Tony Ho

Professor Anthony TS Ho


Emeritus Professor of Multimedia Security
BSc, MSc DIC, PhD, FIET, FBCS, FInstP, CEng, CPhys

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My qualifications

1979
BSc (Hons) in Physical Electronics
Northumbria University
1980
MSc in Applied Optics
Imperial College London
1983
PhD in Digital Image Processing
King's College London

Previous roles

2010 - 2015
Head of Department
2008 - 2010
Deputy Head of Department
2007 - 2010
MSc Programme Director, Security Technologies and Applications
2006 - 2009
University Senate Member
2006 - 2009
Director for Postgraduate Research, Department of Computer Science

Affiliations and memberships

International Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA)
Founding Editor-in-Chief of JISA since 2013. The journal has an impact factor of 3.8 in 2023 and a CiteScore of 10.9. It is currently ranked in the top quartile (Q1) of all assigned computer science categories.

Research

Research interests

Research activities

2024
  • RAE2026 External Advisor, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, July - present 2024.
  • Professorship Promotion, External Assessor, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan, August 2024 
  • Invited Speaker, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin and Shenzhen, China, 17 January 2024 and 22 January 2024
2023
2022
  • 2
2021
  • Invited Speaker, First International Workshop on Deep Learning and Intelligent Robots in Agriculture, organised by Jeonbuk National University, Korea and Tianjin University of Science and Technology, 29 October 2021
2020
2019
  • Local Chair,
  • General Co-Chair,
  • Program Co-Chair,
  • Invited Keynote Speaker, 
  • Invited Keynote Speaker, 
  • Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member, 
  • International Publicity Liaison Chair,
  • Editorial Board Member,
  • RAE2020 External Reviewer, Department of EIE, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June 2019.
2018
  • Visiting Professor, University of Malaya, Malaysia
  • Invited Keynote Speaker,
  • Visiting Scholar, University of Macau, Macau, 10-13 June 2018 
  • Invited Keynote Speaker,
  • Invited Keynote Speaker,
  • General Chair, 
  • Jury Member,
  • External Assessor, Professorial Academic Promotion, University of Macau, Macau.
  • RAE2020 External Advisor, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, June 2018.
2017
  • Invited Keynote Speaker,
  • Invited Keynote Speaker,
  • Invited Keynote Speaker,
  • Publication Co-Chair, , 23-25 August 2017, London, UK.
2016
  • Invited Keynote Speaker, 1
  • External Examiner, BSc Business Information Technology Programme, Coventry University (2016 - 2020)
  • Associate Editor, (2016 - 2019 now extended to 2020) Impact Factor: 6.211
  • Publication Co-Chair, , 14-16 October 2016, Beijing, China
  • Track Chair, Information Forensics and Security, , September 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
2015
  • , October 16-17, Tianjin, China,
  • , November 16-18, 2015, Wuhan, China
  • Europe Liaison Publicity Chair, International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW'15), October 2015, Tokyo, Japan
  • Program Co-Chair, 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN'15), 8-10 September 2015, Sochi, Russia
  • , , 31 August - 4 September 2015, Nice, France 
  • Member, Technical Program Committee,
  • Organising Committee Member, , 15-17 July 2015, London UK
  • Department of  Computer Science and Digital Technologies, Northumbria University, 22 April 2015.
2014
  • Guest Professor, , (2014-2019)
  • Associate Editor, , (2014 - 2016) Impact Factor: 2.528
  • Area Editor, (2014 - Present) Impact Factor: 2.244
  • Associate Editor, (2014-Present) Impact Factor: 1.742
  • Co-Leader, Interest Group on Security in Media Processing and Communications, IEEE Multimedia Communication Technical Committee, October 2014
  • Session Chair, Biometric Analysis of Crime Scene Traces and their Interpretation, , 27-28 March 2014, Valletta, Malta
  • International Advisor, published by Taylor & Francis, commencing January 2014
  • " Newcastle University, 28 January 2014
  • , Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics SPIE Electronic Imaging 2014, 2-6 February 2014, San Francisco, USA
  • Technical Committee Member. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'14), 14-18 July 2014, Chengdu, China
  • Europe Publicity Liaison Chair, 13th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW'14), 1-4 October 2014, Taipei, Taiwan
  • International Program Committee Member, , 20-23 August 2014, Hong Kong
  • Co-Special Session Chair, "Biometric Technologies for Security and Forensics Applications," 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014), 1-5 September 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Technical Committee Member, , 3 June 2014, Kyoto, Japan
  • Program Committee Member, , 27-29 August 2014, Kitakyushu, Japan
  • Program Committee Member, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2014), 21-24 September 2014, Reims, France
  • Technical Program Committee Member, , 3-5 December 2014, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
2013
  • Editor-in-Chief (founding), , ISSN: 2214-2126, November 2013 (previously known as Information Security Technical Report) - Impact Factor: 1.537 (June 2019)
  • Invited speaker, "Image Steganography, Watermarking and Forensic Techniques for secure communication and protection of image content," Wuhan University of Technology, China, 22 November 2013
  • , 1st ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 17-19 June 2013, Montpellier, France
  • , IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP'13), 22-25 September 2013 Southampton, UK
  • 12th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW'13), 1-4 October 2013, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Session Chair, Multimedia Forensics II and Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS'13), 18-21 November, 2013, Guangzhou, China
  • Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics SPIE Electronic Imaging 2013, 3-7 February 2013, San Francisco, USA
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 18th International Conference on DSP 2013, 1-3 July 2013, Santorini, Greece
  • , , 15-19 July 2013, San Jose, USA
  • Invited speaker,
  • , IEEE International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC'13), 24 May 2013, San Francisco, USA
  • , IET 5th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP'13), 16-17 December 2013, London, .
2012
  • , Elsevier (Jan 2012 - Dec 2014)
  • , IEEE Signal Processing Society, Information Forensics and Security (IFS), elected October 2011 (to serve for three years from 1 January 2012)
  • European Liaison Co-Chair, 11th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW), Shanghai, 31 October - 3 November, 2012
  • Technical Program Co-Chair, 13th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2012), Singapore, 4-7 December 2012
  • Member, Technical Programme Committee, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2012), Tenerife, Spain, 2-5 December 2012
  • Member, Organising Committee, IET Image Processing Conference (IPR 2012), London, UK, 3-4 July 2012
  • Co-Track Chair, Technical Programme Committee, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Seville, Spain, 9-12 December 2012.
2011
  • Honorary Co-Chair, International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2011, 11-14 July 2011, Wuhan, China
  • Invited Speaker, "Digital Image Watermarking and Forensics," New Technology Evening, IET London Branch, Savoy Place, London, 9 February 2011
  • Special Session Chair, Digital Forensics, IEEE ISCAS 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-18 May 2011
  • Technical Program Committee Member, Second Workshop on content protection and forensics (CPAF 2011), ICME 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 11-15 July 2011
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2010
  • Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT) 2010, Hainan, China, 20-22 July 2010
  • Invited Speaker, ",", Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, 26 July 2010
  • Editorial Board Member,
  • Technical Programme Committee Member,
  • European Liaison Chair,
  • International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT) 2010, 20-22 July 2010, Hainan, China
  • Technical Programme Committee Member,
  • Co-Special Session Chair, "Digital Forensics",
  • Technical Programme Committee Member, Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence (MiFor'10) ACM Multimedia, 25-29 October 2010, Firenze, Italy
  • Technical Programme Committee Member, 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Systems for Surveillance, 29 August 2010, Boston, USA
  • Invited Speaker, "Digital Watermarking and Image Forensics," University of Kent, 12 July 2010
  • International Publicity Chair, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW'10), Seoul, Korea, 1-3 October 2010
  • Editorial Board (EB) Member, Journal of Convergence, Web and Multimedia, August 2010.
2009
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, IGI Publishing
  • Associate Editor,
  • Invited Speaker, "Digital Watermarking and How to Prevent Forgery," IET Surrey, 7 October 2009
  • General Chair,
  • Program Committee Member,
  • Co-Chair, Invited Special Session on Multimedia Security and Forensics, 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), 5-7 July, 2009, Santorini, Greece
  • Advisory Committee Member,Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP09), Kyoto, Japan, 14-16 September 2009
  • Technical Committee Member, e-Forensics 2009, Adelaide, Australia, January 19-21, 2009
  • Program Committee Member, 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Genoa, Italy, September 2-4, 2009.
2008
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, IGI Publishing
  • Technical Committee Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Multimedia Systems and Applications (TC-MSA), elected in May 2008
  • Technical Co-Chair, International Workshop for Digital Watermarking (IWDW08), Korea, November, 2008
  • Technical Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IGARSS), 2008, Boston, USA, July 6-11 2008
  • Publicity Co-Chair, Third International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP08), Harbin, China, 15-17 August 2008
  • Co-Chair, Invited Special Session on Multimedia Forensics and Security, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'08), Seattle, USA, 18-21 May 2008
  • Session Chair and Technical Program Committee Member, IET Visual Information Engineering 2008, Xi'an, China, July 29 - August 1, 2008
  • Technical Committee Member, First International Conference on Forensics Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia, e-Forensics 2008, Adelaide, Australia, 21-23 January 2008
  • Technical Program Committee Member. Sixth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CMBI), 18-20 June 2008, London.
2007
  • Program Committee Co-Chair, Third International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP07), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 26-28 November 2007
  • Technical Program Committee Member, International Workshop for Digital Watermarking, IWDW2007, Guangzhou, China, 21-23 November 2007
  • Invited Session Organiser - Digital Watermarking and Multimedia Security and International Program Committee Member, ICICIC-2007, Kumamoto, Japan, 5-7 September 2007
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  • Technical Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Data Hiding for Information and Multimedia Security, in conjunction with IAS 2007, Manchester, 29-31 August 2007.
2006
  • Organising Committee Member, IET International Symposium on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP) 2006, London UK
  • Program Committee Member and Session Chair, Data Hiding and Watermarking, IET VIE2006, Bangalore, India, 26-28 September 2006
  • Invited Session Organiser - Multimedia Security and Applications and Program Committee Member, ICICIC-2006, Beijing, China, 30 August - 1 September 2006
  • Technical Advisory Panel Member, IEE Visual Information Engineering Professional Network.

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