Seeing the Invisibles: A Backstage Tour of Information Forensics

Boston Chapter IEEE Signal Processing Society
Monday, June 8, 2015
Social: 5:30 PM
Talk: 6:00 PM
Speaker: Min Wu, University of Maryland

Seeing the Invisibles: A Backstage Tour of Information Forensics

With the wide adoption of media-oriented mobile devices and proliferation of social media networks, multimedia information is gaining momentum and making a strong social impact. In the mean time, a number of information forensic and provenance questions arise: using image as an example, we would like know how an image was generated, from where an image was from, what has been done on the image since its creation, by whom, when and how. This talk will provide a tutorial overview on some of the research advances on information forensics that explore a variety of invisible traces.

Min Wu is an ADVANCE Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2001. At UMD, she leads the Media and Security Team (MAST), with main research interests on information security and forensics and multimedia signal processing. Her research and education have been recognized by a NSF CAREER award, a TR100 Young Innovator Award from the MIT Technology Review Magazine, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Computer World “40 Under 40” IT Innovator Award, a University of Maryland Invention of the Year Award, an IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Early Career Teaching Award, and several paper awards from IEEE SPS, ACM, and EURASIP. She was elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to multimedia security and forensics. Dr. Wu chaired the IEEE Technical Committee on Information Forensics and Security (2012-2013), and has served as Vice President – Finance of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010-2012) and Founding Chief Editor of the IEEE SigPort initiative (2013-2014). Currently, she is serving as Editor-in-Chief (2015-2017) of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Directions to Meeting:

Directions to Lincoln Laboratory: (from interstate I-95/Route 128)

From Exit 31B
 Take Exit 31B onto Routes 4/225 towards Bedford – Stay in right lane
 Use Right Turning Lane (0.3 mile from exit) to access Hartwell Ave. at 1st Traffic Light.
 Follow Hartwell Ave. to Wood St. (~1.3 miles).
 Turn Left on to Wood Street and Drive for 0.3 of a mile.
 Turn Right into MIT Lincoln Lab at the Wood Street Gate
 Have a valid driver’s license to present to security.

From Exit 30B
 Take Exit 30B on to Route 2A – Stay in right lane
 Turn Right on to Mass. Ave (~ 0.4 miles – opposite Minuteman Tech.).
 Follow Mass. Ave for ~ 0.4 miles.
 Turn Left on to Wood Street and Drive for 1.0 mile.
 Turn Left into MIT Lincoln Lab at the Wood Street Gate
 Have a valid driver’s license to present to security.

All attendees must present a valid driver’s license to MIT Lincoln Laboratory security. To get to the Cafeteria, proceed toward the Main Entrance of Lincoln Laboratory. Before entering the building, proceed down the stairs located to the left of the Main Entrance. Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and enter the building through the Cafeteria entrance. The Cafeteria is located directly ahead.

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