BARIS COSKUN

Research Assistant & PhD Candidate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Brooklyn, NY

e-mail: baris(at)isis(dot)poly(dot)edu
CV

Research Interest

Network Security, Internet Security, Multimedia Security,
Multimedia Signal Processing, Perceptual (Robust) Image Hashing, Perceptual (Robust) Video Hashing, Watermarking
Digital Forensics, Tamper Detection

Publications

Journal

B. Coskun, B. Sankur, N. Memon, "Spatio-Temporal Transform-Based Video Hashing", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 1190-1208, December 2006.

O. Ekici, B. Sankur, B. Coskun, U. Naci, M. Akcay,"Comparative Assessment of Semifragile Watermarking Methods", Journal of Electronic Imaging, 13(1), 209-216, January 2004.

Conference

B. Coskun, C. Herley "Can 'Something You Know' be Saved?", ISC'08: 11th Information Security Conference, September 15-18, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan

B. Coskun, M. K. Mihcak "Perceptual Hash Based Blind Geometric Synchronization of Images for Watermarking", SPIE Conf. 6819, Security, Forensics, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents X, January 28-30, 2008, San Jose, CA

B. Coskun, N. Memon "Efficient Detection of Delay-Constrained Relay Nodes", ACSAC'07: Twenty-Third Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 10-14, 2007, Miami, FL

Y. Sutcu, B. Coskun, H.T.Sencar, N. Memon "Tamper Detection Based on Regularity of Wavelet Transform Coefficients", ICIP'07: International Conference on Image Processing, September 16-19, 2007, San Antonio, TX

D. Florencio, C. Herley, B. Coskun, "Do Strong Web Passwords Accomplish Anything?", HotSec'07: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, August 7, 2007, Boston, MA

B. Coskun, N. Memon, "Confusion/Diffusion Capabilities of Some Robust Hash Functions", CISS 2006: Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, March 22-24, 2006, Princeton, NJ

B. Coskun, B. Sankur, "Robust Video Hash Extraction", EUSIPCO 2004: European Conf. on Signal Processing, 2295-2298, September 2004, Vienna

B. Coskun, U. Naci, O. Ekici, B. Sankur, "A Comparative Assessment of Semi-Fragile Watermarking Methods", SPIE Conf. 4518, Multimedia Systems and Applications IV, August 19-24, 2001, Denver, CO

Professional Experience

Research Assistant: (Jan 2005 - present) Polytechnic Institute of NYU , Brooklyn, NY

Research Intern: (May 2007 - Aug 2007) Microsoft Research, (Knowledge Tools Group) Redmond, WA

Research Intern: (June 2006 - Aug 2006) Microsoft Research, (Cryptography and Anti Piracy Group) Redmond, WA

Software Design and Development Engineer: (Jan 2004 - Dec 2004) Argela Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey

Software Design and Development Engineer: (Nov 2001 - Dec 2003) Oksijen Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey

Education

PhD in EE: (......)       Polytechnic Institute of NYU , Brooklyn, NY

MS in EE: (2004)    Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

BS in EE: (2001)       Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Personal

Meet my best friend, sweetheart and wife Senem. (Senem Acet Coskun)

Photo

Poconos, PA
Mt Rainier, WA
Olympic National Park, WA