Conference Overview
The ease of capturing, manipulating, distributing, and consuming digital media (e.g. images, audio, video, graphics, and text) has motivated new applications and brought a number of important security challenges to the forefront. These applications and challenges have prompted significant research and development activities in the areas of digital watermarking, steganography, data hiding, forensics, deep fakes, media identification, and encryption to protect the authenticity, security, and ownership of media objects. Research results in these areas have translated into new paradigms and applications to monetize media objects without violating their ownership rights.
The Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics conference is a premier destination for disseminating high-quality, cutting-edge research in these areas. The conference provides an excellent venue for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative work as well as to keep abreast with the latest developments in watermarking, security, and forensics. The technical program will also be complemented by keynote talks, panel sessions, and short demos involving both academic and industrial researchers/ practitioners. This strong focus on how research results are applied in practice by the industry gives the conference its unique flavor.
A significant feature of the conference is that the submission process only requires a structured abstract describing the work in progress. This allows researchers to present early results and fresh ideas from the laboratory to motivate new research directions in a timely manner.
2024 Conference Topics
Digital watermarking, steganography and data hiding
Algorithms, theoretical models, applications, implementation, benchmarking, security, systems, protocols, attacks, steganalysis
Media forensics and authentication
Fingerprinting and traitor tracing, device identification, content authentication, deep fake detection, computer forensics, recovery of deleted multimedia, near duplicate image/video retrieval
Media encryption and protection
Encryption and decryption techniques, visual encryption, signal processing in the encrypted domain, digital rights management
Optical document security
Security features for banknotes, passports, ID cards and visas, substrate and printing technology, optically variable security, authentication and examination
Biometrics and user identification
Feature extraction and management, security, attacks and countermeasures, multimodal biometric, biometric template protection and authentication, biometric systems and protocols, biometric for mobile computing applications
Media identification and physical object identification and interaction
Watermarking, digital fingerprinting, robust hashing, media database search, mobile visual search, data hardware security, packaging protection, RFID tags, barcode technology, near field communication (NFC), the Internet of things, big data
Autonomous technology security and privacy
Autonomous vehicles, self driving cars, collaborate robots and drones
2024 Special Sessions
TBA
2024 Committee
Conference Chairs
Adnan Alattar, Digimarc Corporation (United States)
Nasir Memon, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University (United States)
Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester (United States)
Program Committee
Sebastiano Battiato, Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy)
Marc Chaumont, Laboratory d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier (France)
Scott Craver, Binghamton University (United States)
Edward Delp, Purdue University (United States)
Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany)
Jean-luc Dugelay, EURECOM (France)
Touradj Ebrahimi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
Jessica Fridrich, Binghamton University (United States)
Anthony T.S. Ho, University of Surrey (United Kingdom)
Andrew D. Ker, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Matthias Kirchner, Binghamton University (United States)
Chang-Tsun Li, Deakin University (Australia)
Jennifer Newman, Iowa State University (United States)
William Puech, Laboratory d’Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier (France)
Husrev Taha Sencar, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Turkey)
Yun-Qing Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology (United States)
Claus Vielhauer, Fachhochschule Brandenburg (Germany)
Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy, University de Genève (Switzerland)