Jeffrey A Bloom

Research Interests

• Professional Research: Video analytics, machine learning, data mining, digital rights management, digital watermarking and steganography, image and video coding.
• DVD Watermarking: for more info see IBM's fine description of the Galaxy Video Watermarking Project.
• Academic Reseach Group: Image Sequence Processing Group

• IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, 2008-2012
  Member of the Technical Directions Subcommittee
• Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Information Security, 2006 -
• Associate Editor, Springer LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2006 - 2009
• Technical Program Committee, SPIE Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, 2003 - 2009
• Technical Program Committee, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, 2006 - 2009
• Additional Review Activies: International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 2008; European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2008-2009; Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 2009

• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis, 1999. Dissertation title: The Derivative of Gaussian Transform. ( DGT Matlab Code ) PDF available upon request.

• MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1990. Thesis title: Feature Extraction and Surface Recognition of Arbitrary Surfaces from Range Data.

• BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1987.

• U.S. Patent 6,282,300: "Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Public Watermarking for Images Using a Log-Polar Fourier Transform"; Jeffrey A. Bloom, Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Min Wu, Ching-Yung Lin, Yui Man Lui; Issued August 28, 2001
• U.S. Patent 6,332,194: "Method for Data Preparation and Watermark Insertion"; Jeffrey A. Bloom, Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller; Issued December 18, 2001
• U.S. Patent 6,834,345: "Method for data preparation and watermark insertion"; Jeffrey A. Bloom, Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller; Issued December 21, 2004
• U.S. Patent 6,885,757: "Method And Apparatus For Providing An Asymmetric Watermark Carrier"; Jeffrey A. Bloom and John S. Nafziger; Issued April 26, 2005
• U.S. Patent 7,298,865: "Secure robust high-fidelity watermarking"; Jeffrey Lubin, Jeffrey A. Bloom; Issued November 20, 2007
• U.S. Patent 7,418,110: "A Method And Apparatus For Compressed-Domain Watermarking"; J. Lubin, M. Isnardi, J. Bloom, C. Polyzois; Issued August 26, 2008

Pending Patents

• "Intelligent performance-based product recommendation system"; Steven A. Shaya, Neal Matheson, John Anthony Singarayar, Nikiforos Kollias, Jeffrey A. Bloom; Filed October 17, 2001
• "Method And Apparatus For Providing A Smart Remote Controller"; Jeffrey A. Bloom and Rafael Alonso; Filed July 23, 2004
• "Method And Apparatus For Creating Multiple Unique Copies Of Content"; R. N. Hurst Jr, J. Bloom, M. Isnardi, C. Polyzois, M. Tinker; Filed June 21, 2004
• 17 Recent, Unpublished Applications

Selection of Recent Publications
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Books

	Digital Watermarking and Steganography, by Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Jeffrey A. Bloom, Jessica Fridrich, and Ton Kalker Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2007). Order from Amazon.com. Publisher's site for the book
	Digital Watermarking, by Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, and Jeffrey A. Bloom, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2001). Order from Amazon.com. Publicity flyer and table of contents. Publisher's site for the book Source Code and Sample Chapters

Book Chapters

• J A Bloom, Security in Digital Cinema, in Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management, W. Zeng, H. Yu, and C.-Y. Lin, Eds., Elsevier, 2006.

• J A Bloom, Security and Rights Management in Digital Cinema, in Digital Rights Management Concepts and Applications, Shyam Sunder Kambhammettu Editor, 2005.

• C. Basu, M. Merrell, C. Fellbaum, D. Talbert, J. Kolpack, M. Honeycutt, R. Alonso, J. Bloom, "Automated Knowledge Discovery System (AKDS): A Business Case Study in Ontology Development and Use", in the Proceedings of Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI), 2005.

• R. Alonso, J. A. Bloom, H. Li, and C. Basu, "An Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Search for a Parts Acquisition ePortal", in the Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, SIGKDD�03, Washington, August 2003.

• R. Alonso, J. A. Bloom, H. Li, "Lessons from the Implementation of an Adaptive Parts Acquisition ePortal", in the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'03, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2003.

• W. Sabrina Lin, Shan He, and Jeffrey Bloom; "Performance Study and Improvement on ECC-based Binary Anti-Collusion Forensic Code for Multimedia"; Submitted to the 11th ACM workshop on Multimedia and Security; Princeton NJ; September 7-8, 2009.

• Dekun Zou, Nicolas Prigent, and Jeffrey Bloom; "Compressed Video Stream Watermarking For Peer-To-Peer Based Content Distribution Network"; To Appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2009.

• W. Sabrina Lin, Shan He, and Jeffrey Bloom; "Binary Forensic Code for Multimedia Signals: Resisting Minority Collusion Attacks"; Media Forensics and Security XI; Edward J. Delp, Jana Dittmann, Nasir D. Memon, and Ping Wah Wong, Editors; Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7254, 2009.

• D. Zou and J. A. Bloom; "H.264/AVC Substitution Watermarking: A CAVLC Example"; Media Forensics and Security XI; Edward J. Delp, Jana Dittmann, Nasir D. Memon, and Ping Wah Wong, Editors; Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7254, 2009.

• Shan He and Jeffrey Bloom; "Protecting multimedia content by digital watermarking"; SPIE Newsroom; 2008. (http://spie.org/x31632.xml?ArticleID=x31632)

• D. Zou and J. A. Bloom, "H.264/AVC Stream Replacement Technique for Video Watermarking", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008.

• J. Tian, J. A. Bloom, and P. Baum, "A False Positive Analysis of Correlation Ratio Watermark Detection Measure", Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2007.

• D. Zou, J. Tian, J. Zhai, and J. A. Bloom, "Data Hiding in Film Grain", in the Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, Jeju Island, Korea, 2006. (Best Paper Award)

• J A Bloom, "Digital Cinema Content Security and the DCI," in the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, 2006.

• J. A. Bloom, "Content-Dependent Low-Frequency Watermarking", Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC'05, Las Vegas NV, 2005.

• J. A. Bloom and M. L. Miller, "Informed Detection Revisited", Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, Seoul Korea, 2004.

• J. A. Bloom and C. Polyzois, "Watermarking to Track Motion Picture Theft", Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove CA, 2004.

• J. A. Bloom, "Security and Rights Management in Digital Cinema", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME'03, Baltimore, July 2003.

• J. Lubin, J. A. Bloom, and H. Cheng, "Robust, Content-Dependent, High-Fidelity Watermark for Tracking in Digital Cinema", Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5020, 2003.

• J. A. Bloom and R. Alonso, "SmartSearch Steganalysis", Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5020, 2003.

• P.B. Schneck and J.A. Bloom, "Persistent Access Control & Watermarking: Primary Security and Forensics", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Assessment of Enabling Technologies, Government Electronics and Information Technologies Association, 2001 Vision Conference.

• C-Y. Lin, M. Wu, J.A. Bloom, M.L. Miller, I.J Cox, and Y.M. Lui, ``Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Watermarking for Images'', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 767-782, 2001.

• M.L. Miller, I.J. Cox, and J.A. Bloom, ``Informed embedding: exploiting image and detector information during watermark insertion'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 1-4, 2000.

• I.J. Cox, M.L. Miller and J.A. Bloom, ``Watermarking applications and their properties'', Invited Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, pp. 6-10, 2000.

• C-Y. Lin, M. Wu, J.A. Bloom, I.J Cox, M.L. Miller, and Y.M. Lui, ``Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Public Watermarking for Images'', in Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents II, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3971, pp. 90-98, 2000.

• M. L. Miller, I. J. Cox, and J. A. Bloom, ``Watermarking in the Real World: An Application to DVD'', Thirty-third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1496-1502, 1999.

• M. L. Miller and J. A. Bloom, ``Computing the Probability of False Watermark Detection'', Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Information Hiding, pp. 146-158, 1999.

• J. A. Bloom, I. J. Cox, T. Kalker, J-P. Linnartz, M. L. Miller, and B. Traw, ''Copy Protection for DVD Video'', Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on Identification and Protection of Multimedia Information, Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 1267-1276, 1999.

• J.A. Bloom and T.R. Reed, ``Examining the effects of basis function truncation in the DGT'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 470-473, 2000.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``On the Compression of Video Using the Derivative of Gaussian Transform'', Proceedings of the Thirty-second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 865-869, 1998.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``On the Compression of Still Images Using the Derivative of Gaussian Transform'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 433-437, 1998.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``An Uncertainty Analysis of Some Real Functions for Image Processing Applications'', Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 670-673, 1997.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``A Gaussian Derivative-Based Transform'', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 551-553, 1996.