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Enhancing Air Traffic Management Security by Means of Conformance Monitoring and Speech Analysis

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Cognitive Infocommunications, Theory and Applications

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This document describes the concept of an air traffic management security system and current validation activities. This system uses speech analysis techniques to verify the speaker authorization and to measure the stress level within the air-ground voice communication between pilots and air traffic controllers on one hand, and on the other hand it monitors the current air traffic situation. The purpose of this system is to close an existing security gap by using this multi-modal approach. First validation results are discussed at the end of this article.

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Acknowledgements

The basic ideas of this article were briefly presented at CogInfoCom 2017. Rusko and Finke [33] The research leading to the results presented in this article has received funding from the European Union FP7 under grant agreement no 312382. More information can be found under http://www.gamma-project.eu.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), Bratislava, Slovakia

    Milan Rusko, Marián Trnka & Sakhia Darjaa

  2. Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jakub Rajčáni

  3. Institute of Flight Guidance, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany

    Michael Finke & Tim Stelkens-Kobsch

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Rusko, M., Trnka, M., Darjaa, S., Rajčáni, J., Finke, M., Stelkens-Kobsch, T. (2019). Enhancing Air Traffic Management Security by Means of Conformance Monitoring and Speech Analysis. In: Klempous, R., Nikodem, J., Baranyi, P. (eds) Cognitive Infocommunications, Theory and Applications. Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95996-2_9

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