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Publications (28)

cs.HC2021

Vacuum-formed 3D printed electronics: fabrication of thin, rigid and free-form interactive surfaces

Freddie Hong, Luca Tendera, Connor Myant +1

Vacuum-forming is a common manufacturing technique for constructing thin plastic shell products by pressing heated plastic sheets onto a mold using atmospheric pressure. Vacuum-for…

cs.CV2020

A new approach for pedestrian density estimation using moving sensors and computer vision

Eric K. Tokuda, Yitzchak Lockerman, Gabriel B. A. Ferreira +4

An understanding of pedestrian dynamics is indispensable for numerous urban applications including the design of transportation networks and planing for business development. Pedes…

cs.MA2023

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Action Masking for UAV-enabled Mobile Communications

Danish Rizvi, David Boyle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used as aerial base stations to provide ad hoc communications infrastructure. Building upon prior research efforts which consider e…

cs.CL2022

Paralinguistic Privacy Protection at the Edge

Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle

Voice user interfaces and digital assistants are rapidly entering our lives and becoming singular touch points spanning our devices. These always-on services capture and transmit o…

cs.CR2021

A Tandem Framework Balancing Privacy and Security for Voice User Interfaces

Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle

Speech synthesis, voice cloning, and voice conversion techniques present severe privacy and security threats to users of voice user interfaces (VUIs). These techniques transform on…

cs.CL2021

Configurable Privacy-Preserving Automatic Speech Recognition

Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle

Voice assistive technologies have given rise to far-reaching privacy and security concerns. In this paper we investigate whether modular automatic speech recognition (ASR) can impr…