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most citedSecure and Reliable Biometric Access Control for Resource-Constrained Systems and IoT

15 citations · 24 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CR2026

Cross-Layer Roots of Trust: Integrating Biometrics, PUFs, and Hardware Obfuscation

Nima Karimian

Modern cyber--physical, Internet-of-Things (IoT), wearable, and edge systems increasingly require trust in three distinct entities: the human requesting access, the physical device…

cs.CV2026

DiffAttack: Evasion Attacks Against Face Recognition via Latent Diffusion Models

Omid Ahmadieh, Nima Karimian

Facial biometric identification relies on the distinctiveness of user attributes within a high-dimensional embedding space. However, the decision boundaries of deep face recognitio…

cs.CV2026

Adv-TGD: Adversarial Text-Guided Diffusion for Face Recognition Impersonation Attacks

Omid Ahmadieh, Nima Karimian

The widespread adoption of face recognition (FR) technologies raises serious privacy concerns, as facial data can be exploited without consent. To address this challenge, we propos…

cs.CV2026

Robust Spoofed Speech Detection via Temporal Pyramid Modeling

Mahtab Masoudi Nezhad, Nima Karimian

Spoofed speech detection is increasingly challenged by realistic synthesis, voice conversion, and replay attacks, with cross-dataset generalization remaining a major limitation. Th…

cs.CV2025

rPPG-SysDiaGAN: Systolic-Diastolic Feature Localization in rPPG Using Generative Adversarial Network with Multi-Domain Discriminator

Banafsheh Adami, Nima Karimian

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a novel approach to noninvasive monitoring of vital signs, such as respiratory rate, utilizing a camera. Although several supervised and s…

cs.CV2025

GRU-AUNet: A Domain Adaptation Framework for Contactless Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection

Banafsheh Adami, Nima Karimian

Although contactless fingerprints offer user comfort, they are more vulnerable to spoofing. The current solution for anti-spoofing in the area of contactless fingerprints relies on…

eess.SP2024

Advancements in Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Integrating Deep Learning and ECG Signal

MohammadReza Hosseinzadehketilateh, Banafsheh Adami, Nima Karimian

This paper presents a novel approach to noninvasive hyperglycemia monitoring utilizing electrocardiograms (ECG) from an extensive database comprising 1119 subjects. Previous resear…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Contactless Fingerprint Biometric Anti-Spoofing: An Unsupervised Deep Learning Approach

Banafsheh Adami, Nima Karimian

Contactless fingerprint recognition offers a higher level of user comfort and addresses hygiene concerns more effectively. However, it is also more vulnerable to presentation attac…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

A Universal Anti-Spoofing Approach for Contactless Fingerprint Biometric Systems

Banafsheh Adami, Sara Tehranipoor, Nasser Nasrabadi +1

With the increasing integration of smartphones into our daily lives, fingerphotos are becoming a potential contactless authentication method. While it offers convenience, it is als…

cs.CR2021

Intrinsic PUF Instance on Non-Volatile NAND Flash Memory

Surbhi Vasudeva, Sara Tehranipoor, Nima Karimian

Embedded systems or micro controller based modules have become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. However, the security of embedded devices as well as the authenticity of h…

cs.CR2020

When Physical Unclonable Function Meets Biometrics

Kavya Dayananda, Nima Karimian

As the Covid-19 pandemic grips the world, healthcare systems are being reshaped, where the e-health concepts become more likely to be accepted. Wearable devices often carry sensiti…

cs.CR2019★ 5 cited

DRAMNet: Authentication based on Physical Unique Features of DRAM Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Nima Karimian, Fatemeh Tehranipoor, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos +1

Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in the development of Autonomous Vehicles (AV). However, there are two types of attack challenges that can affect AVs and are yet to be re…

cs.CR2018★ 15 cited

Secure and Reliable Biometric Access Control for Resource-Constrained Systems and IoT

Nima Karimian, Zimu Guo, Fatemeh Tehranipoor +3

With the emergence of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), there is a growing need for access control and data protection on low-power, pervasive devices. Biometric-based authentication i…

cs.CR2018★ 1 cited

Deep RNN-Oriented Paradigm Shift through BOCANet: Broken Obfuscated Circuit Attack

Fatemeh Tehranipoor, Nima Karimian, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani +1

This is the first work augmenting hardware attacks mounted on obfuscated circuits by incorporating deep recurrent neural network (D-RNN). Logic encryption obfuscation has been used…