Summary of Unveiling the Potential: Harnessing Deep Metric Learning to Circumvent Video Streaming Encryption, by Arwin Gansekoele et al.
Unveiling the Potential: Harnessing Deep Metric Learning to Circumvent Video Streaming Encryption
by Arwin Gansekoele, Tycho Bot, Rob van der Mei, Sandjai Bhulai, Mark Hoogendoorn
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed deep metric learning framework, based on the triplet loss method, enables robust, generalizable, scalable, and transferable detection of encrypted video streams. By leveraging variable bitrates in video streams, the approach identifies which video someone is watching without decrypting it. The framework outperforms prior works by achieving high accuracy even for unseen videos during training, and scales well to large datasets. Additionally, the model can classify video streams from different browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox. The proposed method has broad applicability and implications for internet privacy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to detect what someone is watching on the internet without actually seeing it is developed. This “side-channel attack” uses information about how fast data is sent over the internet to figure out which video someone is streaming. The approach is better than previous methods because it can work even when it hasn’t seen certain videos before, and it can scale up to look at many different videos. It also works with different browsers, like Chrome or Firefox. This means that people may not be as private online as they think. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Triplet loss
