Year in Review: 2007
I hope that this email finds you all well. I write to update you on the happenings of the Image Science Group. The group currently consists of Kimo Johnson, Eric Kee, Weihong Wang, and Jeff Woodward. Our lab has had a fun and productive year. Our main focus continues to be in the area of digital forensics, in which, thanks to all of you, we have made incredible advances.
It has been an exciting and productive year for Kimo Johnson who defended his Ph.D. dissertation this summer, was awarded a prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and will begin a postdoc jointly at MIT and Adobe Research Labs on January of 2008. Kimo's dissertation is titled Lighting and Optical Tools for Image Forensics.
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Kimo also gave the keynote lecture at the 6th International Workshop
on Digital Watermarking, where he presented the following paper:
The emphasis of Kimo's work has been on developing new geometric-based tools for digital forensics. Two particularly nice papers on detecting inconsistencies in lighting are available here:
Kimo (and his wife) was a particularly good sport when I made him pose for this Star magazine cover (notice him kissing Katie in the circular inset). |
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We welcome Eric Kee to our lab. I met Eric while visiting the CIA. Eric was at a talk I gave as part of his work at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Eric has spent several years working in digital forensics, and since coming to Dartmouth has begun some interesting new work in digital document forensics.
Weihong Wang has been doing some excellent work in digital video forensics. In his two most recent papers, Weihong has extended Alin Popescu's work in image forensics to video:
And Weihong's most recent work will bring some interesting geometric techniques to digital forensics.
Jeff Woodward (Woody) has single-handedly taken all of our digital forensic work and ported it into a wonderful stand-alone software package. We plan to deliver this software to the FBI's forensic lab in March of 2008. In addition, Woody and I published a cool technical report that describes how to enhance low quality video:
As for me, I continue to split my time between Hanover and Santa Cruz, CA. The time in CA is wonderful and productive, and the sunsets continue to astound me:
I was also named by Dartmouth as the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. As always, you can find on my web page copies of our papers and popular press accounts of our work.
In alumni news,
- Siwei Lyu has been a postdoc at NYU for the past few years where he has continued to do exciting research in the area of natural image statistics. Siwei recently accepted a position at SUNY Albany as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
- Dave Martin moved to San Jose, CA and is a proud new father.
- After several years at Siemens, Senthil Periaswamy has moved to iCAD in Ohio where he continues to do interesting work in medical imaging.
- Alin Popescu is working at Renesys Inc. here in Hanover, NH and has been enjoying the algorithmic and systems-oriented challenges of the job.
- Jethro Rothe-Kushel has been living in Los Angeles, CA and working in various corners of the movie industry. Jethro and I have also been working together on developing a one-hour drama series based on the general field of digital forensics.
- Kate Sherwin has moved to Austin, TX where she is working in the field of computational finance.
- Hai Sun is at the Oregon Health and Science University as a resident in neurosurgery. Hai continues to do exciting work at the crossroads of medicine and engineering.
I hope that this email finds you all well and happy. Please stay in touch and let me know how things are.