Resume - Njit - New Jersey Institute of Technology

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3. In the area of Text Document Data Hiding: A data hiding scheme aiming at formatted text documents has been
invented. It is a blind algorithm, meaning the original document is not needed for hidden data extraction. The
performance on robustness is superior over all existing technologies. The stego-document can be subjected to
printing, copying and scanning. Specifically, the hidden data can still be correctly extracted after the document
has experienced one printing, followed by 10 times of copying, and one scanning. This is the best blind robust
document data hiding algorithm compared with all the existing algorithms. This invention has been disclosed to
NJIT in July 2004. A US provisional patent has been filed in December 2004. A research proposal has been
submitted to DDET, Air Force Research Laboratory in May 2004. This technology opens possibility to Digital
Notarization.
4. In the area of Steganalysis: Steganalysis is to detect the hidden message, and is urgently requested by military
and cyber security. So far, the area is very young. The most hard stegnography methods to be detected are the
so-called spread-spectrum based algorithms. There exists no previous steganalysis methods which can handle
this tough case. As a major team member in the research group, I have made significant contribution to this area.
Our recent investigation indicates that our newly developed framework can detect stego-media created by using
the typical spread-spectrum scheme with a successful rate close to 80%. This work in this regard leads to a
proposal submitted to DDET Air Force Research Laboratory in September. Patents and IEEE journal papers are
expected.
1. Dekun Zou, Y.Q. Shi, Z. Ni: Method and Apparatus for Lossless Image Data Hiding that does Not Generate Saltpepper
Noise and Is Robust against Compression, US Provisional Patent filed in December 2003.
2. Dekun Zou, Y.Q. Shi: Formatted Text Document Data Hiding Using Inter-word Space Modulation Robust to
Scanning Copying and Printing, US Provisional Patent filed in December 2004.
1. Dekun Zou, Tianlin Dong: On the Application of Single Chip RF Transceiver GJRF400, Journal of Mobile
Communications, China, March 2001
2. Dekun Zou, Chai Wah Wu, Yun Q. Shi: A Content-based Image authentication system with lossless data hiding,
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), vol.2, pp.213-216, July 2003
3. C. Manikopoulos, Y.Q. Shi, S. Song, Z. Zhang, Z. Ni; Dekun Zou; Detection of block DCT-based steganography in
gray-scale images IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), pp.355-358, Dec. 2002
4. Dekun Zou, Yun Q. Shi Z. Ni: A Semi-fragile Lossless Digital Watermarking Scheme Based on Integer Wavelet
Transform, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing(MMSP), pp.195-198, Sept. 2004
5. Yun Q. Shi, Z. Ni, Dekun Zou, Changyin Liang and Guorong Xuan: Lossless data hiding: Fundamentals,
Algorithms and Applications, International Symposium on Circuit and System (ISCAS), vol.2, pp.33-36, May 2004
6. G. Xuan, J. Zheng, C. Yang , Yun Q. Shi, Dekun Zou: A Secure Internet-Based Personal Identity Verification
System Using Lossless Watermarking and Fingerprint Recognition, International Workshop on Digital
Watermarking, Oct. 2004
7. Dekun Zou, Y.Q. Shi: Formatted Text Document Data Hiding Robust to Scanning Copying and Printing, IEEE
ISCAS 05
8. Yun Q. Shi, G. Xuan, Dekun Zou: Effective Steganalysis Based on Statistical Moments of Wavelet Characteristic
Function, IEEE ITCC05
9. Dekun Zou, Y.Q. Shi, Z. Ni: An Invertible Data Hiding Scheme Robust to Lossy Compression, Submitted to IEEE
Transaction on Multimedia for review
10. Yun Q. Shi, G. Xuan, Dekun Zou: Image Steganalysis Based on Moments of Wavelet Characteristic Function,
Submitted to IEE Electronics Letters for review
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