Toward Real-Time Detection of Forensic Watermarks to Combat Piracy by Live Streaming

Until Spring of 2015, Mathieu Bonenfant served as vice president, products and solutions for NexGuard, where he provided product management leadership for the NexGuard Forensic Watermarking products.

Mehmet Celik is senior research scientist and teamleader research at Civolution. He received a Ph.D. degree in the area of image watermarking from the University of Rochester, NY in 2004. He subsequently joined the Information and Systems Security Department, Philips Research, The Netherlands and in early 2008 moved to business unit content identification, which spun off as Civolution later in 2008. At Philips and later at Civolution, Mehmet has focused on theoretical and practical aspects of audio and video watermarking and fingerprinting (near duplicate search) algorithms. His research resulted in various patents, patent applications, scientific publications, and is utilized in commercial products. His wider research interests include multimedia security, content indexing, and retrieval, image and video processing, and cryptography.

Joe Daniel is responsible for defining customer-specific solutions for the delivery of high-value video content through Internet and cable/satellite, as well as PreRelease workflows at Civolution. Daniel interfaces with service providers and equipment manufacturers to help integrate Civolution watermarking technology into their systems. Prior to joining Civolution, Daniel was an engineering manager at DivX Inc.

Jaap Haitsma started his career in 1997 as a research scientist at Philips Research. For seven years, he developed algorithms for watermarking and fingerprinting of audio and video. Based on the output of this research, a business unit was formed at Philips to commercialize these algorithms, and in 2004 Haitsma joined this unit as chief technology officer (CTO) to setup its own R&D department. This business unit within Philips was spun out as Civolution in 2008. Currently, he serves as CTO of the NexGuard group at Civolution and leads R&D.

Jean-Paul Panis is senior software engineer and manages the PayTV and DCI development team at Civolution NexGuard Labs, based in France. He has worked on defining and implementing watermarking solutions for more than ten years. With Dutch roots, he has studied at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and holds a master's degree in computer science.