Context-free attacks using keyboard acoustic emanations

T Zhu, Q Ma, S Zhang, Y Liu - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The emanations of electronic and mechanical devices have raised serious privacy concerns.
It proves possible for an attacker to recover the keystrokes by acoustic signal emanations …

Real-time screen-camera communication behind any scene

T Li, C An, X Xiao, AT Campbell, X Zhou - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present HiLight, a new form of real-time screen-camera communication without showing
any coded images (eg, barcodes) for off-the-shelf smart devices. HiLight encodes data into …

" Alexa, stop spying on me!" speech privacy protection against voice assistants

K Sun, C Chen, X Zhang - Proceedings of the 18th conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VAs) are becoming highly popular recently as a general means of
interacting with the Internet of Things. However, the use of always-on microphones on VAs …

Your table can be an input panel: Acoustic-based device-free interaction recognition

M Chen, P Yang, J Xiong, M Zhang, Y Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper explores the possibility of extending the input and interactions beyond the small
screen of the mobile device onto ad hoc adjacent surfaces, eg, a wooden tabletop with …

LongShoT: Long-range synchronization of time

CG Ramirez, A Sergeyev, A Dyussenova… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Low-Power Wide Area Networks, such as LoRaWAN, are rapidly gaining popularity in the
field of wireless sensing and actuation. While LoRaWAN is heavily studied in applications …

Microphone array backscatter: An application-driven design for lightweight spatial sound recording over the air

J Zhao, W Gong, J Liu - Proceedings of the 27th annual international …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Modern acoustic wearables with microphone arrays are promising to offer rich experience
(eg, 360° sound and acoustic imaging) to consumers. Realtime multi-track audio streaming …

Soundwrite: Text input on surfaces through mobile acoustic sensing

M Zhang, P Yang, C Tian, L Shi, S Tang… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Interacting with explosively growing mobile devices is becoming imperative. This paper
presents SoundWrite, a mobile acoustic sensing system that enables text input into …

Accurate ranging on acoustic-enabled IoT devices

C Cai, M Hu, X Ma, K Peng, J Liu - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The enabling Internet-of-Things technology has inspired many innovative sensing
mechanisms by repurposing the onboard sensors. Leveraging the built-in acoustic sensors …

A programming model for reliable and efficient edge-based execution under resource variability

Z Song, E Tilevich - 2019 IEEE international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing applications use the computational, sensor, and networking resources of
nearby mobile and stationary computing devices. Because dissimilar devices can provide …

Underwater Acoustic Ranging Between Smartphones

T Chen, J Chan, S Gollakota - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01780, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present a novel underwater system that can perform acoustic ranging between
commodity smartphones. To achieve this, we design a real-time underwater ranging …