[WM]: Reminder CFP: Special Issue on Multimedia Security

[Stefan Katzenbeisser <katzenb@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>]

--->>> the deadline is approaching


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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM Multimedia Systems Journal
Special Issue on Multimedia Security
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see also:
http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/katzenb/cfp.html


Guest Editors:
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Jana Dittmann (HTWK Leipzig)
Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Wien)
Nasir Memon (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn , NY)

With the increasing availability and distribution of media in digital
form, the protection of intellectual property and the recognition of
manipulations faces new challenges. Popular file formats (like MPEG and
MP3) facilitate the exchange of digital videos or sound clips, books are
published electronically and films are distributed on DVDs. The
possibility to easily and cheaply reproduce digital content without
permission raised the concern of the music, film and entertainment
industries. Although classical analogue storage media (like VHS video or
audio cassettes) can also be copied, the inevitable quality loss present
in all analogue copies naturally limits the illegal distribution of
copyrighted content. In the digital age, however, thousands of lossless
copies can be produced easily and distributed over public networks.

Because of these fears techniques for preventing copying or restricting
the access to copyrighted material (called copy protection mechanisms or
digital rights management schemes) are being implemented. Examples of
copy protection include encrypted digital TV broadcast, access controls
to copyrighted software through the use of license servers and technical
copy protection mechanisms on the media (like the content management
mechanism on DVDs). Copy protection is, however, very difficult to
achieve in open systems.

Furthermore to ensure the trustworthiness of the digital content we need
mechanims for manipulation recognition.

This special issue tries to collect papers capturing the state of the
art in and modern applications of multimedia security (like
watermarking-based content protection schemes); special emphasis is laid
on papers that assess the security and applicability of digital rights
management schemes in practical frameworks. Areas of interest include,
but are not limited to:

- watermarking methods and their application to DRM and manipulation
recognition,
- novel attacks on watermarking schemes, and benchmarking aspects
- novel applications of watermarking schemes,
- copyright protection protocols,
- cryptographic foundations of secure multimedia delivery,
- (partial) encryption of multimedia information,
- assessment of DRM systems with respect to their security,
- new business models and DRM,
- try and buy transactions and mechanisms,
- ...


Authors are invited to submit, by email, full original papers in
electronic format (PDF or PostScript) to both Jana Dittmann
(dittmann@imn.htwk-leipzig.de) and Stefan Katzenbeisser
(katzenb@dbai.tuwien.ac.at). Authors should follow the ACM Multimedia
Systems manuscript format (approximately 25-page long, double space,
single column, 11 or 12 pt.)


IMPORTANT DATES:
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        Submission deadline:             September 1, 2002
        Notification of acceptance:      February 1, 2003
        Provisional Publication:         fall 2003


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