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Login Authentication with Facial Gesture Recognition
Facial recognition has proven to be very useful and versatile, from Facebook photo tagging and Snapchat filters to modeling fluid dynamics and designing for augmented reality. However, facial recognition has only been used for user login services in conjunction with expensive and restrictive hardware technologies, such as in smart phone devices like the iPhone x. This project aims to apply machine learning techniques to reliably distinguish user accounts with only common cameras to make facial recognition logins more accessible to website and software developers. To show the feasibility of this idea, we created a web API that recognizes a users face to log them in to their account, and we will create a simple website to test the reliability of our system. In this paper, we discuss our database-centric architecture model, use cases and activity diagrams, technologies we used for the website, API, and machine learning algorithms. We also provide the screenshots of our system, the user manual, and our future plan
Resolving Multi-party Privacy Conflicts in Social Media
Items shared through Social Media may affect more than one user's privacy ---
e.g., photos that depict multiple users, comments that mention multiple users,
events in which multiple users are invited, etc. The lack of multi-party
privacy management support in current mainstream Social Media infrastructures
makes users unable to appropriately control to whom these items are actually
shared or not. Computational mechanisms that are able to merge the privacy
preferences of multiple users into a single policy for an item can help solve
this problem. However, merging multiple users' privacy preferences is not an
easy task, because privacy preferences may conflict, so methods to resolve
conflicts are needed. Moreover, these methods need to consider how users' would
actually reach an agreement about a solution to the conflict in order to
propose solutions that can be acceptable by all of the users affected by the
item to be shared. Current approaches are either too demanding or only consider
fixed ways of aggregating privacy preferences. In this paper, we propose the
first computational mechanism to resolve conflicts for multi-party privacy
management in Social Media that is able to adapt to different situations by
modelling the concessions that users make to reach a solution to the conflicts.
We also present results of a user study in which our proposed mechanism
outperformed other existing approaches in terms of how many times each approach
matched users' behaviour.Comment: Authors' version of the paper accepted for publication at IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, 201
Blindspot: Indistinguishable Anonymous Communications
Communication anonymity is a key requirement for individuals under targeted
surveillance. Practical anonymous communications also require
indistinguishability - an adversary should be unable to distinguish between
anonymised and non-anonymised traffic for a given user. We propose Blindspot, a
design for high-latency anonymous communications that offers
indistinguishability and unobservability under a (qualified) global active
adversary. Blindspot creates anonymous routes between sender-receiver pairs by
subliminally encoding messages within the pre-existing communication behaviour
of users within a social network. Specifically, the organic image sharing
behaviour of users. Thus channel bandwidth depends on the intensity of image
sharing behaviour of users along a route. A major challenge we successfully
overcome is that routing must be accomplished in the face of significant
restrictions - channel bandwidth is stochastic. We show that conventional
social network routing strategies do not work. To solve this problem, we
propose a novel routing algorithm. We evaluate Blindspot using a real-world
dataset. We find that it delivers reasonable results for applications requiring
low-volume unobservable communication.Comment: 13 Page
Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection
As popular tools for spreading spam and malware, Sybils (or fake accounts)
pose a serious threat to online communities such as Online Social Networks
(OSNs). Today, sophisticated attackers are creating realistic Sybils that
effectively befriend legitimate users, rendering most automated Sybil detection
techniques ineffective. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of a
crowdsourced Sybil detection system for OSNs. We conduct a large user study on
the ability of humans to detect today's Sybil accounts, using a large corpus of
ground-truth Sybil accounts from the Facebook and Renren networks. We analyze
detection accuracy by both "experts" and "turkers" under a variety of
conditions, and find that while turkers vary significantly in their
effectiveness, experts consistently produce near-optimal results. We use these
results to drive the design of a multi-tier crowdsourcing Sybil detection
system. Using our user study data, we show that this system is scalable, and
can be highly effective either as a standalone system or as a complementary
technique to current tools
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