DNA Fingerprinting: Approaches and Applications

Audio Fingerprinting: Concepts And Applications

An audio fingerprint is a compact digest derived from perceptually relevant aspects of a recording. Fingerprinting technologies allow the monitoring of audio content without the need of meta-data or watermark embedding. However, additional uses exist for audio fingerprinting and some are reviewed in this article.

DNA Fingerprinting and RFLP Analysis

New Approaches to Website Fingerprinting Defenses

Website fingerprinting attacks[10] enable an adversary to infer which website a victim is visiting, even if the victim uses an encrypting proxy, such as Tor[19]. Previous work has shown that all proposed defenses against website fingerprinting attacks are ineffective[5], [3]. This paper advances the study of website fingerprinting attacks and defenses in two ways. First, we develop bounds on th...

Generalized hashing and applications to digital fingerprinting

Let C be a code of length n over an alphabet of q letters. An n-word y is called a descendant of a set of t codewords x, . . . , x if yi ∈ {xi , . . . , xi} for all i = 1, . . . , n. A code is said to have the t-identifying parent property if for any n-word that is a descendant of at most t parents it is possible to identify at least one of them. We study a generalization of hashing, (t, u)-has...

Image and video fingerprinting: forensic applications

Fighting movie piracy often requires automatic content identification. The most common technique to achieve this uses watermarking, but not all copyrighted content is watermarked. Video fingerprinting is an efficient alternative solution to identify content, to manage multimedia files in UGC sites or P2P networks and to register pirated copies with master content. When registering by matching c...