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20192026
most citedHuman Perception of Audio Deepfakes

66 citations · 109 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

eess.AS2026

Detecting Audio Deepfakes on the Edge:Lightweight SSL-Based Detection in a Browser Plugin

Octavian Pascu, Dan Oneata, Horia Cucu +1

Audio deepfakes are a growing challenge for the general public, as well as for journalists and fact-checkers. The latter need reliable tools to verify the authenticity of their sou…

cs.SD2026

Proteus: Automated Adversarial Robustness Testing for Audio Deepfake Detectors

Nicolas M. Müller, Aditya Tirumala Bukkapatnam, Zohaib Ahmed

We present Proteus, a framework developed at Resemble AI for automated robustness testing of our audio deepfake detection system. Given a detector, Proteus systematically searches…

cs.SD2026

Eroding Trust in Real Speech: A Large-Scale Study of Human Audio Deepfake Perception

Nicolas M. Müller, Wei Herng Choong

Audio deepfakes have improved rapidly recently, yet their effect on human trust in real speech remains unstudied. We present the largest listening study on audio deepfake perceptio…

cs.AI2023

Protecting Publicly Available Data With Machine Learning Shortcuts

Nicolas M. Müller, Maximilian Burgert, Pascal Debus +3

Machine-learning (ML) shortcuts or spurious correlations are artifacts in datasets that lead to very good training and test performance but severely limit the model's generalizatio…

cs.SD2023

Complex-valued neural networks for voice anti-spoofing

Nicolas M. Müller, Philip Sperl, Konstantin Böttinger

Current anti-spoofing and audio deepfake detection systems use either magnitude spectrogram-based features (such as CQT or Melspectrograms) or raw audio processed through convoluti…

cs.CV2022

Localized Shortcut Removal

Nicolas M. Müller, Jochen Jacobs, Jennifer Williams +1

Machine learning is a data-driven field, and the quality of the underlying datasets plays a crucial role in learning success. However, high performance on held-out test data does n…

cs.CR2022

Attacker Attribution of Audio Deepfakes

Nicolas M. Müller, Franziska Dieckmann, Jennifer Williams

Deepfakes are synthetically generated media often devised with malicious intent. They have become increasingly more convincing with large training datasets advanced neural networks…

cs.SD2022★ 7 cited

Does Audio Deepfake Detection Generalize?

Nicolas M. Müller, Pavel Czempin, Franziska Dieckmann +2

Current text-to-speech algorithms produce realistic fakes of human voices, making deepfake detection a much-needed area of research. While researchers have presented various techni…

cs.HC2021★ 66 cited

Human Perception of Audio Deepfakes

Nicolas M. Müller, Karla Pizzi, Jennifer Williams

The recent emergence of deepfakes has brought manipulated and generated content to the forefront of machine learning research. Automatic detection of deepfakes has seen many new ma…

cs.SD2021

Speech is Silver, Silence is Golden: What do ASVspoof-trained Models Really Learn?

Nicolas M. Müller, Franziska Dieckmann, Pavel Czempin +3

We present our analysis of a significant data artifact in the official 2019/2021 ASVspoof Challenge Dataset. We identify an uneven distribution of silence duration in the training…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Defending Against Adversarial Denial-of-Service Data Poisoning Attacks

Nicolas M. Müller, Simon Roschmann, Konstantin Böttinger

Data poisoning is one of the most relevant security threats against machine learning and data-driven technologies. Since many applications rely on untrusted training data, an attac…

eess.AS2021

SC-GlowTTS: an Efficient Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker Text-To-Speech Model

Edresson Casanova, Christopher Shulby, Eren Gölge +6

In this paper, we propose SC-GlowTTS: an efficient zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech model that improves similarity for speakers unseen during training. We propose a speaker-c…

cs.CR2021

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Backup Strategies against Adversaries

Pascal Debus, Nicolas Müller, Konstantin Böttinger

Many defensive measures in cyber security are still dominated by heuristics, catalogs of standard procedures, and best practices. Considering the case of data backup strategies, we…

cs.SD2020★ 7 cited

Towards Resistant Audio Adversarial Examples

Tom Dörr, Karla Markert, Nicolas M. Müller +1

Adversarial examples tremendously threaten the availability and integrity of machine learning-based systems. While the feasibility of such attacks has been observed first in the do…

cs.LG2020

Data Poisoning Attacks on Regression Learning and Corresponding Defenses

Nicolas Michael Müller, Daniel Kowatsch, Konstantin Böttinger

Adversarial data poisoning is an effective attack against machine learning and threatens model integrity by introducing poisoned data into the training dataset. So far, it has been…

cs.LG2019★ 28 cited

Identifying Mislabeled Instances in Classification Datasets

Nicolas Michael Müller, Karla Markert

A key requirement for supervised machine learning is labeled training data, which is created by annotating unlabeled data with the appropriate class. Because this process can in ma…