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Academic Info

PhD awarded May 1999, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware.
Thesis Advisor: Professor Charles Boncelet, Jr.
Thesis Topic: Image Steganography for Hidden Communication

Masters of Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, December 1995
Thesis Advisors: Professor Ali Khayrallah and Professor Charles Boncelet, Jr.
Thesis Topic: Robust Source Coding of Images with Predictive Trellis Coded Quantization

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. 1992.

Some Papers

• L. M. Marvel and C. T. Retter, "The Use of Side Information in Image Steganography," Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA'2000), Honolulu, HI, November 2000.
  (approx. 119 Kbytes pdf file, 3 pages.)
• Compression-Compatible Fragile and Semi-Fragile Tamper Detection.
  Presented at SPIE Electronic Imaging - Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 2000. (approx. 1.5 Mbytes .ps.gz file, 8 pages.)
• Capacity of the Additive Steganographic Channel.
  Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, June 1999. (approx. 400 kbytes .ps.gz file, 15 pages.)
• Robust Source Coding of Images for Very Noisy Channels.
  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, April 1999. (approx. 434 kbytes .ps.gz file, 13 pages.)
• Spread Spectrum Image Steganography.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, August 1999. (approx. 936 kbytes .ps.gz file, 19 pages.) For a version that is not zipped (2.6 Mbytes) clink Here.
• Image Steganography for Hidden Communciation.
  Ph.D. Thesis, May 1999. (approx. 1.5 Mbytes .ps.gz file, 101 pages.) For a version that is not zipped (4.6 Mbytes) click Here.
• Reliable Blind Information Hiding for Images.
  Presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Information Hiding, Portland, Oregon, USA. (April '98, approx. 783 kbytes .ps.gz file, 14 pages.)
• Robust Source Coding for Images over Very Noisy Channels.
  Presented at the IEEE 1996 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland. (September '96, approx. 296 kbytes .ps.gz file.)
• Robust Source Coding of Images with Predictive Trellis Coded Quantization.
  Master Thesis. (Fall '95, huge! .ps.gz file.)