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20182026
most citedDECIFE: Detecting Collusive Users Involved in Blackmarket Following Services on Twitter

4 citations · 12 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.SD2026

InterBias-SV: Compound Conditions in Speaker Verification

Kamel Kamel, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Keshav Sood +1

Speaker verification systems encounter combinations of noise, channel distortion, and changes in speech. Evaluating each condition separately does not establish whether their effec…

quant-ph2025

Modeling Wavelet Transformed Quantum Support Vector for Network Intrusion Detection

Swati Kumari, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Swathi Chandrasekhar +5

Network traffic anomaly detection is a critical cybersecurity challenge requiring robust solutions for complex Internet of Things (IoT) environments. We present a novel hybrid quan…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Threats Against Voice Authentication and Anti-Spoofing Systems

Kamel Kamel, Keshav Sood, Hridoy Sankar Dutta +1

Voice authentication has undergone significant changes from traditional systems that relied on handcrafted acoustic features to deep learning models that can extract robust speaker…

cs.SI2025

YTCommentVerse: A Multi-Category Multi-Lingual YouTube Comment Corpus

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Biswadeep Khan

In this paper, we introduce YTCommentVerse, a large-scale multilingual and multi-category dataset of YouTube comments. It contains over 32 million comments from 178,000 videos cont…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Spectral Masking and Interpolation Attack (SMIA): A Black-box Adversarial Attack against Voice Authentication and Anti-Spoofing Systems

Kamel Kamel, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Keshav Sood +1

Voice Authentication Systems (VAS) use unique vocal characteristics for verification. They are increasingly integrated into high-security sectors such as banking and healthcare. De…

cs.SE2025

OpenCoderRank: Personalized Technical Assessments with Generative AI

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Sana Ansari, Swati Kumari +1

Organizations and educational institutions use time-bound assessment tasks to evaluate coding and problem-solving skills. These assessments measure not only the correctness of the…

cs.SI2025

Half-life of Youtube News Videos: Diffusion Dynamics and Predictive Factors

Anahit Sargsyan, Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Juergen Pfeffer

Consumption of YouTube news videos significantly shapes public opinion and political narratives. While prior works have studied the longitudinal dissemination dynamics of YouTube N…

cs.SI2024

YT-30M: A multi-lingual multi-category dataset of YouTube comments

Hridoy Sankar Dutta

This paper introduces two large-scale multilingual comment datasets, YT-30M (and YT-100K) from YouTube. The analysis in this paper is performed on a smaller sample (YT-100K) of YT-…

cs.OH2024★ 3 cited

ModZoo: A Large-Scale Study of Modded Android Apps and their Markets

Luis A. Saavedra, Hridoy S. Dutta, Alastair R. Beresford +1

We present the results of the first large-scale study into Android markets that offer modified or modded apps: apps whose features and functionality have been altered by a third-pa…

cs.SI2021

Weakening the Inner Strength: Spotting Core Collusive Users in YouTube Blackmarket Network

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Nirav Diwan, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Social reputation (e.g., likes, comments, shares, etc.) on YouTube is the primary tenet to popularize channels/videos. However, the organic way to improve social reputation is tedi…

cs.SI2021★ 4 cited

DECIFE: Detecting Collusive Users Involved in Blackmarket Following Services on Twitter

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Kartik Aggarwal, Tanmoy Chakraborty

The popularity of Twitter has fostered the emergence of various fraudulent user activities - one such activity is to artificially bolster the social reputation of Twitter profiles…

cs.SI2021

ABOME: A Multi-platform Data Repository of Artificially Boosted Online Media Entities

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Udit Arora, Tanmoy Chakraborty

The rise of online media has incentivized users to adopt various unethical and artificial ways of gaining social growth to boost their credibility within a short time period. In th…

cs.SI2020

Blackmarket-driven Collusion on Online Media: A Survey

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Online media platforms have enabled users to connect with individuals, organizations, and share their thoughts. Other than connectivity, these platforms also serve multiple purpose…

cs.SI2020

Detecting and analyzing collusive entities on YouTube

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Mayank Jobanputra, Himani Negi +1

In this work, we provide an in-depth analysis of collusive entities on YouTube fostered by various blackmarket services. Following this, we propose models to detect three types of…

cs.DL2018★ 3 cited

On Good and Bad Intentions behind Anomalous Citation Patterns among Journals in Computer Sciences

Joyita Chakraborty, Dinesh Pradhan, Hridoy Sankar Dutta +2

Scientific journals are an important choice of publication venue for most authors. Publishing in prestigious journal plays a decisive role for authors in hiring and promotions. In…

cs.SI2018

Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi +1

Twitter has increasingly become a popular platform to share news and user opinion. A tweet is considered to be important if it receives high number of affirmative reactions from ot…