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Bad Sounds Good Sounds: Attacking and Defending Tap-Based Rhythmic Passwords Using Acoustic Signals

Tapping-based rhythmic passwords have recently been proposed for the purpose of user authentication and device pairing. They offer a usability advantage over traditional passwords in that memorizing and recalling rhythms is believed to be an easier task for human users. Such passwords might also be harder to guess, thus possibly providing higher security. Given these potentially unique advantag...

Good-sounds.org: A Framework to Explore Goodness in Instrumental Sounds

We introduce good-sounds.org, a community driven framework based on freesound.org to explore the concept of goodness in instrumental sounds. Goodness is considered here as the common agreed basic sound quality of an instrument without taking into consideration musical expressiveness. Musicians upload their sounds and vote on existing sounds, and from the collected data the system is able to dev...

Encoding of speech sounds at auditory brainstem level in good and poor hearing aid performers.

INTRODUCTION Hearing aids are prescribed to alleviate loss of audibility. It has been reported that about 31% of hearing aid users reject their own hearing aid because of annoyance towards background noise. The reason for dissatisfaction can be located anywhere from the hearing aid microphone till the integrity of neurons along the auditory pathway. OBJECTIVES To measure spectra from the outp...

If It Sounds As Good As It Looks: Lessons Learned From Video Retrieval Evaluation

In many ways, music information retrieval (MIR) bears a closer resemblance to video information retrieval (VIR) than it does to text retrieval. Both music and video provide rich, complex sources of information having their own semantics. Both share the challenges of digitizing, segmenting and streaming, joined by problems relating to the representation of non-textual, non-verbal information. Be...

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