Monophonic Guitar Synthesizer via Mobile App

Slide Guitar Synthesizer with Gestural Control

This article discusses a virtual slide guitar instrument, recently introduced in [7]. The instrument consists of a novel physics-based synthesis model and a gestural user interface. The synthesis engine uses energy-compensated time-varying digital waveguides. The string algorithm also contains a parametric model for synthesizing the tube-string contact sounds. The real-time virtual slide guitar...

Modeling Transit Patterns Via Mobile App Logs

A Mobile Wireless Augmented Guitar

We present the design of a mobile augmented guitar based on traditional playing, combined with gesture-based continuous control of audio processing. Remote sound processing is enabled through our dynamically reconfigurable low-latency high-fidelity audio streaming protocol included in a mobile wearable wireless platform. Initial results show the suitability audio and sensors data forwarding ove...

Open Sesame! Web Authentication Cracking via Mobile App Analysis

Web authentication security can be undermined by flawed mobile web implementations. Mobile web implementations may use less secure transport channel and enforce less strict brute-force-proof measures, making web authentication services vulnerable to typical attacks such as password cracking. This paper presents an in-depth penetration testing based on a comprehensive dynamic app analysis focusi...

Mobile App Acceleration via Fine-Grain Offloading to the Cloud

Mobile device hardware can limit the sophistication of mobile applications. One strategy for side-stepping these constraints is to opportunistically offload computations to the cloud, where more capable hardware can do the heavy lifting. We propose a platform that accomplishes this via compressive offloading, a novel application of compressive sensing in a distributed shared memory setting. Our...