Lecture 6 - CS4920: Automated Document and Media Exploitation (Fall 2008)

Naval Postgraduate School
Fall 2008

CS4920: Automated Document and Media Exploitation

Mon Oct 20, 2008

File Formats, Data and Metadata

Seminar 5 << Seminar 6 >> Seminar 7

Last class we started thinking about file formats within the context of text extraction. In today's lecture we're really going to tare them apart.

Readings

Predicting the Types of File Fragments, William Calhoun, Drue Coles, DFRWS 2008

Optional Readings

USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR FORENSIC FILE TYPE IDENTIFICATION, Ryan M. Harris, Master of Science Thesis, Purdue University, May 2007.
Sliding Window Measurement for File Type Identification, Gregory A. Hall and Wilbon P. Davis,