New algorithm APHEN improves tensor decomposition for mobile banking user-device authentication.
problem Enhancing user-device authentication in mobile banking for financial services.
method Tensor decomposition using Paratuck2 and APHEN algorithm for faster and more accurate computation.
result Improved user-device authentication for financial services through faster and more accurate tensor decomposition.
Machine learning enhances wireless network authentication for diverse devices.
problem Complex dynamic wireless environments challenge conventional authentication methods.
method Intelligent authentication using machine learning for diverse physical layer attributes.
result Machine learning-based authentication provides cost-effective, reliable, and situation-aware security.
Enhanced ECG biometric system improves authentication accuracy.
problem Traditional authentication methods have security issues.
method Developed an ECG-based authentication system using machine learning.
result Achieved up to 92% identification accuracy.
Study shows context-specific models improve swipe gesture authentication for smartphone users.
problem Improving swipe gesture-based continuous authentication for smartphones.
method Conducted experiments on HMOG dataset with 100 subjects, analyzing authentication error in different scenarios.
result Context-specific models are needed for different smartphone usage and human activity scenarios.
A novel method to prevent bias in authentication models.
problem Bias in data-driven authentication models trained in one domain but required to apply in others.
method Two-stage method involving one-versus-rest disentangle learning and additive adversarial learning.
result Demonstrated effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method through comprehensive evaluation.
New attacks bypass authentication models using mouse dynamics data.
problem Adversarial attacks on behavioural mouse authentication.
method Generative approaches to create adversarial mouse trajectories.
result Imitation-based attacks often outperform surrogate-based attacks.
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…
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.
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.
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…
Paper compares machine learning models for food authenticity.
problem Determining correct food labelling from NIR spectroscopic data.
method Applied and compared various classification, dimension reduction, and variable selection approaches to NIR datasets of meat, olive oil, and honey samples.
result Partial least squares outperformed other approaches in classifying food authenticity.
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 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.
Deep learning predicts user identity, activity, and location from Wi-Fi signals.
problem Privacy concerns and need for non-invasive user authentication, activity classification, and tracking.
method End-to-end deep learning framework using passive Wi-Fi signals.
result System autonomously predicts user identity, activity, and location without user intervention.
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.
Decentralized machine learning is a promising emerging paradigm in view of global challenges of data ownership and privacy. We consider learning of linear classification and regression models, in the setting where the training data is decentralized over many user devices, and the learning algorithm must run on-device, …
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.
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.
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…
HRFA generates high-resolution, realistic adversarial examples for DNNs.
problem Revealing vulnerabilities of DNNs with imperceptible, semantic attacks.
method Modifies latent feature representation, backpropagating through generative model.
result Generates adversarial examples with up to 1024x1024 resolution, evading denoising defenses.
PriRec preserves privacy in POI recommendation by keeping data and models on users' devices.
problem Privacy concerns in centralized POI recommendation models.
method Local differential privacy for sensitive data, secure decentralized gradient descent for linear models, secure aggregation for feature interactions.
result PriRec achieves comparable or better recommendation accuracy than FM while protecting user privacy.
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 …
Paper proposes FedPer to combat statistical heterogeneity in federated learning for personalized tasks.
problem Statistical heterogeneity in federated learning data degrades performance of traditional federated averaging.
method FedPer: a base + personalization layer approach for federated training of deep feedforward neural networks.
result FedPer effectively combats statistical heterogeneity in non-identical data partitions of CIFAR datasets and personalized image aesthetics datasets.
A system for federated learning with private data, adding discrete Gaussian noise and secure aggregation.
problem Training models on private data distributed across devices while ensuring privacy.
method Discretizes data, adds discrete Gaussian noise, and uses secure aggregation to protect privacy.
result Matches the accuracy of central differential privacy with less than 16 bits of precision per value.
HSQ reduces communication costs in federated learning.
problem High cost of communicating gradients in federated learning.
method Hyper-sphere quantization (HSQ) framework for efficient gradient compression.
result HSQ achieves O(logd) per-iteration communication cost, significantly reducing costs without compromising accuracy. Detects anomalies without training data using deep learning.
problem Detect anomalies in data without labeled training data.
method Inverse Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for semi-supervised learning.
result Successfully detects anomalies in data without labeled training data.
Relational Graph Neural Networks improve fraud detection in Super-Apps.
problem Fraud detection in Super-Apps using alternative data.
method Relational Graph Convolutional Networks applied to heterogeneous graphs.
result Added value in fraud detection when considering alternative data and interactions.
3S-SC framework improves SC accuracy by optimizing affinity matrices.
problem Inaccurate clustering results due to flawed affinity matrices.
method 3S-SC framework with GBTO to optimize affinity matrices.
result Improves connectivity and accuracy in SC methods.
Federated learning uses worst-case optimization to handle uncertain local data impacts.
problem Handling uncertainty in local data sets in federated learning.
method Reformulate FL problem using worst-case optimization theory, considering local data as uncertain functions bounded in a closed region.
result Comparison of FL performance with centralized learning and application of regularization factors.
Deep convolutional architecture identifies eye movements for biometric faster and more accurately.
problem Biometric identification of eye movements for authentication.
method Developed a deep convolutional architecture to process raw eye-tracking signals.
result Achieved a lower error rate by one order of magnitude and faster identification time by two orders of magnitude.
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.
GAN-based spoofing attacks improve wireless signal authentication.
problem Improving wireless signal authentication against sophisticated spoofing attacks.
method Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for generating synthetic signals.
result GAN-based spoofing attacks significantly increase the success probability of wireless signal spoofing.
A new method for cross-matching fingerprints from different sensors.
problem Inefficiency in cross-matching fingerprints from different sensors.
method Co-occurrence of ridge orientations and Gabor-HoG descriptor fusion with CCA.
result Significant enhancement over state-of-the-art methods.
Paper proposes incentive mechanism to encourage participation in federated learning.
problem Users are reluctant to participate in federated learning due to privacy concerns.
method Formulated as a two-stage Stackelberg game, designed an incentive mechanism to select and compensate users.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of the proposed incentive mechanism through simulations.
Decentralized deep learning improves efficiency with arbitrary compression.
problem Limited network bandwidth hinders decentralized deep learning.
method Proposed Choco-SGD with arbitrary compression for non-convex functions.
result Choco-SGD achieves linear speedup and higher compression than previous methods.