Min Wu - Research

 

Projects       Collaborators & Students      awards

Journal Papers/Books        Conference Papers        Patents       Talks

 

research 
interests

Information Security and Forensics; Multimedia Signal Processing; Multimedia Communications.

 

research projects

§         Multimedia Security and Forensics:

-       Embedded/Extrinsic Anti-Collusion Multimedia Fingerprinting for tracing traitors 

-       Non-intrusive forensic analysis on multimedia with “Intrinsic Fingerprints”

-       Communication-friendly encryption of multimedia

-       Secure and robust image hashing

§         Data Hiding / Digital Watermarking:

-       Fundamental issues,  algorithm & system designs (for various media type and applications),  and attacks & countermeasures;

-       Data hiding problems for binary images: handwritten signatures, drawings, maps;

-       Novel data hiding applications for enhancing performance in computing and communications.

§         Communication Security and Forensics:

-       Security issues in collaborative communications, sensor network, and multicast

§         Video Communications over Network and Wireless Channels:

-       Resource allocation issues in multi-user video communications;

-       Video transcoding and error resilient video transmission.

§         Miscellaneous previous projects:

-       Video content analysis; Character recognition and document analysis;

-       Software-hardware co-design using microprocessor and embedded systems; 

-       Risk analysis of external obligation; Management information system for financial and administrative applications.

research team

§         Research Advising – Graduate students

[Ph.D.] Yinian Mao (“Securing Multi-layer Communications: A Signal Processing Approach”, 2006, job @ Qualcomm); 
            Guan-Ming Su;  Shan He;  Hongmei Gou;  Meng Chen; Ashwin Swaminathan;  Avinash Varna
[MS] Laskshmi Srinivasan (2002, Motorola), Eda Ormanci (2004).

§         Research Advising – Undergraduate students

Kashyap Patel,  Kenneth Ho;  Raymond DeLuca,  Giridhar Nandipati, Michelle Mazurek,  Harold Tagunicar;  Jonathan E. Shalvi;  Jane Kim; Dan Cardy, Maria Stoica; Mehmet Ucal.

§         Current and Past Collaborators

Prof. Ray Liu  (UMD);  Prof. Bede Liu  (Princeton);  Prof. Jessica Fridrich (SUNY Binghamton);  Dr. Krishnan Kailas (IBM Research);  Prof. Wade Trappe  (WINLAB/Rutgers); Prof. Jane Wang  (Univ. British Columbia);  Prof. Yan Sun (Univ. Rhode Island);

Dr. Jeffrey Bloom (Thomson Multimedia); Prof. Ingemar Cox (Univ. College London);  Prof. Scott Craver (SUNY Binghamton); Prof. Ed Felten (Princeton Univ.); Prof. Ling Guan (Ryerson Univ.);  Dr. Rob Joyce (ATC-NY);  Prof. S-Y. Kung (Princeton);  Matt Miller (NEC Research); Prof. Hau-San Wong (City Univ. of Hong Kong); Dr. Peng Yin (Thomson Multimedia); Dr. Heather Yu (Panasonic Info. & Networking Labs).

Awards and recognitions

§         NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2002.
       NSF Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE)  Directorate

§         ONR Young Investigator Award (YIP), 2005.
       ONR Mathematical, Computer, and Information Sciences Division.

§         MIT “TR100” Young Innovator Award, 2004.
       MIT Technology Review Magazine’s Year 2004 list of 100 top young innovators under age of 35 whose contribution to emerging technologies will profoundly influence our world, shaping how we live and work in the future.

§         IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, for a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2005.

§         EURASIP Best Paper Award, for a paper published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing in 2004.

§         George Corcoran Faculty Award, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.
       For outstanding contribution to electrical engineering education and teaching.

§         Honorable Mention in Computerworld Horizon Awards, for research and technologies on Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing, 2006.

§         Selected as one of 88 outstanding young engineers to participate in the 11-th Frontier of Engineering Symposium organized by National Academy of Engineering, 2005.

§         ComputerWorld “40 under 40” Young Innovator Award, 2007.
        Selected as one of the 40 innovative IT people under the age of 40.

 

§         Inclusion in the Contemporary Who’s Who of Professionals (2004 Edition, American Biographical Institute) and the Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (8th Edition, 2005, Maruqis Publications).

§         MIT Technology Review, December 2003: an article titled “Security in Black and White” features my work on binary watermarking for document authentication.

§         As one of the “20 young people to watch” in the special issue on “The Best of the Washington”, December 2004 issue of the Washingtonian Magazine.

§         Articles featuring my work of proposing and implementing successful attacks on three out of four watermarking technologies in the 2000 Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) Challenge, as well as testing the variations of the attack on fourth technologies:

Associate Press at CNN online (Oct. 24, 2000), Washington Post (Nov. 2, 2000), Science online (Nov. 3, 2000), New York Times (Nov. 5, 2000), High Education Chronicle (Sept. 5, 2001), IEEE Spectrum Magazine (Oct. 2001).

                                         

 

 

 

 

list of Publications, PATENTS, and talks

 

1.      M. Wu and B. Liu:  Multimedia Data Hiding, Springer-Verlag Publisher, 220 pages (research monograph), ISBN# 0387954260, October 2002.

2.      K.J.R. Liu, W. Trappe, Z.J. Wang, M. Wu and H. Zhao: Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing, EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, Hindawi Publishing Co., 2005. [Html]

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journal papers

 

1.      C-Y. Lin, M. Wu, Y-M. Lui, J.A. Bloom, M.L. Miller, and I.J. Cox: "Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Public Watermarking for Images",  IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol.10, no.5, pp.767-782, May 2001. [PDF]

2.      M. Wu, R. Joyce, H-S. Wong, L. Guan, and S-Y. Kung: "Dynamic Resource Allocation Via Video Content and Short-term Traffic Statistics",  IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Special Issue on Multimedia over IP, vol.3, no.2, pp.186-199, June 2001. [PDF]

3.      W. Trappe, M. Wu, Z. Wang, and K.J.R. Liu: "Anti-collusion Fingerprinting for Multimedia",  IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Special issue on Signal Processing for Data Hiding in Digital Media & Secure Content Delivery, vol. 51, no. 4, pp.1069-1087, April 2003. (Received 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award) [PDF]

4.      M. Wu and B. Liu: "Data Hiding in Image and Video: Part-I -- Fundamental Issues and Solutions",  IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., vol.12, no.6, pp.685-695, June 2003. [PDF]

5.      M. Wu, H. Yu, and B. Liu: "Data Hiding in Image and Video: Part-II -- Designs and Applications",  IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., vol.12, no.6, pp.696-705, June 2003. [PDF]

6.      M. Wu: "Joint Security and Robustness Enhancement for Quantization Based Embedding,"  IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Authentication, Copyright Protection, and Information Hiding, vol. 13, no. 8, pp.831-841, August 2003. [PDF]

7.      M. Wu, W. Trappe, Z. Wang, and K.J.R. Liu: "Collusion Resistant Fingerprinting for Multimedia", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Digital Rights Management, pp.15-27, March 2004. [PDF]

8.      M. Wu and B. Liu: "Data Hiding in Binary Image for Authentication and Annotation", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 4, pp.528-538, August 2004. [PDF]

9.      Z. Wang, M. Wu, W. Trappe, and K.J.R. Liu: "Group-Oriented Fingerprinting for Multimedia Forensics", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Multimedia Security and Rights Management, vol.2004:14, pp.2153-2173, October 2004. (Received 2004 EURASIP Best Paper Award) [PDF]

10.  H. Zhao, M. Wu, Z. Wang, and K.J.R. Liu: " Forensic Analysis of Nonlinear Collusion Attacks for Multimedia Fingerprinting," IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., vol.14, no.5, pp.646-661, May 2005. [PDF]

11.  Z. Wang, M. Wu, H. Zhao, W. Trappe, and K.J.R. Liu: "Collusion Resistance of Multimedia Fingerprinting Using Orthogonal Modulation", IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., vol.14, no.6, pp.804-821, June 2005. [PDF]

12.  G-M. Su and M. Wu: "Efficient Bandwidth Resource Allocation for Low-Delay Multiuser Video Streaming," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 1124-1137, Sept. 2005. [PDF]

13.  H. Gou and M. Wu: "Data Hiding in Curves with Applications to Map Fingerprinting,"  IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Secure Media, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3988-4005, Oct. 2005. [PDF]

14.  Guan-Ming Su, Zhu Han, Min Wu, and K.J. Ray Liu, “Multiuser Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Video Transmission over Wireless Networks,” IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks, vol. 20, no. 2, pp.21-27, March 2006. [PDF]

15.  A. Swaminathan, Y. Mao and M. Wu: “Robust and Secure Hashing for Images,” IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 215-230, June 2006. [PDF]

16.  S. He and M. Wu: "Joint Coding and Embedding Techniques for Multimedia Fingerprinting," IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 231-247, June 2006. [PDF]

17.  Y. Mao and M. Wu: "A Joint Signal Processing and Cryptographic Approach to Multimedia Encryption", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 2061-2075, July 2006. [PDF]

18.  M. Chen, Y-F. Zheng, and M. Wu: "Classification-Based Spatial Error Concealment for Visual Communications," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission, 2006. [PDF]

19.  Y. Mao, Y. Sun, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu: "JET: Dynamic Join-Exit-Tree Amortization and Scheduling for Contributory Key Agreement", ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1128-1140, Oct. 2006. [PDF]

20.  G-M. Su, Z. Han, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu, "A Scalable Multiuser Framework for Video Over OFDM Networks: Fairness and Efficiency", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, vol. 16, no. 10, pp.1217-1231, Oct. 2006 [PDF]

21.  Z. Han, G-M. Su, A. Kwasinski, M. Wu and K.J.R. Liu: "Distortion Management of Real-time MPEG-4 FGS Video Over Downlink Multi-code CDMA Networks", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 11, pp.3056-3067, Nov. 2006.

22.  A. Swaminathan, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu: “Non-intrusive Component Forensics of Visual Sensors Using Output Images,” IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 91-106, March 2007.

23.  Y. Mao and M. Wu: “Tracing Malicious Relay Nodes in Cooperative Wireless Communications,” IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 2, no. 2,  pp. 198-212, June 2007.

24.  Y. Mao and M. Wu: “Unicity Distance of Robust Image Hashing,” IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 462-467, September 2007.

25.  G-M. Su, Z. Han, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu, “Joint Uplink and Downlink Optimization for Real-Time Multiuser Video Streaming Over WLANs,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 280-294, August 2007.

26.  S. He and M. Wu: “Collusion-Resistant Video Fingerprinting for Large User Group,” IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 2, no. 4, to appear December 2007.

27.  S. He and M. Wu: “Adaptive Detection for Group-based Multimedia Fingerprinting,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, to appear.


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refeed conference papers                  [1990s] [2000] [2001] [2002] [2003] [2004] [2005] [2006] [2007]

 

1.      M. Wu: "An OCR Approach Based on Peripheral Direction Contributivity and Orthogonal Experimental Analysis",  Proc. of 1st Symposium of Undergraduate Research in Science and Technology, pp.44-51, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 1996 (in Chinese).

2.      X-L. Wu and M. Wu: "An Experimental System of Multi-font Multi-Language Character Recognition",  Proc. of National Conf. on Character Recognition and Document Analysis, China, pp.59-p66, Sept. 1996 (in Chinese).

3.      M. Wu and B. Liu: "Watermarking for Image Authentication",  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'98), vol.2, pp.437-441, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.

4.      M. Wu, W. Wolf, and B. Liu: "An Algorithm for Wipe Detection", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'98), vol.1, pp.893-897, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.

5.      M. Wu, H. Yu, and A. Gelman: "Multi-level Data Hiding for Digital Image and Video",  Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3845,  Multimedia Systems and Applications II, pp.10-21, Photonics East Conference, Boston, MA, Sept. 1999.

6.      M. Wu and B. Liu: "Digital Watermarking Using Shuffling",  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), vol.1, pp.291-295, Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.

7.      M. Wu and B. Liu: "Attacks on Digital Watermarks",  Proc. of 33rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol.2, pp.1508-1512, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 1999.

8.      C-Y. Lin, M. Wu, J.A. Bloom, M.L. Miller, I.J. Cox, and Y-M. Lui: "Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Public Watermarking for Images,"  Proc. of SPIE, vol. 3971, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents II, pp.90-98, Electronic Imaging Conferences (EI'00), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2000.

9.      M. Wu, E. Tang, and B. Liu: "Data Hiding in Binary Image", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'00), vol.1, pp.393-396, New York City, NY, Aug. 2000.

10.  M. Wu and H. Yu: "Video Access Control via Multi-level Data Hiding",  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'00), vol.1, pp.381-384, New York City, NY, Aug. 2000.

11.  M. Wu, R. Joyce, and S-Y. Kung: "Dynamic Resource Allocation Via Video Content and Short-term Traffic Statistics", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'00), invited paper, vol.3, pp.58-61, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 2000.

12.  P. Yin, M. Wu, and B. Liu: "Video Transcoding by Reducing Spatial Resolution",  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'00), vol.1, pp.972-975, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 2000.

13.  H-S. Wong, M. Wu, R. Joyce, L. Guan, and S-Y. Kung: "A Neural Network Approach For Predicting Network Resource Requirement in Video Transmission",  IEEE Proc. of Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM'00), pp.. 116-119, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2000.

14.  M. Wu, S.A. Craver, E.W. Felten, and B. Liu: "Analysis of Attacks on SDMI Audio Watermarks",  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'01), vol.3, pp.1369-1372, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001.

15.  S.A. Craver, M. Wu, B. Liu, A. Stubblefield, B. Swartzlander, D.S. Wallach, D. Dean, and E.W. Felten: "Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI Challenge",  Proc. of 10th Usenix Security Symposium, Washington, DC, Aug. 2001. Also was accepted by the 4th Info. Hiding Workshop.

16.  M. Wu and B. Liu: "Modulation and Multiplexing Techniques for Multimedia Data Hiding", Invited paper,  Proc. of SPIE, vol. 4518, Multimedia Systems and Applications IV, pp.228-238, ITcom'01 Conference, Denver, CO, Aug. 2001.

17.  S. Craver, M. Wu, and B. Liu: "What Can We Reasonably Expect from Watermark?",  Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, pp.223-226, New Paltz, NY, Oct. 2001.

18.  P. Yin, M. Wu, and B. Liu: "A Robust Error Resilient Approach for MPEG Video Transmission Over Internet",  Proc. of SPIE, vol.4671, Inter. Conference on Visual Comm. & Image Processing (VCIP'02), pp.103-111, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2002. [PDF]

19.  W. Trappe, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu: "Collusion-Resistant Fingerprinting for Multimedia,"  Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'02), vol.4, pp.3309-3312, Orlando, FL, May 2002. [PDF]

20.  W. Trappe, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu: "Joint Coding and Embedding for Collusion-Resistant Fingerprinting," invited paper, Proc. of EUSIPCO 2002, special session on Security Issues in Digital Watermarking, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2002. [PDF]

21.  X-L. Wu and M. Wu: "A Recognition Algorithm for Chinese Characters With Diverse Fonts",  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'02), vol.3, pp.981-984, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002. [PDF]

22.  W. Trappe, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu: "Anti-Collusion Codes: Multi-User and Multimedia Perspectives,"  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'02), vol.2, pp.149-152, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002. [PDF]

23.  M. Wu and Y. Mao: "Communication-Friendly Encryption of Multimedia",  Proc. of IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop (MMSP'02), pp.292-295, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dec. 2002. [PDF]

24.  H. Zhao, M. Wu, Z.J. Wang, and K.J.R. Liu: "Nonlinear Collusion Attacks On Independent Fingerprints For Multimedia,"  Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03), vol. 5, pp.664-667, Hong Kong, April 2003. [PDF]

25.  Z.J. Wang, M. Wu, H. Zhao, W. Trappe, and K.J.R. Liu: "Resistance of Orthogonal Gaussian Fingerprints to Collusion Attacks,"  Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03), Special Session on Multimedia Security and Rights Management, vol.4, pp.724-727, Hong Kong, April 2003. [PDF]

26.  H. Zhao, M. Wu, Z.J. Wang, and K.J.R. Liu: "Performance of Detection Statistics Under Collusion Attacks on Independent Multimedia Fingerprints,"  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'03), vol.1, pp.205-208, Baltimore, MD, July 2003. [PDF]

27.  Z.J. Wang, M. Wu, W. Trappe, and K.J.R. Liu: "Anti-Collusion of Group-Oriented Fingerprinting,"  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'03), vol.2, pp.217-220, Baltimore, MD, July 2003. [PDF]

28.  M. Wu: "Joint Security and Robustness Enhancement for Quantization Based Embedding,"  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'03), vol.2, pp.14-17, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2003. [PDF]

29.  M. Chen, M. Wu, and Y-F. Zheng: "Classification-Based Spatial Error Concealment for Images,"  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'03), vol.2, pp.675-678, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2003. [PDF]

30.  M. Wu, W. Trappe, Z. Wang, and K.J.R. Liu: "Collusion Resistant Multimedia Fingerprinting: A Unified Framework", Electronic Imaging Symposium: Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, San Jose, CA, Proc. of SPIE, vol. 5306, pp.748-759, Jan. 2004. [PDF]

31.  M. Wu: "Distortion Compensated Lookup-Table Embedding: Joint Security and Robustness Enhancement for Quantization Based Data Hiding", Electronic Imaging Symposium: Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, San Jose, CA, Proc. of SPIE, vol. 5306, pp. 610-621, Jan. 2004. [PDF]

32.  Y. Mao, Y. Sun, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu: "Dynamic Join-Exit Amortization and Scheduling for Time-Efficient Group Key Agreement", Proc. of IEEE Infocom '2004, vol. 4, pp.2617-2627, Hong Kong, March 2004.  [PDF]

33.  S. He and M. Wu: "Performance Study on ECC-based Collusion-Resistant Multimedia Fingerprinting," Proc. of Conferences on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS’04), invited paper, pp.827-832, Princeton, NJ, March 2004. [PDF]

34.  G-M. Su, Z. Han, A. Kwasinski, M. Wu, K.J.R. Liu, and N. Farvardin: "Distortion Management of Real-time MPEG-4 FGS Video over Downlink Multicode CDMA Networks", Proc. of IEEE Inter. Conf. on Communications (ICC'04), Wireless Communications Symposium, vol. 5, pp.3071-3075, Paris, France, Jun. 2004. [PDF]

35.  G-M. Su and M. Wu: "Efficient Bandwidth Resource Allocation for Low-Delay Multiuser MPEG-4 Video Transmission," Proc. of IEEE Inter. Conf. on Communications (ICC'04), Multimedia Technologies and Services Symposium, vol. 3, pp.1308-1312, Paris, France, Jun. 2004. [PDF]

36.  A. Swaminathan, Y. Mao and M. Wu: “Image Hashing Resilient to Geometric and Filtering Operations,” Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'04), pp.355-358, Siena, Italy, Sept. 2004. [PDF]

37.  Y. Mao and M. Wu: "Security Evaluation for Communication-Friendly Encryption of Multimedia," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'04), pp. 569-572, Singapore, Oct. 2004. [PDF]

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