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A Neural Analysis-Synthesis Approach To Learning Procedural Audio Models, Danzel Serrano Dec 2022

A Neural Analysis-Synthesis Approach To Learning Procedural Audio Models, Danzel Serrano

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The effective sound design of environmental sounds is crucial to demonstrating an immersive experience. Classical Procedural Audio (PA) models have been developed to give the sound designer a fast way to synthesize a specific class of environmental sounds in a physically accurate and computationally efficient manner. These models are controllable due to the choice of parameters from analyzing a class of sound. However, the resulting synthesis lacks the fidelity for the preferred immersive experience; thus, the sound designer would rather search through an extensive database for real recordings of a target sound class. This thesis proposes the Procedural audio Variational …


Un-Fair Trojan: Targeted Backdoor Attacks Against Model Fairness, Nicholas Furth May 2022

Un-Fair Trojan: Targeted Backdoor Attacks Against Model Fairness, Nicholas Furth

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Machine learning models have been shown to be vulnerable against various backdoor and data poisoning attacks that adversely affect model behavior. Additionally, these attacks have been shown to make unfair predictions with respect to certain protected features. In federated learning, multiple local models contribute to a single global model communicating only using local gradients, the issue of attacks become more prevalent and complex. Previously published works revolve around solving these issues both individually and jointly. However, there has been little study on the effects of attacks against model fairness. Demonstrated in this work, a flexible attack, which we call Un-Fair …