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2007 ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop

Dallas, Texas, September 20-21, 2007

Welcome
The 9th ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop will be held in Dallas, Texas. Its objective is to identify key future research issues in the areas of multimedia security and protection, robust media transmission, manipulation and recognition, and the detection of hidden communications. We expect the workshop to motivate this research and to establish fruitful relationships with key actors from academia, industry, and government in the US, Europe and Asia. It will consist of invited papers, full papers, short papers, and a rump or a panel session. This event continues a successful series of workshops started in 1998.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:	May 17, 2007 *** NOTE EXTENSION
Notification of acceptance:	June 28 , 2007
Camera-ready papers due:	July 19, 2007
Early registration deadline:	August 20, 2007
Deadline to book hotel at workshop rate	August 20, 2007
Workshop:	September 20-21, 2007

This year's ACM MM&Sec '08 Webpage can be found here.

Workshop Objectives

Discussion of emerging technologies in digital multimedia authentication, encryption, identification, fingerprinting, steganalysis, and secure multimedia networking;
Identification of critical high impact research problems addressing specified deficiencies in the field of secure multimedia distribution and consumption;
Formulation of target applications of identified technologies in both the commercial, civilian, and military sectors;
Exposition of legal and business issues connected to multimedia security.

Scope and Papers
Papers addressing issues of secure multimedia processing, transmission, and consumption are welcomed. Both theoretical concepts dealing with fundamental performance issues and application-oriented contributions within this scope will be considered. Software and hardware demos are highly encouraged.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification	Multimedia network protection, privacy and security
Multimedia authentication and encryption	Secure multimedia system design, presentation and computing
Signal processing in the encrypted domain	Secure multimedia system design, presentation and computing
Steganography and steganalysis	Security evaluation benchmarks
Digital media forensics	Emerging applications
Data hiding in biometrics	Legal and business issues as well as their interaction with technological development
Practical systems exhibiting data hiding characteristics

Further information
Inquiries on technical matters related to the workshop should be addressed to the workshop program chairs:
Professors Jana Dittmann and Jessica Fridrich

Professor Jana Dittmann
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
jana.dittmann [at] iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

Professor Jessica Fridrich
SUNY Binghamton, USA
fridrich [at] binghamton . edu

Other general enquiries should be addressed to the workshop general chairs:

Professor Deepa Kundur
Texas A&M University, USA
deepa [at] ece.tamu.edu

Professor Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
University of Texas, Dallas, USA
praba [at] utdallas.edu