CALL FOR PAPERS 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