Call for Papers
IWDW 2018
17th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking
22-24 October, 2018, Jeju, Korea.
http://iwdw2018.org/


The 17th IWDW 2018 will be held Oct. 22-24, 2018 in Jeju, Korea. For over a decade, IWDW has been a premier event for researchers and practitioners working on digital watermarking and forensic for multimedia security.
We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers. The proceedings of IWDW 2018 will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer.

Important Dates:
Paper Submissions: Jul 11th, 2018
Special Session Submissions: Aug 8th, 2018
Notification of Paper Acceptance: Aug 8th, 2018
Camera-Ready Paper Due: Aug 22th, 2018

Areas of Interest

The topics include, but not limited to
• Authentication, Copyright protection, DRM, and forensic watermarking
• Channel coding techniques for watermarking
• Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and deep learning
• Combination of data hiding and cryptography
• Digital image and media forensics and anti-forensics
• Document Security
• Information theoretic, stochastic and capacity aspects of data hiding
• Large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking
• Media forensics use-cases, methodologies and tools
• Statistical and perceptual models of multimedia content
• Reversible data hiding
• Robust perceptual hashing
• Security issues, including attacks and counter-attacks
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Source identification
• Visual cryptography and secret image sharing

General Chair

Chang Dong Yoo (KAIST, Korea)

Technical Program Chairs

Yun Q. Shi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Hyoung Joon Kim (Korea U., Korea)
Alessandro Piva ( U. of Florence, Italy)

Technical Program Committee

Akira Nishimura (Tokyo U. of Information Sciences, Japan)
Andreas Westfeld (Dresden U. of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Anja Keskinarkaus (U. of Oulu, Finland)
Athanassios Skodras (U. of Patras, Greece)
Chang-Tsun Li (U. of Warwick, UK)
Christian Kraetzer (Otto-von-Guericke-U. Magdeburg, Germany)
Claude Delpha (U. Paris-Sud XI, France)
Dawen Xu (Ningbo U. of Technology, China)
Feng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Guopu Zhu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Isao Echizen (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
James C. N. Yang (National Dong Hwa U., Taiwan)
JongWeon Kim (Sangmyung U., Korea)
Krzysztof Szczypiorski (Warsaw U. of Technology/Institute of Telecommunications, Poland)
Minoru Kuribayashi (Okayama U., Japan)
Mohan Kankanhalli (National U. of Singapore, Singapore)
Pascal Schöttle (U. of Innsbruck, Austria)
Pedro Comesaña Alfaro (U. of Vigo, Spain)
Rainer Böhme (U. of Innsbruck, Austria)
Sabah A. Jassim (U. of Buckingham)
Stefan Katzenbeisser (Technische U. Darmstadt, Germany)
Steffen Wendzel (Worms U. of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Tomás Pevný (Czech Technical U. in Prague, Czech Republic)
Ton Kalker (DTS, Inc., USA)
Wojciech Mazurczyk (Warsaw U. of Technology, Poland)
Xiangui Kang (Sun Yat-sen U., China)
Xiaotian Wu (Jinan U., China)
Xinghao Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China)
Xinpeng Zhang (Shanghai U., China)
Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong U., China)
Yong-Man Ro (KAIST, Korea)

Local Arrangement Chair

Gwangsu Kim (KAIST, Korea)

CONTACTS
local.iwdw2018@gmail.com
secretary.iwdw2018@gmail.com
Website: http://www.iwdw.net