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SecureRun: Cheat-Proof and Private Summaries for Location-Based Activities

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Thi Van Anh Pham

Activity-tracking applications, where people record and upload information about their location-based activities (e.g., the routes of their activities), are increasingly popular. Such applications enable users to share information and compete with their fr ...

Ieee Computer Soc2015

De-anonymizing Genomic Databases Using Phenotypic Traits

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Joachim Ludovic Hugonot, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Erman Ayday

People increasingly have their genomes sequenced and some of them share their genomic data online. They do so for various purposes, including to find relatives and to help advance genomic research. An individual's genome carries very sensitive, private inf ...

2015

Latent Social Information in Group Interactions with a Shared Workspace

Himanshu Verma

Shared artifacts, such as drawings and schemas on whiteboards, sticky-notes with ideas on walls, are often created and interacted with during meetings. These shared artifacts a) facilitate the expression of complex fleeting ideas, b) enable collaborators t ...

EPFL2015

Robogami: A Fully Integrated Low-Profile Robotic Origami

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh

Intelligent robotic systems that can react to unprogrammed tasks and unforeseen environmental changes require augmented "softness." Robogami, a low-profile origami robot, addresses intrinsic (material-wise) and extrinsic (mechanism-wise) softness with its ...

2015

Eliciting Truthful Information with the Peer Truth Serum

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Goran Radanovic

We consider settings where a collective intelligence is formed by aggregating information contributed from many independent agents, such as product reviews, community sensing or opinion polls. To encourage participation and avoid selection bias, agents sho ...

2014

Information content of prior hydrological knowledge in EGU visitors for streamflow prediction

Steven Vincent Weijs

Citizens living in flood-prone areas sometimes outperform hydrological models in terms of flood prediction. An interesting question is whether this is due to more access to information, more prior knowledge or better pattern recognition capabilities. In th ...

2014

Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Ehsan Kazemi

Location-aware smartphones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give away private information, enabling the LBS to track users. We address this probl ...

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 266-2792014

Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Ehsan Kazemi

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Right-Protected Data Publishing with Provable Distance-Based Mining

Michail Vlachos, Nikolaos Freris

Protection of one's intellectual property is a topic with important technological and legal facets. We provide mechanisms for establishing the ownership of a dataset consisting of multiple objects. The algorithms also preserve important properties of the d ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Face Anti-spoofing: Visual Approach

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos

User authentication is an important step to protect information and in this regard face biometrics is advantageous. Face biometrics is natural, easy to use and less human-invasive. Unfortunately, recent work revealed that face biometrics is quite vulnerabl ...

Springer-Verlag2014

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