[WM]: Special Issue Deadline Approaching: Multimedia=20Security and Rights Management

["Min Wu" <minwu@eng.umd.edu>]

FYI:  Special Issue Deadline Approaching

  ***Manuscript Due 3/31/2003***


EURASIP JOURNAL ON APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING
Special Issue on
Multimedia Security and Rights Management


The digital information revolution has brought about profound changes in =
our society and our lives.  New devices and powerful
software have made it possible for consumers worldwide to create, =
manipulate, share, and enjoy the multimedia data. Internet and
wireless networks offer ubiquitous channels to deliver and to exchange =
multimedia information for such purposes as remote
collaboration, distant learning, and entertainment. With all these =
advances in multimedia coding and communication technologies
over the past decade, the major hurdle for allowing much broader access =
of multimedia assets and deployment of multimedia services
no longer lies with bandwidth-related issues, but with assuring that =
content is used for its intended purpose by its intended
recipients. The core issue now becomes the development of secure =
management of multimedia content usage and delivery across
communication networks.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together the contributions =
from the latest research and development in multimedia
security and rights management. Prospective papers should be unpublished =
and present solid research works offering innovative
contributions either from a theoretical, methodological or application =
point of view.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Joint consideration of business models, system architectures and =
technical solutions of digital rights management (DRM) for
multimedia
* Efficient multimedia encryption
* Authentication of scalable multimedia
* Data hiding for multimedia security and rights management
* Secure multimedia transmission over lossy channels and for mobile =
environment
* Secure multicast of multimedia information
* New forms of multimedia distribution (such as P2P) and related =
technical issues
* New security analysis and evaluation methodologies in multimedia =
security and rights management
* Legal issues, economics aspects, and limitations of DRM
* Low-power low-cost implementation of secure multimedia communication =
and rights management systems
* Emerging standards for multimedia security and rights management

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at =
the Journal web site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective
authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript =
through the EURASIP JASP's web submission system at
http://asp.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable.

   Manuscript Due      March 31, 2003
   Acceptance Notification    September 30, 2003
   Final Manuscript Due      December 31, 2003
   Publication Date      2nd Quarter, 2004

Guest Editors:

Min Wu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of =
Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; minwu@eng.umd.edu .

Nasir Memon, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, =
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA; memon@poly.edu .

Touradj Ebrahimi,  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, =
Switzerland; Touradj.Ebrahimi@epfl.ch .

Ingemar Cox, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, =
University College London; ingemar@ieee.org .

Editorial Board Representative:  Naohisa Ohta, SONY, Japan.






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