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eess.AS Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Cryptography and Security eess.SY Machine Learning math.DS Multimedia Sound Systems and Control

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preprint2026arXiv

LJ-Spoof: A Generatively Varied Corpus for Audio Anti-Spoofing and Synthesis Source Tracing

Speaker-specific anti-spoofing and synthesis-source tracing are central challenges in audio anti-spoofing. Progress has been hampered by the lack of datasets that systematically vary model architectures, synthesis pipelines, and generative parameters. To address this gap, we introduce LJ-Spoof, a speaker-specific, generatively diverse corpus that systematically varies prosody, vocoders, generative hyperparameters, bona fide prompt sources, training regimes, and neural post-processing. The corpus spans one speakers-including studio-quality recordings-30 TTS families, 500 generatively variant subsets, 10 bona fide neural-processing variants, and more than 3 million utterances. This variation-dense design enables robust speaker-conditioned anti-spoofing and fine-grained synthesis-source tracing. We further position this dataset as both a practical reference training resource and a benchmark evaluation suite for anti-spoofing and source tracing.

preprint2026arXiv

Similarity Choice and Negative Scaling in Supervised Contrastive Learning for Deepfake Audio Detection

Supervised contrastive learning (SupCon) is widely used to shape representations, but has seen limited targeted study for audio deepfake detection. Existing work typically combines contrastive terms with broader pipelines; however, the focus on SupCon itself is missing. In this work, we run a controlled study on wav2vec2 XLS-R (300M) that varies (i) similarity in SupCon (cosine vs angular similarity derived from the hyperspherical angle) and (ii) negative scaling using a warm-started global cross-batch queue. Stage 1 fine-tunes the encoder and projection head with SupCon; Stage 2 freezes them and trains a linear classifier with BCE. Trained on ASVspoof 2019 LA and evaluated on ASV19 eval plus ITW and ASVspoof 2021 DF/LA, Cosine SupCon with a delayed queue achieves the best ITW EER (8.29%) and pooled EER (4.44), while angular similarity performs strongly without queued negatives (ITW 8.70), indicating reduced reliance on large negative sets.

preprint2022arXiv

Distilling Facial Knowledge With Teacher-Tasks: Semantic-Segmentation-Features For Pose-Invariant Face-Recognition

This paper demonstrates a novel approach to improve face-recognition pose-invariance using semantic-segmentation features. The proposed Seg-Distilled-ID network jointly learns identification and semantic-segmentation tasks, where the segmentation task is then "distilled" (MobileNet encoder). Performance is benchmarked against three state-of-the-art encoders on a publicly available data-set emphasizing head-pose variations. Experimental evaluations show the Seg-Distilled-ID network shows notable robustness benefits, achieving 99.9% test-accuracy in comparison to 81.6% on ResNet-101, 96.1% on VGG-19 and 96.3% on InceptionV3. This is achieved using approximately one-tenth of the top encoder's inference parameters. These results demonstrate distilling semantic-segmentation features can efficiently address face-recognition pose-invariance.

preprint2022arXiv

Generation of Wheel Lockup Attacks on Nonlinear Dynamics of Vehicle Traction

There is ample evidence in the automotive cybersecurity literature that the car brake ECUs can be maliciously reprogrammed. Motivated by such threat, this paper investigates the capabilities of an adversary who can directly control the frictional brake actuators and would like to induce wheel lockup conditions leading to catastrophic road injuries. This paper demonstrates that the adversary despite having a limited knowledge of the tire-road interaction characteristics has the capability of driving the states of the vehicle traction dynamics to a vicinity of the lockup manifold in a finite time by means of a properly designed attack policy for the frictional brakes. This attack policy relies on employing a predefined-time controller and a nonlinear disturbance observer acting on the wheel slip error dynamics. Simulations under various road conditions demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed attack policy.

preprint2014arXiv

Audio Splicing Detection and Localization Using Environmental Signature

Audio splicing is one of the most common manipulation techniques in the area of audio forensics. In this paper, the magnitudes of acoustic channel impulse response and ambient noise are proposed as the environmental signature. Specifically, the spliced audio segments are detected according to the magnitude correlation between the query frames and reference frames via a statically optimal threshold. The detection accuracy is further refined by comparing the adjacent frames. The effectiveness of the proposed method is tested on two data sets. One is generated from TIMIT database, and the other one is made in four acoustic environments using a commercial grade microphones. Experimental results show that the proposed method not only detects the presence of spliced frames, but also localizes the forgery segments with near perfect accuracy. Comparison results illustrate that the identification accuracy of the proposed scheme is higher than the previous schemes. In addition, experimental results also show that the proposed scheme is robust to MP3 compression attack, which is also superior to the previous works.