학술논문

Practical Earphone Eavesdropping with Built-in Motion Sensors
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) ICPADS Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2023 IEEE 29th International Conference on. :2219-2226 Dec, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Headphones
Time-frequency analysis
Operating systems
Speech recognition
Motion detection
Sensors
Data mining
Earphones
motion sensors
speech eavesdropping
privacy security
side-channel attack
Language
ISSN
2690-5965
Abstract
The rising popularity of ear-wear devices equipped with motion sensors has brought concerns regarding privacy issues due to their powerful sensing capabilities. Previous studies have shown the potential for speech eavesdropping using earphone motion sensors with a sampling frequency of 1000 Hz. However, as the risks of such attacks continue to escalate, mobile operating systems like Android have imposed limitations on the sampling frequency, typically no more than 200 Hz, to avoid such attacks. The lower sampling frequency reduces the amount of collected information within the same timeframe, potentially leading to decreased accuracy. In this paper, we further investigate the effectiveness of utilizing earphone motion sensors for inferring sensitive information at a sampling frequency of 200 Hz while directly using raw data without any data transformation to prevent information loss. We employ a channel attention mechanism to dynamically adjust axis weights to address the varying energy levels across different sensor axes. Meanwhile, we analyze the impact of sampling frequency, environment, and volume on speech recognition performance. Additionally, we explore the extraction of other information from speech signals, such as speaker identity and gender. Our experiments on two datasets demonstrate high recognition accuracy for all three tasks at the 200Hz sampling frequency. We expect our work to raise awareness among manufacturers regarding the privacy issues associated with earphone motion sensors.