Publications
The tale of discovering a side channel in secure message transmission systems
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Secure message transmission (SMT) systems provide information theoretic security for point-to-point message transmission in networks that are partially controlled by an adversary. This is the story of a research project that aimed to implement a flavour of SMT protocols that uses "path hopping" with the goal of quantifying the real-life...
Development and validation of the public-facing SimAEN web application
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During a pandemic such as COVID-19, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) can help protect public health; however, it is not always clear which actions will have the greatest positive impact, or what the trade-offs are between different options. Exposure Notification (EN) was introduced as a prevention measure during the COVID-19 pandemic to...
Self-supervised contrastive pre-training for time series via time-frequency consistency
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Pre-training on time series poses a unique challenge due to the potential mismatch between pre-training and target domains, such as shifts in temporal dynamics, fast-evolving trends, and long-range and short cyclic effects, which can lead to poor downstream performance. While domain adaptation methods can mitigate these shifts, most methods need...
Axon tracing and centerline detection using topologically-aware 3D U-nets
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As advances in microscopy imaging provide an ever clearer window into the human brain, accurate reconstruction of neural connectivity can yield valuable insight into the relationship between brain structure and function. However, human manual tracing is a slow and laborious task, and requires domain expertise. Automated methods are thus needed...
Fun as a strategic advantage: applying lessons in engagement from commercial games to military logistics training
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Digital games offer many elements to augment traditional classroom lectures and reading assignments. They enable players to explore concepts through repeat play in a low-risk environment, and allow players to integrate feedback given during gameplay and evaluate their own performance. Commercial games leverage a number of features to engage players...
Impact of haptic cues and an active ankle exoskeleton on gait characteristics
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Objective This study examined the interaction of gait-synchronized vibrotactile cues with an active ankle exoskeleton that provides plantarflexion assistance. Background An exoskeleton that augments gait may support collaboration through feedback to the user about the state of the exoskeleton or characteristics of the task. Methods Participants (N = 16) were...
Impact of WSR-88D intra-volume low-level scans on sever weather warning performance
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The statistical relationship between supplemental adaptive intra-volume low-level scan (SAILS) usage on the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler and National Weather Service severe storm warning performance during 2014–20 is analyzed. Results show statistically significant improvement in severe thunderstorm (SVR), flash flood (FF), and tornado (TOR) warning performance associated with SAILS-on versus...
Advances in cross-lingual and cross-source audio-visual speaker recognition: The JHU-MIT system for NIST SRE21
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We present a condensed description of the joint effort of JHUCLSP/HLTCOE, MIT-LL and AGH for NIST SRE21. NIST SRE21 consisted of speaker detection over multilingual conversational telephone speech (CTS) and audio from video (AfV). Besides the regular audio track, the evaluation also contains visual (face recognition) and multi-modal tracks. This...
Advances in speaker recognition for multilingual conversational telephone speech: the JHU-MIT system for NIST SRE20 CTS challenge
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We present a condensed description of the joint effort of JHUCLSP/HLTCOE and MIT-LL for NIST SRE20. NIST SRE20 CTS consisted of multilingual conversational telephone speech. The set of languages included in the evaluation was not provided, encouraging the participants to develop systems robust to any language. We evaluated x-vector architectures...
AAM-Gym: Artificial intelligence testbed for advanced air mobility
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We introduce AAM-Gym, a research and development testbed for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). AAM has the potential to revolutionize travel by reducing ground traffic and emissions by leveraging new types of aircraft such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and new advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Validation of...