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most citedExplainable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cyber Security: State-of-the-Art in Research

435 citations · 601 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CR2024★ 8 cited

A Visualized Malware Detection Framework with CNN and Conditional GAN

Fang Wang, Hussam Al Hamadi, Ernesto Damiani

Malware visualization analysis incorporating with Machine Learning (ML) has been proven to be a promising solution for improving security defenses on different platforms. In this w…

cs.CY2023★ 54 cited

The Metaverse: Survey, Trends, Novel Pipeline Ecosystem & Future Directions

Hani Sami, Ahmad Hammoud, Mouhamad Arafeh +14

The Metaverse offers a second world beyond reality, where boundaries are non-existent, and possibilities are endless through engagement and immersive experiences using the virtual…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Data Poisoning Attacks on EEG Signal-based Risk Assessment Systems

Zhibo Zhang, Sani Umar, Ahmed Y. Al Hammadi +3

Industrial insider risk assessment using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals has consistently attracted a lot of research attention. However, EEG signal-based risk assessment system…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Explainable Label-flipping Attacks on Human Emotion Assessment System

Zhibo Zhang, Ahmed Y. Al Hammadi, Ernesto Damiani +1

This paper's main goal is to provide an attacker's point of view on data poisoning assaults that use label-flipping during the training phase of systems that use electroencephalogr…

cs.LG2023★ 23 cited

Explainable Data Poison Attacks on Human Emotion Evaluation Systems based on EEG Signals

Zhibo Zhang, Sani Umar, Ahmed Y. Al Hammadi +5

The major aim of this paper is to explain the data poisoning attacks using label-flipping during the training stage of the electroencephalogram (EEG) signal-based human emotion eva…

cs.DC2022★ 1 cited

ModularFed: Leveraging Modularity in Federated Learning Frameworks

Mohamad Arafeh, Hadi Otrok, Hakima Ould-Slimane +3

Numerous research recently proposed integrating Federated Learning (FL) to address the privacy concerns of using machine learning in privacy-sensitive firms. However, the standards…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Reward Shaping Using Convolutional Neural Network

Hani Sami, Hadi Otrok, Jamal Bentahar +2

In this paper, we propose Value Iteration Network for Reward Shaping (VIN-RS), a potential-based reward shaping mechanism using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed VIN…

eess.AS2022★ 1 cited

Speaker Identification from emotional and noisy speech data using learned voice segregation and Speech VGG

Shibani Hamsa, Ismail Shahin, Youssef Iraqi +2

Speech signals are subjected to more acoustic interference and emotional factors than other signals. Noisy emotion-riddled speech data is a challenge for real-time speech processin…

cs.CR2022★ 5 cited

New data poison attacks on machine learning classifiers for mobile exfiltration

Miguel A. Ramirez, Sangyoung Yoon, Ernesto Damiani +7

Most recent studies have shown several vulnerabilities to attacks with the potential to jeopardize the integrity of the model, opening in a few recent years a new window of opportu…

cs.CR2022

A Late Multi-Modal Fusion Model for Detecting Hybrid Spam E-mail

Zhibo Zhang, Ernesto Damiani, Hussam Al Hamadi +2

In recent years, spammers are now trying to obfuscate their intents by introducing hybrid spam e-mail combining both image and text parts, which is more challenging to detect in co…

cs.CV2022★ 21 cited

Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Detect Image Spam Using Convolutional Neural Network

Zhibo Zhang, Ernesto Damiani, Hussam Al Hamadi +2

Image spam threat detection has continually been a popular area of research with the internet's phenomenal expansion. This research presents an explainable framework for detecting…

cs.LG2022★ 24 cited

On the Robustness of Random Forest Against Untargeted Data Poisoning: An Ensemble-Based Approach

Marco Anisetti, Claudio A. Ardagna, Alessandro Balestrucci +3

Machine learning is becoming ubiquitous. From finance to medicine, machine learning models are boosting decision-making processes and even outperforming humans in some tasks. This…

cs.CR2022★ 435 cited

Explainable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cyber Security: State-of-the-Art in Research

Zhibo Zhang, Hussam Al Hamadi, Ernesto Damiani +2

This survey presents a comprehensive review of current literature on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods for cyber security applications. Due to the rapid development…

cs.CR2022★ 26 cited

Poisoning Attacks and Defenses on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey

Miguel A. Ramirez, Song-Kyoo Kim, Hussam Al Hamadi +5

Machine learning models have been widely adopted in several fields. However, most recent studies have shown several vulnerabilities from attacks with a potential to jeopardize the…

cs.CV2021

Temporal Fusion Based Mutli-scale Semantic Segmentation for Detecting Concealed Baggage Threats

Muhammed Shafay, Taimur Hassan, Ernesto Damiani +1

Detection of illegal and threatening items in baggage is one of the utmost security concern nowadays. Even for experienced security personnel, manual detection is a time-consuming…

cs.AI2021

Towards Federated Learning-Enabled Visible Light Communication in 6G Systems

Shimaa Naser, Lina Bariah, Sami Muhaidat +4

Visible light communication (VLC) technology was introduced as a key enabler for the next generation of wireless networks, mainly thanks to its simple and low-cost implementation.…