M.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering Department,
E-mail: kivanc dot mihcak at boun dot edu dot
tr
Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
- Multimedia security; signal
fingerprinting; audio, image and video watermarking and authentication;
robust signal hashing.
- Statistical signal processing
and modeling, statistical signal analysis using tools from information
theory and detection estimation theory.
- Image compression and
de-noising; inverse problems; digital video processing.
- Communications; joint
source-channel coding; information theory; data compression.
- Filter bank design and wavelet
theory.
BACKGROUND
I was born in Turkey in 1974. I
received my B.S. degree from Electrical
and Electronics Engineering Department, Bilkent
University,
TEACHING
- EE570, Spectral Estimation, Spring’06
- EE671, Information Theory, Fall’06
- EE570, Spectral Estimation, Spring’07
- EE684, Foundations of Cryptography, Spring’07
PUBLICATIONS
- Theses
- M. K. Mihcak,
`Information Hiding Codes and Their Applications to Images and Audio,''
ECE Department, UIUC, 2002. [compressed
postscript] [pdf]
[abstract]
- M. K. Mihcak, ``Rate-Distortion-Optimal Subband Coding Without Perfect Reconstruction Constraints,'' ECE Department, UIUC, 1999. [compressed postscript] [pdf]
- Papers on Mark Embedding and Signal Hashing
Journal
- M. Kesal, M. K. Mihcak, and R. Venkatesan, ``An Improved Attack Analysis On A Public-Key Spread Spectrum Watermarking,'' ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, November 2005; invited paper. [pdf] [abstract]
- M. K. Mihcak, R. Venkatesan, and T. Liu, ``Watermarking via Optimization Algorithms for Quantizing Randomized Semi-Global Image Features,'' ACM Multimedia Systems Journal; July 2005; invited paper. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- Y. Chen, M. K. Mihcak, and D. Kirovski, ``Certifying Authenticity via Fiber-Infused Paper,'' SIGecom Exchanges online newsletter, vol. 5.3, April 2005. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- P. Moulin and M. K. Mihcak, ``The Parallel-Gaussian Watermarking Game,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 272-289, February 2004. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- P. Moulin and M. K. Mihcak, ``A
Framework for Evaluating the Data Hiding Capacity of Image Sources,''
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1029-1042,
September 2002. [compressed
postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- E. Topak,
Conference
- V. Monga and M. K. Mihcak, ``Robust Image Hashing Via Non-Negative Matrix Factorizations,’’ accepted to IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2006. [pdf] [abstract]
- Y. Mao and M. K. Mihcak, ``Collusion-Resistant Intentional De-Synchronization for Digital Video Fingerprinting,'' Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2005. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- O. Harmanci; and M. K. Mihcak, ``Motion Picture Watermarking Via Quantization of Pseudo-Random Linear Statistics,'' Proceedings of Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP), 2005. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- O. Harmanci; and M. K. Mihcak, ``Complexity - Regularized Video Watermarking via Quantization of Pseudo-Random Semi-Global Linear Statistics,'' Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2005. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- O. Harmanci, M. Kucukgoz, and M. K. Mihcak,
``Temporal Synchronization of Watermarked Video Using Image Hashing,'' Proceedings
of SPIE EI: Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia
Contents VII,
- M. Kucukgoz, O. Harmanci, M. K. Mihcak, and R.
Venkatesan, ``Robust Video Watermarking via Optimization Algorithm for
Quantization of Pseudo-Random Semi-Global Statistics,'' Proceedings of
SPIE EI: Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents
VII,
- E. Topak, S. Voloshynovskiy, O. Koval, M. K.
Mihcak and T. Pun, ``Security Analysis of Robust Data-Hiding with
Geometrically Structured Codebooks,'' Proceedings of SPIE EI:
Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII,
- S. S. Kozat, R. Venkatesan, and M. K. Mihcak,
``Robust Hashing via Matrix Invariances,'' Proceedings of IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP),
- M. Kesal, M. K. Mihcak and R. Venkatesan,
``An Improved Attack Analysis on A Public-Key Spread Spectrum
Watermarking,'' Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia and Security
Workshop,
- T. Liu, R. Venkatesan and M. K. Mihcak,
``Scale-Invariant Image Watermarking via Optimization Algorithms for
Quantizing Randomized Statistics,'' Proceedings of the ACM
Multimedia and Security Workshop,
- M. K. Mihcak, R. Venkatesan, and
M. Kesal, ``Cryptanalysis of Discrete-Sequence Spread Spectrum
Watermarks,'' Proceedings of the 5th International Information Hiding
Workshop (IH 2002), Noordwijkerhout, The
- M. K. Mihcak, R. Venkatesan,
and M. Kesal, ``Watermarking via Optimization Algorithms for Quantizing
Randomized Statistics of Image Regions,'' Proceedings of the 40th
annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Computing and Control,
invited paper,
- M. K. Mihcak and R. Venkatesan, ``Blind Image
Watermarking Via Derivation and Quantization of Robust Semi--Global
Statistics,'' Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2002), Orlando, FL,
May 2002. [compressed
postscript] [pdf]
[abstract] [presentation pdf]
- M. K. Mihcak and R. Venkatesan, ``New Iterative Geometric
Methods for Robust Perceptual Image Hashing,'' Proceedings of ACM
Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management ,
- M. K. Mihcak and R. Venkatesan, ``A Perceptual
Audio Hashing Algorithm: A Tool For Robust Audio Identification and
Information Hiding,'' Proceedings of 4th International Information
Hiding Workshop,
- P. Moulin, M. K. Mihcak and G. I. Lin, "An
Information--Theoretic Model for Watermarking and Data Hiding," Proc.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc.,
- M. Kesal, M. K. Mihcak, R. Koetter and P.
Moulin, "Iteratively Decodable Codes for Watermarking
Applications," Proc. 2nd Symposium on Turbo Codes and Their
Applications,
- Papers on Data Compression
Conference
- D. Baron, Y. Bresler and M. K. Mihcak,
``Two-Part Codes With Low Worst-Case Redundancies For Distributed
Compression Of Bernoulli Sequences,'' Proceedings of 37th Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2003),
Baltimore, MD, March 2003. [compressed
postscript] , [pdf]
[abstract]
- M. K. Mihcak, A. F. Docimo, P. Moulin and K.
Ramchandran, ``Design and Analysis of a Forward--Adaptive Wavelet Image
Coder,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc.,
- M. K. Mihcak, K. Ramchandran and P. Moulin,
``Adaptive Wavelet Packet Image Coding Using An Estimation-Quantization
Framework,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc.,
- Papers on Image Denoising
Journal
- M. K. Mihcak, I. Kozintsev, K. Ramchandran and
P. Moulin, ``Low complexity image denoising based on statistical modeling
of wavelet coefficients,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 300--303, Dec. 1999. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
Conference
- M. K. Mihcak, I. Kozintsev and K. Ramchandran,
``Spatially Adaptive Statistical Modeling of Wavelet Image Coefficients
and Its Application to Denoising,'' Proceedings of IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,
- Papers on Filter Banks
Journal
- M. K. Mihcak, P. Moulin, K. Ramchandran and M.
Anitescu, ``Rate--Distortion--Optimal Subband Coding Without
Perfect--Reconstruction Constraints,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 542-557, March 2001. [compressed postscript] [pdf] [abstract]
- P. Moulin and M. K. Mihcak, ``Theory and Design
of Signal-Adapted FIR Paraunitary Filter Banks,'' IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, Special Issue on Wavelets and Filter Banks,
Apr. 1998. [compressed
postscript] [pdf]
[abstract]
Conference
- M. K. Mihcak, P. Moulin, K. Ramchandran and M.
Anitescu, ``Some Fundamental Properties of MMSE Filter Banks,'' Proceedings
of IEEE-SP Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis,