Félix Balado

Biography

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics
• Digital Communications
• Digital Data Hiding
• Signal Processing

General

Name and Title: 

Dr Félix Balado Pumarino MSc PhD

Position: 

Lecturer

Phone: 

+353 1 716 2927

Email: 

Office: 

CSI / B2.20

Address:
School of Computer Science & Informatics
B2.20
Computer Science & Informatics Building
Belfield Campus
Dublin 4
Ireland

• Biography
• Professional
• Publications
• Research
• Teaching
• Collaborators

Biography

Education: 

• PhD in Telecommunications Engineering, 2003, University of Vigo
• MEng in Telecommunications Engineering, 1996, University of Vigo

Professional

Conference Contributions:

• Balado, F. (2010) How Much Nongenetic Information Can Be Embedded in DNA Strands?. [Poster Presentation (Refereed)], 8th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, Bangalore, India , 18-JAN-10 - 21-JAN-10.

Publications

Book Chapters:

• Balado, F. (2009) 'An Introduction to the Principles and Requirements of Robust Hashing' In: H. T. Sencar, S. Velastin, N. Nikolaidis and S. Lian (eds). Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. [DOI] [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

• Hurley, N.J.; Balado, F.; Silvestre, G.C.M. (2008) 'Markov Modelling of Fingerprinting Systems for Collision Analysis'. EURASIP Journal on Information Security, . [DOI] [Details]
• Whelan, K.M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2007) 'A Two-dimensional Extension of the Mueller & Muller Timing Error Detector'. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14 (7):457-460. [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F., Hurley, N.J., McCarthy, E.P. and Silvestre, G.C.M. (2007) 'Performance Analysis of Robust Audio Hashing'. IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, 2 (2):254-266. [DOI] [Details]
• Comesana, P., Perez-Gonzalez, F. and Balado, F. (2006) 'On Distortion-compensated Dither Modulation Data-hiding with Repetition Coding'. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 54 (2):585-600. [DOI] [Details]
• Hogan, M.T. and Balado, F. and Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2006) 'Secure and Robust Steganography Using Side Information at the Encoder'. IEE Procs. on Information Security, 153 (3):87-95. [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F., Whelan, K.M., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2005) 'Joint Iterative Decoding and Estimation for Side-informed Data Hiding'. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53 (10):4006-4019. [DOI] [Details]
• Perez-Gonzalez, F., Balado, F. and Martin, J.R.H. (2003) 'Performance Analysis of Existing and New Methods for Data Hiding with Known-host Information in Additive Channels'. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 51 (4):960-980. [DOI] [Details]
• Perez-Gonzalez, F., Hernandez, J.R. and Balado F. (2001) 'Approaching the Capacity Limit in Image Watermarking'. Signal Processing, 81 (6):1215-1238. [DOI] [Details]

Conference Publications:

• Balado, F. (2011) Genetic Channel Capacity Revisited 6th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems York, United Kingdom, [Details]
• Haughton, D. and Balado, F. (2011) Repetition Coding as an Effective Error Correction Code for Information Encoded in DNA 11th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE) Taichung, Taiwan, , pp.253-260 [DOI] [Details]
• Haughton, D. and Balado, F. (2010) Performance of DNA Data Embedding Algorithms Under Substitution Mutations 3rd IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Hong Kong, , pp.201-206 [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F. (2010) On the Embedding Capacity of DNA Strands under Insertion, Deletion and Substitution Mutations SPIE Media Forensics and Security XII San José, USA, , 18-JAN-10 - 21-JAN-10 [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F. (2010) On the Shannon Capacity of DNA Data Embedding 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Dallas, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F., Hurley, N.J., McCarthy, E.P. and Silvestre, G.C.M. (2007) Performance of Philips Audio Fingerprinting under Additive Noise 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Honolulu, USA, , pp.209-212 [DOI] [Details]
• Hurley, N.J., Balado, F., McCarthy, E.P. and Silvestre, G.C.M. (2007) Performance of Philips Audio Fingerprinting Under Desynchronization 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Vienna, Austria, , pp.133-134 [Details]
• Balado, F. and Perez-Gonzalez, F. (2007) On Distortion Measures Associated to Random Desynchronization Attacks SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• Comesana, P., Balado, F. and Perez-Gonzalez, F. (2007) A Novel Interpretation of Content Authentication SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• Whelan, K.M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2006) PLL-Based Synchronization of Dither-Modulation Data Hiding 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Toulouse, France, [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F., Hurley, N.J. and Silvestre, G.C.M. (2006) Sphere-hardening Dither Modulation SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII [DOI] [Details]
• Hogan, M.T, Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M and Hurley, N.J. (2006) New Results on Robustness of Secure Steganography SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• McCarthy, E.P., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2006) Statistical Model and Error Analysis of a Proposed Audio Fingerprinting Algorithm SPIE Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval [DOI] [Details]
• Larkin, A.J., Balado, F., Hurley, N.J. and Silvestre, G.C.M. (2005) Dither Modulation Watermarking of Dynamic Memory Traces 7th Information Hiding Workshop Barcelona, Spain, [DOI] [Details]
• Hogan, M.T, Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M and Hurley, N.J. (2005) On the Achievable Rate of Side Informed Embedding Techniques With Steganographic Constraints 4th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW) Siena, Italy, [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F. (2005) New Geometric Analysis of Spread-spectrum Data Hiding with Repetition Coding, with Implications for Side-informed Schemes 4th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW) Siena, Italy, [DOI] [Details]
• Hogan, M.T., Silvestre, G.C.M., Hurley, N.J., Balado, F. and Whelan, K.M. (2005) ML Detection of Steganography SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• McCarthy, E.P., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2005) A Model for Improving the Performance of Feature-extraction-based Robust Hashing SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• Whelan, K.M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2005) Iterative Estimation of Amplitude Scaling on Distortion-Compensated Dither-Modulation SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]
• McCarthy, E.P., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J. (2004) A Framework for Soft Hashing and its Application to Robust Image Hashing IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Singapore, [DOI] [Details]
• Balado, F. and Perez-Gonzalez, F. (2004) Blind Turbo Decoding of Side-informed Data Hiding Using Iterative Channel Estimation 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) Lisbon, Portugal, [Details]
• Balado, F., Perez-Gonzalez, F. and Comesana, P. (2004) Blind Iterative Decoding of Side Informed Data Hiding Using the Expectation Maximization Algorithm SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI San Jose, USA, [DOI] [Details]

Research

Research Interests:

Signal Processing & Communications, Digital Data Hiding & Watermarking, Robust Hashing, Bioinformatics

Research Projects:

• Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD)
  Title : Euripides Project Proposal
  Start Date / End Date : 03-AUG-09 / 31-JAN-11
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Information embedding in DNA (IE-DNA)
  Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-09 / 30-SEP-13
  

Teaching

Teaching Interests:

Modules taught:

• Postgraduate: 
• "Introduction to Information Security" (COMP 41280)
• "Multimedia Security and Data Hiding'' (COMP 9003, COMP 40600) (past)
• Undergraduate: 
• "Operating Systems'' (COMP 30090)
• "Operating Systems II" (COMP 30140)

Current Postgraduate Students:

• David Haughton, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor

Collaborators

Internal Collaborators:

• Neil J. Hurley

  Guénolé C.M. Silvestre

  Gianluca Pollastri
  

  Turlough Neary