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                 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
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                       Supplement on Secure Media

MOTIVATION

The enormous growth of digital media is raising complex intellectual
property, authenticity, and other security issues. The field is expanding
in terms of fundamental research, applications, and connections to other
areas. However, the scattering of quality papers among a dozen journals
and compartmentalizing of research have been obstacles to the advancement
of secure media research. This supplement to the IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing is the first intended to create a focal point for
research and technology in secure media.

SCOPE

The scope of this IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing supplement on
secure media is all aspects of secure media, including: acquisition,
processing, storage, and communication. Emphasis is on fundamental
contributions and their applications. Technical topics include
information-theoretic analysis, coding, signal modeling, (insecure)
channel modeling, pattern recognition, decision and estimation theory,
game theory, cryptography, cryptanalysis, complexity analysis, system
architecture, quality metrics, and benchmarking.

TOPICS

  * Watermarking, Data-hiding, Steganography, Steganalysis,
    Fingerprinting, Secure Identification, Content Authentication,
    Trusted Sensors, Digital Forensics, Biometrics, Secure Networks

  * Nonsecurity applications based on related technologies (e.g., content
    identification, information embedding, database annotation)

SCHEDULE

Manuscript submission deadline:      1 November 2003
                              ** Early submission is encouraged **
Notification of acceptance:          1 March 2004
Final manuscript due:                1 June 2004
Publication date:                    October 2004

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors must prepare their manuscripts according to the information for
authors provided through Manuscript Central on the web at
http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com. Authors MUST click on "Supplement
on Secure Media" when selecting a manuscript type. In addition, the title
"Supplement on Secure Media" should be entered into the field labeled
"Please enter any additional keywords related to this submitted
manuscript" in order for the paper to be properly assigned to a Guest
Editor. All requirements detailed in the information for authors shall be
operative, including overlength page charges and color charges.

Note that we require a completed copyright form to be signed and faxed
to 732-562-8905 at the time of submission.

EDITORS

Ton Kalker
  Philips Research and Technical University of Eindhoven
  The Netherlands


Pierre Moulin
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  USA