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Paul A. Watters PhD CITP

Research

My main area of research is cybercrime, especially human factors.

In the past several years, I've worked on projects including:

  • Development of countermeasures to prevent phishing and the illegal trade in identity credentials (funded by the National Australia Bank, with Stephen McCombie)
  • Testing perceptual discriminability for steganographically encoded images to evaluate visual identification of such material (with Dr. Frances Martin and Steffen Stripf)
  • Designing and developing a steganographic transport protocol (with Bernd Troegeler)
  • Developing statistical frameworks to evaluate the performance of biometric facial recogition systems (with Wai Han Ho and Associate Professor Dominic Verity)
  • Developing techniques to generate cryptographic keys from biometric data (with Zhao Zeng)
  • Developing techniques to prevent unauthorised, deterministic reconstruction of file fragments in secure, distributed systems (at the CSIRO)

I'm currently working on systems to securely distribute medical and health records for clinical and longitudinal studies with the Medical Research Council. Some of my recent cybercrime publications include:

  • Watters, P.A., Martin, F. & Stripf, S. (in press). Visual detection of LSB-encoded natural image steganography. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.
  • Ho, W.H., Watters, P.A. & Verity, D. (2007). Are younger people more difficult to identify or just a peer-to-peer effect? 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Vienna, Austria.
  • Ho, W.H., Watters, P.A. & Verity, D. (2007). Robustness of the new owner-tester approach for face recognition experiments. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Biometrics Workshop, Minneapolis, USA.
  • Ho, W.H. & Watters, P.A. (2007). A New Performance Evaluation Method for Face Identification - Regression on Misidentified Risk. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minneapolis, USA.
  • Watters, P.A., Martin, F. & Stripf, S. (2007). Visual detection of high capacity natural image steganography: Is a known cover effective? IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, UK.
  • Zeng, Z. & Watters, P.A. (2007). A face hashing algorithm using mutual information and feature fusion. IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, UK.
  • Pham, T. & Watters, P.A. (2007). The efficiency of periodic rekeying in dynamic group key management. 4th European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks, Toulouse, France.
  • Zeng, Z. & Watters, P.A. (2007). A novel face hashing method with feature fusion. 4th European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks, Toulouse, France.
  • Fong, W., Lee, C., & Watters, P.A. (2006). Using simulation for effective computer security training. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (JPICT), 1, 81-92.
  • Bachurina, O. & Watters, P.A. (2006). Multi fingerprint biometric verification using XML Web Services: A funds transfer case study. 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, Canterbury, UK.
  • Ruiz, S. & Watters, P.A. (2006). Distributed service and data exchange: A case study of the Ecuadorian legal system. IADIS International Conference on the e-Society, University College Dublin, Ireland.