Education

(1998) First Class Hons BEng in Communication Engineering (Electronics) from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

(1999) First Class Hons MSc in Communication Engineering from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. My MSc dissertation was on "Serial & Parallel Convolutional Concatenated Codes (i.e. Turbo Codes)", and this work was carried out at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom, thanks to a studentship funded by the European Union's Socrates programme.

(2002) PhD degree from the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. My PhD thesis was on: "Spread Spectrum-based Video Watermarking Algorithms for Copyright Protection".

(2005) Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), from the University of Kent, United Kingdom.

Professional Interests

Digital Watermarking. Steganography. Media Security.

Stereo/3D Imaging.

Wavelet & Multiwavelet Applications.

Image/Video Processing & Computer Vision.

Image/Video Compression.

Human Visual System Modeling.

Robotics and Intelligent Systems.

Digital design. VHDL.

PhD thesis

"Spread Spectrum-based Video Watermarking Algorithms for Copyright Protection", Cristian Vasile Serdean, PhD thesis, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom, August 2002.

Papers

"Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima based Robust Logo Watermarking", M. Barr and C. Serdean, in IET Image Processing, 13pp, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2018.5868, Print ISSN: 1751-9659, Online ISSN: 1751-9667, 15 November 2019.
 

"Robust Logo Watermarking Based on Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima", M. Barr and C. Serdean, in the Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems - ICICIS 2017, pp. 212-217, Cairo, Egypt, 5-7 December 2017, ISBN: 977-237-172-3, ISSN: 1687-1103.
 

"Stereo Video Disparity Estimation Using Multi-wavelets", P. Bagheri Zadeh and C.V. Serdean, in the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Telecommunications - ICDT 2012, pp. 50-54, Chamonix, France, 29 April - 4 May 2012, ISBN: 978-1-61208-193-9.
 

"Multiwavelets in the Context of Hierarchical Stereo Correspondence Matching Techniques", P. Bagheri Zadeh and C.V. Serdean, in the International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications, Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2, September 2011, pp. 48-57, ISSN: 1942-2601.
 

"A Hierarchical Multiwavelet Based Stereo Correspondence Matching Technique", P. Bagheri Zadeh and C.V. Serdean, in the Proceedings of the 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EURASIP) - EUSIPCO 2011, pp. 393-397, Barcelona, Spain, 29 August - 2 September 2011, ISSN: 2076-1465.
 

"An Evaluation Of Multiwavelet Families For Stereo Correspondence Matching", P. Bagheri Zadeh and C.V. Serdean, in the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Telecommunications - ICDT 2011, pp. 41-45, Budapest, Hungary, 17-22 April 2011, ISBN: 978-1-61208-005-5.
 

"Stereo Correspondence Matching: Balanced Multiwavelets versus unbalanced Multiwavelets", P. Bagheri Zadeh and C.V. Serdean, in the Proceedings of the 18th European Signal Processing Conference (EURASIP) - EUSIPCO 2010, pp. 1509-1513, Aalborg, Denmark, 23-27 August 2010, ISSN: 2219-5491.
 

"Stereo Correspondence Matching Using Multiwavelets", P. Bagheri Zadeh and C.V. Serdean, in the Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Telecommunications - ICDT 2010, pp. 153-157, Athens, Greece, 13-19 June 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7271-0. (Won the Best Paper Award )
 

"Wavelet and Multiwavelet Watermarking", C.V. Serdean, M.K. Ibrahim, A. Moemeni and M.M. Al-Akaidi, in IET Image Processing, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 223-230.
 

"Limits of Error Correction Coding in Video Watermarking", M.A. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson, C.V. Serdean, J.G. Wade, in Proceedings of SPIE, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Edited by Edward J. Delp III and Ping W. Wong, Santa Clara, CA, United States, Vol. 5020, June 2003, pp. 594-603, ISBN: 0-8194-4820-6.
 

"MAVERIC: An Autonomous Balloon System for Mars Exploration", R.A. Buckland, N.E. Jay, D.C. Rowe, C.V. Serdean and T. Worley, 1st IEEE Workshop on Internet and Online Robotics - IORW 2003, Reading, UK, 28 May 2003.
 

"DWT Based High Capacity Blind Video Watermarking, Invariant to Geometrical Attacks", C.V. Serdean, M.A. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson and J.G. Wade, in IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 150, No. 1, February 2003, pp. 51-58.
 

"Adding Robustness to Geometrical Attacks to a Wavelet Based, Blind Video Watermarking System", C.V. Serdean, M.A. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson and J.G. Wade, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - ICME 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-29 August 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 557-560, IEEE Catalogue Number: 02TH8604C, ISBN: 0-7803-7305-7.
 

"DWT Based Video Watermarking for Copyright Protection, Invariant to Geometrical Attacks", C.V. Serdean, M.A. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson and J.G. Wade, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing - CSNDSP 2002, Stafford, UK, 15-17 July 2002, ISBN: 1-90413-305-3. (Won the Best Paper Award sponsored by Fujitsu Networks Europe)
 

"Combating Geometrical Attacks in a DWT based Blind Video Watermarking System", C.V. Serdean, M.A. Ambroze, M. Tomlinson and J.G. Wade, in Proceedings of the 4th EURASIP-IEEE International Symposium on Video, Image Processing and Multimedia Communications - VIPromCom 2002, Zadar, Croatia, 16-19 June 2002, pp. 263-266, IEEE Catalogue Number: 02EX553, ISBN: 953-7044-01-7.
 

"Protecting Intellectual Rights: Digital WM in the Wavelet Domain", C.V. Serdean, M. Tomlinson, J.G. Wade and M.A. Ambroze, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop "Trends and Recent Achievements in Information Technology", Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16-18 May 2002, ISBN: 973-8335-49-3. (Invited Paper)
 

"Digital Watermarking Using Hash Functions", R. Major, V. Deac, M. Borda, J.G. Wade, C.V. Serdean, in "Acta Tehnica Napocensis", Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2002, pp. 60-65.
 

"Turbo Code Protection of a Video Watermarking Channel", M.A. Ambroze, J.G. Wade, C.V. Serdean, M. Tomlinson, J. Stander and M. Borda. Published in IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 148, No. 1, February 2001, pp. 54-58.
 

"Watermarking Uncompressed Video: An Overview", J.G. Wade, C.V. Serdean, M.A. Ambroze, M. Borda and I. Nafornita, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications - Etc 2000, Timisoara, Romania, 23-24 November 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 2-15, ISSN: 1224-6034. (Invited Paper)