Media security, while being a subset of information security, is of special interest for two main reasons. First, security applications involving media content are particularly rich in their technical challenges, business opportunities, and societal impacts. Second, media content, as opposed to any generic information, is often intended for human consumption and therefore bears a perceptual dimension. Specifically, it is often the information in the content, and not the digital representation of the latter, that needs to be ultimately authenticated and/or protected. This brings additional degrees of freedom, as well as constraints on how multimedia information can be secured.
This course is composed of theoretical lectures covering essential elements of media security, as well as application-oriented exercises, where each student explores specific elements of a given media security problem through a mini-project.
- Professor: Touradj Ebrahimi
- Assistant: Enes Eray Demirtas
