means of security, such as authentication…
Price without transaction makes no sense. Trading volume authenticates its corresponding price, so there exist mutual information and correlation between price and trading volume. We are curious about fractal features of this correlation and need to know how structures in different scales translate information. To expl…
Optimal classifiers derived from GMMs are approximated by deep neural networks.
problem Binary classification of high-dimensional overlapping Gaussian mixtures.
method Closed-form expressions for Bayes optimal decision boundaries derived from GMMs' eigenstructure. Empirical validation through synthetic and real-world data.
result Deep neural networks approximate optimal classifiers for GMMs, with decision thresholds related to covariance eigenvectors.
Recently, deep learning has been applied to many security-sensitive applications, such as facial authentication. The existence of adversarial examples hinders such applications. The state-of-the-art result on defense shows that adversarial training can be applied to train a robust model on MNIST against adversarial exa…
This paper contains a feasibility study of deep neural networks for the classification of Euro banknotes with respect to requirements of central banks on the ATM and high speed sorting industry. Instead of concentrating on the accuracy for a large number of classes as in the famous ImageNet Challenge we focus thus on c…
Bayesian approach uses generative models as priors for better source separation.
problem Artifacts in source separation for richly structured data.
method Bayesian approach with generative models as priors and noise-annealed Langevin dynamics.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance for MNIST digit separation.
Electrical network frequency (ENF) is the signature of a power distribution grid which represents the nominal frequency (50 or 60 Hz) of a power system network. Due to load variations in a power grid, ENF sequences experience fluctuations. These ENF variations are inherently located in a multimedia signal which is reco…