IET Surrey Local Network Event
- When?
- Wednesday 7 October 2009, 19:30 to 21:30
- Where?
- Lakeside Restaurant, University of Surrey
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Prof Anthony TS Ho, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Computing. Professor Ho is Professor and Chair of Multimedia Security at University of Surrey. His research interests are in multimedia security, digital watermarking, steganalysis, image forensics, satellite remote sensing, image processing and UWB radar target detection and identification. He coordinates the research activities of the Watermarking and Multimedia Security Group (WMSG) in the Department.
- Admission price:
- Free
- Refreshments:
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Original content:
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As the number of electronic files containing commercially sensitive or confidential information increases every day, the importance of identifying the originality of files is becoming a hot topic for enterprises as well as computing professionals. But how can this be done in a world where ever more sophisticated image manipulation tools are widely available?
Synopsis
The concept of digital watermarking has recently been brought to the attention of the general public especially computing professionals. There are a massive number of electronic files that can be considered as confidential information in every sector and industry. The importance of identifying the originality of the files is recognized as rather important by both computing professionals and enterprises. But how can this be done?
In addition being able to confirm the originality of some images is essential. For example, images for the use of crime scene analysis, traffic enforcement, medical imaging and satellite remote sensing, which are not normally used for entertainment. The overabundance of newly developed affordable image editing software increases the possibility of producing tampered or fraudulent pictures. Many illegal modifications are difficult to recognize by the human eye.
Prof Ho will elaborate on this fascinating field.
Organiser
Rob Heaton - IET Surrey