!!!!  NEW: Paper submission deadline extended to February 26th, 2021

The IH&MMSec workshop is one of the premier events in the area of multimedia security and attracts researchers from all over the world.

The workshop focuses on information hiding topics, such as digital watermarking, steganography, steganalysis, anonymity, hard-to-intercept communications, and covert/subliminal channels. It also covers a variety of multimedia security topics including multimedia identification and authentication, signal forensics, and biometrics.

The research presented at this workshop captures the state-of-the-art conducted in academic, industrial, and government institutions around the world. Papers cover significant theoretical aspects of the field as well as novel industrial and commercial applications of techniques and algorithms developed in this area.

List of Topics

Submitted papers should address security and privacy aspects in relation to multimedia host signals in a broad sense (e.g., images, audios, videos, texts, network traffic, etc.):

• Steganography and steganalysis
• Covert and subliminal channels
• Watermarking and fingerprinting
• Forensics and counterforensics
• Networks and protocols
• Anonimity and privacy
• Biometrics

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Short papers: 4-6 pages, describing preliminary results, e.g. work in progress with limited test sets or just giving indications or tendencies...
• Full papers: 10–12 pages, describing general and detailed research contributions. Full papers are expected to back their key claims with strong evidence (such as mathematical proofs, statistical modelling, or extensive testing).

Technical papers submitted for ACM IH&MMSec 2021 are to be written in English. Submissions must follow the new ACM conference template (please use sigconf style). Submissions should not use older ACM formats or non-standard formatting, and must be in pdf format. Authors should devote special care that fonts, images, tables and figures comply with common standards and do not generate problems for reviewers. Submissions not meeting the formatting requirements risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should avoid obvious self-references and should appropriately blind them if used. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

Committee

General Chairs

• Dirk Borghys, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium
• Patrick Bas, CNRS CRISTAL, Lille, France

Program Committee

• Luisa Verdoliva, University of Naples, Italy
• Tomas Pevny, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
• Bin Li, Shenzhen University, China
• Jennifer Newman, Iowa State University, USA

Steering Committee

• Patrizio Campisi, University of Roma TRE, Italy
• Jana Dittmann, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Jessica Fridrich, SUNY Binghamton, New York, USA
• Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau, Germany
• Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Dallas, Texas, USA

ACM Liaison

• Jana Dittmann, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Publicity and Supporter Chair

• Rémi Cogranne, Troyes University of Technology, France

Venue

This year's edition of IH&MMSec is intended to be hybrid: participants can attend either on-site or on-line. The on-site part of the workshop will be held at the Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. The on-line part of the event will be held as a virtual conference in a Big Blue Button (BBB) conferencing system that is hosted at University of Magdeburg.