MFSec 2017: 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Forensics and Security Bucharest, Romania, June 6, 2017 |
Conference website | http://mklab.iti.gr/mfsec2017/ |
Submission deadline | February 28, 2017 |
As worldwide internet penetration increases, an environment has now emerged where the fields of security and forensics are faced with novel challenges, but also with new opportunities to exploit. On the one hand, the proliferation of social media has created a new ground for illegal actions and content exchange and with it the need to track such activities whilst simultaneously protecting users. On the other hand, the increased resources provided by Web platforms, including human resources through crowdsourcing, provide novel tools for security experts and analysts. Similarly with respect to multimedia forensics, Web and social media platforms create unique challenges for forensic algorithms through the large-scale dissemination of potentially tampered multimedia content of unknown origin. At the same time, however, they offer novel tools for forensic analysis, such as contextual information or media phylogenies, that would be inaccessible outside these environments.
The 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Forensics and Security (MFSec 2017) has the explicit aim of drawing attention to these issues by focusing on multimedia forensics and security in the Web and social media. The goal of MFSec 2017 is three-fold: First, the workshop aims at presenting cutting-edge forensic and security methods aimed at Web and social media applications. Second, it aspires to bring together key individuals from the research and professional communities, from the fields of security, forensics, and multimedia analysis and retrieval, to exchange ideas and experiences and shape the directions of the field for the future. Third, the workshop intends to evaluate the level maturity of the field, identify the current strengths and weaknesses, and encourage progress towards novel solutions to the particular challenges posed by Web and social media environments.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. They should be prepared according to the ICMR 2017 format (ACM style) and must not exceed 4 pages. The reviewing process will be single blind. Papers can be submitted through the ICMR 2017 EasyChair website by selecting the “multimedia forensics and security workshop” track. Authors should check the MFSec 2017 website for short paper formatting guidelines.
List of Topics
Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Crime and terrorism detection from Web and social media
- Machine learning and multimedia data mining for intelligence purposes
- Early warning systems for terrorist threats using Web and social media
- Dark Web data extraction and visualization
- User privacy and information security in social media
- Image and video forgery detection in Web and social media content
- Source attribution for Web and social media content
- Contextual multimedia verification
- Multimedia forensics and counter-forensics for the Web
- Multimedia steganography for the Web
- Social computing for multimedia verification (e.g. crowdsourcing)
- Multimedia geographic localization for Web and social media content
- Near-and partial duplicate detection for multimedia verification
- Evaluation methodologies, datasets and benchmarks for multimedia forensics and security
- Platforms and applications for indexing and retrieval of terrorist-related multimedia content for Law enforcements agents
- Search and discovery of terrorist online multimedia content in surface and dark web and social media
- Multimedia authentication and encryption for Web and social media environments
Committees
Program Committee
- TBA
Organizing committee
- Markos Zampoglou (Information Technologies Institute/CERTH, Greece)
- Stefanos Vrochidis (Information Technologies Institute/CERTH, Greece)
- Anderson De Rezende Rocha (Institute of Computing, Unicamp, Brazil)
- Vasilis Katos (Bournemouth University, UK)
Publication
MFSec 2017 proceedings will be published by ACM (through the proceedings of ICMR 2017)
Location
Bucharest, Romania
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to markzampoglou@iti.gr