Date: March 5, 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 4:45pm (refreshment starts at 4:30pm)
Place: 202 ECEC, NJIT

About the Presenter:

Yun Qing Shi has joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ since 1987, and is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; his Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His research interests include digital multimedia data hiding, steganaysis, forensics and information assurance; visual signal processing and communications; theory of multidimensional systems and signal processing; applications of image processing and pattern recognition to industrial automation and biomedical engineering. Some of his research projects have been funded by several federal and NJ State agencies.

He is an author/coauthor of more than 200 papers, one book, and four book chapters. He holds four awarded US patents, and has 24 US patents pending (20 of these pending patents have been licensed to third party by NJIT). In addition to workshop/conference paper presentation, he has been invited to deliver 70 speeches/seminars/tutorials around the world. He is the chairman of Signal Processing Chapter of IEEE North Jersey Section, the founding editor-in-chief of LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security (Springer), an editorial board member of Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer), a member of several IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)’s technical committees, a fellow of IEEE.

About the Talk:

In our digital age, digital media have been being massively produced, easily manipulated, and swiftly transmitted to almost anywhere in the world at anytime. While the great convenience has been appreciated, information assurance has become an urgent and critical issue faced by the digital world. The data hiding, cryptography, and combination of both have been shown not sufficient in many applications. Digital data forensics, which gathers evidence of data composition, origin, and history, is hence called for. Although this new research field is still in its infancy stage, it has started to attract increasing attention from the multimedia-security research community.

This seminar addresses the first digit law and its applications to digital forensics. First, the Benford law and generalized Benford law are introduced. Second, their applications to detection of JPEG compression history for given BMP images and detection of double JPEG compression are presented. Finally, the application of first digit law to detection of double MPEG video compression is discussed.

For more information contact: Yun Shi shi@njit.edu (973)-596-3501, Alfredo Tan tan@fdu.edu (201) 692-2347, and Hong Man hman@stevens-tech.edu (201)-216-5038.

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Note: All ECE MS thesis defense and Ph.D. dissertation (proposal) defense are counted towards ECE791.