Jeffrey A Bloom
Director, Video Technology, Dialogic Inc. Chief Technology Officer, Dialogic Media Labs
Office:	(973) 967-6466 (Eatontown)
Fax:	(732) 389-1059
Email:	bloom@ieee.org
URL:	http://www.videotechresearch.com/Jeffrey_Bloom
Mailing Address:	Dialogic Media Labs, 12 Christopher Way, Suite 104, Eatontown, NJ, 07724

Current Activity

I am the Director of Video Technologies for Dialogic, Inc, a San Jose CA company that develops hardware and software platforms on which mobile telecom applications are built. I am also the CTO of a division of Dialogic called Dialogic Media Labs, located in Eatontown NJ. I lead a team of 20 software developers, video engineers, and video researchers that has created new technology for no-reference and reduced-reference video quality measures and has built robust, commercial-grade software servers that integrate into video distribution data centers to provide video quality monitoring and tracking capabilities. The product development effort has been guided by close collaboration with potential customers and deep market analysis.

Research Interests

• Professional Research: Quality of Experience Assessment, mobile video, video analytics, machine learning, data mining, digital rights management, digital watermarking and steganography, image and video coding.
• DVD Watermarking: for more info see IBM's fine description of the Galaxy Video Watermarking Project.
• Academic Reseach Group: Image Sequence Processing Group

• IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, 2008-2012
  Member of the Technical Directions Subcommittee(2008-2009)
  Webmaster (2010-2011)
• Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Information Security, 2006 - 2011
• Associate Editor, Springer LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2006 - 2011
• Technical Program Committee, International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2010 - 2012
• Technical Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Quality of Experience (MQoE), 2011
• Technical Program Committee, SPIE Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, 2003 - 2011
• Technical Program Committee, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW), 2006 - 2010
• Additional Review Activities: Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2011; European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2008-2011; Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 2009; International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 2008

• Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009.

• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis, 1999. Dissertation title: The Derivative of Gaussian Transform. ( DGT Matlab Code ) PDF available upon request.

• MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1990. Thesis title: Feature Extraction and Surface Recognition of Arbitrary Surfaces from Range Data.

• BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1987.

• U.S. Patent 6,282,300: "Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Public Watermarking for Images Using a Log-Polar Fourier Transform"; Jeffrey A. Bloom, Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Min Wu, Ching-Yung Lin, Yui Man Lui; Issued August 28, 2001
• U.S. Patent 6,332,194: "Method for Data Preparation and Watermark Insertion"; Jeffrey A. Bloom, Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller; Issued December 18, 2001
• U.S. Patent 6,834,345: "Method for data preparation and watermark insertion"; Jeffrey A. Bloom, Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller; Issued December 21, 2004
• U.S. Patent 6,885,757: "Method And Apparatus For Providing An Asymmetric Watermark Carrier"; Jeffrey A. Bloom and John S. Nafziger; Issued April 26, 2005
• U.S. Patent 7,298,865: "Secure robust high-fidelity watermarking"; Jeffrey Lubin, Jeffrey A. Bloom; Issued November 20, 2007
• U.S. Patent 7,415,128: "Method and apparatus for providing an asymmetric watermark carrier"; J. Bloom, J. Nafziger; Issued August 19, 2008
• U.S. Patent 7,418,110: "A Method And Apparatus For Compressed-Domain Watermarking"; J. Lubin, M. Isnardi, J. Bloom, C. Polyzois; Issued August 26, 2008
• U.S. Patent 7,809,601: "Intelligent performance-based product recommendation system"; Steven A. Shaya, Neal Matheson, John Anthony Singarayar, Nikiforos Kollias, Jeffrey A. Bloom; Issued October 5, 2010

Pending Patents
(Applications beginning with WO/ are WIPO PCT Applications, others are US applications)

• "Method And Apparatus For Providing A Smart Remote Controller"; Jeffrey A. Bloom and Rafael Alonso; Filed July 23, 2004
• 20050025463: "Method And Apparatus For Creating Multiple Unique Copies Of Content"; R. N. Hurst Jr, J. Bloom, M. Isnardi, C. Polyzois, M. Tinker; Filed June 21, 2004
• 20100303279 WO/2008/010836: “Method And System For Temporal Synchronization”; J. Tian, J. Bloom; Filed August 12, 2006
• 20090251490 WO/2007/136546: "Data Hiding Technique"; D. Zou, J. Tian, J. Zhai, J. Bloom, J. Llach; Filed May 8, 2007 (PCT August 5, 2007)
• 20100135523 WO/2009/005494: “Volume Marking With Low-Frequency”; J. Bloom, J. Tian; Filed June 29, 2007
• 20090290711 WO/2008/013562: “Method, Apparatus And System For Secure Distribution Of Content”; J. Bloom, K. Ramaswamy; Filed December 13, 2006
• 20100121608 WO/2008/153526: “Method And Apparatus For Setting A Detection Threshold Given A Desired False Probability”; J. Tian, J. Bloom, P. Baum; Filed June 14, 2007
• 20100169349 WO/2008/118145: “Modifying A Coded Bitstream”; D. Zou, J. Bloom, P. Yin, O. Divorra Escoda; Filed November 2, 2007
• 20100027684 WO/2008/118146: “Modifying A Coded Bitstream”; D. Zou, J. Bloom, P. Yin, O. Divorra Escoda; Filed November 2, 2007
• 20100138730 WO/2008/140704: “Fault Detection Using Embedded Watermarks”; A. Olafsen, J. Bloom, K. Ramaswamy; Filed May 6, 2008
• 20100150394 WO/2008/154041: “Modifying A Coded Bitstream”; J. Bloom, D. Zou; Filed June 13, 2008
• WO/2010/036225: “Method For Constructing Inner Codes For Anti-Collusion Forensic Code For Watermarking Digital Content”; W-Y. Lin, S. He, J. Bloom; Filed September 26, 2008
• WO/2010/036224: “Collusion Resistant Watermarking Generation Method”; W-Y. Lin, S. He, J. Bloom; Filed September 26, 2008
• 20110135143 WO/2010/021699: “Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) Video Stream Compliance”; D. Zou, J. Bloom, S. He; Filed August 17, 2009
• WO/2010/021682: “CABAC/AVC Compliant Watermarking Of Syntax Elements In Compressed Video”; D. Zou, J. Bloom, S. He; Filed August 17, 2009
• WO/2010/021694: “Selection Of Watermarks For The Watermarking Of Compressed Video”; D. Zou, J. Bloom, S. He; Filed August 18, 2009
• WO/2010/021691: “Luminance Evaluation”; S. He, J. Bloom, D. Zou; Filed August 18, 2009
• WO/2010/021700: “A Propagation Map”; S. He, J. Bloom, D. Zou; Filed August 19, 2009
• WO/2010/021722: “Blockiness And Fidelity In Watermarking”; S. He, J. Bloom, D. Zou; Filed August 20, 2009
• 20110122778: "Multiple Watermarks for Fidelity Assessment"; J. Bloom; Filed November 23, 2009
• 12 Recent, Unpublished Applications

Selection of Recent Publications
( = Paper available in Adobe PDF format. )

Books

	Digital Watermarking and Steganography, by Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Jeffrey A. Bloom, Jessica Fridrich, and Ton Kalker Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2007). Order from Amazon.com. Publisher's site for the book Source Code and Sample Chapters
	Digital Watermarking, by Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, and Jeffrey A. Bloom Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2001). Order from Amazon.com. Publicity flyer and table of contents.

Book Chapters

• J A Bloom, Security in Digital Cinema, in Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management, W. Zeng, H. Yu, and C.-Y. Lin, Eds., Elsevier, 2006.

• J A Bloom, Security and Rights Management in Digital Cinema, in Digital Rights Management Concepts and Applications, Shyam Sunder Kambhammettu Editor, 2005.

• T. Liu, N. Narvekar, G. Cash, and J. Bloom, "Continuous Mobile Video Subjective Quality Assessment Using Gaming Steering Wheel", to appear in the proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics (VPQM), 2012.

• T. Liu, N. Narvekar, B. Wang, D. Zou, G. Cash, S. Bhagavathy, and J. Bloom, "Real Time Video Quality Monitoring", to appear in the Special Issue on Image and Video Quality Improvement Techniques for Emerging Applications in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, November, 2011.
• B. Wang, D. Zou, R. Ding, T. Liu, S. Bhagavathy, N. Narvekar, and J. Bloom, "Efficient Frame Complexity Estimation and Application to G.1070 Video Quality Monitoring", To Appear in the Proceedings of the third International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2011.
• N. Narvekar, T. Liu, D. Zou, and J. Bloom, "Extending G.1070 For Video Quality Monitoring", Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, (ICME), 2011.
• C. Chen, W. Chen, and J. A. Bloom, "A Universal and Reference-free Blurriness Measure", Proceedings of Image Quality and System Performance VIII at Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, January 2011.
• T. Liu, N. Narvekar, and J. A. Bloom, "Is Qos Sufficient For Estimating Visual Quality?", To Appear in the Special Issue on Multimedia Quality Assessment, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2011.

• T. Liu and J. A. Bloom, "On Quality Assessment In The Delivery Of Mobile Video", to appear in the Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems, Cheng Du. China, December 06-08, 2010.

• C. Chen and J. A. Bloom, "A Blind Reference-Free Blockiness Measure", Proceedings of the 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM'2010), Shanghai, China, September 21-24, 2010.

• D. Zou and J. A. Bloom, "H.264 Stream Replacement Watermarking with CABAC Encoding", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2010), Singapore, July 19-23, 2010.

• T. Liu, G. Cash, W. Chen, C. Chen, J. A. Bloom, "Real-time Video Quality Monitoring for Mobile Devices", Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS '10), 2010.

2009

• W. Sabrina Lin, Shan He, and Jeffrey Bloom; "Performance Study and Improvement on ECC-based Binary Anti-Collusion Forensic Code for Multimedia"; 11th ACM workshop on Multimedia and Security; Princeton NJ; September 7-8, 2009.

• Dekun Zou, Nicolas Prigent, and Jeffrey Bloom; "Compressed Video Stream Watermarking For Peer-To-Peer Based Content Distribution Network"; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2009.

• W. Sabrina Lin, Shan He, and Jeffrey Bloom; "Binary Forensic Code for Multimedia Signals: Resisting Minority Collusion Attacks"; Media Forensics and Security XI; Edward J. Delp, Jana Dittmann, Nasir D. Memon, and Ping Wah Wong, Editors; Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7254, 2009.

• D. Zou and J. A. Bloom; "H.264/AVC Substitution Watermarking: A CAVLC Example"; Media Forensics and Security XI; Edward J. Delp, Jana Dittmann, Nasir D. Memon, and Ping Wah Wong, Editors; Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7254, 2009.

2008

• Nicolas Prigent and Jeffrey Bloom; "Security-Oriented Peer Profiling in Peer-to-Peer Networks"; DARPA DOSR Workshop; Chantilly, VA; July 2008.

• Shan He and Jeffrey Bloom; "Protecting multimedia content by digital watermarking"; SPIE Newsroom; 2008. (http://spie.org/x31632.xml?ArticleID=x31632)

• D. Zou and J. A. Bloom, "H.264/AVC Stream Replacement Technique for Video Watermarking", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008.

2007

• J. Tian, J. A. Bloom, and P. Baum, "A False Positive Analysis of Correlation Ratio Watermark Detection Measure", Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2007.

2006

• D. Zou, J. Tian, J. Zhai, and J. A. Bloom, "Data Hiding in Film Grain", in the Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, Jeju Island, Korea, 2006. (Best Paper Award)

• J A Bloom, "Digital Cinema Content Security and the DCI," in the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, 2006.

2005

• C. Basu, M. Merrell, C. Fellbaum, D. Talbert, J. Kolpack, M. Honeycutt, R. Alonso, J. Bloom, "Automated Knowledge Discovery System (AKDS): A Business Case Study in Ontology Development and Use", in the Proceedings of Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI), 2005.

• J. A. Bloom, "Content-Dependent Low-Frequency Watermarking", Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC'05, Las Vegas NV, 2005.

2004

• J. A. Bloom and M. L. Miller, "Informed Detection Revisited", Proceedings of the 2004 International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, Seoul Korea, 2004.

• J. A. Bloom and C. Polyzois, "Watermarking to Track Motion Picture Theft", Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove CA, 2004.

2003

• R. Alonso, J. A. Bloom, H. Li, and C. Basu, "An Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Search for a Parts Acquisition ePortal", in the Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, SIGKDD'03, Washington, August 2003.

• R. Alonso, J. A. Bloom, H. Li, "Lessons from the Implementation of an Adaptive Parts Acquisition ePortal", in the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'03, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2003.

• J. A. Bloom, "Security and Rights Management in Digital Cinema", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME'03, Baltimore, July 2003.

• J. Lubin, J. A. Bloom, and H. Cheng, "Robust, Content-Dependent, High-Fidelity Watermark for Tracking in Digital Cinema", Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5020, 2003.

• J. A. Bloom and R. Alonso, "SmartSearch Steganalysis", Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5020, 2003.

1996-2002

• P.B. Schneck and J.A. Bloom, "Persistent Access Control & Watermarking: Primary Security and Forensics", Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Assessment of Enabling Technologies, Government Electronics and Information Technologies Association, 2001 Vision Conference.

• C-Y. Lin, M. Wu, J.A. Bloom, M.L. Miller, I.J Cox, and Y.M. Lui, ``Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Watermarking for Images'', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 767-782, 2001.

• M.L. Miller, I.J. Cox, and J.A. Bloom, ``Informed embedding: exploiting image and detector information during watermark insertion'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 1-4, 2000.

• I.J. Cox, M.L. Miller and J.A. Bloom, ``Watermarking applications and their properties'', Invited Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, pp. 6-10, 2000.

• C-Y. Lin, M. Wu, J.A. Bloom, I.J Cox, M.L. Miller, and Y.M. Lui, ``Rotation, Scale, and Translation Resilient Public Watermarking for Images'', in Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents II, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3971, pp. 90-98, 2000.

• J.A. Bloom and T.R. Reed, ``Examining the effects of basis function truncation in the DGT'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 470-473, 2000.

• M. L. Miller, I. J. Cox, and J. A. Bloom, ``Watermarking in the Real World: An Application to DVD'', Thirty-third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1496-1502, 1999.

• M. L. Miller and J. A. Bloom, ``Computing the Probability of False Watermark Detection'', Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Information Hiding, pp. 146-158, 1999.

• J. A. Bloom, I. J. Cox, T. Kalker, J-P. Linnartz, M. L. Miller, and B. Traw, ''Copy Protection for DVD Video'', Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on Identification and Protection of Multimedia Information, Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 1267-1276, 1999.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``On the Compression of Video Using the Derivative of Gaussian Transform'', Proceedings of the Thirty-second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 865-869, 1998.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``On the Compression of Still Images Using the Derivative of Gaussian Transform'', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 433-437, 1998.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``An Uncertainty Analysis of Some Real Functions for Image Processing Applications'', Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 670-673, 1997.

• J. A. Bloom and T. R. Reed, ``A Gaussian Derivative-Based Transform'', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 551-553, 1996.