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  • A Framework of Comparing Privacy Policies for Smart Home Devices

    Creator:
    Saginatham, Manideepa
    Abstract:
    Smart home devices are becoming increasingly popular and by 2021, it is estimated to have 80 million devices in the households of the U.S. The privacy and security threats involved with devices, as a result, are also scaling up in recent years. Smart home cameras have been hacked, private conversations...
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    hacked, private conversations recorded via Alexa have been shared without users’ awareness, data

  • Empowering End Users to Mitigate Privacy and Security Risks in Smart-Home Trigger-Action Apps

    Creator:
    Saeidi, Mahsa
    Abstract:
    Many home users nowadays use various smart devices to improve the efficiency and convenience of their home environments. Trigger-action platforms such as “If-This-Then-That” (IFTTT) enable end users to connect different smart devices and services using simple apps to control these devices and automate the tasks (e.g., if the camera detects...
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    Dissertation
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    assistant such as Alexa. An integrity violation can occur if an unauthorized person accesses Alexa and turns

  • On a Topological Criterion for the Construction of Higher Arity Metrics

    Creator:
    Barkan, Willow
    Abstract:
    Metric spaces (X, d) are ubiquitous objects in mathematics and computer science that are able to capture pairwise distance relationships d(x, y) between points x, y ∈ X. Because of this, it is natural to ask what useful generalizations there are of metric spaces for capturing “k-wise distance relationships” d(x1,...
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    to ask what useful generalizations there are of metric spaces for capturing “k-wise distance

  • Communication-Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation From Minicrypt and OT

    Creator:
    Roy, Lawrence
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    Secure two-party computation (2PC) is the task of performing arbitrary calculations on secret inputs provided by two parties, while maintaining secrecy if at least one party is honest. 2PC has been applied to privacy-preserving record linkage and machine learning, in areas such as medicine where maintaining privacy is crucial. One...
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    requires λ bits of communication for each OT, SoftSpokenOT only needs λ/k bits, for any k, at the

  • An Approach to Help End Users Become Aware of Privacy Risks in Home Automation

    Creator:
    Caglar, Turgay
    Abstract:
    Smart home devices, such as voice assistants, smart lights, and smart video doorbells have become a part of end users' daily lives. Many of these devices combine their features with other services and smart devices to create a simple and efficient user experience. This is partly because of the contribution...
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    IFTTT website [1] to design or reuse an applet to connect voice assistants (e.g., Alexa) to smart

  • Towards Direct Simultaneous Speech Translation

    Creator:
    Chen, Junkun
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    Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is widely useful in many cross-lingual communication scenarios, including multinational conferences and international traveling. Since text-based simultaneous machine translation (SimulMT) has achieved great success in recent years. The conventional cascaded approach for SimulST uses a pipeline of streaming ASR followed by simultaneous MT but suffers from...
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    framework. The model can directly translate from the given speech with a wait-k policy guided by a syn

  • Adding context and value to online security ratings by combining heuristics with community based ratings

    Creator:
    Ayyavu, Prashanth
    Abstract:
    The Internet is growing rapidly in terms of websites, users and uses. People use the Internet for reference, shopping, social networking, communications, business and much more. Though the Internet is useful, there are many risks associated with its use, like malicious websites, identity theft, hateful content and fraudulent practices. Online...
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    during this thesis work. I would also like to thank my parents Mr. K. Ayyavu and Gokila Mani Ayyavu

  • Gender differences in robot teleoperation

    Creator:
    Showkat, Dilruba
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    Gender issues have recently received increased attention in human robot interaction (HRI). Because robots are becoming part of our homes and daily lives, it is important to understand how different groups of people use them. To the best of our knowledge, almost no research has been done that investigates gender...
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    our homes for exp. Amazon’s Alexa, and they will continue to grow at their fast paced acceptance rate

  • Leveraging Compressive Sampling and Machine Learning for Adaptive and Cooperative Wideband Spectrum Sensing

    Creator:
    Zaid, Adem
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    This thesis proposes a novel technique that exploits spectrum occupancy behaviors inherent to wideband spectrum access to enable efficient cooperative spectrum sensing. The proposed technique reduces the number of required sensing measurements while accurately recovering spectrum occupancy information. It does so by leveraging compressive sampling theory to exploit the block-like...
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    allow sampling at sub-Nyquist rates [48]. That is, by taking a 5 number of measurements m(k) ≥ O(k

  • Answer Selection with Attentive Clustering

    Creator:
    Chatterjee, Purbasha
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    Question answering forums like Reddit have been quite effective in improving social interaction and disseminating useful information. Community members ask a variety of questions related to a subject which are answered by other community members. The answers are given ratings by other members. In this thesis we study the problem...
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    Home and Amazon Alexa which query a large number of 2 knowledge-bases and answer the human