IEEE MultiMedia Call for Papers
Multimedia in Forensics, Security, and Intelligence
January—March 2012


Overview

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 to be used as a source of
intelligence. The sheer volume of such datasets makes manual
inspection of all data impossible. Tools are needed to support
investigators in their quest for relevant clues and evidence and in
their efforts toward preventing crime. Such tools could support the
protection, management,processing, interpretation, and visualization
of multimedia data in the different steps of the investigation
process.

In recent years, the multimedia community has developed new, exciting
solutions for managing large collections of video footage, images,
audio, and other multimedia content;extracting and categorizing
knowledge;recognizing patterns;indexing and retrieving information;
and modeling data in various domains. Due to the inherent uncertainty
and complexity of the data appearing in criminal cases, applying these
techniques is not straightforward. The time is ripe, however, to
tailor these techniques for forensics, security and intelligence.

The target group of contributors for this special issue is composed of
researchers working on innovative multimedia technology and companies
developing tools used in forensics,security, and intelligence. This
special issue is designed to bring the synergy needed to develop new
and effective solutions to improve all aspects of crime prevention and
investigation.

Topics

Topics for this special issue 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


Guest Editors

Sebastiano Battiato,Universita  di Catania, Italy(battiato@dmi.unict.it)
Sabu Emmanuel,      Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (asemmanuel@ntu.edu.sg)
Adrian Ulges,            DFKI, Germany (adrian.ulges@dfki.de)
Marcel Worring,        University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (m.worring@uva.nl)

Submission Procedures and Guidelines

Submit your paper at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When
uploading your paper, please select the appropriate special issue
title under the category “ManuscriptType.” If you have any
questions regarding the submission system, please contact Andy Morton
at mm-ma@computer.org. All submissions will undergo a blind peer
review by at least two expert reviewers to ensure a high standard of
quality. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical
soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special issue
topics. All submissions must contain original, previously unpublished
research or engineering work. Papers must stay within the following
limits: 6,500 words maximum, 12 total combined figures and tables with
each figure counting as 200 words toward the total word count, and 18
references.

To submit a paper to the January-March 2012 special issue, please
observe the following deadlines:

    * 15 April 2011: Full paper must be submitted using our online
    manuscript submission service and prepared according to the
    instructions for authors (please see the Author Resources page at
    http://www.computer.org/multimedia/author.htm).
    * 1 July 2011: Authors notified of acceptance, rejection, or needed revisions.
    * 3 October 2011: Final versions due.

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