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                 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
                       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 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 July 2004
            ** Early submission is encouraged **
Notification of acceptance:     1 March 2005
Final manuscript due:           1 May 2005
Publication date:               October 2005

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 2005" when selecting a manuscript type.  In
addition, the title "Supplement on Secure Media 2005" 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 732-235-1627 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