Publications (17)
DR-VIDAL -- Doubly Robust Variational Information-theoretic Deep Adversarial Learning for Counterfactual Prediction and Treatment Effect Estimation on Real World Data
Shantanu Ghosh, Zheng Feng, Jiang Bian +2
Determining causal effects of interventions onto outcomes from real-world, observational (non-randomized) data, e.g., treatment repurposing using electronic health records, is chal…
Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience
Ethan Wilson, Azim Ibragimov, Michael J. Proulx +3
Eye tracking is routinely being incorporated into virtual reality (VR) systems. Prior research has shown that eye tracking data, if exposed, can be used for re-identification attac…
Concerning the Responsible Use of AI in the US Criminal Justice System
Cristopher Moore, Catherine Gill, Nadya Bliss +8
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being adopted in most industries, and for applications such as note taking and checking grammar, there is typically not a cause for con…
Pitch Imperfect: Detecting Audio Deepfakes Through Acoustic Prosodic Analysis
Kevin Warren, Daniel Olszewski, Seth Layton +3
Audio deepfakes are increasingly in-differentiable from organic speech, often fooling both authentication systems and human listeners. While many techniques use low-level audio fea…
Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV Acoustic Eavesdropping from Smartphone Cameras with Rolling Shutters and Movable Lenses
Yan Long, Pirouz Naghavi, Blas Kojusner +3
Our research discovers how the rolling shutter and movable lens structures widely found in smartphone cameras modulate structure-borne sounds onto camera images, creating a point-o…
Eye-tracked Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Survey on Methods and Privacy Challenges
Efe Bozkir, Süleyman Ãzdel, Mengdi Wang +5
The latest developments in computer hardware, sensor technologies, and artificial intelligence can make virtual reality (VR) and virtual spaces an important part of human everyday…
Now More Than Ever, Foundational AI Research and Infrastructure Depends on the Federal Government
Michela Taufer, Rada Mihalcea, Matthew Turk +13
Leadership in the field of AI is vital for our nation's economy and security. Maintaining this leadership requires investments by the federal government. The federal investment in…
Environmental Burden of United States Data Centers in the Artificial Intelligence Era
Gianluca Guidi, Francesca Dominici, Jonathan Gilmour +4
The rapid proliferation of data centers in the US - driven partly by the adoption of artificial intelligence - has set off alarm bells about the industry's environmental impact. We…
Addressing the Unforeseen Harms of Technology CCC Whitepaper
Nadya Bliss, Kevin Butler, David Danks +2
Recent years have seen increased awareness of the potential significant impacts of computing technologies, both positive and negative. This whitepaper explores how to address possi…
Towards Privacy-preserving Photorealistic Self-avatars in Mixed Reality
Ethan Wilson, Vincent Bindschaedler, Sophie Jörg +3
Photorealistic 3D avatar generation has rapidly improved in recent years, and realistic avatars that match a user's true appearance are more feasible in Mixed Reality (MR) than eve…
Every Breath You Don't Take: Deepfake Speech Detection Using Breath
Seth Layton, Thiago De Andrade, Daniel Olszewski +3
Deepfake speech represents a real and growing threat to systems and society. Many detectors have been created to aid in defense against speech deepfakes. While these detectors impl…
Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing
Kevin Butler, Christopher Stewart, Nils Aschenbruck +4
The report envisions a decade in which drones move goods, medical supplies, and information at a scale comparable to national infrastructure investments like highways and the elect…
Assessing the Carbon Emissions and Energy Consumption of U.S. Hyperscale Data Centers
Gianluca Guidi, Francesca Dominici, Tiziano Squartini +6
The rapid proliferation of hyperscale data centers (HDCs) in the US, mainly driven by the adoption of artificial intelligence, has raised concerns about this industry's environment…
Prioritizing Computing Research to Empower and Protect Vulnerable Populations
Pamela Wisniewski, Katie Siek, Kevin Butler +3
Technology can pose signicant risks to a wide array of vulnerable populations. However, by addressing the challenges and opportunities in technology design, research, and deploymen…
Retrofitting Applications with Provenance-Based Security Monitoring
Adam Bates, Kevin Butler, Alin Dobra +4
Data provenance is a valuable tool for detecting and preventing cyber attack, providing insight into the nature of suspicious events. For example, an administrator can use provenan…
Reuse It Or Lose It: More Efficient Secure Computation Through Reuse of Encrypted Values
Benjamin Mood, Debayan Gupta, Kevin Butler +1
Two-party secure function evaluation (SFE) has become significantly more feasible, even on resource-constrained devices, because of advances in server-aided computation systems. Ho…
A privacy-preserving approach to streaming eye-tracking data
Brendan David-John, Diane Hosfelt, Kevin Butler +1
Eye-tracking technology is being increasingly integrated into mixed reality devices. Although critical applications are being enabled, there are significant possibilities for viola…