Multimedia Forensics, Biometrics, Counter-spoofing methods and Privacy Preserving Analysis

 

Consultancy Projects [COMPLETED and PATENT GRANTED Number 499022]:

Privacy preserving face recognition with Bharat Electronics Ltd., CRL Labs, Bangalore (Sept 2013 to Aug 2019)

1) Entails the development of a parametric transform based encryption algorithm and an eigen-sampling procedure to extract transparent row/column covariance features in the encrypted domain for secure face matching.

[Seven reports and MATLAB codes submitted]

 

2) Detection of unknown faces through the following stages:

[Two reports submitted]

 

a) Caricature generation for in-house database images/faces [Virtual expansion facilitated through random sampling].

b) Construction of the row/column covariance matrix for a specific subject-class.

c) EIGENPIN generation from covariance matrix.

d) PIN matching based on EIGEN-CORRESPONDENCES between the query and database faces.

 

PATENT GRANTED on Jan 12th, 2024

Patent number: 499022

Application/Reference No.: 201741011081

Title: PRIVACY PRESERVING FACE BIOMETRIC RETRIEVAL

Authors: Kannan Karthik, Ramasetty Ramarao and Hemavathy Muthuswamy

 

 

Government Projects (ITRA Project on Livestock Quality Assessment: Starting Jan 2017 to Date)

 

Technical reports:

Report-0: DOMAIN ASSESSMENT and PROBLEM EXPANSION

Report-1: IRIS as a potential biometric and SHAPE PROFILES.

Report-2: MUZZLE PATTERN ANALYSIS, GRADIENT SIGNIFICANT MAPS and UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING

 

Publications:

K. Karthik, S. Chakraborty, S. Banik, "Muzzle Analysis for Biometric Identification of Pigs", in International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2017), Bangalore, India, December 27-30, 2017.

 

S. Chakraborty, K. Karthik and S. Banik, "Investigation on the Muzzle of a Pig as a Biometric for Breed Identification", Accepted in International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Jabalpur, India, September 29 to October 1, 2018.

 

Motive: Quality assessment of PIGS and GOATS as Livestock which includes the following:

A) Tracking of individual animals using both intrusive as well as non-intrusive biometric signatures such as IRIS profiles, MORPHOLOGICAL SKEWS, VOICE SIGNATURES, GAIT (with  both registered as well as un-registered versions), PAW/footprint PATTERNS/SIGNATURES etc.

B) Health assessment of individual animals based on:

1) SWARM compliance and deviations [Anomalous face in a crowd problem].

2) VARIATIONS in GAIT profiles (from what can be classified as a NORMAL GAIT)                        [This would involve collection of healthy GAIT samples from several PIGS/GOATS and forming a HIGH LEVEL PROFILE for DEFINING NORMALCY].

3) DEVIATIONS IN VOICE PROFILES [Anomalous CRYs for HELP]

4) Assessment from PAW-PRINT and other IMPRINT DEVIATIONS [Under certain sicknesses, eating and excretory habits are altered eventually impacting the GAIT profile, resting posture etc.]

5) Chemical assessment of Excreta - which includes overt features such as extent of SEMI-SOLIDITY and composition.

6) Other indications such as reproductive cycles.

C) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT DEDUCED from SWARM MOVEMENTS

[Characterizing the HEALTH of the swarm]

1) Eating/dietary/Excretory habits and its PRE-IMAGES such as TERRAIN MODIFICATIONS; VEGETATIVE CHANGES (both seasonal as well as non-seasonal); WEATHER ANOMALIES etc.

2) SWIFTNESS and FLUIDITY in MOVEMENT into and out of the PEN owing to the ONSET of POACHERS and PREDATORS.

3) RESTIVE SETTINGS and SLEEP PROFILES in the SWARM due to the onset of some epidemic.

 

 

PATENT GRANTED on Jan 12th, 2024

Patent number: 499022

Application/Reference No.: 201741011081

Title: PRIVACY PRESERVING FACE BIOMETRIC RETRIEVAL

Authors: Kannan Karthik, Ramasetty Ramarao and Hemavathy Muthuswamy

[based on consultation project with Bharat Electronics Ltd., Central Research Laboratory (CRL)] (work done from 2013 for 2+ years)

 

Book (Published)

 

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos, "Multimedia Encoding for Access Control with Traitor Tracing: Balancing Secrecy, Privacy and Traceability", Book published by VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Germany, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-8364-3638-0.

 

BOOK COVER [pdf]

 

PREFACE and TABLE OF CONTENTS [pdf]

 

Re-published with no revisions:

Paperback: 168 pages

Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag (17 August 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 3639452976

ISBN-13: 978-3639452976

 

 

Journals (Accepted/Published)

 

K. Balaji and K. Karthik, "Image Life Trails Based On Contrast Reduction Models For Face Counter-Spoofing", EURASIP J. on Info. Security 2023, 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13635-022-00135-8 [2023]

 

S. Chakraborty, K. Karthik and S. Banik, "Graph Synthesis for Pig Breed Classification from Muzzle Images", IEEE Access, vol. 9., pp.127240-127258,  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3111957.  [2021].

 

K. Balaji, K. Karthik, "Face anti-spoofing by identity masking using random walk patterns and outlier detection"Pattern Anal Applic 23, 1735–1754 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-020-00875-8.

 

P. Malik and K. Karthik, "Correction of complex purple fringing by green-channel compensation and local luminance adaptation," in IET Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 154-167, January, 2020.

DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2019.0732.

 

P. Malik and K. Karthik, "Iterative Content Adaptable Purple Fringe Detection", in Springer Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP), pp 1-8, 2017, DOI 10.1007/s11760-017-1144-1.

 

K. Karthik, S. Kashyap, "Transparent Hashing in the Encrypted Domain for Privacy Preserving Image Retrieval", in Springer Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing, Special issue on Image and Video Processing for Security, 2013.

 

K. Karthik, "Constructing Intrinsic Image Signatures by Random Downsampling and Differential Mean-Median Information", in Special Issue on Information and Communication Technology, Vol.22, No.1, 2013, International Journal of Tomography & Simulation (IJTS), 2013.

 

A. Talwai, D. Sengupta, and K. Karthik, "A Transparent Encryption Scheme for Watermarked Biometric and Medical Images," International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering vol.4, no. 3,pp.

278-282, 2012.

 

P. Das, K. Karthik, B. C. Garai, "A robust alignment-free fingerprint hashing algorithm based on minimum distance graphs", Elsevier Journal on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 45, Issue 9, pp 3373-3388, 2012, DOI:

10.1016/j.patcog.2012.02.022. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2012.02.022

 

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos, "Decryption Key Design for Joint Fingerprinting and Decryption in the Sign Bit plane for Multicast Content Protection", International Journal of Network Security (IJNS),  Vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 254-265, May 2007. http://ijns.nchu.edu.tw/contents/ijns-v4-n3/ijns-2007-v4-n3-p254-265.pdf

 

D. Kundur, K. Karthik, "Video fingerprinting and encryption principles for Digital Rights Management", Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 92, no. 6. pp. 918-932, June 2004.

 

 

Conferences (Accepted/Published)

 

K. Karthik and K. Balaji, "Identity Independent Face Anti-spoofing based on Random Scan Patterns", In Proceedings of 8th International conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PREMI 2019), Tezpur, Assam, India, December 17-20, 2019.

 

K. Karthik, P. Malik, "Blind Quality Assessment of PFA affected Images based on Chromatic Eigenvalue Ratio", in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Jabalpur, India, September 29 to October 1, 2018.

 

S. Chakraborty, K. Karthik and S. Banik, "Investigation on the Muzzle of a Pig as a Biometric for Breed Identification",  in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Jabalpur, India, September 29 to October 1, 2018.

 

K. Balaji, K. Karthik,"Face Anti-spoofing based on Specular Feature Projections", in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Jabalpur, India, September 29 to October 1, 2018.

 

K. Karthik, S. Chakraborty, S. Banik, "Muzzle Analysis for Biometric Identification of Pigs",  in proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 2017), Bangalore, India, December 27-30, 2017.

 

K. Karthik, K. Balaji Rao, "Face Anti-spoofing Based on Sharpness Profiles", in proceedings of International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2017), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, December 15-16, 2017.

 

K. Karthik, H. Balaraman, "Key Independent Face Clustering in the Encrypted Domain", in proceedings of in International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2017), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, December 15-16, 2017.

 

K. Karthik and K. Balaji Rao,"Image Quality Assessment based Outlier detection for Face Anti-Spoofing", in proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems, Computing and IT Applications (CSCITA 2017), Mumbai, India, April 7-8, 2017.

 

[Best Sessional Paper AWARD] K. Karthik and P. Malik,"Purple Fringing Aberration Detection based on Content Adaptable Thresholds", in proceedings of International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovations and Computing (SSIC 2017), Jaipur, Rajasthan, April 15-16, 2017.

 

P. Malik and K. Karthik, "Limitation of PFA-EVENTS as a Forensic Tool", proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2017), Noida, Delhi, Feb 2-3, 2017.

 

K. Karthik, H. Balaraman,�Relative Frequency Maps for Face Retrieval�, proceedings of National Conference on Communications (NCC 2016), March 4-6, 2016.

 

K. Karthik, �Key Search and Adaptation based on Association Rules for Backward Secrecy�, in IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2015), Rome, Italy, November 13-16, 2015.

 

P. Malik and K. Karthik,�Detection of Purple Fringing Aberration Patterns and its Application to Forensic Analysis of Spliced Images�, in International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2015), Kochi, Kerala, 2015.

 

S. Ranjani, K. Karthik, P. K. Bora and V. Abdulkareem,�Multi-band sum of Spectrogram based Audio fingerprinting of Indian film songs for Multi-lingual Song Retrieval,� Accepted in International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2015), Kochi, Kerala, 2015.

 

[Best paper AWARD] P. Sodhani, A. Bordia, K. Karthik, �Blind Content Independent Noise Estimation for Multimedia Applications�, Proceedings of International Multi-conference on Information Processing (IMCIP), Bangalore, Karnataka, 2015.

 

S. Sri Ranjani, V. Abdulkareem, K. Karthik and P. K. Bora,�Application of Shazam Based Audio Fingerprinting of Indian Film Songs for Multi-lingual Song Retrieval�, Proceedings of National Workshop on Advances on Communication and Computing (WACC), Guwahati, Assam, India, September 26-27, 2014: published in Springer Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering, Volume 347, pp 81-92, 2015.

 

V. S. Manikanta, K. Karthik, �Image Similarity based on Eigen-correspondences�, proceedings of INDICON 2013, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Dec 13-15, 2013.

 

 

K. Karthik, Virtually Reconfigurable Secure Wireless Networks using Broadcast Tokens in proceedings of International conference on Network Systems and Security (NSS 2013), Madrid, Spain, June 3-4, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7873, pp 599-606, 2013.

 

 

K. Karthik, "A Ramp Code for Fine-grained Access Control", in International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT 2013), Bangalore, Karantaka, Feb 18-20, 2013.

 

 

K. Karthik, "Robust Image Hashing by Downsampling: Between Mean and Median", in World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2011), Mumbai, Maharashtra, Dec 11-14 2011.

 

 

N. Suresh, K. Karthik, "Secure Fingerprint Embedding based on Modified GDFT based Parametric Transform", in International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2011), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Nov 3-5 2011.

 

 

G. Praveen, A. Madhavaraj, K. Karthik, "A Code and Domain independent Traitor Tracing System based on the Eigen-decomposition of Fingerprinted Images", in International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2011), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Nov 3-5 2011.

 

 

P. Das, K. Karthik, B. C. Garai, � An efficient Hybrid Fingerprint matching algorithm�, in National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG),

Hubli, Karnataka, Dec 15-17, 2011.

 

 

S. Kashyap, K. Karthik, "Authenticating Encrypted Data", in National Conference on Communications (NCC 2011), Bangalore, India, Jan 2011.

 

 

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos, "MIX-SPLIT: Controlled Mixing of Secrets and Traceable Pseudonym Generation using Codebooks", Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Washington, Seattle, Dec 12-15, 2010.

 

 

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos, "Secure Group Authentication Using a Non-perfect Secret Sharing Scheme based on Controlled Mixing", Proceedings of INDICON 2009,  Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Dec 18-20, 2009.

 

 

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos, "A novel anti-collusion coding scheme tailored to track linear collusions", Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Hiding for Information and Multimedia Security (DHIMS'07), Manchester, UK, Aug 29-31, 2007.

 

 

K. Karthik, D. Hatzinakos, "A Unified approach to construct Non-perfect Secret Sharing and Traitor Tracing schemes", Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Management (SAM�07), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2007.

 

 

K.Karthik, D. Kundur, D. Hatzinakos, "Joint fingerprinting and decryption for multimedia content tracing in wireless networks", Proceedings of the SPIE, Florida, USA, Vol 5403, pp.360-370, April 12-16, 2004.

 

 

K. Karthik and J.E.Quaicoe, �Voltage Compensation and Harmonic suppression using Series Active and Shunt Passive Filters�, Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer

Engineering, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 7-10, 2000.

 

 

K. Karthik and J.E.Quaicoe, �Hybrid Compensator Topologies for Voltage Compensation and Harmonic Isolation�, Proceedings of IEEE Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (NECEC '00), St. John's, NF, Canada, Nov 15, 2000.

 

 

K. Karthik and J.E.Quaicoe, �Voltage Compensation and Harmonic Elimination using Series Voltage Injection", Proceedings of IEEE Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (NECEC '99), St. John's, Canada, Nov 10, 1999.

 

 

Ji Xie, J.Deepakumara, K. Karthik, T.Madusudanan, P.Gillard, R.Venkatesan, �Pipelined MUNDLX Processor�, Proceedings of the IEEE Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (NECEC '99), November 10, 1999, St. John's, NF, Canada.