Dipl.-Medien.-Inf. Stephan Escher

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Mr Dipl.-Medien.-Inf. Stephan Escher

Chair of privacy and security

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APB, Room 3063

01187 Dresden

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+49 351 463-38111

Research interests

  • Social Engineering
  • Awareness / Media Competence
  • Multimedia forensics

Projects

Publications

  • Timo Richter* , Stephan Escher* , Dagmar Schönfeld, Thorsten Strufe. Forensic Analysis and Anonymisation of Printed Documents. In Proceedings of 6th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec ’18), 2018

  • Stephan C. Escher, Jan L. Reubold, Richard Kwasnicki, Joachim Scharloth, Lutz M. Hagen and Thorsten Strufe. Towards Automated Contextualization of News Articles. In MIS2: Misinformation and Misbehavior Mining on the Web, WSDM Workshops, 2018

  • Jan Reubold, Stephan Escher, and Thorsten Strufe: The Latent Behavior Space – A Vector Space for Time-Series Data, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Time-Series at the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), 2017.

  • Stephan Escher, Thorsten Strufe. Robustness analysis of a passive printer identification scheme for halftone images. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2017
  • Stephan Escher, Stefan Köpsell. Durchführung eines integrierten Anti-Phishing-Trainings. In Sicherheit in vernetzen Systemen: 23. DFN-CERT Konferenz. DFN-CERT, 2016.

SUPERVISED THESES

  • OCR on memes and analysis of correlation to political events (Franziska Müller, Bachelor)

  • Transparency in the Internet of Things (Benjamin Weller, D-960)

  • Video contextualization based on automatically created audio transcripts (Jan Engelmohr, Diplom)

  • Entwicklung eines modularen Benchmarking Systems für die Evaluation von Perceptual Image Hashing Verfahren (Robin Herrmann, PM-FPA)

  • Simulation of the pseudonymity change in V2X communication according to ETSI and analysis with regard to privacy (Richard Stosch, Diplom)

  • Contextualization of news articles in OSNs (Benjamin Weller, Beleg)

  • Social Engineering attacks based on speech synthesis: a pre-study (Nico Westerbeck, PM-FPA)

  • Analysis of information diffusion in OSNs (Johannes Pflugmacher, PM-FPA) 
  • Robust image hashing vs. print-scan (Anika Borchmann, PM-FPA)
  • Article Augmentation - A Journey Towards Wisdom (Richard Kwasnicki, Diplom)
  • The whole bunch of social bots – Attacker analysis and modeling (Sven Mesecke, BSc)
  • Print-Scan resistant Perceptual Image Hashing  - An analysis with focus on cropping through the use of image segmentation (Robin Herrmann, BSc)
  • Analysis and Anonymisation of Printed Documents (Timo Richter, Diplom)
  • Evaluation of perceptual image hashing algorithms in terms of print-scan and rotation robustness (Sami Philip Hosni, BSc)
  • Who determines my Facebook newsfeed? (Timo Richter - PM-FPA)
  • Development of an image database for benchmarking printer forensics schemes (Christian Poppe, BSc)
  • Analysis of social media usage and awareness towards social bots (Anna Baumgärtel, BSc)
  • Analysis of printed documents for passive printer identification (Matthias Kemmerer, BSc)

Seminar TOPICS

  • Using Topic Models to Enhance Performance of Event Extraction from News Articles
  • Frame detection for a more diverse news diet
  • Combating the Rise of Social Bots
  • Attacker models for social bots
  • The rise of social bots and their techniques
  • How Social Networks can help Phishers and Spammers
  • Social Spam Detection
  • Privacy issues and challenges of augmented-reality systems in online social networks

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