Workshop on Multimedia Security and Digital Forensics (MSDF 2019)

Papers Due	October 20, 2019
Acceptance Notification	October 31, 2019
Final paper Deadline	November 25, 2019

Multimedia security and digital forensics is an active research area considering the ever-expanding areas including social media and IoT. Digital forensics has become a challenging one as we need more tools that are less pervasive and intervening on well established social platforms. In the last decade a large number of multimedia security and forensic techniques have been proposed. However, most of these solutions adopt very limiting and simplifying working conditions and inappropriate for real-world deployment. The Workshop on Multimedia Security and Digital Forensics (MSDF’19) will serve as a platform for researchers to share novel ideas, techniques and communicate with international peers.

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review, are solicited. The manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format. Authors should submit their papers online via EDAS. Unregistered authors should first create an account on EDAS to log on.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Attacks on Visual Captchas
Big Data Analysis for Forensics
Bio-Inspired Multimedia Signal Processing
Biometrics for Multimedia
Content-Protection and Counter-Protection
Counter Forensics
Cryptography, Authentication, Authorization and Usage Control for Multimedia Big Data
Cyber Crime Investigations
Cyber Threat Analysis for Image and Video Data
Data Hiding in Multimedia
Data-Driven Multimedia Forensics and Security
Digital Forensics and Law
Digital Watermarking and Finger Printing
Feature Extraction from Multimedia
Forensic Data Fusion
Forensics on IoT
Hashing for Multimedia Identification
Image and Video Collection Forensics
Incident Response Related to Image and Video Data
Multidimensional Visualization Systems of Multimedia Big Data on Clouds
Multimedia Analysis
Multimedia Content Authentication
Multimedia Evidence Recovery and Validation
Multimedia Forensics
Multimedia Provenance
Multimedia Source Device Identification
Multimedia Web Service Security
Near Copy Detection
Privacy and Security of Social Network
Secure Access to Enterprise Social Media and Shared Accounts
Secure Compressive Sensing
Secure Media Streaming
Secure Multimedia Content Sharing in P2P Network
Secure Multimedia Design
Security and Privacy Management of Multimedia Big Data in Cloud Computing
Security and Privacy of Multimedia Big Data in Sensor Networks
Security and Privacy of Multimedia Data in Mobile Devices
Security and Privacy of the Internet of Things
Security, Privacy and Forensics of Multimedia Big Data
Sensitive Content Detection
Signal Processing for Cryptography and Security Applications
Signal Processing in Encrypted Domain
Social Media Forensics
Steganography and Steganalysis
Surveillance for Forensics and Security Applications
Visual Analytics for Forensics and Security Applications
Visual Cryptography
Visual Information Hiding: Designs and Attacks

Submission Instructions

Authors should submit their papers online. We use EDAS system for managing submissions and review process. Unregistered authors should first create an account on EDAS to log on. Detailed usage instruction on EDAS can be found here.

Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). The list of authors should not be included in the paper manuscript PDF, in accordance to the double blind submission policy. Changes to the paper metadata on EDAS are permitted before the paper submission deadline.

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of FIFTEEN (15 pages). However extra page charges will be applicable for papers exceeding 12 pages. Authors should pay special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create problems for reviewers.

SSCC'19 accepts regular and work-in-progress papers. Regular papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers (Work-in-Progress) are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results.

Manuscript Template - Word Latex

Further formatting instructions are posted at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Double Blind Submissions

All submitted papers will be judged based on their originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. Papers that do not conform with our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review.

Minimally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission:

Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
Remove acknowledgments of identifying names and funding sources.
Remove project titles or names that can be used to trace back to the authors via a web search engine.
Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [3], we presented a routing protocol that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Smith and Clark [3] presented a routing protocol that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation to Smith and Clark can still be given, such as "[3] J. Smith, A. Clark, "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[3] Reference deleted for double-blind review."
Papers with the same title and abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists.

The organizers regard plagiarism as a serious professional misconduct. All submissions will be screened for plagiarism and when identified, the submissions by the same author will be rejected.

Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the Program Committee. Each manuscript will be reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers. Acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors by email. The accepted regular and work-in-progress papers will be published in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science Series(CCIS), ISSN: 1865:0929. The proceedings will be available via the SpringerLink digital library.

To be published in the SSCC'19 Conference Proceedings, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full rate. Both regular and work-in-progress papers will be scheduled for oral presentation.

Technical Program Committee

Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy
Abdullah Iliyasu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Feng Tian, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Lei Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
Ahmed Elmisery, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Brij Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Seng Hansun, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
Aniruddha Kanhe, National Institute of Technology Puducherry Karaikal, India
Rajasekaran Padmavathy, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
Manojkumar Parmar, Robert Bosch Engineering and Solutions Limited, India
Ali Tekeoglu, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA
Zhiyuan Yu, Shandong University, P.R. China
Priti Rege, College of Engineering, Pune, India
TC Manjunath, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India