ECE 426: Multimedia Forensics

Course Description

The objective of this course is to introduce current state-of-the-art in digital multimedia editing, its impacts on multimedia tampering, and multimedia forensics techniques to uncover inconsistencies due to tampering. This course will cover existing digital multimedia tampering techniques such as copy-move, cut-and-paste, etc. and digital multimedia tamper detection techniques. The course will also cover covert communication methods such as steganography and covert channel detection method steganlysis. This course will cover the limitations of existing state-of-the-art in multimedia forensics. Hands-on experience will be provided in various aspects of multimedia tampering and analysis through the numerous assignments and projects. Three lecture hours per week and one three-hour laboratory per week. (F)