Visiting faculty at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center

I spent the summer of 07 at NAVSEA's NUWC facility in Newport, RI. I worked with a team of researchers in their acoustic signal processing branch on novel sonar signal processing algorithms.

SPIRNG '08 TEACHING SCHEDULE

ECE 3770 Electrical Communications
ECE 8277 Multimedia System

FALL '07 TEACHING SCHEDULE

ECE 2409 Fundamentals of Matlab
ECE 5240 Multimedia

SPRING '07 TEACHING SCHEDULE

ECE 3370-Electrical Communications
MWF-10:30-11:30

ECE 8247-Multimedia Systems
T- 6:15pm-8:45pm

FALL'06 TEACHING SCHEDULE

ECE 2409- Fundamentals of Matlab, M 2:00pm-5:00pm, W 3:00-5:00pm
ECE 5240- Multimedia, MWF 12:30pm-1:20pm

SPRING'06 TEACHING SCHEDULE

I am on sabbatical.

RESEARCH DATABASE

My digital watermarking work appears on Vview, Villanova Video, Image Encoding and Watermarking Group.

FALL '05 TEACHING SCHEDULE

ECE 2409- Fundamentals of Matlab
ECE 5240- Multimedia

SPRING '05 TEACHING SCHEDULE

ECE 2409- Fundamentals of Matlab
ECE 8277- Multimedia Systems
ECE 8277- Multimedia Systems- Distance Learning
EGR 1705- Engineering Computation

RESEARCH PROJECTS

DARPA/CTC
Through the wall radar images are difficult to interpret. We have developed a statistical classifier that classifies effective feature vectors drawn from 3D volume image data and produces a labeled volume.

Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Sonar is the premier tool in undersea ranging, ASW and many others. The goal of this project is to enhance identification of sonar pulses by embedding them with imperceptible digital watermarks.

Target Tracking
We have an ongoing effort to develop a track history algorithm for UAV target tracking applications. The idea is to build a module that rides on top of a tracker to establish correspondence among targets that have appeared in earlier frames. We watermark tracked targets with unique signatures and then look for them across video.

AFRL Project
The problem is digital watermarking of compressed image or video. Our proposed method makes possible for the first time to watermark directly in JPEG or MPEG bitstream with no increase in file size and full syntax preservation.

ONR Project
Spread spectrum watermarking is a proven technique. The algorithm uses PN sequences to spread the watermark. PN sequences cannot be tuned to the image, however. We have improved on this approach by using a tunable spreading function in the form of a 2D chirp signal. We have shown that a chirp-watermarked image outperforms traditional PN sequences across all compression factors in JPEG.

Predator UAV video
We have applied our data hiding algorithm to UAV video. The algorithm takes the metadata stream, that is now a separate entity, and securely embeds it within the video itself. In this approach metadata always stays with the video, saving overhead and bookkeeping.

Integrated Biometric Access System
This is a practical end-to-end implementation of eigenface face recognition algorithm. The emphasis is on a total solution in realistic environment that starts with capturing an image and ends with unlocking a door. The system has been successfully tested in a hallway with no special modifications.

FUNDING HISTORY

• DARPA/CAC, " Through-the-Wall Radar Image classification and Interpretation, " 1/1/2007-8/31/2008, Principal Investigator.

• Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, “Lossless Watermarking of Compressed Media,” 5/1/2004-10/1/2005, Principal Investigator.

• Office of Naval Research, “Data Hiding Techniques in unmanned vehicles communications,” 6/1/2004-6/1/2005, Principal Investigator.

• Air Force Office Of Scientific Research, “Smart Videos: Watermarking for Cooperative Content,” 12/31/2000-12/31/2003, Principal Investigator

• Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University and DARPA “Self-Organizing Sensor Array,” May 1999- December 2000. Co-PI

• Villanova University Strategic Planning grant for the development of an online distance learning graduate course on multimedia signal processing and systems, Summer 2000.

• Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning, Developing Effective Distance Teaching Methodologies for Online Education, Summer '99

• Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, Villanova University, “Digital Signature Casting and Classification,” June-July 1998.

• Office of Naval Research, “Automatic Signal Classification for the Advanced Anti-Submarine Warfare Receiver, “Sept. 1, 1995- August 31, 1997, Co-PI

• Lockheed-Martin and Center for Advanced Communications, “Development of An Integrated Link Budget Equation for CDMA-based Satellite Communications, “ Sept. 1, 94-August 31, 95.

• Lockheed-Martin and Center for Advanced Communications, CDMA, FDMA, TDMA: A Throughput Analysis Jan. 1, 94-August 31, 94.

• Lockheed-Martin and Center for Advanced Communications, “Advanced digital video compression, “ Sept.1 1993-Dec. 31 1994.

• Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Center and Strainoptic Technologies, Inc., North Wales, PA. :Machine Vision-Based Target Scoring System", Project #90S.4030R-1, September 1, 1990-August 31, 1991.

INVITED TALKS

• A Unified Framework for Data Hiding in Compressed Media, NJIT, March 6, 2007.

• Watermarking in Compressed Domain, Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, April 5, 2005.

• Watermarking in Compressed Domain, Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, April 5, 2005.

• Optimum Design of Digital Watermarks by Spectral Shaping, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, October 7, 2004.

• Digital Watermarking of Images and Video with Applications, InterDigital Corp., November 25, 2003

• Advances in Data Hiding Techniques, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, October 9, 2003.

• Data Hiding in Time-Frequency Distribution of Images, presented at the AFOSR Program Review Meeting, Princeton, NJ, June 5-7, 2003.

• Compressed domain digital watermarking, presented at the AFOSR Program Review Meeting, Burlington, VT, June 6-8, 2002.

• Exploring New Directions in Digital Watermarking, presented at the Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, August 9, 2001.

• Smart Videos: Watermarking for Cooperative content, presented at Digimarc Corp.,Tualatin, OR, March 3, 2000.

• Tamper Detection in Digital Video using Time Hopping/Spread Spectrum Watermarking, presented at Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, August 5, 1999.
Journal

PUBLICATIONS

• B. G. Mobasseri, Z. Rosenbaum, “3D Classification of Through-the-Wall Radar Images Using Statistical Object Models ,” IEEE Workshop on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Santa Fe, NM , March 24-26, 2008.

B. G. Mobasseri, P. Krishnamurthy, "Track History Development by Combining Watermarking and Target Tracking," Proc. SPIE Unmanned Systems Technology X, Orlando, FL, March 16-21 2008.

• Z. Rosenbaum, B. G. Mobasseri, "Interpretation of through-the-wall radar Imagery by Probabilistic Volume Model Building," SPIE Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VII, March 16-21, 2008.

• B. G. Mobasseri, P. Krishnamurthy, "Establishing Target Track History by Digital Watermarking," SPIE Conference on Security, Forensics, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents X, January 2008.

• Z. Rosenbaum, B. G. Mobasseri “3D Classification of Through-the-Wall Radar Images Using
Statistical Object Models ,” IEEE Workshop on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Santa FE, NM , March 24-26, 2008.

• B. G. Mobasseri, Y. Naik Raikar, “Authentication of H.264 Streams by Watermarking CAVLC blocks,” SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX, San Jose, CA, January 28-February 2, 2007.

• M. P. Marcinak, B. G. Mobasseri, “VLC Pair Tree: a paradigm for MPEG-2 watermarking,” SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII, San Jose, CA, January 16-20, 2006.

• C. E. Fleming, B. G. Mobasseri, "Compression and rotation resistant watermark using a circular chirp structure," SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII, San Jose, CA, January 16-20, 2006.

• C. E. Fleming, B. G. Mobasseri, "Rotationally robust data hiding in JPEG images," MILCOM 2005, Atlantic City, NJ, October 17-20, 2005.

• M P. Marcinak, B G. Mobasseri, "Digital video watermarking for metadata embedding in UAV video", MILCOM 2005, Atlantic City, NJ, October 17-20, 2005.

• B. G. Mobasseri, M. P. Marcinak, “Watermarking MPEG-2 video in compressed domain using VLC mapping,” ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop 2005, August 2, 2005, New York, NY.

• B. G. Mobasseri, R. J. Berger, “A Foundation for Watermarking in Compressed Domain,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, May 2005, pp. 399-402.

• B. G. Mobasseri, Y. Zhang, B. M. Dogahe, M. G. Amin, “Designing robust watermarks using Polynomial Phase Exponentials,” ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, March 18-25, 2005.

• R. J. Berger, B. G. Mobasseri, “Watermarking in JPEG Bitstream” Proc. SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII, San Jose, CA, January 16-20, 2005.

• Y. Zhang, B. M. Dogahe, M. G. Amin, B. Mobasseri “Digital watermarking with two-dimensional chirps,” SPIE Optical Science and Technology, Denver, August 2-6, 2004

• “Reversible Compressed Domain Watermarking by Exploiting Code Space Inefficiency,” Proc. SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, San Jose, CA, January 18-22-23, 2004. Co-author: Robert J. Berger

• “Reversible Watermarking using Two-way Decodable Codes,” Proc. SPIE Conference on Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, San Jose, CA, January 18-22-23, 2004.

• “Synthesis of discrete-time, discrete-frequency Wigner Distribution,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, August 2003.
• “Metadata embedding in compressed UAV video,” Intelligent Ship Symposium, Philadelphia, May 12-14, 2003. Co-author: Domenick Cinalli.

• “Watermarking Wigner Distribution,” Proc. Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Electronic Imaging '03,Santa Clara, CA, January 21-24,2003.

• “Watermarking of compressed multimedia using error-resilient VLCs,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, St. Thomas, The US Virgin Islands, Dec. 9-11, 2002. Co-author: Domenick Cinalli.

• “Watermarking for self-authentication of compressed video,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,” Rochester, NY, September 22-25, 2002, co-author: Dan Cross.

• “Watermarking in joint time-frequency domain,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 22-25, 2002.

• "Content-dependent video authentication by self-watermarking in color space" Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents III, Electronic Imaging '01, San Jose January 21-26,. pp. 35-44. Co-author, Aaron Evans.

• "Digital modulation classification using constellation shape," Signal Processing 80 (2000) 251-277.

• "Content authentication and Tamper Detection in Digital Video," IEEE Int'l Conf. Image Processing, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 10-13, 2000. Co-authors: M. Sieffert and R. Simard, US Air Force.

• “A spatial video watermark that survives MPEG”, IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, March 27-29, 2000.

• “Content Authentication of Digital Video using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Watermarking”, August 1999. AFRL Final Report. Co-author: Michael Sieffert, SUNY.

• "Constellation shape as a robust signature for digital modulation recognition," IEEE Milcom' 99, Atlantic City, October 31-November 3 1999.

• "Exploring CDMA for watermarking of digital video," Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, Electronic Imaging'99, San Jose, January 23-29, 1999.

• "Direct sequence watermarking of digital video using m-frames," IEEE Int'l Conf. Image Processing'98, Chicago, Oct. 4-7 1998.

• "Ordered bitplane watermarking of digital video using direct sequence spread spectrum", IEEE Multimedia Database Management Systems, Dayton Aug.4-6, 1998.

• "Interactive course homepage builder," IEEE Frontiers in Education, Phoenix, Nov. 4-7, 1998.

• "Recognition of elastic shapes using non-iterative Bayesian inference", SPIE'97, San Diego, July 27-August 1 1997.

• "Development of an experimental component for a senior communication systems course: a web-assisted approach," IEEE Frontiers in Education, Pittsburgh, Nov. 5-8, 1997.

• "Automatic recognition of digitally modulated signals for the advanced anti-submarine warfare receiver, ", Intelligent Ship Symposium II, Philadelphia, Nov. 25-26, 1996.

• "Modeling image center and feature trajectory under changing focal length," IEEE Int'l Conference on Image Processing, Austin, TX, Oct. 23-26 1995.

• "A generalized solution to quadtree expected complexity problem," Pattern Recognition Letters, 16, 443-456, 1995.

• "Automatic target scoring using machine vision," Int'l Jl. Machine Vision and Applications, 8:20-30, 1995.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Each year I supervise one or two teams working on their senior design. There are a few research opportunities for outstanding undergraduate students available. Please contact me for more details.

Senior Design 2007-2008
Ralph Alfano, Kevin Creedon, AJ Zampalla
An Integrated Biometric Access System Using Face Recognition.

Senior Design 2006-2007
Matt Reda
Biometric Access for CEER

Senior Design 2004-2005
Matt Ell and Drew Blaich
Color JPEG watermarking

Advanced Web Design 2004-2005
Zach Cohen and Drew Blaich

Previous Senior Design Teams

Dan Gulick- JPEG parsing for watermarking
Matt Dever-JPEG parsing for watermarking

RECOGNITIONS

• IEEE Senior Member
• Member Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi.

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Current Members
Zach Rosenbaum
Preethi Krishnamurthy

Previous Members
Mike Marcinak
Chris Fleming
RJ Berger
Dom Cinalli
Dan Cross

SABBATICAL

I spent the summer of 99 at the Air force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York. Rome Lab is the Information Directorate of Air Force labs. My project was the development of video authentication methods using the then new digital watermarking techniques.

SERIVICE

• 2004-2006 Faculty Congress, Vice-Chair
• 2004-2006 Faculty Congress, salary and Benefits Committee, Chair.
• 2002-2004-College of Engineering Senator, University Senate
• 2004- College of Engineering PhD Program Committee, member
• 2004-2006 University Academic Computing Committee, member
• 2004-College Distance Learning Committee, member
• Involved with outcome assessment process and ABET2000
• Participant in the pilot study implementing ePortfolios
• 1996-98 IEEE/Philadelphia Section Signal Processing Chapter, Chair

REVIEWING

I review for the following journals and transactions:

•IEEE Trans. Image Processing
•IEEE Trans. Signal Processing
•IEEE Signal Processing Letters
•Pattern Recognition Letters
•Signal Processing
•ACM conference