Urs Hengartner

Breaking Security-Critical Voice Authentication Voice authentication (VA) has recently become an integral part in numerous security-critical operations, such as bank transactions and call center conversations. The vulnerability of automatic speaker...

One of the banks will turn on deep fake detection in the "coming weeks". The problem of course is that deep fake detection can also be broken, as shown by my PhD student Andre Kassis in his Oakland 2023 paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/101...

La reconnaissance vocale fait-elle le poids face à l’IA? La reconnaissance vocale fait-elle le poids face à l’intelligence artificielle? La facture a mis à l'épreuve les institutions financières canadiennes.

Reporters from Radio-Canada use deep fakes for breaking voice authentication of five out of six Canadian banks. None of the banks use deep fake detection since it creates too many false negatives. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

In the photo is Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Kate Larson in the Davis Centre.

📣 Congrats to CS Professor Kate Larson on being named an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow.

AAAI is recognizing Kate for her significant contributions to the foundations of multiagent systems and for service to the AI community: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/kate-la...