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Title: Multimedia Forensics and Security
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Proposal deadline: 31 october, 2006


by Dr. Chang-Tsun Li
University of Warwick,
United Kingdom

Introduction to the subject area
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As rapid and tremendous progress in information technology is
constantly being made, and, while an enormous amount of media
such as text, audio, speech, music, image and video can be
easily exchanged through the Internet and other communication
networks, information security issues such as copyright protection,
integrity verification, authentication, and access control have
become exceptionally acute. As a result, the subjects of information
hiding for multimedia forensics and security have been taken as one
of the top research and development agendas for researchers,
organisations and governments worldwide.

The Overall Objective of the Book
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The proposed book aims to create a collection of quality chapters
on information hiding for multimedia forensics and security
contributed by leading experts in the related fields. It will
embrace a wide variety of aspects of the related subject areas and
provide a scientifically and scholarly sound treatment of state-
of-the-art techniques to students, researchers, academics, personnel
of law enforcement and IT/multimedia practitioners who are interested
or involved in the study, research, use, design and development of
techniques related to multimedia forensics and security.

The Target Audience
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The book is targeting students, academics, researchers and industrial
practitioners of the related areas, E-commerce professionals, IT
personnel of institutions and governments, and lawyers and law
enforcement personnel.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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- Digital rights management
- Digital watermarking
- Fingerprinting / transaction tracking of multimedia
- Steganography and steganalysis
- Integrity verification and authentication
- Information hiding and media annotation
- Tampering and attacks on original information
- Quality metrics and benchmarking
- Cryptography and related techniques
- System design and implementation
- Signal processing for forensic analysis
- Technical analysis of system vulnerabilities
- Content identification and secure content delivery
- Applications of information hiding in law enforcement, medicine,
military, and E-commerce

Submission Procedure
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Prospective authors are invited to submit on or before October 31, 2006,
a 2 – 5 page
chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the
proposed chapter.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 30 and sent
chapter organisation
guidelines. Full chapters of 5000 – 7500 words are due by March 31,
2007. All submitted full
chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is
scheduled to be published
by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group
Publishing, Information
Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group
Reference imprints.


Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded by email to:
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Dr. Chang-Tsun Li
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (24) 7657 3794
Fax: +44 (24) 7657 3024
email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ctli