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

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

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

For more and update information, the conference website will be located at: http://www.ihmmsec.org 

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 2022 are to be written in English. Submissions must follow the new ACM conference template (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 anonymised. 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.

The manuscript must be submitted via easychair at: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ihmmsec23

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 counter-forensics
• Networks and protocols
• Anonymity and privacy
• Biometrics and deep fake analytics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use or advances of the following methods:

• Information, coding, and complexity theory
• Game and decision theory
• Statistical modeling
• Machine learning and deep learning
• Adversarial machine learning
• DNN watermarking
• Deep learning security
• Secure Signal Processing
• Benchmarking and replication
• Obfuscation and Privacy-preserving systems

Committee

General Chair

• Daniel Moreira, Loyola University Chicago, USA

• Aparna Bharati, Lehigh University, USA
• Cecilia Pasquini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Yassine Yousfi, Comma.ai, 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

Venue

The conference will be held in person at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University Chicago, pleasantly situated on the north side of the Windy City.