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Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2020

Conference Keywords: Watermarking, Steganography, Security, Forensics, Authentication

MWSF 2020 Call for Papers PDF


Optical Document Security/EI Special Session on Security Documents and Imaging

This year EI overlaps with Reconnaissance International's Optical Document Security (ODS) Conference, so Reconnaissance International and MWSF are collaborating on a joint session covering smartphone and digital approaches to document security, on the morning of Wednesday 29 January. The special session will be inaugurated with a keynote presentation from Ian Lancaster (ODS conference chairman).

Monday January 27, 2020

KEYNOTE: Watermarking and Recycling

Session Chair: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
8:55 – 10:00 AM
Cypress A


Conference Welcome

MWSF-017
Watermarking to turn plastic packaging from waste to asset through improved optical tagging, Larry Logan, Digimarc Corporation (United States)

Larry Logan is chief evangelist with Digimarc Corporation. Logan is a visionary and a risk taker with a talent for finding gamechanging products and building brand recognition that resonates with target audiences. He recognizes opportunities in niche spaces, capitalizing on investments made. He has a breadth of relationships and media contacts in diverse industries which expand his reach. Logan holds a BA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.




10:10 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break

Watermark

Session Chair: Robert Ulichney, HP Labs, HP Inc. (United States)
10:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Cypress A

10:30MWSF-021
Reducing invertible embedding distortion using graph matching model, Hanzhou Wu and Xinpeng Zhang, Shanghai University (China)

10:55MWSF-022
Watermarking in deep neural networks via error back-propagation, Jiangfeng Wang, Hanzhou Wu, Xinpeng Zhang, and Yuwei Yao, Shanghai University (China)

11:20MWSF-023
Signal rich art: Improvements and extensions, Ajith Kamath, Digimarc Corporation (United States)

11:45MWSF-024
Estimating watermark synchronization signal using partial pixel least squares, Robert Lyons and Brett Bradley, Digimarc Corporation (United States)



12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch

PLENARY: Frontiers in Computational Imaging

Session Chairs: Jonathan Phillips, Google Inc. (United States) and Radka Tezaur, Intel Corporation (United States)
2:00 – 3:10 PM
Grand Peninsula D

Imaging the unseen: Taking the first picture of a black hole, Katherine Bouman, California Institute of Technology (United States)

Katherine Bouman is an assistant professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. Before joining Caltech, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received her PhD in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT in EECS. Before coming to MIT, she received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. The focus of her research is on using emerging computational methods to push the boundaries of interdisciplinary imaging.


3:10 – 3:30 PM Coffee Break

Deep Learning Steganalysis

Session Chair: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
3:30 – 5:10 PM
Cypress A

3:30MWSF-075
JPEG steganalysis detectors scalable with respect to compression quality, Yassine Yousfi and Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University (United States)

3:55MWSF-076
Detection of malicious spatial-domain steganography over noisy channels using convolutional neural networks, Swaroop Shankar Prasad1, Ofer Hadar2, and Ilia Polian1; 1University of Stuttgart (Germany) and 2Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

4:20MWSF-077
Semi-blind image resampling factor estimation for PRNU computation, Miroslav Goljan and Morteza Darvish Morshedi Hosseini, Binghamton University (United States)

4:45MWSF-078
A CNN-based correlation predictor for PRNU-based image manipulation localization, Sujoy Chakraborty; Binghamton University and Stockton University (United States)



5:00 – 6:00 PM All-Conference Welcome Reception

Tuesday January 28, 2020

7:30 – 8:45 AM Women in Electronic Imaging Breakfast (pre-registration required)

KEYNOTE: Technology in Context

Session Chair: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Cypress A

MWSF-102
Technology in context: Solutions to foreign propaganda and disinformation, Samaruddin Stewart, Global Engagement Center, US State Department (United States)

Samaruddin Stewart is a technology and media expert with the U.S. Department of State, Global Engagement Center, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Concurrently, Stewart manages Journalism 360 with the Online News Association, a global network of storytellers accelerating the understanding and production of immersive journalism (AR/VR/XR). Journalism 360 is a partnership between the Google News Initiative, the Knight Foundation, and the Online News Association. From 2016 through mid-2019 he was an invited expert speaker/trainer with the U.S. Department of State, speaking on combating disinformation, technical verification of content, and combating violent extremism. He holds a BA in journalism and an MA in mass communication both from Arizona State University, an MBA from Central European University, and received the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship, for Journalism and Media Innovation, from Stanford University in 2012.




10:00 AM – 7:30 PM Industry Exhibition - Tuesday

10:10 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break

DeepFakes

Session Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
10:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Cypress A

10:30MWSF-116
Detecting "deepfakes" in H.264 video data using compression ghost artifacts, Raphael Frick, Sascha Zmudzinski, and Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)

10:55MWSF-117
A system for mitigating the problem of deepfake news videos using watermarking, Adnan Alattar, Ravi Sharma, and John Scriven, Digimarc Corporation (United States)

11:20MWSF-118
Checking the integrity of images with signed thumbnail images, Martin Steinebach, Huajian Liu, Sebastian Jörg, and Waldemar Berchtold, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)

11:45MWSF-119
The effect of class definitions on the transferability of adversarial attacks against forensic CNNs, Xinwei Zhao and Matthew Stamm, Drexel University (United States)



12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch

PLENARY: Automotive Imaging

Session Chairs: Jonathan Phillips, Google Inc. (United States) and Radka Tezaur, Intel Corporation (United States)
2:00 – 3:10 PM
Grand Peninsula D

Imaging in the autonomous vehicle revolution, Gary Hicok, NVIDIA Corporation (United States)

Gary Hicok is senior vice president of hardware development at NVIDIA, and is responsible for Tegra System Engineering, which oversees Shield, Jetson, and DRIVE platforms. Prior to this role, Hicok served as senior vice president of NVIDIA’s Mobile Business Unit. This vertical focused on NVIDIA’s Tegra mobile processor, which was used to power next-generation mobile devices as well as in-car safety and infotainment systems. Before that, Hicok ran NVIDIA’s Core Logic (MCP) Business Unit also as senior vice president. Throughout his tenure with NVIDIA, Hicok has also held a variety of management roles since joining the company in 1999, with responsibilities focused on console gaming and chipset engineering. He holds a BSEE from Arizona State University and has authored 33 issued patents.


3:10 – 3:30 PM Coffee Break

Identification

Session Chair: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
3:30 – 5:10 PM
Cypress A

3:30MWSF-215
Score-based likelihood ratios in camera device identification, Stephanie Reinders, Li Lin, Wenhao Chen, Yong Guan, and Jennifer Newman, Iowa State University (United States)

3:55MWSF-216
Camera unavoidable scene watermarks: A method for forcibly conveying information onto photographs, Clark Demaree and Henry Dietz, University of Kentucky (United States)

4:20MWSF-217
A deep learning approach to MRI scanner manufacturer and model identification, Shengbang Fang1, Ronnie Sebro2, and Matthew Stamm1; 1Drexel University and 2Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (United States)

4:45MWSF-218
Motion vector based robust video hash, Huajian Liu, Sebastian Fach, and Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT (Germany)



5:30 – 7:30 PM Symposium Demonstration Session

Wednesday January 29, 2020

KEYNOTE: Digital vs Physical Document Security

Session Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Cypress A

MWSF-204
Digital vs physical: A watershed in document security, Ian Lancaster, Lancaster Consulting (United Kingdom)

Ian Lancaster is a specialist in holography and authentication. He also served as the general secretary to the International Hologram Manufacturers Association from its foundation in 1994 up until 2015. Having stepped into a part-time role as Associate, he is responsible for special projects. Ian Lancaster graduated from Hull University Drama Department, and then did the Arts Council Arts Administration Diploma course. His first job as an arts administrator was at the Library Theatre, Manchester, followed by four years as drama & dance officer at East Midlands Arts, then five years as arts director at the Gulbenkian Foundation. During this period Lancaster received a Fellowship from the US State Department to tour the (United States) to survey the video and holographic arts fields, then became chairman of the British-American Arts Association. Recognizing the interest in art holography in the UK, Lancaster worked with Richard Hoggart to set up the country's first open-access holography studio at Goldsmith's College (where he was Warden), offering introductory courses for artists with support from the Gulbenkian and Rockefeller Foundations, and where he learned to make holograms. In 1982, Lancaster founded the first successful display hologram producer, Third Dimension Ltd, then after four years, he moved to New York as the executive director of the Museum of Holography (1986-88). In 1990 he co-founded Reconnaissance International (www.reconnaissance.net), where he was managing director for 25 years. He originated Holography News, Reconnaissance’s first business-to-business newsletter, and was its editor from 1990 to 2015. Lancaster was also founder-editor of Authentication News, director of Reconnaissance’s anti-counterfeiting, product protection and holography conferences, and chief analyst and writer of the company’s holography industry reports. He led the company into the pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting field, as consultant/director of the Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting Forum and editor of Pharmaceutical AntiCounterfeiting News. He expanded the company into the currency and tax stamps fields and was Executive Editor of Currency News from its first issue until 2012. In 2012, Lancaster received the IHMA’s Award for Business Innovation and that year was also appointed as an Honoured Expert in Authentication by the Ministry of Public Security, China, where he is a member of the Committee of Experts of the Secure Identification Union. In 2015, he was awarded the Russian Optical Society’s Denisyuk Medal for services to holography worldwide and the Chinese Security Identification Union’s Blue Shield award for lifetime achievement in combating counterfeits. For more https://www.lancaster-consult.com/.




10:00 AM – 3:30 PM Industry Exhibition - Wednesday

10:10 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break

Physical Object Security

Session Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
10:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Cypress A

10:30MWSF-398
Smartphone systems for secure documents, Alan Hodgson, Alan Hodgson Consulting Ltd. (United Kingdom)

10:55MWSF-397
Embedding data in the blue channel*, Robert Ulichney, HP Labs, HP Inc. (United States)

*Proceedings Note: A proceedings paper related to the Robert Ulichney talk will be found in the proceedings issue for the Color Imaging XXV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications Conference.

11:20MWSF-399
Toward CanvasChain: A block chain and craquelure hash based system for authenticating and tracking fine art paintings, Irving Barron Martinez and Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)

11:45MWSF-219
High-entropy optically variable device characterization – Facilitating multimodal authentication and capture of deep learning data, Mikael Lindstrand, gonioLabs AB (Sweden)



12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch

PLENARY: VR/AR Future Technology

Session Chairs: Jonathan Phillips, Google Inc. (United States) and Radka Tezaur, Intel Corporation (United States)
2:00 – 3:10 PM
Grand Peninsula D

Quality screen time: Leveraging computational displays for spatial computing, Douglas Lanman, Facebook Reality Labs (United States)

Douglas Lanman is the director of Display Systems Research at Facebook Reality Labs, where he leads investigations into advanced display and imaging technologies for augmented and virtual reality. His prior research has focused on head-mounted displays, glasses-free 3D displays, light-field cameras, and active illumination for 3D reconstruction and interaction. He received a BS in Applied Physics with Honors from Caltech in 2002 and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He was a senior research scientist at NVIDIA Research from 2012 to 2014, a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab from 2010 to 2012, and an assistant research staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2002 to 2005. His most recent work has focused on developing the Oculus Half Dome: an eye-tracked, wide-field-of-view varifocal HMD with AI-driven rendering.


3:10 – 3:30 PM Coffee Break

Steganography

Session Chair: Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University (United States)
3:30 – 5:10 PM
Cypress A

3:30MWSF-289
Minimum perturbation cost modulation for side-informed steganography, Jan Butora and Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University (United States)

3:55MWSF-290
Synchronizing embedding changes in side-informed steganography, Mehdi Boroumand and Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University (United States)

4:20MWSF-291
Generative text steganography based on adaptive arithmetic coding and LSTM network, Huixian Kang, Hanzhou Wu, and Xinpeng Zhang, Shanghai University (China)

4:45MWSF-292
Analyzing the decoding rate of circular coding in a noisy transmission channel, Yufang Sun and Jan Allebach, Purdue University (United States)



DISCUSSION: Concluding Remarks

Session Chairs: Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States) and Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
5:10 – 5:20 PM
Cypress A

5:30 – 7:00 PM EI 2020 Symposium Interactive Posters Session

5:30 – 7:00 PM Meet the Future: A Showcase of Student and Young Professionals Research

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Important Dates
Call for Papers Announced 1 April 2019
Journal-first Submissions Due 15 Jul 2019
Abstract Submission Site Opens 1 May 2019
Review Abstracts Due (refer to For Authors page
· Early Decision Ends 15 Jul 2019
· Regular Submission Ends 30 Sept 2019
· Extended Submission Ends 14 Oct 2019
 Final Manuscript Deadlines  
 · Manuscripts for Fast Track 25 Nov 2019
 · All Manuscripts 10 Feb 2020
Registration Opens 5 Nov 2019
Early Registration Ends 7 Jan 2019
Hotel Reservation Deadline 10  Jan 2020
Conference Begins 26 Jan 2020


 
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Conference Chairs
Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States); Nasir Memon, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University (United States); Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)

Program Committee
Mauro Barni, Univiversity degli Studi di Siena (Italy); Sebastiano Battiato, Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy); Marc Chaumont, Laboratory d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier (France); Scott Craver, Binghamton University (United States); Edward Delp, Purdue University (United States); Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany); Gwenaël Doërr, ContentArmor SAS (France); Jean-luc Dugelay, EURECOM (France); Touradj Ebrahimi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland); Maha El Choubassi, Intel Corporation (United States); Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University (United States); Anthony T.S. Ho, University of Surrey (United Kingdom); Jiwu Huang, Shenzhen University (China); Andrew Ker, University of Oxford (United Kingdom); Matthias Kirchner, Binghamton University (United States); Alex Kot, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); Chang-Tsun Li, The University of Warwick (United Kingdom); Jennifer Newman, Iowa State University (United States); William Puech, Laboratory d’Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier (France); Husrev Taha Sencar, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Turkey); Yun-Qing Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology (United States); Ashwin Swaminathan, Magic Leap, Inc. (United States); Robert Ulichney, HP Labs, HP Inc. (United States); Claus Vielhauer, Fachhochschule Brandenburg (Germany); Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy, University de Genève (Switzerland); Chang Dong Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Korea, Republic of)