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2020
 Abstract submission opens
1 June
 Final submission deadline 7 Oct
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 publication
23 Nov
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 Early registration ends 31 Dec


2021
 Short Courses begin
11 Jan
 Symposium begins
18 Jan
 All manuscripts due
8 Feb
 Conference Portal Closes
30 April

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Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2021

NOTES ABOUT THIS VIEW OF THE PROGRAM
  • Below is the the program in New York time.
  • Talks are to be presented live during the times noted and will be recorded. The recordings may be viewed at your convenience, as often as you like, until 30 April 2021.

Tuesday 19 January 2021

PLENARY: Deep Internal Learning—Deep Learning with Zero Examples

Session Chair: Charles Bouman, Purdue University (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

Deep internal learning—Deep learning with zero examples
Michal Irani, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Michal Irani is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research interests include computer vision, AI, and deep learning. Irani's prizes and honors include the Maria Petrou Prize (2016), the Helmholtz “Test of Time Award” (2017), the Landau Prize in AI (2019), and the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science (2020). She also received the ECCV Best Paper Awards (2000 and 2002), and the Marr Prize Honorable Mention (2001 and 2005).


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Thursday 21 January 2021

PLENARY: The Development of Integral Color Image Sensors and Cameras

Session Chair: Jonathan B. Phillips, Google Inc. (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

The development of integral color image sensors and cameras
Kenneth A. Parulski, Expert Consultant: Mobile Imaging (United States)

Kenneth Parulski is an expert consultant to mobile imaging companies and leads the development of ISO standards for digital photography. He joined Kodak in 1980 after graduating from MIT and retired in 2012 as research fellow and chief scientist in Kodak's digital photography division. His work has been recognized with a Technical Emmy and other major awards. Parulski is a SMPTE fellow and an inventor on more than 225 US patents.


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Monday 25 January 2021

PLENARY: Making Invisible Visible

Session Chair: Jonathan B. Phillips, Google Inc. (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

Making invisible visible
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab (United States)

Ramesh Raskar is an associate professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on AI and imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning), and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004), and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Wednesday 27 January 2021

PLENARY: Revealing the Invisible to Machines with Neuromorphic Vision Systems: Technology and Applications Overview

Session Chair: Radka Tezaur, Intel Corporation (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

Revealing the invisible to machines with neuromorphic vision systems: Technology and applications overview
Luca Verre, CEO and Co-Founder at Prophesee (France)

Luca Verre is co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. Verre is a World Economic Forum technology pioneer. His experience includes project and product management, marketing, and business development roles at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider Electric, Verre worked as a research assistant in photonics at the Imperial College of London. Verre holds a MSc in physics, electronic and industrial engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Centrale and an MBA from Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires, INSEAD.


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

DeepFake Detection

Moderator: Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)
Session Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
11:40 – 13:00
Green Room

11:40MWSF-271
Detection of deepfakes with Haralick features, Raphael Frick, Sascha Zmudzinski, and Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer Institute SIT (Germany)

12:00MWSF-272
Detecting deepfake videos using Euler video magnification, Rashmiranjan Das, Gaurav Negi, and Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University (Ireland)

12:20MWSF-273
Frequency domain-based detection of generated audio, Emily Bartusiak and Edward Delp, Purdue University (United States)

12:40MWSF-274
Automated image metadata verification using the example of weather, Kyra Wittorf, Martin Steinebach, and Huajian Liu, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)



13:00 – 13:30 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

Watermark and Fingerprinting

Moderator: Lakshmanan Nataraj, Mayachitra Inc. (United States)
Session Chair: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
13:30 – 14:30
Green Room

13:30MWSF-298
Fingerprinting blank paper and printed material by smartphones, Waldemar Berchtold, Markus Suetter, and Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)

13:50MWSF-299
Signal rich art: Object placement and other advances, Ajith Kamath, Digimarc (United States)

14:10MWSF-300
Attribution of gradient based adversarial attacks for reverse engineering of deceptions, Michael Goebel1, Jason Bunk2, Srinjoy Chattopadhyay2, Lakshmanan Nataraj2, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran2, and B.S. Manjunath2; 1University of California Santa Barbara and 2Mayachitra Inc. (United States)



14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Image Forensics

Moderator: Hui Zeng, Southwest University of Science and Technology (China)
Session Chair: Nasir Memon, New York University (United States)
18:00 – 19:15
Green Room

18:00
Conference Introduction

18:15MWSF-275
Replacing DWT with DTCWT in blind image rotation angle estimation, Hui Zeng1,2, Morteza Darvish Morshedi Hosseini2, and Miroslav Goljan2; 1Southwest University of Science and Technology (China) and 2Binghamton University (United States)

18:35MWSF-276
Detection, attribution and localization of GAN generated images, Michael Goebel1, Lakshmanan Nataraj2, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy2, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed2, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran1,2, and B.S. Manjunath1,2; 1University of California Santa Barbara and 2Mayachitra Inc. (United States)

18:55MWSF-277
Holistic image manipulation detection using pixel co-occurrence matrices, Lakshmanan Nataraj1, Michael Goebel2, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed1, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran2, and B.S. Manjunath2; 1Mayachitra Inc. and 2University of California Santa Barbara (United States)



19:15 – 19:45 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

19:15 – 19:45 Women-in-Engineering Speed Networking (Evening) - take a break from technical sessions to make new connections and greet old friends. Look for the ZOOM link in Discord #announcements.

KEYNOTE: Content Authenticity

Session Chair: Nasir Memon, New York University (United States)
Moderator: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
19:45 – 20:45
Green Room

MWSF-349
KEYNOTE: The Content Authenticity Initiative: Provenance in the age of disinformation, Andy Parsons, Adobe Inc. (United States)

Keynote speaker Andy Parsons is the Director of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), which is creating the open standards framework for a future of verifiably authentic content of all kinds. With collaborators across hardware, software, publishing and social platforms the CAI is empowering creators with attribution and provenance. For information consumers, this important work restores trust and transparency to media. Prior to joining Adobe, Parsons founded Workframe (acquired in 2019), the pioneering visual project management platform for commercial architecture. Parsons previously served as Chief Technology Officer at McKinsey Academy, McKinsey’s groundbreaking educational platform and he co-founded Happify, the world’s leading mobile platform for digital therapeutics and behavioral health. He has enjoyed deep involvement over the years with the open-source ecosystem, most recently as the organizer of the Clojure/NYC engineering community, which grew to several thousand members under his stewardship.


Thursday 28 January 2021



Media Source  Identification 

Moderator: Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)
Session Chair: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
10:00 – 11:15
Green Room

10:00
Conference Introduction

10:15MWSF-336
Camera fingerprint estimation with a generative adversarial network (GAN), Sujoy Chakraborty, Stockton University (United States)

10:35MWSF-337
Video source identification from MP4 data based on field values in atom/box attributes, Erik Gelbing, Leon Würsching, Sascha Zmudzinski, and Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)

10:55MWSF-338
PRNU estimation from encoded videos using block-based weighting, Enes Altinisik1, Kasim Tasdemir2, and Husrev Taha Sencar3; 1Qatar Computing Research Institute, 2Abdullah Gul Universitesi, and 3TOBB University (Turkey)



11:15 – 11:45 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

User Identification

Moderator: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
Session Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
11:45 – 12:45
Green Room

11:45MWSF-344
AiroIdent – User identification based on analyzing WPA2 encrypted traffic containing search engine interactions, Mario Hildebrandt, Kevin Lamshoeft, Christian Kraetzer, Aamir Shakir, Hannes Stuetzer, Mohamed Abdelrazek, Alexander Ziemke, Dominik Blut, and Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany)

12:05MWSF-345
Analysis of robust block hash bit behavior, Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)

12:25MWSF-346
Proximally secure communication in public settings using specialized barcodes, Irving Barron Martinez and Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)



14:15 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

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