Beijing, China
3/F, Beijing Sigma Center
No.49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100080, P. R. China

Email: binzhu@microsoft.com

Dr. Bin (Benjamin) Zhu
Researcher

Internet Media Group
Microsoft Research Asia

 Dr. Bin B. Zhu joined Microsoft Research, Asia as a Researcher in December 2001. Before that, he had worked for more than four years as a Lead Scientist at Cognicity Inc., a company he co-founded with his dissertation advisor and a colleague in 1997. Where at Cognicity, he played a key role in the research of the company's core technologies, and was in charge of the development and implementation of all watermark related products. He nurtured several pioneer and leading products in the areas of audio watermarking, electronic music promotion and one-to-one marketing.

Dr. Zhu is a senior member of IEEE. He has published two book chapters and over thirty peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and conferences in the areas of multimedia encryption, watermarking, and authentication, digital rights management, data and image compression, multimedia processing and systems. He has been awarded seven US patents. He had also published nine peer-reviewed journal papers on condensed matter physics before he jumped into signal processing and communications. His current research interests include scalable multimedia encryption, authentication, and protection; multimedia networking and systems; digital rights management, network and system security; multimedia watermarking, compression, and processing.

Dr. Zhu received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986, and M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in Sept. 1993 and Dec. 1998, respectively.

1. B. B. Zhu and S. Li, "Content and License Roaming for eHome DRM Applications," IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications, Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 2005 (slides)
2. B. B. Zhu, M. D. Swanson, and S. Li, "Encryption and Authentication for Scalable Multimedia: Current State of the Art and Challenges," Proc. of SPIE Internet Multimedia Management Systems V, vol. 5601, pp. 157-170, Philadelphia PA, Oct. 2004, (invited paper) PowerPoint slides.
3. J. Wu, B. B. Zhu, S. Li, and F. Lin, "A Secure Image Authentication Algorithm with Pixel-level Tamper Localization," IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Singapore, Oct. 2004.
4. B. B. Zhu, M. Feng, and S. Li, "An Efficient Key Scheme for Layered Access Control of MPEG-4 FGS Video," IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia & Expo, vol. 1, pp. 443-446, Taiwan, June 2004.
5. J. Wu, B. B. Zhu, S. Li, and F. Lin, "Efficient Oracle Attacks on Yeung-Mintzer and Variant Authentication Schemes," IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia & Expo, vol. 2, pp. 931-934, Taiwan, June 2004.
6. J. Wu, B. B. Zhu, S. Li, and F. Lin, "New Attacks on SARI Image Authentication System," Proc. of SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, vol. 5306, pp. 602-609, San Jose, CA, 2004.
7. G. Gu, B. B. Zhu, S. Li, and S. Zhang, "PLI: A New Framework to Protect Digital Content for P2P Networks," Int. Conf. Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS'03), Kunming, China, Oct. 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Zhou, M. Yung, Y. Han, Eds., vol. 2846, pp. 206-216, Springer, 2003.
8. C. Yuan, B. B. Zhu, Y. Wang, S. Li, and Y. Zhong, "Efficient and Fully Scalable Encryption for MPEG-4 FGS," IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, vol. 2, pp. 620-623, May 2003.
9. C. Yuan, B. B. Zhu, M. Su, X. Wang, S. Li, and Y. Zhong, "Layered Access Control for MPEG-4 FGS Video," IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Barcelona, Spain, vol. 1, pp. 517-520, Sept. 2003.

1. B. B. Zhu, C. Yuan, Y. Wang, and S. Li, "Scalable Protection for MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability," IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 222-233, April 2005.
2. B. B. Zhu, M. D. Swanson, and A. H. Tewfik, "When Seeing Isn't Believing - Current Multimedia Authentication Technologies and Their Applications," IEEE Signal Processing-Digital Rights: Management, Protection, Standardization, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 40-49, March 2004.
3. B. Zhu, E. H. Yang, and A. H. Tewfik, "Arithmetic Coding With Dual Symbol Sets And Its Performance Analysis," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 8, No. 12, pp. 1667-1676, Dec. 1999.
4. M. D. Swanson, B. Zhu, and A. H. Tewfik, "Multiresolution Scene-based Video Watermarking Using Perceptual Models," IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 540-550, May 1998.
5. M. D. Swanson, B. Zhu, A. H. Tewfik, and L. Boney, "Robust Audio Watermarking Using Perceptual Masking," Signal Processing-Special Issue on Copyright Protection and Control, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 337-355, May 1998.

1. B. B. Zhu and M. D. Swanson, "Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking," Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management, D. Feng, W. C. Siu, and H. Zhang, Eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, chap. 7, pp. 148-177, 2003.
2. M. D. Swanson, B. Zhu, and A. H. Tewfik, "Multiresolution and Object-based Video Watermarking Using Perceptual Models," Wavelet, Subband and Block Transforms in Communications and Multimedia, A. Akansu and M. Medley, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, pp. 323-350, 1999.

• Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 2006.
• Co-Chair of Special Session "Advances in Multimedia Protection and Rights Management," in Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP),  Beijing, China, July, 2005.
• Co-Chair of Special Session "Intelligent Security Systems and Applications," in International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Hefei, China, Aug. 2005.
• Technical Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2005.
• Technical Program Committee member, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference -- Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications, Las Vegas, Jan. 2005
• Technical Program Committee member, IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, Seoul, Korea, May, 2005.
• Technical Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004.
• Co-chair, Security and Intellectual Property Protection Subgroup, Audio Video Coding Standard Workgroup of China (AVS), 2002-2003.