[WM]: Reminder Deadline is approaching8th ACM Multimedia Security Workshop September 26-27, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

[Oleksiy Koval <Koval@cui.unige.ch>]

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                  8th ACM Multimedia Security Workshop
               September 26–27, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

The objective of this 8th ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop is to identify the key issues to be addressed by future research in
the are as of media manipulation recognition, media data authentication, and detection of hidden communication channels. We expect
the workshop to help motivate this research and to establish fruitful relationship= s with the key actors from academia, industry,
and government in the US and European and = Asian countries. It will consist of invited papers, full papers, short papers, and
possibly a rump or a panel session.
This event continues a successful series of workshops started in 1998= .

OBJECTIVES
• Discussion of emerging technologies in digital multi-media authentication, identification, fingerprinting, and steganalysis

• Identification of key research problems with the biggest impact o= n specified deficiencies in the field of secure multimedia
distribution

• Formulation of target applications of identified technologies (in=  both the commercial and military sectors)

• Discussion of legal issues connected to multimedia security, digi= tal watermarking, and steganography

SCOPE AND PAPERS

Papers should address theoretical and practical issues of multimedia watermarking and steganography. We will consider both
theoretical papers dealing w= ith fundamental issues and application oriented contributions (software and hardware demos are highly
encouraged).

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Robust watermarking of multimedia
• Authentication of multimedia
• Informational-theoretical aspects of data hiding
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Forensic analysis of digital multimedia
• Practical systems with aspects of data hiding
• Watermarking quality evaluation and benchmarks
• New applications, security issues, and legal aspects
• Data hiding applications in biometrics: document security and per=  son authentication.

In particular, the call for papers includes request for full papers with  high degree of innovations as well as short papers with
interesting improvements = of existing art or new ideas and research directions. Full papers should be 6–12 pa= ges long, short
papers 4–6 pages long (ACM format http://www.acm.org/sigmm/). Accep= ted papers will be published in ACM workshop proceedings.
Submission Deadline April 2= 0,
2006 Authors
are invited to submit, by email, full papers or short papers by indicating the type of the paper (full/short) in electronic format
(PDF or PostScript) to

https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ACM2006.

Create a new user account, login, and follow the submission instructi= ons.

Authors are invited to submit, by email, full papers or short papers = by indicating the type of the paper (full/short) in
electronic format (PDF or PostScript) to

https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ACM2006.

Create a new user account, login, and follow the submission instructi= ons.

Important dates
Submissions start: February 10
Submissions end: May 10
Authors notified: July 30
Camera ready by: August 30
Workshop: September 26-27, 2006

Organizing Committee
General Chair
Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy

Local Arrangement Chair and Treasurer
Oleksiy Koval


Program Chairs
Jana Dittmann
Jessica Fridrich


ACM SIGMM Chair
Ramesh Jain

Program Committee
Mauro Barni
Ahmet M. Eskicioglu
Teddy Furon
Mariam Haroutunian
Ton Kalker
Stefan Katzenbeisser
Deepa Kundur
Inald Lagendijk
Heung-Kyo Lee
Nasir Memon
M. Kivanc Mihcak
Pierre Moulin
Fernando Perez-Gonzalez
Thierry Pun
Claus Vielhauer
Min Wu







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