A Survey Of Enabling Technologies For Smart Communities,
2021
Old Dominion University
A Survey Of Enabling Technologies For Smart Communities, Amna Iqbal, Stephan Olariu
Computer Science Faculty Publications
In 2016, the Japanese Government publicized an initiative and a call to action for the implementation of a "Super Smart Society" announced as Society 5.0. The stated goal of Society 5.0 is to meet the various needs of the members of society through the provisioning of goods and services to those who require them, when they are required and in the amount required, thus enabling the citizens to live an active and comfortable life. In spite of its genuine appeal, details of a feasible path to Society 5.0 are conspicuously missing. The first main goal of this survey is to …
Smart Parking Systems: Reviewing The Literature, Architecture And Ways Forward,
2021
Old Dominion University
Smart Parking Systems: Reviewing The Literature, Architecture And Ways Forward, Can Biyik, Zaheer Allam, Gabriele Pieri, Davide Moroni, Muftah O' Fraifer, Eoin O' Connell, Stephan Olariu, Muhammad Khalid
Computer Science Faculty Publications
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age, and complex solutions can now be implemented seamlessly within urban governance and management frameworks and processes. For cities, growing rates of car ownership are rendering parking availability a challenge and lowering the quality of life through increased carbon emissions. The development of smart parking solutions is thus necessary to reduce the time spent looking for parking and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The principal role of this research paper is to analyze smart parking solutions from a technical perspective, underlining the systems and sensors that are available, as documented in the …
Using Eye-Gaze To Evaluate Neural Attention,
2020
Indian Statistical Institute
Using Eye-Gaze To Evaluate Neural Attention, Shahansha Salim
Master’s Dissertations
The ability to selectively concentrate on areas of interest while ignoring the rest is termed as attention in human beings. This ability has played a key role in survival as well as information processing. Neural Attention is said to be an effort to bring similar action of selectively concentrating areas of relevance in deep neural networks. This simple yet powerful concept has attracted a lot of research in recent years, yielding breakthrough results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems and main stream Computer Vision problems such as Image Caption Generation, Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Visual Question Answering (VQA), Action Recognition, …
Lightweight Deep Learning For Botnet Ddos Detection On Iot Access Networks,
2020
Missouri State University
Lightweight Deep Learning For Botnet Ddos Detection On Iot Access Networks, Eric A. Mccullough
Graduate Theses/Dissertations
With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), computer networks have rapidly expanded in size. While Internet of Things Devices (IoTDs) benefit many aspects of life, these devices also introduce security risks in the form of vulnerabilities which give hackers billions of promising new targets. For example, botnets have exploited the security flaws common with IoTDs to gain unauthorized control of hundreds of thousands of hosts, which they then utilize to carry out massively disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Traditional DDoS defense mechanisms rely on detecting attacks at their target and deploying mitigation strategies toward the attacker …
Theory-Inspired Path-Regularized Differential Network Architecture Search,
2020
Singapore Management University
Theory-Inspired Path-Regularized Differential Network Architecture Search, Pan Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Steven C. H. Hoi
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Despite its high search efficiency, differential architecture search (DARTS) often selects network architectures with dominated skip connections which lead to performance degradation. However, theoretical understandings on this issue remain absent, hindering the development of more advanced methods in a principled way. In this work, we solve this problem by theoretically analyzing the effects of various types of operations, e.g. convolution, skip connection and zero operation, to the network optimization. We prove that the architectures with more skip connections can converge faster than the other candidates, and thus are selected by DARTS. This result, for the first time, theoretically and explicitly …
Towards Theoretically Understanding Why Sgd Generalizes Better Than Adam In Deep Learning,
2020
Singapore Management University
Towards Theoretically Understanding Why Sgd Generalizes Better Than Adam In Deep Learning, Pan Zhou, Jiashi Feng, Chao Ma, Caiming Xiong, Steven C. H. Hoi, Weinan E
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
It is not clear yet why ADAM-alike adaptive gradient algorithms suffer from worse generalization performance than SGD despite their faster training speed. This work aims to provide understandings on this generalization gap by analyzing their local convergence behaviors. Specifically, we observe the heavy tails of gradient noise in these algorithms. This motivates us to analyze these algorithms through their Lévy-driven stochastic differential equations (SDEs) because of the similar convergence behaviors of an algorithm and its SDE. Then we establish the escaping time of these SDEs from a local basin. The result shows that (1) the escaping time of both SGD …
Watch Out! Motion Is Blurring The Vision Of Your Deep Neural Networks,
2020
Singapore Management University
Watch Out! Motion Is Blurring The Vision Of Your Deep Neural Networks, Qing Guo, Felix Juefei-Xu, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Jian Wang, Bing Yu, Wei Feng, Yang Liu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples with additive random noise-like perturbations. While such examples are hardly found in the physical world, the image blurring effect caused by object motion, on the other hand, commonly occurs in practice, making the study of which greatly important especially for the widely adopted real-time image processing tasks (e.g., object detection, tracking). In this paper, we initiate the first step to comprehensively investigate the potential hazards of blur effect for DNN, caused by object motion. We propose a novel adversarial attack method that can generate visually natural motion-blurred adversarial examples, …
Sadt: Syntax-Aware Differential Testing Of Certificate Validation In Ssl/Tls Implementations,
2020
Singapore Management University
Sadt: Syntax-Aware Differential Testing Of Certificate Validation In Ssl/Tls Implementations, Lili Quan, Qianyu Guo, Hongxu Chen, Xiaofei Xie, Xiaohong Li, Yang Liu, Jing Hu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The security assurance of SSL/TLS critically depends on the correct validation of X.509 certificates. Therefore, it is important to check whether a certificate is correctly validated by the SSL/TLS implementations. Although differential testing has been proven to be effective in finding semantic bugs, it still suffers from the following limitations: (1) The syntax of test cases cannot be correctly guaranteed. (2) Current test cases are not diverse enough to cover more implementation behaviours. This paper tackles these problems by introducing SADT, a novel syntax-aware differential testing framework for evaluating the certificate validation process in SSL/TLS implementations. We first propose a …
Audee: Automated Testing For Deep Learning Frameworks,
2020
Singapore Management University
Audee: Automated Testing For Deep Learning Frameworks, Qianyu Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Yi Li, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yang Liu, Xiaohong Li, Chao Shen
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Deep learning (DL) has been applied widely, and the quality of DL system becomes crucial, especially for safety-critical applications. Existing work mainly focuses on the quality analysis of DL models, but lacks attention to the underlying frameworks on which all DL models depend. In this work, we propose Audee, a novel approach for testing DL frameworks and localizing bugs. Audee adopts a search-based approach and implements three different mutation strategies to generate diverse test cases by exploring combinations of model structures, parameters, weights and inputs. Audee is able to detect three types of bugs: logical bugs, crashes and Not-a-Number (NaN) …
Deepsonar: Towards Effective And Robust Detection Of Ai-Synthesized Fake Voices,
2020
Singapore Management University
Deepsonar: Towards Effective And Robust Detection Of Ai-Synthesized Fake Voices, Run Wang, Felix Juefei-Xu, Yihao Huang, Qing Guo, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Yang Liu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
With the recent advances in voice synthesis, AI-synthesized fake voices are indistinguishable to human ears and widely are applied to produce realistic and natural DeepFakes, exhibiting real threats to our society. However, effective and robust detectors for synthesized fake voices are still in their infancy and are not ready to fully tackle this emerging threat. In this paper, we devise a novel approach, named DeepSonar, based on monitoring neuron behaviors of speaker recognition (SR) system, i.e., a deep neural network (DNN), to discern AI-synthesized fake voices. Layer-wise neuron behaviors provide an important insight to meticulously catch the differences among inputs, …
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 2,
2020
CUNY Brooklyn College
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 2, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture 2 for CISC 4331: Systems and Network Administration
Systems And Network Administration - Introduction,
2020
CUNY Brooklyn College
Systems And Network Administration - Introduction, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture for CISC 4311: Systems and Network Administration (Fall 2020)
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 5,
2020
CUNY Brooklyn College
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 5, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture 5 for CISC 4331 - Systems and Network Administration
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 4,
2020
CUNY Brooklyn College
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 4, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture 4 for CISC 4331 - Systems and Network Administration
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 3,
2020
CUNY Brooklyn College
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 3, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture 3 for CISC 4331: Systems and Network Administration
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration Week 6,
2020
CUNY Brooklyn College
Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration Week 6, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture 6 for CISC 4331 - Systems and Network Administration
Lecture - Csci 275: Linux Systems Administration And Security,
2020
CUNY John Jay College
Lecture - Csci 275: Linux Systems Administration And Security, Moe Hassan, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps
Open Educational Resources
Lecture for CSCI 275: Linux Systems Administration and Security
Peer-Inspired Student Performance Prediction In Interactive Online Question Pools With Graph Neural Network,
2020
Singapore Management University
Peer-Inspired Student Performance Prediction In Interactive Online Question Pools With Graph Neural Network, Haotian Li, Huan Wei, Yong Wang, Yangqiu Song, Huamin. Qu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Student performance prediction is critical to online education. It can benefit many downstream tasks on online learning platforms, such as estimating dropout rates, facilitating strategic intervention, and enabling adaptive online learning. Interactive online question pools provide students with interesting interactive questions to practice their knowledge in online education. However, little research has been done on student performance prediction in interactive online question pools. Existing work on student performance prediction targets at online learning platforms with predefined course curriculum and accurate knowledge labels like MOOC platforms, but they are not able to fully model knowledge evolution of students in interactive online …
Towards Locality-Aware Meta-Learning Of Tail Node Embeddings On Networks,
2020
Singapore Management University
Towards Locality-Aware Meta-Learning Of Tail Node Embeddings On Networks, Zemin Liu, Wentao Zhang, Yuan Fang, Xinming Zhang, Steven C. H. Hoi
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Network embedding is an active research area due to the prevalence of network-structured data. While the state of the art often learns high-quality embedding vectors for high-degree nodes with abundant structural connectivity, the quality of the embedding vectors for low-degree or tail nodes is often suboptimal due to their limited structural connectivity. While many real-world networks are long-tailed, to date little effort has been devoted to tail node embedding. In this paper, we formulate the goal of learning tail node embeddings as a few-shot regression problem, given the few links on each tail node. In particular, since each node resides …
Amora: Black-Box Adversarial Morphing Attack,
2020
Singapore Management University
Amora: Black-Box Adversarial Morphing Attack, Run Wang, Felix Juefei-Xu, Qing Guo, Yihao Huang, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Yang Liu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Nowadays, digital facial content manipulation has become ubiquitous and realistic with the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs), making face recognition (FR) systems suffer from unprecedented security concerns. In this paper, we investigate and introduce a new type of adversarial attack to evade FR systems by manipulating facial content, called adversarial morphing attack (a.k.a. Amora). In contrast to adversarial noise attack that perturbs pixel intensity values by adding human-imperceptible noise, our proposed adversarial morphing attack works at the semantic level that perturbs pixels spatially in a coherent manner. To tackle the black-box attack problem, we devise a simple yet effective …
