Call for Papers

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The paper submission deadline has been extended from January 17, 2014 to January 24, 2014. 

The 2nd ACM IH & MMSec 2014

will be held at the Parkhotel Brunauer in Salzburg, Austria, on June 11-13, 2014. The 2nd Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Workshop focusses on both, information hiding topics such as watermarking, steganography and steganalysis, anonymity, privacy, hard-to-intercept communications, and covert/subliminal channels as well as multimedia security topics such as data hiding, robust/perceptual hashing, biometrics, video surveillance, and multimedia forensics. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Integrity verification of digital content
• Source device identification and linking
• Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification
• Multimedia network protection, privacy and security
• Multimedia authentication and encryption
• Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Biometrics
• Application of smart cards and ID cards
• Secure multimedia system design and protocol security
• Media Forensics
• Crime Scene Forensics
• Security evaluation and benchmarks
• Emerging applications
• Privacy, policy and legal issues as well as their interaction with technological development

Special Sessions:

• Security and Privacy Technologies for Intelligent Energy Networks (chaired by Dominik Engel and Zekeriya Erkin)
• Source device identification and linking
• Security and Robustness in Biometrics (chaired by Christian Rathgeb and Peter Wild)
• Multimedia network protection, privacy and security
• Forensic and Biometric Challenges in Information Hiding and Media Security (chaired by Claus Vielhauer, Chang-Tsun Li, Klimis Ntalianis and Nicolas Tsapatsoulis)
• HEVC, H.264, and JPEG Security (chaired by Jan de Cock and Thomas Stütz)

[For further information please visit "Special Sessions"]

Submission of Papers:

You are invited to submit short papers (4-6 pages, showing work in progress with limited test sets for example or just giving indications or tendencies) and full papers (10-12 pages, with general and detailed research contributions).

[For further information please visit "Submission of Papers"]

Best paper awards:

There will be financial awards for the two most outstanding papers: one for the best student paper and one for the best regular paper.

Important Dates:

Extended submission deadline: January 24, 2014

Submission deadline: January 17, 2014

Notification of Acceptane: March 31, 2014

Camera-ready papers: May 2, 2014