Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Information and Computer Security

 

Special Issue on: "Advanced Techniques in Multimedia Watermarking"

Guest Editors:
Dr. Amit Kumar Singh, Dr. Pardeep Kumar and Dr. Satya Prakash Ghrera, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
Dr. Basant Kumar, MNIT Allahabad, India
Dr. Sanjay Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, India

In the digital information age, multimedia content such as text, image, audio, video and 3D computer graphics models can be easily copied, manipulated and distributed over the open channel. This makes copyright protection, ownership identification, content authentication, and identity theft challenging issues to the content owner and distributors. Recently, data hiding techniques have developed very fast and have applied to many applications, such as e-government, military, communication, medical/healthcare, privacy protection, identification, media file archiving, broadcast monitoring, remote education and insurance companies, secure e-voting systems, digital cinema, fingerprinting and so on. Digital watermarking is a data hiding technique for inserting multimedia information, also known as a watermark, into multimedia data, which can be later extracted or detected for a variety of purposes including identification and authentication. In addition to providing security, this technique can also be used to recognise the source, owner, distributor or creator of the data.

The objective of this special issue is to call for all future research aspects and directions, state-of-the-art approaches and methodologies, and most recent developments related to this specific area.

We invite researchers to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will seek the continuing efforts to understand the advanced techniques that lead to future improvements for the multimedia watermarking.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Data hiding techniques for multimedia security
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Digital forensics for multimedia data
• Biometrics for multimedia
• Multimedia applications
• Text/image/audio/video delivery over open channels
• Electronic security
• Protection systems against personal identity theft
• Multimedia communications and services
• Integrity verification of multimedia content

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 31 January, 2017

Notification to authors: 31 March, 2017

Revised paper submission: 30 April, 2017

Final version due: 15 June, 2017