NEWSLETTER OF
THE
SEPTEMBER 2005
The web site for the
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Signal Processing Society Meeting
Notice
2. Computer
Society Meeting Notice
3. Lasers
and Electro-Optics Society Meeting Notice
5. IEEE
Mentoring Program Pilot Invitation
1. Signal Processing Society Meeting Notice
The new Baltimore Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society is ready to start up this September. We are privileged to have as our guest speaker Dr. K. J. Ray Liu, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. We will have to hold elections at the start of this meeting. I will be running for the chapter chair position. Others are welcome to run. We will also need to elect a chapter vice-chair. Try to get there by 5:45 PM so we can conduct the elections. After the meeting, we can discuss possible future topics and future speakers. Please respond to ronald_aloysius@ieee.org if you plan to attend this meeting. We will need a head count to determine how much food to order (either sandwiches or pizza).
Topic: Multimedia Forensics for Tracing Traitors
Speaker: K. J. Ray Liu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Time: 5:45 PM: Food and Elections.
6:15 PM: Talk begins.
Location: Historical Electronics Museum (HEM) (directions below)
Note: There is construction work going on near the HEM, but don’t let that turn you away. You will be able to park in the back parking lot.
Please respond to: ronald_aloysius@ieee.org
Description:
Digital fingerprinting is an emerging technology for identifying users who have legitimate access to plaintext content but may use the content for unintended purposes, such as duplication and redistribution. For multimedia, fingerprints can be put into the content using embedding techniques that are typically concerned with robustness against a variety of attacks mounted by an individual. Ensuring the appropriate use of multimedia content, however, is no longer a security issue with a single adversary. The global nature of the Internet has brought media closer to both authorized users and adversaries. It is now easy for a group of users with differently marked versions of the same content to work together and collectively mount attacks against the fingerprints. These attacks, known as collusion attacks, provide adversaries a cost-effective method for removing an identifying fingerprint. In this talk, tracing traitors using collusion-resistant fingerprinting for multimedia that jointly considers the encoding, embedding, and detection of fingerprints will be presented. A general formulation of fingerprint coding and modulation provides a unified framework covering orthogonal fingerprints, coded fingerprints, and other correlated fingerprints. Under this framework, we have proposed a new class of structured codes, known as Anti-Collusion Codes (ACC), and designed algorithms that allows for gathering forensic evidence of the guilt and for identifying colluders.
Biography:
K. J. Ray Liu (F’03) received the B.S. degree from the
Dr. Liu is the recipient of numerous honors and awards
including best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Vehicular
Technology Society, and EURASIP; IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished
Lecturer, EURASIP Meritorious Service Award, and National Science Foundation
Young Investigator Award. He also received Poole and Kent Company Senior
Faculty Teaching Award from A. James Clark School of Engineering, and Invention
of the Year Award, both from
Dr. Liu is Vice President – Publication and on the Board of Governor of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the prime proposer and architect of the new IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
Dr. Liu’s web site is:
http://www.isr.umd.edu/Labs/CSPL/kjrliu/kjrliu.html
Directions to HEM:
The Historical Electronics Museum (HEM) is located near BWI airport. The address for the HEM is:
Historical
410-765-0230
The directions for the HEM are as follows:
From
Route
Take West Nursery Road exit, turn left
at light and go through four stoplights.
Museum is on the left, next to the
Marriott Hotel.
From
Route 97
Turn right at sixth light onto
Turn right at second light onto
Museum is on the right, next to the
Marriott Hotel.
From
Route
Take West Nursery Road exit, stay right
on ramp.
Go through three stoplights.
Museum is on the left, next to the
Marriott Hotel.
From Route 195
Route 170 North (
Left at first light onto
Left at light onto
Right onto
Museum is on the right next to the
Marriott Hotel.
From Interstate 95
Exit onto I95 East to 295 North and
follow directions from
2. Computer Society Meeting Notice
The Computer Society Baltimore Chapter will hold its next technical meeting on Thursday, September 15, 2005 at the HEM. The guest speaker will be Johnny Bledsoe and the special topic is about "Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)" Please endeavor to attend that meeting as it is the beginning of our Fall session.
TOPIC ABSTRACT
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology aimed to reshape the provision of voice service by significantly reducing costs to both commercial and residential users. Riding the wave of broadband/high-speed Internet market penetration and accessibility, VoIP is dependent on the underlying Internet Protocol (IP) for transport. Herein lies the source of its cost advantage and its security disadvantage. As evidenced by the Internet, the security weakness and exploited vulnerabilities of IP continue to be a major source of aggravation for providers and consumers. This presentation will focus on the major security vulnerabilities specific to VoIP and will provide recommendations for technology or process safeguards.
ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER
Johnny Bledsoe received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering
from the
Professional (ISSEP).
Mr. Bledsoe is an IT consultant with Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) and works part-time as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland University College where he teaches information security related courses in the Information Systems Management (IFSM) undergraduate program.
3. Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Meeting Notice
The Baltimore Chapter of the Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society is pleased to announce Dr. Michael A. Krainak,
Head of Lasers and Electro-Optics Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
as the next speaker in the Chapter’s Technical Seminar Series. The event will be held at The Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory in Howard County Room 3 on
Speaker: Dr. Michael A. Krainak, Head of Lasers
and Electro-Optics Branch at
Location: JHU Applied Physics Laboratory Howard County Room 3
Time: 6PM Dinner, 7PM Lecture
Title: Fiber transmitter/photon-counting-receiver-based instruments for science and exploration at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract:
We discuss present and near-term uses for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers for NASA-specific applications including planetary topography and atmospheric spectroscopy. Fiber lasers and amplifiers offer numerous advantages for both near-term and future deployment of instruments on exploration and science remote sensing orbiting satellites. Ground-based and airborne systems provide an evolutionary path to space and a means for calibration and verification of space-borne systems. We present experimental progress on both the fiber transmitters and instrument prototypes for ongoing development efforts. These near-infrared instruments are laser sounders and lidars for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide, oxygen, water vapor and methane and a pseudo-noise (PN) code laser ranging system. The associated fiber transmitters include high-power erbium, ytterbium, neodymium and fiber-laser-pumped optical- parametric-oscillators.
We discuss single-photon-counting detectors requirements for NASA remote sensing and communications systems. We present experimental measurements on several different near-infrared single-photon-counting detectors including InGaAs/InP and InGaAs/InAlAs avalanche photodiodes (APD), an InGaAsP photocathode hybrid photomultiplier (PMT) and an InGaAs photomultiplier. We present the experimental performance of prototype instruments for laser ranging, communication, and trace-gas detection that use these detectors.
Biography:
Michael Krainak received his BS in electrical engineering
from
4. Continuing EE Education
We are re-running this request for interest in a continuing education program. This program will be in the format of seminars focused on a particular topic of interest. The seminars may run either during the week after work hours or possibly on Saturday. The idea for the program is described below.
Name of project: Continuing EE Education (“CEEE”)
Goal: A section-level program aimed at:
Updating the IEEE members on new developments in the EE field.
Familiarizing engineers with basic new tools, products and techniques as well as giving them the initial knowledge and skills to use them.
Inviting representatives from different vendors to present leading novel products.
Giving tutorials in new areas.
Helping IEEE fellow members become more competitive, especially in times of uncertain jobs, off-shoring and salary stagnation.
Facilitating networking.
Broadening the horizon of each IEEE member.
Fostering collaboration between members of different societies as well as generation of new ideas (“cross-pollination” element).
The program should be open to all IEEE members, including students. It is meant to be a cross-societies initiative, i.e. should not be limited to narrow topics serving the interests of a single chapter only. Emphasis should be placed on meeting with experienced experts from different fields. Critical comparisons between different solutions of EE problems are expected to be made, and trends should be discussed.
Potential topics of interest could include, but are not limited to:
Software tools:
Programming languages
Compilers
Real-Time Operating systems
Debuggers
Emulators
Hardware tools:
Novel electronic components
Single-Board Computers (SBC)
Embedded solutions
FPGAs
Printed circuit board design (schematics capture, layout)
Circuit simulation (PSPICE)
Portable devices
Signal and image processing (examples, tools, help)
Wireless devices:
Theory
Standards
Available OEM products
Trends
Internet-based methods and devices:
Standards
Available tools
Contemporary design tools (like AutoCad and Solid Works)
Reliability and Compliance issues
We plan to invite qualified speakers from academia, industry and governmental institutions. The speakers will be professionals who can give first-hand information and share front-line experience on the technology, methods and tools being presented.
We plan to organize 2-4 meetings annually. Each meeting is planned to last for 2 hours or more. We could meet on weekdays, or on Saturdays.
Please send us your suggestions and preferences regarding topics, time and place of meetings, the name/acronym of the program etc.
Boris Gramatikov
Vice Chair,
Bgramat@jhmi.edu
5. IEEE Mentoring Program Pilot Invitation
IEEE is offering its members the opportunity to participate in an online program designed to match IEEE members for the purpose of facilitating a mentoring partnership. We value your involvement in IEEE activities and ask that you use your career and life experiences to help other IEEE members in their professional development through a mentoring partnership.
IEEE is partnering with The Training Connection, a vendor that has developed a web-based mentoring program to facilitate the matching process. Participation in the Region 1 (Northeast U.S.) pilot program is voluntary and has now been extended to include IEEE members residing in Regions 2 and 3 (Eastern and Southeastern U.S.) above the grade of Student Member. If you are interested in participating, or would be interested in additional information on the program, go to http://www.ieee.org/mentoring. This IEEE site also provides the information necessary for access to enter the program’s web site by offering the Group ID.
We hope that you have the interest and time to participate! If you have any questions, please contact Cathy Downer, IEEE Mentoring Program Coordinator at mailto:c.downer@ieee.org.