Springer
LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security
As tremendous and
swift progress is constantly being made in information technology, especially in
VLSI semi-conductor design, digital signal processing (in particular,
compression) and Internet, the most recent decade has witnessed an explosive
advancement of multimedia applications that have dramatically changed every
aspect of our modern life ranging from business, manufacturing, transportation,
medicine and finance to education, research, entertainment and government. This
trend is continuing at the present and will be continuing in the future. While
an enormous amount of text, data, speech, music, image and video is easily exchanged
through Internet and other communication channels, some serious security issues
have arisen: in particular information assurance (authentication, integrity and
access control), which has caught the attention of people, societies and
governments worldwide.
Since
the middle of 1990s, digital watermarking has been proposed as enabling
technologies for solving security problems in multimedia applications. Digital
watermarks have now been used in applications including broadcast monitoring,
movie fingerprinting, digital rights management, secure data system, secure data
exchange, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication, to name a few.
In some of these applications, data hiding and cryptographic techniques are
combined to complement each other to achieve the goal. It is expected that this
approach will become more and more mature and will play a significant role in
future multimedia applications.
As
a reflection of this trend, several international workshops, and special
sessions in conventional conferences and workshops have been devoted to the
field of digital watermarking and data hiding. More and more papers have been
published in this field. This new journal, LNCS
Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, aims at publication of
original and archival research in this field.
I.
Timeline
A
formal web site of the Transactions will appear in the Springer's LNCS online
digital library. A temporary web site is now available at http://web.njit.edu/~shi/TDHM.html
for the time being. The first issue of the Transactions is expected to be ready
by the end of March 2006 and be published by the end of June 2006. At the
beginning stage, two to three issues per year are expected. Papers submitted to
the Transactions should follow Springer's LNCS format. More details can be found
at the end of the above-mentioned web site or at https://sekur.njit.edu/dhms/.
II.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-chief
Yun
Q. Shi (New Jersey Inst. of Tech., USA) shi@njit.edu
Vice
Editor-in-Chief
Hyoung-Joong Kim (Kangwon N. U., Korea) khj@kangwon.ac.kr
Stefan
Katzenbeiser (Technical Univ. Munich, Germany) katzenbe@in.tum.de
Associate
Editors
Mauro Barni (U. of Siena, Italy) barni@dii.unisi.it
Jeffrey Bloom (Sarnoff, USA) bloom@ieee.org
Jana Dittmann (U. Magdeburg, Germany) jana.dittmann@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Jiwu Huang (Zhongshan U., China) isshjw@zsu.edu.cn
Mohan Kankanhalli (NUS, Singapore) mohan@comp.nus.edu.sg
Darko Kirovski,
(Microsoft, USA), darkok@microsoft.com
C.
C. Jay Kuo (USC, USA) cckuo@sipi.usc.edu
Heung-Kyu Lee (KAIST, Korea) hklee@mmc.kaist.ac.kr
Benoit
Macq (UCL, Belgium) macq@tele.ucl.ac.be
Nasir
Memon (Polytechnic U., USA) memon@poly.edu
Kivanc
Mihcak (Microsoft, USA) kivancm@microsoft.com
Hideki
Noda (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
noda@know.comp.kyutech.ac.jp
Jeng-Shyang Pan (KUAS, Taiwan) jspan@cc.kuas.edu.tw
Fernando Perez-Gonzalez
(U. of Vigo, Spain) fperez@gts.tsc.uvigo.es
Andreas
Pfitzmann (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) pfitza@inf.tu-dresden.de
Yong-Man Ro (ICU, Korea) yro@icu.ac.kr
Alessandro
Piva (University of Florence, Italy) piva@lci.det.unifi.it
Ahmad-Reza
Sadeghi (University of Bochum, Germany) sadeghi@crypto.rub.de
Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan) sakurai@csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Qibin
Sun (Institue of Information Research, Singapore) qibin@i2r.a-satr.edu.sg
Ed Wong (Polytechnic U., USA) wong@poly.edu
III.
Advisory Board
Pil Joong Lee (POSTECH,
Korea) pjl@postech.ac.kr
Bede Liu (Princeton U., USA) liu@ee.princeton.edu
IV.
Topics:
The
Transactions solicit original papers addressing novel ideas, issues, theoretical
analysis, implementation, experimental results, systems and applications in the
field of Watermarking, Data Hiding, Multimedia Security, and Information
Assurance. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
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Concepts and applications of
data hiding methods (among them fragile, semi-fragile, robust, and reversible
watermarking)
*
Multimedia data hiding (in
images, videos, text, audio, speech, radio frequency signals and software)
*
Security aspect of
watermarking and data hiding
*
Privacy aspect of
watermarking and data hiding
*
Digital rights Management
systems
*
Steganography and
steganalysis
*
Multimedia security and
information assurance (authentication, fingerprinting, forensic analysis,
hashing, media encryption and signatures, visual cryptography, key management)
*
Attacks and benchmarks for
data hiding systems
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Applications of data hiding
technology in medicine, law enforcement, remote sensing, and e-Commerce)
V. CFP Special Issue on Forensic Image Analysis for Crime Prevention
Criminals inevitably leave clues to their identity at the crime scene. This is known as the Locard Exchange Principle which states that every contact between person(s) and objects results in exchange of physical evidence of that contact. Forensic image analysis is an increasingly important part of most evidential examinations, e.g., documents, handwriting, firearms, shoe-marks, fingerprints, tyre-marks, ear-marks, and these types of evidence are now considered by investigation agencies everywhere.
The last few years have witnessed the emergence of new tools and means for the scientific analysis of image based information for forensic science and crime prevention applications. For instance, images can now be captured, viewed and analysed at the scenes of crime or in laboratories within minutes whilst simultaneously making the images available to other experts via fast and secure communication links on the Internet thereby making it possible to share information for forensic and security intelligence and crime linking purposes. In addition, these tools have a strong link with other aspects of investigation, such as image capture, information interpretation and evidence gathering. They are helpful for both minimization of human error and analysis of data. While a good beginning has been made, there are still many challenges in this emerging area of research.
The objective of this special issue is to gather high quality research efforts that address the challenges of the emerging area of image-based evidence for forensic science and crime prevention applications with a view to provide the readers (researchers and forensic scientists) with an overview of the state of the art in this field. Possible topics for papers submitted to this special issue include, but are not limited to:
， Scene of crime evidence (shoe-marks, tyre-marks, ear-marks, palm prints, etc.)
， Recent advances in automatic analysis of scene of crime imagery and video
， Forensic image and video quality
， Statistical image security for forensic science
， Image forensics from CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) and surveillance video
， Data mining in forensic imaging
， Visualization tools
， Applications of forensic imaging and video
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline 10 January 2009
Completion of first round of reviews 10 April 2009
Final review and selection of papers 10 June 2009
Final manuscripts to Springer 10 August 2009
Publication of the Special Issue 10 November 2009
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically by following the information for authors at: http://web.njit.edu/~shi/TDHM.html
Both the manuscripts and cover letter should be clearly marked to indicate that they are being submitted for consideration for this Special Issue. They will be logged and sent to the Special Issue Editors for review. Papers must not have been published previously or submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by following the guidelines of the transactions.
GUEST EDITORS
Wei-Qi Yan (w.yan@qub.ac.uk), Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), Queen¨s University Belfast, UK. (either Wei-Qi, or Weiqi, take one)
Ahmed Bouridane (A.Bouridane@qub.ac.uk), Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), Queen¨s University Belfast, UK.
Mohan S Kankanhalli (mohan@comp.nus.edu.sg), School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore.