Special session motivation and description

With the affordability of capturing and editing technologies, a large growth of multimedia data was evident in the recent years. These include ever growing entertainment content produced by professional producers in the creative industries and rapidly growing user generated content shared in the social networks, repository platforms and news broadcasters. This growth has resulted in the need for efficient and effective algorithms for the cybersecurity of multimedia content, addressing the issues on piracy, access control, trust, privacy, authenticity aspects of the content. Traditionally, the content security and access control have been achieved by cryptography and watermarking-based solutions. However, there is evidence in the community exploring beyond these technologies for addressing the multimedia content cybersecurity needs and the emerging various data types. Although these are highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary topics, signal processing plays a major role in the fundamental development of these methodologies and systems. This special session aims to solicit papers addressing the current and emerging signal processing advances for multimedia security, privacy and trust.

Call for papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality full papers representing original results in all areas of Signal processing for multimedia security, privacy and trust. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:

• Technologies for piracy protection of user generated content (UGC)
• Robust and resilient multimedia watermarking and data hiding
• Advancements in signal decomposition and analysis in online space
• Secure media sharing in social networks ensuring privacy and trust
• Media blockchain for secured and trusted media consumption
• Graph signal processing-based solutions
• Artificial Intelligence-based solutions
• Multimedia forensics (e.g., content-based retrieval, forgery detection, camera sensor characteristics modelling and analysis.)
• Multimedia content cyber security for new and emerging entertainment content formats, such as AR/VR multiview content

Organisers

Charith Abhayaratne, Dept of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK (c.abhayaratne@sheffield.ac.uk)
Deepayan Bhowmik, Division of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, UK (d.bhowmik@ieee.org)
Touradj Ebrahimi, Multimedia Signal Processing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (touradj.ebrahimi@epfl.ch)

Paper Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in the Special Session at ICASSP 2019. Detailed formatting guidelines including page length and templates are available from main conference website: https://2019.ieeeicassp.org/authors#paper-submission

Further submission information will be available soon.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: October 29, 2018
Authors notification: February 1, 2019
Submission of final paper: February 18, 2019
Conference dates: May 12-17, 2019

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