[WM]: Summer School on Multimedia Security, September 21-24, open for registration

[Stefan Katzenbeisser <katzenbe@in.tum.de>]

               ECRYPT Summer School on Multimedia Security
                          September 21-24, 2005
                             Salzburg, Austria
                    http://cms2005.sbg.ac.at/school/


We are pleased to announce that the ECRYPT Summer School on Multimedia Security is now open for registration. The summer school
focuses on security techniques for digital communication and multimedia content, such as digital watermarking, media encryption,
perceptual hashing, biometrics and fingerprinting. The program is targeted at graduate and post-graduate level participants from the
areas of computer science, engineering and cryptology, as well as researchers and professionals interested in these fields. The
courses comprise introductory as well as advanced and specialized sessions, featuring an array of first class speakers, all of whom
have high international esteem in their respective fields. The course program is structured in single track so that participants
will be able to attend all courses.

Introductory Courses
    * Christian Cachin, IBM Research, Switzerland: Cryptographic Foundations
    * Ingemar Cox, Universty College London, UK: Robust Watermarking
    * Jana Dittmann, University of Magdeburg, Germany: Multimedia Technology
    * Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURECOM, France: Biometrics and Multimedia
    * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA: Authentication Watermarking
    * Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Austria: Media Encryption

Advanced Courses
    * Ton Kalker, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands: Digital Rights Management
    * Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technical University of Munich, Germany: Steganography
    * Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University New York, USA: Fingerprinting
    * Martin Schmucker, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany: Perceptual Hashes

Specialized Courses
    * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA: Attacks against Watermarking Schemes
    * Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University New York, USA: Steganalysis
    * Andre Adelsbach, University of Bochum, Germany: Advanced Watermarking Protocols
    * Andreas Lang, University of Magdeburg, Germany: Benchmarking, Implementation


The summer school is held directly after the IFIP Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2005).

More information (including fees and registration procedure) can be found at the summer school website:
http://cms2005.sbg.ac.at/school/

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.


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