CALL FOR PAPERS (Apologies for multiple copies)

 

The ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence
(MiFor 2010), http://madm.dfki.de/mifor2010/MiFor2010.html

 

in conjunction with the 2010 ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM),
http://www.acmmm10.org/

 

Firenze, Italy

October 29, 2010

 

With the proliferation of multimedia data on the web, surveillance
cameras in cities, and mobile phones in everyday life we see an
enormous growth in multimedia data that needs to be secured to prevent
illegal use, to be analyzed by forensic investigators to detect and
reconstruct illegal activities, or be used as source of
intelligence. The sheer volume of such datasets makes manual
inspection of all data impossible. In recent years the multimedia
community has developed new exciting solutions for management of large
collections of video footage, images, audio and other multimedia
content, knowledge extraction and categorization, pattern recognition,
indexing and retrieval, searching, browsing and visualization, and
modeling and simulation in various domains. Due to the inherent
uncertainty and complexity of the data appearing in criminal cases
applying those techniques are not straightforward. The time is ripe,
however, to tailor these results for forensics, security and
intelligence.

The workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Forensics

    * Forgery detection and identification, detection of stenography *
    Device characterization and identification * Media forensic
    applications and attack analysis * Crime scene reconstruction and
    annotation * Forensic investigation of surveillance data, video
    analytics * Multimodal analysis of surveillance data * Multimodal
    analysis of biometric traces * Authenticity of multimedia data

 

Security

    * Digital/encrypted domain watermarking for multimedia * Signal
    processing in the encrypted domain * Multimedia content protection
    and violation detection * Digital rights management * Robust
    hashing and content fingerprinting * Cryptography for content
    protection

 

Intelligence

    * Searching for illicit content in multimedia data * Image, video,
    and text linking * Multimedia near duplicate detection and
    retrieval * Multimedia interfaces, visual analytics * Identity
    detection * Scalable multimedia search

 

Important Dates (tentative)

    * Paper Submission: June 10, 2010 * Notification of Acceptance:
    July 10, 2010 * Camera-ready Version: July 20, 2010 * Workshop
    Date: October 29, 2010

 Paper Submissions and Author Guidelines

Papers submissions for MiFor 2010 should follow the submission format
and guidelines for regular ACM Multimedia 2010 papers, and be up to 6
pages in length. Guidelines for preparing submissions can be found at:
http://www.acmmm10.org/authors/submission/full-and-short-papers/.

Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process by at least two
reviewers.

Accepted papers for oral and poster presentations at the workshop will
be included in the workshop's proceedings, which will be published
together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference
2010. In addition, we plan to realize a special issue or an edited
volume by asking the authors of the best papers to submit a
substantially extended version of their workshop papers.

Additional information is available at the workshop website:

http://madm.dfki.de/mifor2010/MiFor2010.html

 

 

Workshop Chairs:

Sebastiano Battiato (University of Catania, Italy)

Sabu Emmanuel (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Adrian Ulges (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI), Germany)

Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, The Netherland)