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Associate Professor

Sabu Emmanuel

Associate Professor
Director of Research, Infocomm Technology Cluster
Ph.D. (Computer Science), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Cluster:
Infocomm Technology
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SIT Appointments

  • Director of Research, Infocomm Technology Cluster
    – Present
  • Associate Professor
    – Present

Education

  • Ph.D. (Computer Science)
    National University of Singapore (NUS) , Singapore
  • M.E. (Electrical Communication Engineering)
    Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore , India
  • B.E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering)
    National Institute of Technology, Durgapur , India
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Research Interests

  • Cyber Security, Cyber-Physical System Security, IoT Security
  • Media Security, Media Forensics, Visual Surveillance
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Journal Papers

    • G. R. Nayar, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Graph based secure cancelable palm vein biometrics”, Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, 62: 102991 (2021)

    • R. Surendran, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, "On Existence of Common Malicious System Call Codes in Android Malware Families," in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 248-260, March 2021, doi: 10.1109/TR.2020.2982537

    • R. Surendran, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “GSDroid: Graph Signal Based Compact Feature Representation for Android Malware Detection”, Elsevier Journal of Expert Systems with Applications 159:113581, DOI:10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113581, May 2020.

    • R. Surendran, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “A TAN based hybrid model for android malware detection”, Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2020.102483, May 2020.

    • R. Surendran, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Android Malware Detection Mechanism Based on Bayesian Model Averaging”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), Springer 707: 87-96; 2019.

    • S. Sharma, H. Ravi, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Anti-forensics of Median Filtering and Contrast Enhancement”, Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 66, DOI:10.1016/j.jvcir.2019.102682, October 2019.

    • A. Mehrish, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Joint Spatial and DCT Domain based Counter Forensics for Adaptive Contrast Enhancement”, IEEE Access, PP(99):1-1, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2901345, March 2019.

    • A. Mehrish, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Robust PRNU estimation from probabilistic raw measurements”, Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication, Volume 66, Pages 30-41, April 2018.

    • A. Mehrish, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Sensor Pattern Noise Estimation Using Probabilistically Estimated RAW Values”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 23, Issue 5, May 2016.

    • H. Ravi, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Forensic Analysis of Linear and Non Linear Image Filtering Using Quantization Noise”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 12 Issue 3, March 2016.

    • H. Ravi, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “ACE - An Effective Anti-forensic Contrast Enhancement Technique”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 23, Issue 2, Pages 212-216, February 2016.

    • D. Z. Fu, P. Zhang, W. Huang, L. Wang, S. Emmanuel and G. Chen, Empirical mode decomposition based blind audio watermarking, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol.74, No.15, July 2015.

    • Y. Yuan, S. Emmanuel, Y. Fang and W. Lin, “Visual Object Tracking based on Backward Model Validation”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.24, no.11, pp 1898-1910, November 2014.

    • V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, "Potent and Stealthy Control Flow Obfuscation by Stack Based Self-Modifying Code”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.8, no.4, pp.669 - 681, April 2013.

    • A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, "Partially Compressed-Encrypted Domain Robust JPEG Image Watermarking", Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), October 2012.

    • M. Narwaria, W. Lin, I. V. McLoughlin, S. Emmanuel and L. T. Chia, “Fourier Transform based Scalable Image Quality Measure”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), April 2012.

    • P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Moving People Tracking with Detection by Latent Semantic Analysis for Visual Surveillance Applications”, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), April 2012.

    • L. L. Win, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Privacy Enabled Digital Rights Management without Trusted Third Party Assumption”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), February 2012.

    • A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “Computation Time Efficient Approach for DRM Licenses Validation”, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, February 2012.

    • A. V. Subramanyam, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Robust Watermarking of Compressed and Encrypted JPEG2000 Images”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), October 2011.

    • M. Narwaria, W. Lin, I. V. McLoughlin, S. Emmanuel, and L. T. Chia, “Non-intrusive Quality Assessment of Noise Suppressed Speech with Mel-Filtered Energies and Support Vector Regression”, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), August 2011.

    • P. Zhang, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Privacy Enabled Video Surveillance Using a Two State Markov Tracking Algorithm”, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ), July 2011.

    • A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “Rights Violation Detection in Multi-level Digital Rights Management System”, Elsevier Computers and Security, May 2011.

    • A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Aggregate Licenses Validation for Digital Rights Violation Detection”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Application (TOMCCAP), March 2011.

    • L. L. Win, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel “Secure Interoperable Digital Content Distribution Mechanisms in a Multi-domain Architecture”, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, April 2011.

    • A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Robust Watermarking of Compressed JPEG Images in Encrypted Domain”, Springer Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Systems, April 2011.

    • S. Liang and S. Emmanuel, “Mobile Agent Protection with Function Level Self- Modifying Code Obfuscation”, Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems, November 2010.

    • T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, A. V. Subramanyam and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Joint Watermarking Scheme for Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), 4(4), 2009, 758 – 767.

    • P. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “Moving People Segmentation from Zoomed Dynamic Scene Containing a Door”, Journal of New Generation Computing, Springer, 2009.

Conferences

    • T. S. John, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Graph Convolutional Networks for Android Malware Detection with System Call Graphs”, Third ISEA Conference on Security and Privacy (ISEA-ISAP), 162-170, 2020, IIT Guwahati, India.

    • D. Mullick, A.V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Online SVM and Backward Model Validation Based Visual Tracking”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing”, ICIP 2017, Beijing, China.

    • S. Sharma, A.V. Subramanyam, M. Jain, A. Mehrish and S. Emmanuel, “Anti-Forensic Technique for Median Filtering Using L1-L2 TV model”, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

    • M. M. Al-Hammadi and S. Emmanuel, “Improving SURF Based Copy-Move Detection Using Super Resilution”, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2016, San Jose, USA.

    • M. Mathai, D. Rajan and S. Emmanuel, "Video Forgery Detection and Localization Using Normalized Cross-Correlation of Moment Features", IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, SSIAI, March, 2016, Santa Fe, USA.

    • H. Ravi, A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Spatial Domain Quantization Noise Based Image Filtering Detection”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, 2015, Quebec City, Canada.

    • V. Balachandran, S. Emmanuel and W. K. Ng, “Obfuscation by Code Fragmentation to Evade Reverse Engineering”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cyberbetics, SMC, 2014, October, San Diego, USA.

    • V. Balachandran, W. K. Ng and S. Emmanuel, “Function Level Control Flow Obfuscation for Software Security”, International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS, 2014, Birmingham, UK.

    • Y. Yuan, S. Emmanuel, W. Lin and Y. Fang, “Visual Object Tracking Based on Appearance Model Selection”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME, 2013.

    • A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Pixel Estimation Based Video Forgery Detection”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP, 2013, Vancouver, Canada.

    • L. J. Long, V. Balachandran, S. Emmanuel and W. K. Ng, “Obfuscating Server Client Programs Against Reverse Engineering”, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing – NCETIC, 2013, June 2013, Thrissur, India.

    • V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, “Software Protection with Obfuscation and Encryption”, Information Security Practices and Experiences Conference, ISPEC, 2013, Lanzhou, China.

    • A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Audio Watermarking in Partially Compressed-Encrypted Domain”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC, 2012, Seoul, S. Korea.

    • A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Video Forgery Detection Using HOG Features and Compression Properties” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP, 2012, Banff, Canada.

    • V. Balachandran and S. Emmanuel, “Software Code Obfuscation by Hiding Control Flow Information in Stack”, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS, 2011, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

    • A. V. Subramanyam and S. Emmanuel, “Context Based Watermarking of Secure JPEG-LS Images”, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, SIGMAP, 2011, Seville, Spain.

    • L. L. Win, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “A Privacy Preserving Content Distribution Mechanism without Trusted Third Parties”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

    • A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “DRM Violations Detection Using Consumer Logs”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo – Content Protection and Forensics Workshop, ICME - CPAF, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

    • P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Pedestrian Tracking based on Hidden-Latent Temporal Markov Chain”, International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

    • P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Privacy Preserving Video Surveillance Using Pedestrian Tracking Mechanism”, The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence, ACM MM – MiFor, 2010, Firenze, Italy.

    • A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, “An Efficient Access Control Method for Multimedia Social Networks”, The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Social Media, ACM MM –WSM, 2010, Firenze, Italy.

    • A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, “A Geometric Approach for Efficient Licenses Validation in DRM”, VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management, VLDB – SDM, 2010, Singapore.

    • T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, P. Zhang and M. S. Kankanhalli, “An Authentication Mechanism Using Chinese Remainder Theorem for Efficient Surveillance Video Transmission”, The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS, 2010, Boston, USA.

    • M. K. Saini, P. K. Atrey, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Functionality Delegation in Distributed Surveillance Systems”, The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS, 2010, Boston, USA.

    • A. V. Subramanyam, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Compressed Encrypted Domain JPEG2000 Image Watermarking”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo – Content Protection and Forensics Workshop, ICME - CPAF, 2010, Singapore.

    • M. K. Saini, P. K. Atrey, S. Mehrotra, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Privacy Modeling for Video Data Publication”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME, 2010, Singapore.

    • L. Wang, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “EMD and Psychoacoustic Model Based Watermarking for Audio”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - AdMIRe Workshop, ICME - AdMIRe, 2010, Singapore.

    • A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Efficient Aggregate Licenses Validation in DRM”, 15th Database Systems for Advanced Application, DASFAA, 2010, Tsukuba, Japan.

    • M. Narwaria, W. Lin, I. V. McLoughlin, S. Emmanuel and L. T. Chia, “Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment with Support Vector Regression”, International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling, MMM, 2010, 325-335.

    • A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Efficient License Validation in MPML DRM Architecture”, ACM CCS Workshop on Digital Rights Management, DRM, 2009, Chicago.

    • P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel, Y. Zhang and X. Jing, “Auto-scaled Incremental Tensor Subspace Learning for Region based Rate Control Application”, Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV, 2009, Xian, China.

    • S. Liang and S. Emmanuel, “Protection of DRM Agent Codes”, The IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.

    • L. L. Win, T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Secure Domain Architecture for Interoperable Content Distribution”, The IEEE Pacific Rim Conference, PCM, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1313 – 1318.

    • A. H. Nasution, P. Zhang and S. Emmanuel, “Video Surveillance for Elderly Monitoring and Safety”, The IEEE TENCON, 2009, Singapore.

    • S. B. Guest, P. K. Atrey and S. Emmanuel, “PEER: An Effective and Efficient Personal Website”, The IEEE TENCON, 2009, Singapore.

    • T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, A. Das and M. S. Kankanhalli, “A CRT Based Watermark for Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME, Cancun, Mexico, June/July, 2009.

    • T. Thomas, S. Emmanuel, A. Das and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Secure Multimedia Content Delivery with Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, The 19th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV, Williamsburg, USA, June, 2009.

    • P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel, P. K. Atrey and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Latent Semantic Cues for Moving People Tracking”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Taipei, Taiwan, April, 2009.

    • A. Sachan, S. Emmanuel, A. Das and M. S. Kankanhalli, “Privacy Preserving Multiparty Multilevel DRM Architecture”, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC, Digital Rights Management workshop, Las Vegas, USA, January, 2009.

Books

    • T. Thomas, A. P. Vijayaraghavan and S. Emmanuel, “Machine Learning Approaches in Cyber Security Analytics”, Springer, ISBN 978-981-15-1705-1, 2020. 

    • R. Surendran, T. Thomas and S. Emmanuel, “Detection of Malware Applications in Android Smartphones”, World Scientific Book Chapters, Pages: 211-234, 2018.

    • A. Sachan and S. Emmanuel, “Efficient Access Control in Multimedia Social Networks”, Social Media Modelling and Computing, Springer, 2011.

    • P. Zhang, S. Emmanuel and C. Fu, “Efficient Surveillance Video Storage in Green Computing,” Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2011.

    • S. Emmanuel and M.S. Kankanhalli, ''Digital Rights Management Issues for Video'', Multimedia Security Handbook, CRC Press LLC, USA, 2004, pp. 749 – 778.

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