Publications

This work presents the results of a three-year project that assessed nine different privacy-preserving data search systems. We detail the design of a software assessment framework that focuses on low system footprint, repeatability, and reusability. A unique achievement of this project was the automation and integration of the entire test...

Tungsten interconnects in silicon integrated circuits built at the 90 nm node with releasable configurations on silicon on insulator wafers serve as the basis for advanced forms of water-soluble electronics. These physically transient systems have potential uses in applications that range from temporary biomedical implants to zero-waste environmental sensors. Systemic...

We introduce a framework for multimedia event detection (MED), which was developed for TRECVID 2015 using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect complex events via deterministic models trained on video frame data. We used several well-known CNN models designed to detect objects, scenes, and a combination of both (i.e., Hybrid-CNN)...

Many NextGen applications depend on access to high accuracy wind data due to time-based control elements, such as required time of arrival at a meter fix under 4D-Trajectory-Based Operations/Time of Arrival Control procedures or compliance to an assigned spacing goal between aircraft under Interval Management procedures. The work described in...

Dynamic photoacoustic spectroscopy (DPAS) is a high sensitivity technique for standoff detection of trace vapors. A field-portable DPAS system has potential as an early warning provider for gaseous-based chemical threats. For the first time, we utilize DPAS to successfully detect the presence of trace aerosols. Aerosol identification via long-wavelength infrared...

Many NextGen applications depend on access to high accuracy wind data due to time-based control elements, such as required time of arrival at a meter fix under 4D-Trajectory-Based Operations/Time of Arrival Control procedures or compliance to an assigned spacing goal between aircraft under Interval Management procedures. Any errors in the...

This poster discusses a strategy for automatic whitelist generation and enforcement using techniques from information flow control and trusted computing. During a measurement phase, a cloud provider uses dynamic taint tracking to generate a whitelist of executed code and associated file hashes generated by an integrity measurement system. Then, at...

The performance of a spoken language system suffers when non-speech is incorrectly classified as speech. Singing is particularly difficult to discriminate from speech, since both are natural language. However, singing conveys a melody, whereas speech does not; in particular, a singer's fundamental frequency should not deviate significantly from an underlying...

This report summarizes the MITLL-AFRL MT and ASR systems and the experiments run using them during the 2014 IWSLT evaluation campaign. Our MT system is much improved over last year, owing to integration of techniques such as PRO and DREM optimization, factored language models, neural network joint model rescoring, multiple...

The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has improved performance in several fields including computer vision, natural language processing, and automatic speech recognition (ASR). The increased use of DNNs in recent years has been largely due to performance afforded by GPUs, as the computational cost of training large networks on...