Journal Papers

1. Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao, and Min Wu, Robust and Secure Image Hashing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 215-230, June 2006. [pdf] [url]

2. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Non Intrusive Component Forensics of Visual Sensors Using Output Images, IEEE Transactions of Information Forensics and Security, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 91-106, March 2007. [pdf] [url]

3. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Forensic Analysis via Intrinsic Fingerprints, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 101-107, March 2008. [pdf] [url]

4. Avinash L. Varna, Shan He, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, Fingerprinting Compressed Multimedia Signals, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, May 2008.

4. Hongmei Gou, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, Intrinsic Sensor Noise Features for Scanner and Scanned Image Forensics, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, June 2008.

6. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, A Theoretical Analysis Framework for Component Forensics, to be submitted to IEEE Trasactions on Information Forensics and Security, September 2008.

7. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Semi Non-Intrusive Forensics for Camera Component Estimation, to be submitted to IEEE Trasactions on Information Forensics and Security, September 2008.



Refereed Conference Papers

1. Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao, and Min Wu, Image Hashing Resilient to Geometric and Filtering Operations, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), pp. 355-358, Siena, Italy, September 2004. [pdf] [presentation]

2. Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao, and Min Wu, Security of Feature Extraction in Image Hashing, IEEE Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 1041-1044, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005. Won the Best Student Paper award. [pdf] [presentation]

3. Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao, Min Wu, and Krishnan Kailas, Data Hiding in Compiled Program Binaries for Enhancing Computer System Performance, IEEE Information Hiding Workshop (IHW), Barcelona, Spain, June 2005 and in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). [pdf] [presentation]

4. Ashwin Swaminathan, Shan He, and Min Wu, Exploring QIM-based Anti-collusion Fingerprinting for Multimedia, IS&T/ SPIE conference on Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI (EI23), vol. 6072, San Jose, California, January 2006. [pdf] [presentation]

5. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Component Forensics of Digital Cameras: A Non-Intrusive Approach, Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), invited paper, pp. 1194-1199, Princeton, NJ, March 2006. [pdf] [presentation]

6. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Non-Intrusive Forensic Analysis of Visual Sensors Using Output Images, IEEE Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 5, pp. 401-404, Toulouse, France, May 2006. [pdf] [presentation]

7. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Image Tampering Identification using Blind Deconvolution, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2309-2312, Atlanta, GA, October 2006. [pdf] [presentation]

8. Hongmei Gou, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, Robust Scanner Identification based on Noise Features, IS&T SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX, San Jose, CA, January 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

9. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Intrinsic Fingerprints for Image Authentication and Steganalysis, IS&T SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX, San Jose, CA, January 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

10. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Optimization of Input Pattern for Semi Non-Intrusive Component Forensics of Digital Cameras, IEEE Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 225-228, Honolulu, HI, April 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

11. Avinash L. Varna, Shan He, Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, Haiming Lu, and Zengxiang Lu, Collusion-Resistant Fingerprinting for Compressed Multimedia Signals, IEEE Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 165-168, Honolulu, HI, April 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

12. Min Wu, Yinian Mao, and Ashwin Swaminathan, A Signal Processing and Randomization Perspective of Robust and Secure Image Hashing, IEEE workshop on statistical signal processing (SSP), pp. 166-170, Madison, WI, August 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

13. Avinash L. Varna, Shan He, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, Analysis of Non-linear Collusion Attacks on Fingerprinting Systems for Compressed Multimedia, IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 2, pp. 133-136, San Antonio, TX, September 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

14. Hongmei Gou, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, Noise Features for Image Tampering Detection and Steganalysis, IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 6, pp. 97-100, San Antonio, TX, September 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

15. Ashwin Swaminthan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, A Component Estimation Framework for Information Forensics, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Crete, Greece, October 2007. [pdf] [presentation]

16. Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao, Guan-Ming Su, Hongmei Gou, Avinash L. Varna, Shan He, Min Wu, and Douglas W. Oard, Confidentiality Preserving Rank-Ordered Search, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Storage, Security, and Survivability (SSS'07) held in conjunction with ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 7-12, Alexandria, VA, October 2007. [pdf]

17. Ashwin Swaminathan, Cherian V. Mathew, and Darko Kirovski, Essential Pages, Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-015, January 2008. [pdf]

18. Ashwin Swaminathan, Renan Cattelan, Ydo Wexler, Cherian V. Mathew, and Darko Kirovski, Relating Reputation and Money in Online Markets, Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2008-015, February 2008. [pdf]

19. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, K. J. Ray Liu, Christine McKay, and Hongmei Gou, Digital Detective for Electronic Imaging, Proceedings of the IEEE Capital Science Conference, Alexandria, VA, March 2008. [presentation]

20. Christine McKay, Ashwin Swaminathan, Hongmei Gou, and Min Wu, Image Acquisition Forensics: Forensic Analysis to Identify Imaging Source, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. [pdf] [presentation]

21. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, A Pattern Classification Framework for Theoretical Analysis of Component Forensics, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. [pdf] [presentation]

22. Avinash. L. Varna, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, A Decision Theoretic Framework for Analyzing Hash-based Content Identification Systems,” submitted to ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop, 2008.

23. Avinash. L. Varna, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Min Wu, Theoretical Analysis of Multimedia Content Identification Systems, submitted to SPIE Conference on Media Forensics and Security XI, 2009.

24. Wenjun Lu, Ashwin Swaminathan, Avinash L. Varna, and Min Wu, Enabling Search over Encrypted Multimedia Databases, submitted to SPIE Conference on Media Forensics and Security XI, 2009.

25. Cherian V. Mathew, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Darko Kirovski, Scalable Audit-based Protocol for Pay-Per-Action Ads, to be filed as Microsoft Research Technical report, August 2008.



Other Conference Papers

26. K. Dinesh, S. Ashwin, V.Harish, E.Varathkanth, C.Venkataseshaiah, R.Sarathy, Understanding The Surface Condition of Insulation Material Using Wavelets, CBIP - International Conference in Maintenance Technologies of EHV Transmission Lines, 29-30 April 2002, New Delhi, India. [pdf]

27. Ashwin Swaminathan and Anil Prabhakar, A Discrete Map Model for Self-Similar Traffic Generated by Network Protocols, IEEE Tencon Conference, October 2003, Bangalore, India. [pdf]

28. Ashwin Swaminathan and Anil Prabhakar, Simulating TCP Traffic Congestion using a Chaotic Map, National Conference on Non-linear systems and Dynamics, December 2003, Kharagpur, India. [pdf]



Patents

1. Min Wu, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Yinian Mao, Data Hiding in Compiled Program Binaries for Enhancing Computer System Performance, filed June 2005.

2. Ashwin Swaminathan, Min Wu, and K. J. Ray Liu, Component Forensics of Visual Sensors and Devices, filed March 2006.

3. Antonius A.C.M. Kalker, Alan H. Karp, and Ashwin Swaminathan, Incorporating Friction in Single Instance Media, filed October 2006.

4. Antonius A.C.M. Kalker, Alan H. Karp, and Ashwin Swaminathan, Controlling Transfer of Access to Data, filed April 2007.

5. Alan H. Karp and Ashwin Swaminathan, Using the Modulation Transfer Function of a Device to Create Digital Content for the Device, filed April 2007.

6. Alan H. Karp and Ashwin Swaminathan, Controlling Frequency of Data Transfer, filed April 2007.

7. Cherian V. Mathew, Ashwin Swaminathan, and Darko Kirovski, Scalable Auditbased Protocol for PayPerAction Ads, filed August 2007.

8. Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao, Guan-Ming Su, Hongmei Gou, Avinash L. Varna, Shan He, Min Wu, and Douglas W. Oard, Confidentiality-preserving Rank-ordered Search, filed October 2007.

9. Ashwin Swaminathan, Cherian V. Mathew, and Darko Kirovski, Essential Pages, filed November 2007.

10. Ashwin Swaminathan, Renan Cattelan, Cherian V. Mathew, and Darko Kirovski, Relating Reputation and Money in Online Markets, filed November 2007.

Invited Talks

1. Robust and Secure Image Hashing, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, January 2005. [presentation]

2. Component Forensics of Visual Sensors, at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, August 2006. [presentation]

3. Confidentiality-Preserving Rank-ordered Search, at the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab (CLIP) Colloquium Series, organized by the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 2007. More details can be found here.

4. Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fingerprints, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, towards the ECE Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Award, March 2008. More details about the award can be found here.

5. Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic Fingerprints, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, April 2008.

6. Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic Fingerprints, at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Association (ECEGSA) seminar series, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 2008.

7. Learning on the Web: Search and E-Commerce in Online Markets, at Microsoft Research Labs, Redmond, WA, April 2008.

8. Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic Fingerprints, at DoCoMo Research Labs, Palo Alto, CA, June 2008.

9. Multimedia Forensics via Intrinsic Fingerprints, at Qualcomm Corporate R&D, San Diego, CA, June 2008.