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Sponsored by: FCT (PTDC/EIA-CCO/122542/2010)<br/> 
Start: February 2012<br/>
End: January 2015

== Team ==

Project Leader: [[Isabel Trancoso]] 
* [[Alberto Abad Gareta|Alberto Abad]]
* [[António Serralheiro]] 
* [[João Paulo Neto|João Neto]] 
* [[João Paulo Carvalho]]
* [[Luís Caldas de Oliveira|Luís Oliveira]] 
* [[José Portêlo]] 
* [http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~cnr/ Carlos Ribeiro]
* [http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~rjoaquim/ Rui Joaquim]
* [[Gonçalo Carito]]

Consultant: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bhiksha/homepage.html Bhiksha Raj]

== Summary ==
The goal of this project is to develop privacy-preserving frameworks for processing voice data. Processing will be performed without having access to the voice, i.e., access to any form of the speech that can be analyzed to obtain information about the talker or what they spoke. Using a combination of tools from cryptography and secure-multiparty computation we will render voice processing algorithms secure (i.e. privacy-preserving), so that the privacy of all parties is preserved. We specifically propose to develop solutions for secure speaker verification and keyword spotting problems. We envision a mechanism whereby police/security agencies could obtain publicly- accepted forms of legal sanction to look for pre-specified voices or phrases. The privacy-preserving framework will ensure that they are only notified when these occur, but will have no access to the voice data itself, thus preserving citizens’ privacy. Although this proposal addresses only speech processing techniques, the impact of this type of technique is not restricted to this area. In fact, it may affect all types of multimedia documents. 

== Workplan ==

* T1 - Secure multi-party computation
* T2 - Secure speech parametrization
* T3 - Secure speaker verification
* T4 - Secure keyword spotting
* T5 - Proof of concept
* T6 - Evaluation
* T7 - Management and dissemination

== Publications ==

Rui Joaquim, Paulo Ferreira, Carlos Ribeiro, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404812001642 EVIV: an End-to-end Verifiable Internet Voting System], In Computer & Security, 32, pp. 170-191, Jan. 2013, Elsevier

Mauro Silva, João Leitão, Carlos Ribeiro, [http://inforum.org.pt/INForum2012/docs/20120164.pdf MobUser: Publish-Subscribe Communication for Mobile Nodes], Proc. 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dec. 2012

Manas Pathak, José Portelo, Bhiksha Raj, Isabel Trancoso, [http://www.inesc-id.pt/pt/indicadores/Ficheiros/8976.pdf Privacy-preserving speaker authentication], In ISC 2012, Springer-Verlag , series LNCS 7483, pages 1-22, Passau, Germany, September 2012 (Keynote Talk by Bhiksha Raj)

José Portelo, Bhiksha Raj, Isabel Trancoso, [http://www.inesc-id.pt/pt/indicadores/Ficheiros/8276.pdf Attacking a Privacy Preserving Music Matching Algorithm], In ICASSP 2012, IEEE, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012

José Portelo, Bhiksha Raj, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, [http://www.inesc-id.pt/pt/indicadores/Ficheiros/7420.pdf On the Implementation of a Secure Musical Database Matching], In Proc. EUSIPCO 2011 - 19th European Signal Processing Conference, EURASIP, Barcelona, Spain, August 2011

== Seminars ==

Bhiksha Raj, [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/Privacy-Preserving_Speech_and_Audio_Processing Privacy-Preserving Speech and Audio Processing], INESC-ID, September 28th 2012

Luís Brandão, [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/1-output_2-party_secure_function_evaluation_in_a_malicious_setting,_via_a_cut_and_choose_of_garbled_circuits 1-output 2-party secure function evaluation in a malicious setting], via a cut and choose of garbled circuits, INESC-ID, October 2nd 2012 

== See also ==

[http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2012/september/sept17_voicesecurity.html Carnegie Mellon Voice Verification Technology Prevents Impersonators From Obtaining Voiceprints], Press Release, September 2012

David Talbot, [http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428053/wiping-away-your-siri-fingerprint/ Wiping away your Siri fingerprint], MIT Technology Review, June 2012

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