Multimedia Security

Autumn 2008 - Winter 2009

Official course description

  12:15 - 14:00, Wednesday, Lectures (Room Battelle 319-321) (beginning September 17)

 8:15 -10:00, Friday, Labs (Room Battelle 404-407) (beginning  September 19)

CUI - University of Geneva, Computer Vision & Multimedia Laboratory


People

Instructors:
Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy and Oleksiy Koval
Teaching Assistants:
         Fokko Beekhof
7, route-de-Drize,  Carouge
CUI -University of Geneva
Contact email: svolos@cui.unige.ch
Office hours: 10-17 Mon, Wed, Fri, send email first

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Course Outline

Secure communications: cryptography
Secure delivery: scrambling
Internet/network security: intrusion detection and Firewalls
Secure communications: steganography
Secure delivery: copyright protection; integrity verification, tamper proofing, originality verification, access control and visual encryption
Internet/network security: StegoWall - blind stochastic detection of hidden information
Digital watermarking: elements of detection theory
Digital data-hiding:
* Communications channels (random coding):
- coding theorem;
- Gaussian channel;
* Data-hiding channels:
- key-dependent codebooks;
- coding for channels with side information at encoder (random binning):
-- Gel'fand-Pinsker problem;
-- Gaussian set-up: Costa problem;
-- Practical techniques: spread-spectrum, quantization-based methods and hybrid methods.
* Multiple access channels.
Practical error corrections codes:
* Binary codes:
- block and linear codes;
- iteratice decodable codes (LDPC);
* Multilevel codes (MLC and TCM).
Protocols
Applications: digital and analog media
High capacity watermarking
Self-recovering watermarking and joint source/channel coding
Prerequisites: Imaginarie numerique (Prof. Thierry Pun), Structures discrètes et information (Prof. Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy), Cryptographie et sécurité (Prof. José D.P. Rolim), good knowledge of Matlab.
Recommended class: Advanced Image Processing (Prof. S. Voloshynovskiy)

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