Meeting and Seminar Archive:
Date: Sep 22, 2008
Title: Past and Future of Digital Watermarking
Speaker: Dr. Ton Kalker, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Location: National Semiconductor
Abstract:
The term 'Digital Watermarking' refers to methods and techniques for
adding auxiliary data to multimedia signals. In the mid nineties
digital watermarking was heralded as the solution for all copyright
and copy protection issues: in one form or another the opening
paragraph of many papers contained the reasoning 'copyright protection
is important, therefore we need watermarking'. However, today, more
than 10 years later, we find very few actually deployed applications
of digital watermarking. In this talk we will try to explain why
digital watermarking has not lived up to its expectations, as well
making an educated guess about what the future of digital watermarking
will be.
Biography:
Ton (Antonius Adrianus Cornelis Maria) Kalker is research scientist in
the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, where he
is focusing on multimedia security and digital rights management.
Kalker joined HP in June 2004 from Philips Research Laboratories
Eindhoven, where he worked on security of multimedia content, with an
emphasis on watermarking and fingerprinting for video and audio.
Earlier, he worked at Phillips Research in the field of computer-aided
design, specializing in semi-automatic tools for system verification.
Since 1999, Kalker has also served as a part-time professor in the
Signal Processing Systems group at the technical University Eindhoven,
The Netherlands, in the area of signal processing methods for data
protection. A native of The Netherlands, Kalker received both his MS
and PhD degrees in mathematics in from the University of Leiden, The
Netherlands. While pursuing his PhD, he worked as a research assistant
at the university and later, as a lecturer in the Computer Science
Department at the Technical University of Delft. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE (2001) for his contributions to practical applications of
watermarking in particular, watermarking for DVD-Video copy
protection. Kalker is co-founder of the recent IEEE Transactions on
Information Security and Forensics (ToIFS) and chair of the associated
Technical Committee.
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