Karen A. Brown

20 papers Journal 7Unranked 13
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2018 J jnl
IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics
Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Karen A. Brown, Robert E. Kearney
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Charles C. Onu, Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney, Doina Precup
2018 conf
EMBC
Lara J. Kanbar, Charles C. Onu, Wissam Shalish, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Doina Precup, Robert E. Kearney
2018 J jnl
CoRR
Lara J. Kanbar, Charles C. Onu, Wissam Shalish, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney, Doina Precup
2017 conf
EMBC
Charles C. Onu, Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney, Doina Precup
2017 conf
EMBC
Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Doina Precup, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney
2017 conf
SSCI
Charles C. Onu, Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney, Doina Precup
2016 conf
EMBC
Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Doina Precup, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney
2015 J jnl
Interfaces
Karen A. Brown, Thomas G. Schmitt, Richard J. Schonberger
2015 conf
EMBC
Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Doina Precup, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney
2015 conf
EMBC
Lara J. Kanbar, Wissam Shalish, Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Doina Precup, Karen A. Brown, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney
2014 conf
EMBC
Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Karen A. Brown, Gianluca Bertolizio, Robert E. Kearney
2013 conf
EMBC
Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Karen A. Brown, Robert E. Kearney
2012 conf
EMBC
Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Karen A. Brown, Robert E. Kearney
2012 conf
EMBC
Doina Precup, Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Karen A. Brown, Lara J. Kanbar, Jennifer Kaczmarek, Sanjay Chawla, Guilherme M. Sant'Anna, Robert E. Kearney
2011 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Ahmed A. Aoude, Robert E. Kearney, Karen A. Brown, Henrietta L. Galiana, Carlos A. Robles-Rubio
2011 conf
EMBC
Carlos A. Robles-Rubio, Karen A. Brown, Robert E. Kearney
2006 conf
EMBC
Ahmed A. Aoude, Alexis L. Motto, Henrietta L. Galiana, Karen A. Brown, Robert E. Kearney
2005 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.
Alexis L. Motto, Henrietta L. Galiana, Karen A. Brown, Robert E. Kearney
2004 J jnl
Interfaces
Karen A. Brown, Thomas G. Schmitt, Richard J. Schonberger, Stephen Dennis
redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/library_filter.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/library_filter.py python
"""Package-based library filtering for APK DEX code analysis.

Determines whether a method belongs to a known library/framework package
and should be filtered out of content tables. This is the Android equivalent
of is_lib_or_thunk() in the Binary Ninja pipeline.
"""

import os
from typing import Dict, List


DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PREFIXES = [
    "android.",
    "androidx.",
    "com.google.android.",
    "com.google.firebase.",
    "com.google.gson.",
    "com.google.protobuf.",
    "kotlin.",
    "kotlinx.",
    "org.apache.",
    "com.squareup.",
    "io.reactivex.",
    "org.reactivestreams.",
    "com.facebook.",
    "com.crashlytics.",
    "io.fabric.",
    "org.junit.",
    "org.mockito.",
]


class LibraryFilter:
    """Filters library/framework classes from APK analysis."""

    def __init__(self, prefixes: List[str] = None):
        env_prefixes = os.getenv("APK_LIBRARY_PREFIXES")
        if env_prefixes:
            self._prefixes = [p.strip() for p in env_prefixes.split(",") if p.strip()]
        elif prefixes is not None:
            self._prefixes = prefixes
        else:
            self._prefixes = DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PREFIXES

        # Convert Dalvik-style prefixes to both formats for matching
        self._dot_prefixes = tuple(self._prefixes)

        self._stats = {"library": 0, "user": 0}

    def is_library(self, class_name: str) -> bool:
        """Check if a class belongs to a known library/framework package.

        Accepts both Java dot notation (com.example.Foo) and Dalvik
        descriptor notation (Lcom/example/Foo;).
        """
        # Normalize Dalvik descriptor to dot notation
        normalized = self._normalize_class_name(class_name)

        is_lib = normalized.startswith(self._dot_prefixes)
        if is_lib:
            self._stats["library"] += 1
        else:
            self._stats["user"] += 1
        return is_lib

    def get_filter_stats(self) -> Dict[str, int]:
        """Return counts of filtered vs. retained classes."""
        return dict(self._stats)

    @staticmethod
    def _normalize_class_name(class_name: str) -> str:
        """Convert Dalvik descriptor to dot notation.

        Lcom/example/Foo; -> com.example.Foo
        com.example.Foo -> com.example.Foo
        """
        if class_name.startswith("L") and class_name.endswith(";"):
            return class_name[1:-1].replace("/", ".")
        return class_name.replace("/", ".")