KEY DATES

Submission ends:
January 25, 2013

Authors notified:
April 2, 2013

Camera-ready by:
May 4, 2012

Workshop:
June 17-19, 2012

Welcome to IH&MMSEC 2013

The 1st ACM Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Workshop (IH&MMSec) will be held at the University of Montpellier II, in the south of France, FR, on June 17 - 19, 2013.


Since the ends of the nineties Information Hiding conference (IH) and Multimedia and Security Workshop (MMSec) has been intended for disseminating knowledge in the areas of multimedia security such as watermarking, steganography, forensics, anonymous communication, data protection, biometrics, privacy, policy and legal issues in relation to multimedia security and forensics in real world applications.


Digital watermarking and steganography protect information, conceal secrets or are used as core primitives in digital rights management schemes. Steganalysis and forensics pose important challenges to digital investigators and privacy techniques try to hide relational information such as the actors' identities in anonymous communication systems. These and other topics share the notion that security is defined by the difficulty to make (or avoid) inference on certain properties of host data, which therefore has to be well understood and modeled.

We expect the merging of IH and MMSec will give birth a workshop that will facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among key stakeholders from academia, industry, practitioners and government agencies around the globe.

Scope and Topics

Papers addressing issues of secure multimedia processing, access, distribution, storage and consumption are welcomed. Theoretical and practical coverage of the following topics will be considered. We also welcome software and hardware demos.
Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Steganography and steganalysis
  • Watermarking (algorithms, security, attacks)
  • Fingerprinting and embedding codes
  • Multimedia forensics and counter forensics
  • Anonymity and privacy, policy and legal issues
  • Content authentication, integrity verification, and encryption
  • Covert/subliminal channels
  • Digital rights management
  • Theoretical aspects of information hiding and detection
  • Multimedia and document security
  • Multimedia authentication and encryption
  • Multimedia network protection, privacy and security
  • Secure multimedia system design and protocol security
  • Security metrics for information hiding, benchmarks
  • Source device identification and linking
  • Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain
  • Security aspects of biometrics
  • Application of smart cards and ID cards
  • Novel applications of information hiding
  • Other data hiding domains (e.g. text, software, etc.)
  • Biometric algorithm design and testing
  • Biometric evidence for forensic investigation
  • Challenges in Soft biometrics
  • Combination of multimodal biometrics with other forensic evidence
  • Ethical and societal implications of emerging forensics in multimedia and biometrics
  • Signal processing in crime scene forensics
  • Pattern Recognition and Security for Crime Scene Forensics Traces