Jinwei Xu

Yanjing Yang, Chenxing Zhong, Ke Han et al.

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static, white-box approaches based on source code or formal specifications, and (2) dynamic, black-box approaches that infer APIs from runtime traffic. Static approaches rely on internal artifacts, which are typically unavailable for closed-source systems, and often over-approximate API usage, resulting in high false-positive rates. Although dynamic black-box API discovery applies broadly, its robustness degrades in complex environments where shared collection points aggregate traffic from multiple applications. To improve robustness under mixed runtime traffic, we propose APISENSOR, a black-box API discovery framework that reconstructs application APIs unsupervised. APISENSOR performs structured analysis over complex traffic, combining traffic denoising and normalization with a graph-based two-stage clustering process to recover accurate APIs. We evaluated APISENSOR across six web applications using over 10,000 runtime requests with simulated mixed-traffic noise. Results demonstrate that APISENSOR significantly improves discovery accuracy, achieving an average Group Accuracy Precision of 95.92% and an F1-score of 94.91%, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Across different applications and noise settings, APISENSOR achieves the lowest performance variance and at most an 8.11-point FGA drop, demonstrating the best robustness among 10 baselines. Ablation studies confirm that each component is essential. Furthermore, APISENSOR revealed API documentation inconsistencies in a real application, later confirmed by community developers.

Jinwei Xu, Jiankun Hu, Xiuping Jia

Orientation field, representing the fingerprint ridge structure direction, plays a crucial role in fingerprint-related image processing tasks. Orientation field is able to be constructed by either non-parametric or parametric methods. In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages regarding to the existing non-parametric and parametric approaches are briefly summarized. With the further investigation for constructing the orientation field by parametric technique, two new models - sparse FOMFE model and compressed sparse FOMFE model are introduced, based on the rapidly developing signal sparse representation and compressed sensing theories. The experiments on high-quality fingerprint image dataset (plain and rolled print) and poor-quality fingerprint image dataset (latent print) demonstrate their feasibilities to construct the orientation field in a sparse or even compressed sparse mode. The comparisons among the state-of-art orientation field modeling approaches show that the proposed two models have the potential availability in big data-oriented fingerprint indexing tasks.

Jinwei Xu, Jiankun Hu, Xiuping Jia

Latent fingerprint has the practical value to identify the suspects who have unintentionally left a trace of fingerprint in the crime scenes. However, designing a fully automated latent fingerprint matcher is a very challenging task as it needs to address many challenging issues including the separation of overlapping structured patterns over the partial and poor quality latent fingerprint image, and finding a match against a large background database that would have different resolutions. Currently there is no fully automated latent fingerprint matcher available to the public and most literature reports have utilized a specialized latent fingerprint matcher COTS3 which is not accessible to the public. This will make it infeasible to assess and compare the relevant research work which is vital for this research community. In this study, we target to develop a fully automated latent matcher for adaptive detection of the region of interest and robust matching of latent prints. Unlike the manually conducted matching procedure, the proposed latent matcher can run like a sealed black box without any manual intervention. This matcher consists of the following two modules: (i) the dictionary learning-based region of interest (ROI) segmentation scheme; and (ii) the genetic algorithm-based minutiae set matching unit. Experimental results on NIST SD27 latent fingerprint database demonstrates that the proposed matcher outperforms the currently public state-of-art latent fingerprint matcher.