FPGA Central

2007 International Workshop on Data Hiding for Information and
Multimedia Security

in conjunction with

The Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security
(IAS'07)

August 29 - 31, 2007
Manchester, United Kingdom


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, digital right
management,
integrity verification, authentication, and access control have become
exceptionally
acute. As a result, the subject of data hiding for information security
and forensics
has been taken as one of the top research and development agendas for
researchers,
organisations and governments worldwide. In addition, data hiding
techniques have
also found applications in the areas of covert communication,
image/video indexing,
medical image archiving and exchange, transmission error recovery and
concealment,
image captioning, audio in video for language translation, etc.


Topics
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Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Digital watermarking
* Fingerprinting / transaction tracking of multimedia
* Steganography and steganalysis
* Integrity verification and authentication
* Data hiding for media annotation
* Data hiding for transmission error recovery and concealment
* Data hiding for medical image archiving and exchange
* Tampering and attacks on original information
* Quality metrics and benchmarking
* System design and implementation
* Digital rights management
* Technical analysis of system vulnerabilities
* Content identification and secure content delivery
* Applications of information hiding in law enforcement, medicine,
military,
and E-commerce


Paper Submission
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Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical,
experimental or
application nature, or be unique experience reports. Papers must be
submitted in PDF
or Word format. The page limit for a full-length paper is 6 pages. Short
papers
describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature
results are also
welcome, with the limit of 4 pages. All submissions should be in the
IEEE 8.5" x 11"
two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will
be evaluated
for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be
reviewed by at
least three independent reviewers. Please submit your papers as an email
attachment
directly to [email protected] with 'DHIMS' as the subject of the email.


Proceedings
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Accepted papers will be included in the main conference (IAS07)
proceedings published
by IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers presented at the
workshop will be
considered for publication in a special issue of the international
Journal of Information
Assurance and Security (JIAS).


Important Dates
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* Full Paper Submissions Deadline: 31 March 2007
* Paper Acceptance Notifications: 10 May 2007
* Final 'Camera Ready' Papers Deadline: 8 June 2007
* Author Registration Deadline: 8 June 2007


Chair
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Chang-Tsun Li
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
E-mail: [email protected]
Home: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ctli


Technical Program Committee
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Dr. Frank Hartung (Ericsson Research, Germany)
Dr. Chun-Shien Lu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Professor Jeng-Shyang Pan (National Kaohsiung University of Applied
Sciences, Taiwan)
Dr. Matthew Sorell (University of Adelaide, Australia)
(To be expanded)


Contacts
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Any enquiries regarding DHIMS’07 can be sent to the chair:
[email protected]