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Sp
pecial Issu
ue on
Dataa Securityy in Multiimedia Modeling
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Springger Journal Multimedia
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Tools
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and Applications
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Editorr-in-Chief: Borko
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Furht
http://www..springer.com
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Summary
y and Scope:
Thee volume of multim
media dataa we hand
dle on a daily basiis is grow
wing
exp
ponentially
y due to thee availability of ubiq
quitous and
d cheap sensors, sharring
plattforms, and new soccial trends. State-of-th
he-art med
dia modeliing techniq
ques
hav
ve proven to
t be effecttive for intterpreting this prepo
onderance data.
d
With
h the
eveer-increasin
ng speed of
o generatin
ng, processsing, and sharing
s
mu
ultimedia data,
d
the necessity to ensure the securitty of thesee multimed
dia data ha
as becomin
ng a
chaallenging and
a
unavoiidable issu
ue. The seccurity in multimedia
m
a modeling
g, as
welll as guara
anteeing the
t
timely
y delivery of multim
media conttent to a rich
variety of en
nd users aand portab
ble devicees, are imp
portant yeet challeng
ging
oblems in multimediia applicattions. As an examp
ple, due to
o the inherent
pro
sho
ortcoming in securitty, the vo
oluminous amount of data distributed
d
d on
alm
most all mu
ultimedia streams
s
m
make
the co
onventionaal encryption techniq
ques
high
hly inefficiient.
i
will focus
f
on the
t most reecent prog
gress in so
olving secu
urity
Thiis special issue
oblems in multimed
dia modeliing. We aim
a
at enccouraging research and
pro
pro
omoting activities con
ntributive to differen
nt types of cutting-ed
dge techniq
ques
tow
ward multim
media dataa security. The primaary objectiv
ve of this special
s
issu
ue is
to ffoster focu
used attenttion on thee latest ressearch pro
ogress in th
his interessting
yet importantt area. We target the researchers and praactitioners from both
h the
industry and academia. The list off possible topics
t
inclu
udes:
y including
g digital watermarks and encry
yption;
-Daata security
-Co
opyright isssues for multimedia
m
data, DRM
M, forensic watermarking;
-Mu
ultimedia-b
based com
mputer forensics (e.g
g., crime scene invesstigation, user
u
pro
ofiling);
-On
n forensic utilization
u
of biometrrics;
-Daata hiding, stenograp
phy, and steeganalysiss;
-Tru
ust and priivacy issuees in media
a systems;
- Viisual crypttography & secret im
mage sharin
ng system;
-Seccurity and privacy off multimed
dia data in cloud com
mputing;

-Security and privacy of multimedia data in mobile devices;

-Cryptography, authentication, and access control for multimedia data in
cloud;
-Multimedia data security in sensor network and mobile Internet;
-Multimedia data security in social application and networks;
-Content-based multimedia information retrieval;
-Modern computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of
multimedia content;
-Surveillance and compound security, object tracking and threat detection
using multimedia data analytics;
-New statistical and perceptual models for multimedia content modeling;
Submission Guideline
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors
available from the online submission page at
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applicatio
ns/journal/11042. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the
Multimedia Tools and Applications reviewing procedures.

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Important Dates:
Paper submission due: Sep. 1, 2016
Revision: Nov. 1, 2016
Final decision: Jan. 1, 2017

Guest Editors:
Prof. Yingjie Xia, Zhejiang University (xiayingjie@zju.edu.cn)
Prof. Luming Zhang, Hefei University of Technology (zglumg@gmail.com)
Prof. Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore
(rogerz@comp.nus.edu.sg)
Prof. Yan Yan, University of Trento, Italy (tomyan.8555@yahoo.com)