Lawrence O'Gorman, Research Scientist, Avaya Labs

"Tales of Multimedia Security"

Thursday, March 13, 4:00 PM

Packard Lab 466

Reception prior to talk in Packard Lab lobby at 3:30

Abstract: Digital media now embrace speech, audio, images, and video.  As computation speed, memory storage, and communications bandwidth continue rapidly to increase, imaginative digital-media services are springing up everywhere.   The immediate appeal and  versatility of these services tend to mask serious security and privacy risks.  I will illustrate these critically important issues through a  series of  case studies:  watermarking for the Bell Labs RightPages  digital library, anti-counterfeiting for a photo-ID card, fingerprint  capture and spoof-resistance, packet security for IP telephony, and spoken password security for a hands-free wireless communication system prototyped at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

Bio: Lawrence O'Gorman is a Research Scientist at Avaya Labs, where he works in areas of image and signal processing, pattern recognition, and security. Before this he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Veridicom, a fingerprint device company, and prior to that a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. He has written over 70 technical papers, eight book chapters, holds 15 patents, and is co-author of the books "Practical Algorithms for Image Analysis" published by Cambridge University Press, and "Document Image Processing" published by IEEE Press. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.  In 1996, he won the Best Industrial Paper Award at the International Conference for Pattern Recognition and an R&D 100 Award for one of "the top 100 innovative technologies of  that year."  He is an adjunct faculty member at Polytechnic University and the Cooper Union.