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DChannel: Accelerating Mobile ApplicationsWith Parallel High-bandwidth and Low-latency Channels

Interactive mobile applications like web browsing and gaming are known to benefit significantly from low latency networking, as applications communicate with cloud servers and other users' devices. Emerging mobile channel standards have not met these needs ...

USENIX ASSOC2023

Visualization, Interactive Handling and Simulation of Molecules in Commodity Augmented Reality in Web Browsers Using moleculARweb's Virtual Modeling Kits

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Fabio Jose Cortes Rodriguez, Lucien Fabrice Krapp

moleculARweb (https://molecularweb.epfl.ch) began as a website for education and outreach in chemistry and structural biology through augmented reality (AR) content that runs in the web browsers of regular devices like smartphones, tablets, and computers. ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

MINERVA: Browser API Fuzzing with Dynamic Mod-Ref Analysis

Mathias Josef Payer, Yu Jiang, Chijin Zhou

Browser APIs are essential to the modern web experience. Due to their large number and complexity, they vastly expand the attack surface of browsers. To detect vulnerabilities in these APIs, fuzzers generate test cases with a large amount of random API inv ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Comparison of Remote Subjective Assessment Strategies in the Context of the JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Activity

Evangelos Alexiou

In this work we compare two different options to perform on-line subjective quality assessment experiments in the context of the Call for Evidence on JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding. A deep-learning based point cloud codec submitted to the Call was tested ag ...

IEEE2021

Building blocks for commodity augmented reality-based molecular visualization and modeling in web browsers

Luciano Andres Abriata

For years, immersive interfaces using virtual and augmented reality (AR) for molecular visualization and modeling have promised a revolution in the way how we teach, learn, communicate and work in chemistry, structural biology and related areas. However, m ...

2020

Citizen Visual Search Engine: Detection and Curation of Urban Objects

Jeffrey Huang, Immanuel Chee Beng Koh

Increasingly, the ubiquity of satellite imagery has made the data analysis and machine learning of large geographical datasets one of the building blocks of visuospatial intelligence. It is the key to discover current (and predict future) cultural, social, ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Milkomeda: Safeguarding the Mobile GPU Interface Using WebGL Security Checks

Mathias Josef Payer

GPU-accelerated graphics is commonly used in mobile applications. Unfortunately, the graphics interface exposes a large amount of potentially vulnerable kernel code (i.e., the GPU device driver) to untrusted applications. This broad attack surface has resu ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

Dario Floreano, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca, Guillaume Paul Olivier Leclerc

Evolutionary algorithms are increasingly being applied to problems that are too computationally expensive to run on a single personal computer due to costly fitness function evaluations and/or large numbers of fitness evaluations. Here, we introduce the Se ...

ACM Press2016

Method for Generating an HTML Document that Contains Encrypted Files and the Code Necessary for Decrypting Them When a Valid Passphrase is Provided

Radhakrishna Achanta, Thomas Lochmatter

A computer implemented method for encrypting one or more files and wrapping them in an HTML document. The HTML document contains the encrypted files, the necessary code to decrypt the files, as well as user interface code to receive a passphrase input from ...

2015

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

Security, Privacy and Economics of Online Advertising

Nevena Vratonjic

Online advertising is at the core of today’s Web: it is the main business model, generating large annual revenues expressed in tens of billions of dollars that sponsor most of the online content and services. Online advertising consists of delivering marke ...

EPFL2013

Synchronous Collaboration between Auto-Generated WebGL Applications and 3D Virtual Laboratories Created with Easy Java Simulations

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This paper presents a new collaborative e-learning system based on a real-time synchronized communication among virtual laboratories. This original approach provides a new tool which integrates virtual laboratories inside a synchronous collaborative e-lear ...

2012

WaRR: A Tool for High-Fidelity Web Application Record and Replay

George Candea, Silviu Andrica

We introduce WaRR, a tool that records and replays with high ﬁdelity the interaction between users and modern web applications. WaRR consists of two independent components: the WaRR Recorder and the WaRR Replayer. The WaRR Recorder is embedded in a web bro ...

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Integrity of the Web Content: The Case of Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Online advertising is a major source of revenues in the Internet. In this paper, we identify a number of vulnerabilities of current ad serving systems. We describe how an adversary can exploit these vulnerabilities to divert part of the ad revenue stream f ...

2010

Use of webcams as tools for alignment and supervision of a Thomson Scattering System in the near infrared

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Pierre Etienne, Roland Behn, Andreas Pitzschke

The alignment stability is a major concern for Thomson scattering systems. Even small angular deviations of the laser beams crossing the plasma lead to a loss of the calibration resulting in unreliable measurements of the electron density profile. For the ...

Fusion Engineering and Design2010

Web-based tools for energy management in large companies applied to food industry

Damien Muller

This thesis presents a methodology for energy management in large companies and its implementation through a web application and through a prototype of a simulation platform. By combining existing tools in an innovative manner and by making use of recent w ...

EPFL2007

Review of the electromagnetic compatibility PLC work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) and the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (Yverdon)

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Ana Vukicevic, José-Luis Bermudez

In this paper, we give an overview of the experimental and theoretical PLC- related research work carried out in close cooperation by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University Of Applied Sciences Of Western Switzerland. The work is condu ...

2006