The topics include but are not limited to:
Information Hiding and Security
● Broadcast and public-key encryption
● Cryptography and cryptanalysis: techniques, protocols, applications
● Data authentication issues and access control themes
● Digital rights management and legal aspect
● Enabling technologies and emerging standards for information hiding & security
● Forensic analysis and tracing traitors
● Platform integrity and trusted computing
● RFID security and home network privacy
● Steganography and steganalysis: techniques, protocols, applications
● Systems engineering and development for information hiding & security
● VLSI/ASIC/FPGA/SOC design and implementation for information hiding & security
● Watermarking: techniques, attacks, protocols, applications

Multimedia Signal Processing and Networking
● Advances in multimedia content description interface (e.g. MPEG-7)
● Advances in multimedia framework: (e.g. MPEG-21)
● Advances in multimedia framework: (e.g. MPEG-21)
● Enabling technologies and emerging standards for multimedia applications
● Multimedia databases and retrievals
● Multimedia hyperlink techniques and applications
● Multimedia networking and communication techniques (wired & wireless)
● Multimedia sensing and sensory systems Steganog
● Multimedia signal analysis and visualization
● Multimedia signal mining and data fusion
● Multimedia source coding and channel coding
● Systems engineering and development for multimedia systems
● VLSI/ASIC/FPGA/SOC design and implementations for multimedia systems

Bio-Inspired Multimedia Technologies and Systems
● Artificial neural networks for multimedia processing: models, learning paradigms, architectures, and implementations
● Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing for intelligent multimedia processing
● Human-machine multimodal interaction: e.g. face/speech recognition, facial expression and emotion categorization, gesture analysis and recognition, etc.