Associate Professor
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438 Carver Hall Department of Mathematics Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 Telephone: (515) 294-2941 Fax: (515) 294-5454 E-mail: davidson@iastate.edu Ph.D., University of Florida, 1989 M.S., University of Florida, 1986 B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 1979 |
Research interests
Image modeling and analysis, stochastic image modeling, steganalysis
Research Projects
- A Steganalyzer Package for Forensic Applications, Midwest Forensic Resource Center/NIJ, Ames Lab, 2009.
- An Artificial Neural Network for Wavelet Steganalysis. Midwest Forensic Resource Center, Ames Lab, Ames, Iowa, 2004-6.
- The Singular Value Decomposition for Steganography.
Publications
- J. Davidson, C. Bergman, E. Bartlett. An artificial neural network for wavelet steganalysis. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5916, Mathematical Methods in Pattern and image Analysis, pp. 1-10, 2005. PDF
- C. Bergman, J. Davidson. An Artificial Neural Network for Wavelet Steganalysis, Final Report, Midwest Forensic Resource Center, January, 2007. PDF
Courses taught
- Spring semesters: Steganalysis, Steganography and Watermarking.
- Fall semesters: Calculus I, Calculus II
Current Students
- Jaikishan Jalan (MS, Computer Science): Blind JPEG Steganalyzer
- Faryal Awan (MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
