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Multimedia Fingerprinting for Tracing Traitors
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Min Wu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College ParkHost: Antonio OrtegaAbstract:
Technology advancement has made multimedia content widely available and easy to process. These benefits also make it easy for unauthorized duplication, manipulation, and redistribution of multimedia content, prompting the need of multimedia forensics research to facilitate evidence gathering in digital world. Digital fingerprinting is one of the emerging forensics technologies to help identify users who have legitimate access to content but may use it for unintended purposes, such as unauthorized redistribution. Unique imperceptible labels, known as digital fingerprints, are inserted in different copies of the same content before giving to each user. For multimedia data, digital fingerprints can be put into the content using conventional robust embedding techniques, which are typically concerned with surviving attacks mounted by an individual. Advances in communication and networking have also made it easy for adversaries to work together. A group of users with differently marked versions of the same content may collaborate to collectively mount attacks against the fingerprints. These so-called collusion attacks provide adversaries with a cost-effective method to remove the fingerprints and circumvent the traitor-tracing mechanism.
In this talk, I will present our recent research on anti-collusion fingerprinting for multimedia data. Through jointly considering the encoding, embedding, and detection of fingerprints, our techniques can help collect digital-domain evidence and pinpoint to the sources of leak among millions of users. Applications of such multimedia forensic tools range from military and government operations to piracy deterrence in Hollywood and other entertainment industry.Biography:
Dr. Min Wu received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering and the B.A. degree in economics in 1996 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (both with the highest honors), and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2001. Since 2001, she has been on the faculty of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute of Advanced Computing Studies at University of Maryland, College Park, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Wu's research interests include information forensics and security, multimedia signal processing, and multimedia communications. She co-authored two books and holds five U.S. patents on multimedia security and communications. She is a co-recipient of two Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and EURASIP, respectively. She also received a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002, a TR100 Young Innovator Award from the MIT Technology Review Magazine in 2004, and a U.S. ONR Young Investigator Award in 2005. [URL: http://www.ece.umd.edu/~minwu/]Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Hernandez
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Writing Effective Resumes
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Does your resume highlight the skills that will land an interview? Learn how to create a resume that will serve as the marketing tool that will get your foot inside industry's door!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 109
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Walk-In Wednesdays: Career Services Advising
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, or general engineering career advice.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Current Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Characterization and Yield behavior of UFG, Nano-Twinned Copper
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Andrea M. Hodge Materials ScientistNanoscale Synthesis and Characterization
LaboratoryLawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA Yield point drops are a classic non-uniform plastic deformation process in solids. As stated by Johnston and Gilman in their classic work on single crystal Lithium Fluoride, the yield point drop phenomena in crystalline solids is clearly dependant on the availability of necessary mobile dislocations to support the plastic deformation process. In this talk, the presence of a yield point will be related to materials with nanocrystalline, ultrafine-grained (UFG) and evenly distributed nanoscale features (i.e. twins). Specifically, tensile tests performed on high purity (99.999%) copper foils (170 m thick), processed by magnetron sputtered multilayer technology, demonstrate reproducible observations of yield points. These type of materials present very low initial dislocation densities, a columnar grain structure (~ 0.55 m width), and uniformly distributed and spaced (? 45 to 50 nm) growth twins with an orientation parallel to the plane of deposition.Location: Seaver Science Library, Room 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: April Mundy
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Welcome Back Meeting--Deloitte & ISACA
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Welcome Back!ISA will be hosting Deloitte at our first meeting!WHAT: Welcome Back Meeting--Deloitte & ISACAWHEN: Wednesday, January 17TIME: 6:00 PMWHERE: HOH 406This is our first meeting back this semester! You do not need to be a member to attend. This meeting is FREE and open to all USC students and majors.
Don't forget: Free Catered Food!Don't miss this chance to network with professionals. Deloitte will be presenting on the topic of first impressions. With the summer approaching, they are looking to hire summer interns. Don't forget your resume!This semester we will also be pairing ISA members with a mentor/buddy from the IS industry. Learn more at this week's meeting from ISACA representatives!We are now accepting applications to become a member for Spring 2007. Come to this week's meeting for more information or visit the ISA website at www.uscisa.net. Only members can attend firm socials, so apply today! If you are interested in a leadership role, we are now looking to fill director positions. Director applications are available on the website and are due by January 24.Please contact Ariel at saldin@usc.edu with any questions or for more information.Ariel Saldin
VP of Membership
Information Systems Association
http://www.uscisa.netLocation: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 406
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Storytelling with Testimony
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 06:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
During the fall semester, the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education collaborated in the mounting of a freshman seminar that provided students with the opportunity to work with the rich archive of survivor testimonies from the Shoah Foundation Institute. Students learned how to conceptualize and create their own testimony clip reels. This event will feature a screening of student-produced reels, followed by a discussion with students and Shoah Foundation Institute staff about the process of working with survivor testimonies. A pizza reception will follow.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Alpha Omega Epsilon: Info Night
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Come meet the sisters of Alpha Omega Epsilon, USC's professional and social engineering sorority, and learn about what A.O.E. has to offer you!
Location: Tommy Trojan
Audiences: Undergraduate Female Engineers
Contact: Alpha Omega Epsilon
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Alpha Omega Epsilon: Fondue Night
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
Learn about USC's only engineering sorority while enjoying some delicious fondue!
Location: Tommy Trojan
Audiences: Undergraduate Female Engineers
Contact: Alpha Omega Epsilon
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SHPE: McCormick and Schmicks Night
Wed, Jan 17, 2007 @ 09:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
A Welcome back event recapping the previous semester, a look into the Spring semester, and recapping NTCC. Rides will be provided. Meet outside RTH at 8:45pm. Bring $8 for food, drink and tip.
Location: 633 West Fifth Street, 4th Floor, Los Angeles, CA
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: SHPE
