The 13th ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop will be held in Buffalo NY. The workshop’s continuing objective is to explore research in areas of multimedia data security such as data protection, media forensics, covert channels and security issues in biometrics, as well as related issues in public policy and multimedia infrastructure in real world application. Since 1998, MMSEC has fostered collaboration with researchers and developers in academia, industry and government.


SCOPE AND PAPERS

We welcome papers addressing any issue of secure multimedia processing, transmission or distribution, from theoretical results to deployment of secure media architectures. Demonstrations of results are encouraged. Topic include but are not limited to:

Multimedia watermarking and fingerprinting
Secure multimedia distribution
Multimedia-specific authentication and encryption
Signal processing in the encrypted domain
Media forensics
Steganography and steganalysis
Biometrics
Security evaluation and benchmarks
Emerging applications
Legal and policy issues in media security

The workshop accepts short and long papers. Short papers should be 4-6 pages long, long papers 6-10 pages. (ACM format http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Accepted papers will be published in the ACM workshop proceedings.