Syllabus: CS 803 / IT 803 Information Hiding

Fall 2004

Wednesday 7:20pm - 10:00pm in IN 330

Dr. Zoran Duric
Office: S&T II, Rm. 427
Phone: 993-1717
email: zduric@cs.gmu.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 3:00-5:00pm or by appointment

Current information about this course will be kept on a CS 803 web page:
http://cs.gmu.edu/~zduric/cs803.html

Course Content

Study of information hiding approaches. Topics include:

Overview of information hiding techniques
Overview of audio, image, and video formats
Anonimity
Covert channels
Steganography and steganalysis
Watermarking

Many practical techniques will be considered. Class work will include reading and presenting technical papers on information hiding. A programming project in C++/Java/Matlab is required.

References

Disappearing Criptography, Information Hiding: Steganography & Watermarking by Peter Wayner, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann; required
Class notes (will be posted on the course web page)
Selected papers (reading list will be posted at the beginning of the semester).

 Grading
The course grade will be determined approximately as follows:

  Class participation and presentations: 50%
  Project:   	50%

Zoran Duric (zduric@cs.gmu.edu)