[WM]: [WM] IWDW 2003 Call for Papers

["Ton Kalker" <ton.kalker@ieee.org>]

Call for Papers
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International Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2003 =
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About the Workshop
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IWDW 2003 is the second of a series of workshops focusing on digital =
watermarking techniques. The conference will provide an
excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present as =
well as to keep abreast with the latest developments in
watermarking technologies. We are pleased to invite you to submit to and =
a ttend IWDW 2003.

Early work on digital watermarking was characterised by the development =
of a plethora of watermarking algorithms and attacks
against them. The theore tical foundations of watermarking have since =
then advanced very rapidly. Modelling the watermarking
process as a communication task, in which the watermark is the signal to =
be transmitted, and the host data (together with the
attacks) is the noise of channel, can lead to considerable insight into =
the performance of watermarking in terms of reliability,
capacity or error probability. More recently, this communications model =
has been extended to one of communications with side
information. Here, the host data is no longer considered as noise but =
side information that is available either to the embedder
and/or the detector. These theoretical models have led to improve =
watermarking algorithms as well as accurate models of the
channel capacity and error rates. It is the goal of this workshop to =
present research analysing the watermarking process from an
information theoretic point of view, trying to obtain general results on =
reliable recovery of watermark, watermark capacity,
optimum watermark detection and channel coding for improved performance. =
Large-scale (e.g. thousands of images) experimental
papers are also encouraged particularly comparing the performance of =
different algorithms or actual algorithms with theoretical
models. Papers describing new statistical and perceptual models of =
content are also encouraged.

Areas of Interests
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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

.. Mathematical modelling of watermark embedding and detection processes =
.. Reliable watermark recovery . Estimation of watermark
capacity . Optimum watermark detection . Channel coding techniques for =
digital watermarking . Bounds on error probability . Attack
modelling and counter-attacks . Large-scale experimental tests and =
comparisons . New statistical and perceptual models of content.
.. Steganography and information hiding . Steganalysis . Copy protection =
and DRM

Instructions to Authors
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Interested parties are invited to submit papers related to the areas of =
interests above . Claims must be backed by evidence in the
paper and authors should be prepared to publicly discuss them at the =
workshop. Assumptions about the model should be stated and
justified clearly. Submissions must be made electronically, preferably =
as a PDF or PS file of no more than 15 pages. Please submit
your submissions written in English to =
http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/iwdw2003. Templates can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All submitted papers will =
be refereed by at least three members of the
International Program Committee according to the standard refereeing =
procedures. The proceedings (presented oral papers) will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series; pre-proceedings will be =
available at the workshop. Please note that authors who
fail to attend will not have their papers included in the conference =
proceedings. The proceedings of IWDW 2002 will be published
as LNCS 2613. For more specific information see www.iwdw.org.

Important Dates
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Paper Submission: June 15, 2003
Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2003
Final Paper (Camera -Ready): September 20, 2003


About Seoul
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Seoul is the capital of Korea with its six hundred years of history with =
the harmony of the past and the present. October is a
typical autumn that brings the pleasant atmosphere to this area and has =
the best weather for outdoor activities including
sightseeing. We wish all of you to come to Seoul and enjoy the academic =
and cultural experiences.

Committee
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General Chair
S. H. Kim (KAIST, Korea)

Advisory Committee
C. D. Ahn (ETRI, Korea)
M. J. Kim (ETRI, Korea)
S. N, Koh (NTU, Singapore)
S. U. Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
W. G. Oh (ETRI, Korea)
P. Seo (KETI, Korea)

Program Chairs
Ton Kalker (Philips, The Netherlands)
Ingemar Cox (UCL, England)
Program Committee Co-Chair
Y. M. Ro (ICU, Korea)

Organizing Committee Chair
C. S. Won (Dongguk University, Korea)


Secretariat
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All inquiries related to the workshop to
Judy Kang / Convention Manager
e-mail: judy@iwdw.org / Tel: +82-2-3142-1034 / Fax: +82-2-336-1086






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