Reconstructing a Fragmented Face from a Cryptographic Identifica

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Title: Reconstructing a Fragmented Face from a Cryptographic Identification Protocol

Authors: Andy Luong, Michael Gerbush, Brent Waters, Kristen Grauman

Abstract: Secure Computation of Face Identification (SCiFI) [20]is a recently developed secure face recognition system that ensures the list of faces it can identify (e.g., a terrorist watch list) remains private. In this work, we study the consequences of malformed input attacks on the system-from both a security and computer vision standpoint. In particular, we present 1) a cryptographic attack that allows dishonest user to undetectably obtain a coded representation of faces on the list, and 2) a visualization approach that exploits this breach, turning the lossy recovered codes into human-identifiable face sketches. We evaluate our approach on two challenging datasets, with face identification tasks given to a computer and human subjects. Whereas prior work considered security in the setting of honest in-puts and protocol execution, the success of our approach underscores the risk posed by malicious adversaries to to-days automatic face recognition systems.  

Publish Year: 2013

Published in: WACV - IEEE

Number of Pages: 8

موضوع: پردازش تصویر، رمزنگاری

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Online Advertising and its Security and Privacy Concerns

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Title: Online Advertising and its Security and Privacy Concerns

Authors: Angelia, Davar Pishva

Abstract: Commercial advertising has greatly benefitted from Internet services and online advertising can even be considered as the foundation of web economy. However, despite the availability of many books on how to create, use and make profit from online advertisement; there is little in-depth study on its true nature, security and privacy concerns. Through this research, the authors were able to establish an in-depth understanding of online advertising by collecting and analyzing numerous data on online advertising, with the hope that it could serve as a basis for further study on the field. The authors have also examined the security and privacy concerns of online advertising and the various gimmicks used to victimize innocent people. On the positive side, the paper explains the attractiveness of free online advertising services and the mechanism though which website owners profit from hosting online advertisements despite the fact that neither advertisers nor users pay for the services. On the negative side, the paper shows how online advertising hosts could be victimized by some shroud users for their money making purposes by continuous clicking of online advertisements without any intention of purchase. It also cites cases in which some website owners have marketed users_ private information behind the scene. The paper concludes by highlighting pros and cons of online advertising, Le., despite its numerous advantages, such as efficiency and range, it presents many dangers to advertisers, providers, website owners, and users.   

Publish Year: 2013

Published in: ICACT - IEEE

Number of Pages: 6

موضوع: امنیت اطلاعات (Information Security)

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Accelerating E-Commerce Sites in the Cloud

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Title: Accelerating E-Commerce Sites in the Cloud

Authors: Wei Hao, James Walden, Chris Trenkamp

Abstract: E-commerce web sites typically have large fluctuations in their IT resource usage, while rapid elasticity is an essential characteristic of cloud computing. These characteristics make the cloud a good fit for hosting e-commerce web sites. Cloud providers deploy their cloud in their data centers. However, cloud providers usually have a limited number of data center locations around the world. Thus, e-commerce web sites in the cloud may be far away from their customers. Long client-perceived response latency may cause e-commerce web sites to lose business. To solve this problem, we propose a virtual proxy solution to reduce the response latency of the e-commerce site in the cloud. In our approach, a virtual proxy platform is designed to cache applications and data of e-commerce sites. A k-means based table partitioning algorithm is designed to select frequently used data from the database in the cloud. We have used an industrial e-commerce benchmark TPC-W to evaluate the performance of our approach. The experimental results show that our approach can significantly reduce the client-perceived response time.   

Publish Year: 2013

Published in: CCNC – IEEE

موضوع: تجارت الکترونیک (E-Commerce)

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Domain Adaptive Object Detection

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Title: Domain Adaptive Object Detection

Authors: Fatemeh Mirrashed, Vlad I Morariu, Behjat Siddiquie, Rogerio S Feris, Larry S Davis

Abstract: We study the use of domain adaptation and transfer learning techniques as part of a framework for adaptive object detection. Unlike recent applications of domain adaptation work in computer vision, which generally focus on image classification, we explore the problem of extreme class imbalance present when performing domain adaptation for object detection. The main difficulty caused by this imbalance is that test images contain millions or billions of negative image sub windows but just a few image sub windows containing positive instances, which makes it difficult to adapt to changes in the positive classes present new do-mains by simple techniques such as random sampling. We propose an initial approach to addressing this problem and apply our technique to vehicle detection in a challenging urban surveillance dataset, demonstrating the performance of our approach with various amounts of supervision, including the fully unsupervised case.   

Publish Year: 2013

Published in: WACV – IEEE

موضوع: بینایی ماشین (Computer Vision) – تشخیص اشیا (Object Detection)

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Thermal energy storage using thermo-chemical heat pump

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Title: Thermal energy storage using thermo-chemical heat pump

Authors: MA Hamdan a, , SD Rossides b , R Haj Khalil

Abstract: A theoretical study was performed to investigate the potential of storing thermal energy using a heat pump which is a thermo-chemical storage system consisting of water as sorbet, and sodium chloride as the sorbent. The effect of different parameters namely; the amount of vaporized water from the evaporator, the system initial temperature and the type of salt on the increase in temperature of the salt was investigated and hence on the performance of the thermo chemical heat pump. It was found that the performance of the heat pump improves with the initial system temperature, with the amount of water vaporized and with the water remaining in the system. Finally it was also found that lithium chloride salt has higher effect on the performance of the heat pump that of sodium chloride.   

Publish Year: 2013

Published in: Energy Conversion and Management - Science Direct

موضوع: مهندسی انرژی

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