Class Announcements

This page will have the latest announcements and changes, so please check it often.

1. I have posted some reading assignments for this week and next.

2. The next project assignment is due Thurs. Mar. 13.  See the Projects page for details.

3. I have updated Homework 3. It is due Feb. 28 (on campus) and Mar. 6 (off campus).

4. fft_demo is now available on the Matlab Code webpage.

General Information

• Lecture: TR  12:40 p.m. - 1:50 p.m., 1324 Howe Hall

• Instructor:  Dr. Jennifer Davidson

      email:    davidson@iastate.edu

      Office:   438 Carver Hall

      Phone:   (515) 294-2941 , Fax: (515) 294-5454

• WebCT page
• Engineering Distance Education Website
• Office Hours:  Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2; Mondays 2-3.

• Required textbook:

  Title: Data Privacy and Security
  Author: David Salomon
  Published in 2003 by Springer-Verlag, NY
  ISBN: 0-387-00311-8

  Next year I will be using: Digital Watermarking and Steganography, Second Edition; Cox, Miller, Bloom, Fridrich, and Kalker. Morgan Kaufmann.  2008. ISBN 978-0-12-372585-1.
   

• Other reference books

• Course Goals

Web Links

1. News Reports
   • After Winning the Format War, Blu-ray’s Future Looks Bright, Mar. 13, 2008
   • Managing Managed-Copy, Feb. 5, 2008
   • Backbone Security at the DoD Cyber Crime Conference 2008 Jan. 16, 2008
   • Fox decodes Apple DRM for DVD downloadable copies, Jan. 15, 2008
   • Sony Joins Other Labels on Amazon MP3 Store, Jan. 11, 2008
   • Research Shows Image-Based Threat on the Rise  October 18, 2007
   • Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict February 22, 2007
   • Hiding messages in plain sight, BBC News, Feb. 15, 2007
   • Philips designs watermark system to curb video piracy, Feb. 21, 2006
   • Trade Group Seeks to Facilitate Content and Technology Sector Collaboration , Jan. 12, 2006
   • Sony May Settle CD Lawsuit  Jan. 3, 2006
   • DVD pirates successfully plunder Academy Award screeners Jan. 13, 2006
   • MPAA and BitTorrent reach a deal     Nov. 27, 2005
   • Copy-protection bad for CDs  Dec. 6, 2005
   • Online Music buyers dissatisfied with DRM for tunes  Apr. 25, 2005
   • Studios settle lawsuit on DVD-copying chips  Apr. 14, 2005
   • University of Delaware performs steganalysis  Jan. 28, 2005
   • Teletrax will electronically track network promotional activity  Jan. 11, 2005
   • Watermarks being used in screener DVD disks Nov. 24, 2004
   • Verance will watermark Universal's film and video entertainment content  Oct. 14, 2003
   • Digimarc wins chance to compete to produce driver's licenses for Georgia using digital watermark technology Dec. 27, 2004
   • New York Times reports on filesharing - 4-6-04
   • RIAA Files Suit Against 531 Song-Swappers - 2-18-04
   • Lawsuit Dropped Against DVD Copy-Protection Hack - 1/23/04
   • Another article on the same topic: DVD Descrambling Code Not a Trade Secret - DVD CCA Surrenders in Bunner DVD Descrambling Case 1-23-04
   • Watermarked screener videotape shows up on Internet - watermark linked back to actor given tape.  Jan. 13, 2004
   • Link to USAToday's report on bin Laden using steganography  Feb. 5, 2001
2. Steganalysis
   • Dr. Jessica Fridrich's Digital Data Embedding Lab
3. Commercial Sites
   • Digital Watermarking World
   • Infosyssec
4. University Web Sites
   • Dr. Alessandro Piva's Website on Watermarking, in Florence, Italy
   • Dr. Frank Hartung's Webpage on Watermarking  -  a variety of researchers and labs, watermarking and DRM products, benchmarking tools, and conferences.
    
5. Software for Data Hiding:

   stegoarchive.com

   F5

6. Conferences:

Here are links to some conferences that are related to our class content.

1. Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII (SPIE)

2. 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA '04)

3. IFIP Working Group 11.9 Digital Forensics

4. Information Hiding Workshop

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Last Updated March 17, 2008