Publications related to Computer and network surveillance

Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces

This paper provides a non-Anglo-American geographical discussion of digitally mediated cultural activities. Taking China's live music industry as an entry point, we seek to theoretically and empirically understand the complex roles of digital technologies ...

2023

A Virtual Simulation-Pilot Agent for Training of Air Traffic Controllers

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

In this paper we propose a novel virtual simulation-pilot engine for speeding up air traffic controller (ATCo) training by integrating different state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools. The virtual simulation-pilot engine receives spoken ...

MDPI2023

Opacité et transparence dans le design d'un dispositif de surveillance urbain : le cas de l'IMSI catcher

Félicien Michel Marie Goguey

This thesis assesses the surveillance operated on the mobile phone network by governmental actors (intelligence agencies, police, army) and the relationship between monitored spaces and their users. Indeed, some new surveillance devices used by intelligenc ...

EPFL2022

Boosting of contextual information in ASR for air-traffic call-sign recognition

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Contextual adaptation of ASR can be very beneficial for multi-accent and often noisy Air-Traffic Control (ATC) speech. Our focus is call-sign recognition, which can be used to track conversations of ATC operators with individual airplanes. We developed a t ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

Flying in Private Mode: Understanding and Improving the Privacy ICAO Address Program

Guillaume Michel Le Bars

Location privacy of aircraft has recently gained attention as air traffic management was modernized using novel surveillance technologies. Business aviation circles and various military and government entities voiced serious concerns about automated and ub ...

AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS2021

DATASHARENETWORK A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Search Engine for Investigative Journalists

Carmela González Troncoso, Wouter Lueks, Laurent Girod, Bruno Thomas

Investigative journalists collect large numbers of digital documents during their investigations. These documents can greatly benefit other journalists' work. However, many of these documents contain sensitive information. Hence, possessing such documents ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

Precision Global Health - The case of Ebola: a scoping review

Gérard Escher

Background The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak across West Africa was devastating, acting not only as a wake-up call for the global health community, but also as a catalyst for innovative change and global action. Improved infectious disease monitoring is the ste ...

2019

UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning

Wenlong Deng

Situational awareness by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is important for many applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response. In those applications, detecting and locating people and recognizing their actions in near real-time ...

2019

Adverse effects of immune-checkpoint inhibitors: epidemiology, management and surveillance

Olivier Michielin, Filipe Amândio Brandão Sanches Vong Martins

Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), including anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4), anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and anti-programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibodies, are arguably the most important development in cancer therapy o ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

WatchNet: Efficient and Depth-based Network for People Detection in Video Surveillance Systems

Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Michael Villamizar

We propose a deep-learning approach for people detection on depth imagery. The approach is designed to be deployed as an autonomous appliance for identifying people attacks and intrusion in video surveillance scenarios. To this end, we propose a fully-conv ...

IEEE2018

Antimicrobial resistance in leprosy: results of the first prospective open survey conducted by a WHO surveillance network for the period 2009-15

Stewart Cole

Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a priority for surveillance in bacterial infections. For leprosy, AMR has not been assessed because Mycobacterium leprae does not grow in vitro. We aim to obtain AMR data using molecular detection of resistance ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

Graph-Based Distributed Control for Adaptive Multi-Robot Patrolling through Local Formation Transformation

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen, Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura

Multi-robot cooperative navigation in real-world environments is essential in many applications, including surveillance and search-and-rescue missions. State-of-the-art methods for cooperative navigation are often tested in ideal laboratory conditions and ...

Ieee2016

Simplifying Development and Management of Software-Defined Networks

Peter Peresini

Computer networks are an important part of our life. Yet, they are traditionally hard to manage and operate. The recent shift to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is promised to change the way in which the networks are run by their operators. However, SDN ...

EPFL2016

Near-Infrared High-Resolution Real-Time Omnidirectional Imaging Platform for Drone Detection

Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic

Recent technological advancements in hardware systems have made higher quality cameras. State of the art panoramic systems use them to produce videos with a resolution of 9000 x 2400 pixels at a rate of 30 frames per second (fps).(1) Many modern applicatio ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos

This paper presents the first Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition (KBOC) organized to establish a reproducible baseline in person authentication using keystroke biometrics. The competition has been developed using the BEAT platform and includes one of ...

2016

Multilinear Low-Rank Tensors on Graphs & Applications

Pierre Vandergheynst, Nauman Shahid, Francesco Grassi

We propose a new framework for the analysis of low- rank tensors which lies at the intersection of spectral graph theory and signal processing. As a first step, we present a new graph based low-rank decomposition which approximates the classical low-rank S ...

2016

Impact of Mini-drone based Video Surveillance on Invasion of Privacy

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

An increase in adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of daily lives, raises public concern about an intrusion into individual privacy. New sensing and surveillance technologies, such as mini-drones, threaten to eradicate boundaries of priv ...

2015

Quality Evaluation of HEVC and VP9 Video Compression in Real-Time Applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart, Martin Rerabek

Video consumption over Internet has increased significantly over the recent years and occupies the majority of the overall data traffic. To decrease the load on the Internet infrastructure and reduce bandwidth taken by video, higher efficiency video codecs ...

2015

Privacy in Mini-drone Based Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Margherita Bonetto

Mini-drones are increasingly used in video surveillance. Their areal mobility and ability to carry video cameras provide new perspectives in visual surveillance which can impact privacy in ways that have not been considered in a typical surveillance scenar ...

2015

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Secure JPEG

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Sharing photos online is a common activity on social networks and photo hosting platforms, such as Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or Flickr. However, after reports of citizens surveillance by governmental agencies and the scandalous leakage of celebrities ...

2015