By: Dr. Jeffrey A. Bloom, Sarnoff Corporation
Time: 4:45 PM, Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
Place: Room 202, ECE Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark NJ. Directions

Abstract

The unauthorized trading of pirate copies of Hollywood movies on the Internet is becoming more common as bandwidth to the home increases. In the most damaging cases, the source of the piracy is an insider who is, at best, betraying the trust of the studies or, at worst, stealing proprietary intellectual property.  In this talk, we will discuss this problem and present a solution based on Sarnoff's robust forensic watermark that was developed for the challenging digital cinema environment.

Biography

Jeffrey Bloom is a researcher at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ. He has been working in the field of digital watermarking research since 1998.  He was one of the primary designers of the Galaxy watermark for DVD copy control and was the principal investigator on a NIST-sponsored effort at Sarnoff to develop a watermark appropriate for digital cinema applications. Dr. Bloom holds a number of patents in the field of watermarking, has published numerous technical articles, and has given many invited talks on digital watermarking to industry, academic, and government groups.  He is co-author of a text book on digital watermarking. "Digital Watermarking", published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers in 2001, is considered the standard text in the field. Dr. Bloom holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.  He has expertise in the areas of signal and image processing, image and video compression, and human visual models.  His current research interests include digital watermarking, digital rights management, machine learning, and data mining.  Dr. Bloom is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, and AAAI.

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