Dipl.-Medien.-Inf. Stephan Escher
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NameMr Dipl.-Medien.-Inf. Stephan Escher
Chair of privacy and security
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APB, Room 3063
01187 Dresden
Research interests
- Social Engineering
- Awareness / Media Competence
- Multimedia forensics
Projects
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AN.ON-Next - Next-generation Anonymity Online
- DFD - checking for Duplicates - Forensics on printed Documents
In cooperation with Dence GmbH
Publications
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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
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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
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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
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OCR on memes and analysis of correlation to political events (Franziska Müller, Bachelor)
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Transparency in the Internet of Things (Benjamin Weller, D-960)
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Video contextualization based on automatically created audio transcripts (Jan Engelmohr, Diplom)
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Entwicklung eines modularen Benchmarking Systems für die Evaluation von Perceptual Image Hashing Verfahren (Robin Herrmann, PM-FPA)
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Simulation of the pseudonymity change in V2X communication according to ETSI and analysis with regard to privacy (Richard Stosch, Diplom)
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Contextualization of news articles in OSNs (Benjamin Weller, Beleg)
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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