ENEE739M
Spring 2002
Prof. M. Wu
Multimedia communications and information security have been very active research areas in both academia and industry since the mid-1990s. They have begun to have a significant impact on many aspects of our society and are expected to continue playing important roles in the information era. R&D in these areas requires knowledge and integration of subjects ranging from physical-layer communications to multimedia signal processing and from network communications to cryptography.
ENEE739M is a graduate-level advanced-topic course that intends to help students
We will cover a few core topics plus several selected topics:
Brief Review: multimedia signal processing
(compression, interpolation, ...), communication (modulation, coding,
detection, ...), and basic cryptographic tools (threats and attacks,
encryption, authentication).
Data hiding for info. security and protection
Theory and practice of multimedia communications: rate-distortion
theory and techniques, scalable coding, joint source-channel approach, and
error resilient communication.
Putting communication and info. security together: multimedia
encryption and authentication with computation and communication friendly
characteristics.
Selected topics: video and audio streaming, standardization efforts for digital rights management.
Prof. Min Wu, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Office: 2457 A.V.Williams, (tel) 301-405-0401
minwu@eng.umd.edu, http://www.ece.umd.edu/~minwu/
Office hours: 4:30p - 6:30p Thursday @ 2457 AVW, or by appointment
Lectures: 12:30p - 1:45p, Tuesday and Thursday, CSS 2416
Books on Multimedia Communications
- M-T. Sun and A.R. Riebman (ed.): Compressed Video over Networks, Signal Processing and Communications series, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000.
- Y.Wang, J.Ostermann, Y-Q.Zhang: DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING & COMMUNICATIONS, Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Books on Information Security
- I. Cox, M. Miller, J. Bloom: Digital Watermarking, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2001.
- L.C. Washington, W. Trappe: Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, Prentice Hall, 2001.
- M. Wu, B. Liu: Multimedia Data Hiding, preprint, to be published by Springer-Verlag, 2002.
Research papers
[ most of recent IEEE journal publications are available from campus network at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/ .]
- Special issue on "From Rate-Distortion Theory to Commercial Image and Video Compression Technology", edited by A. Ortega and K. Ramchandran, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Nov. 1998. Electronic version is available at
- Y. Wang, Q. Zhu: ``Error Control and Concealment for Video Communication: A Review'', Proc. of IEEE, v.86, pp.974-997, May, 1998.
- Y. Wang, S. Wenger, J. Wen, A. Katasggelos: ``Error Resilient Video Coding Techniques'', IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July, 2000.
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- F.A.P. Petitcolas, R.J. Anderson, M.G. Kuhn: ``Information Hiding - A Survey'', Proc. of IEEE, pp.1062-1078, July, 1999.
- F. Hartung, M. Kutter: ``Multimedia Watermarking Techniques'', Proc. of IEEE, pp.1079-1107, July, 1999.
- I. Cox, J. Kilian, T. Leighton, T. Shamoon: ``Secure Spread Spectrum Watermarking for Multimedia'', IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, vol.6, no.12, pp.1673-1687, 1997.
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- More to be announced.
A. Puri and T. Chen (ed.): Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks, Signal Processing and Communications
series, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000.
A.Bovik & J.Gibson: HANDBOOK OF IMAGE & VIDEO PROCESSING,
Academic Press, 2000.
More to be announced.
Assignments (in-class & take-home) 20%
Literature survey 20%
Project 50%
Class participation 10%
Adjustment to the grading schedule may be made and announced in class.
Last updated: Jan. 27, 2002 by M.Wu.