************************************************************************ Call for Papers: Recent Advances of Media Security: Algorithms and Implementations (a Special Issue of the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/si/rams/ ************************************************************************ Criminals inevitably leave clues to their identity at the crime scene. Forensic image analysis is an increasingly important part of most evidential examinations, for example, documents, handwriting, shoe marks, fingerprints, tyre marks, palm prints, and ear marks, and these types of evidence are now considered by investigation agencies everywhere. As a result, the field of security has witnessed an explosive growth during the last years, as phenomenal advances in both research and applications have been made. Biometric and forensic imaging applications often involve photographs, videos, and other image impressions that are fragile and include subtle details that are difficult to see or quantify. As a developer, one needs to be able to quickly develop sophisticated imaging applications that allow for an accurate extraction of precious information from image data for identification and recognition purposes. In addition, in many instances, the solutions require the sharing of evidential information securely and in real (near) time especially for intelligence purposes, so that crimes can be processed and linked while they are still “hot.” This is particularly true for any type of biometric and forensic image/video data. The objective of this special issue is to gather high-quality research efforts that address the challenges of the emerging area of digital media-based evidence for forensic science and crime prevention applications with a view to provide the readers (researchers and forensic scientists) with an overview of the state of the art in this field. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: · Scene of crime evidence (shoe marks, tyre marks, ear marks, palm prints, etc.) · Recent advances in automatic analysis of scene of crime imagery and video · Forensic image and video · Video analytics · Abnormal behaviour from video · Digital media security for forensic science (image, video, and audio) · Image forensics from CCTV (closed-circuit television) and surveillance video · Camera forensics · Data mining in forensic imaging · Visualization tools · Writer identification · Applications of forensic imaging and video Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due September 1, 2011 First Round of Reviews December 1, 2011 Publication Date March 1, 2012 Lead Guest Editor * Ahmed Bouridane, School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK Guest Editors * Fouad Khelifi, School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK * Tughrul Arslan, School of Engineering, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK * Somaya Al-Maadeed, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar