Call for Papers "Multimedia Systems" (Springer, ISSN 0942-4962)

Special Issue on Digital Media Security and Right Management

Today’s world’s societies are becoming more and more dependent on open 
networks such as the Internet – where commercial activities, business 
transactions, government services and entertainment services are 
realized. This has led to the fast development of new cyber threats and 
numerous information security issues which are exploited by cyber 
criminals. The inability to provide trusted secure services in 
contemporary computer network technologies could have a tremendous 
socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as individuals.
In the recent years, rapid development in digital technologies has been 
augmented by the progress in the field of multimedia standards and the 
mushrooming of multimedia applications and services penetrating and 
changing the way people interact, communicate, work, entertain and 
relax. Multimedia services are becoming more significant, popular and 
they enrich humans’ everyday life. Currently, the term multimedia 
information refers not only to text, image, video or audio content but 
also graphics, flash, web, 3D data, etc. Multimedia information may be 
generated, processed, transmitted, retrieved, consumed or shared in 
various environments. The lowered cost of reproduction, storage and 
distribution, however, also invites much motivation for large-scale 
commercial infringement.

Abovementioned issues have generated new challenges related to 
protection of multimedia services, applications and digital content. 
Providing multimedia security is significantly different from providing 
typical computer information security since multimedia content usually 
involves large volumes of data and requires interactive operations and 
real-time responses. Additionally, ensuring digital multimedia security 
must also signify safeguarding of the multimedia services. Different 
services require different methods for content distribution, payment, 
interaction, etc. Moreover, these services are also expected to be 
“smart” in the environment of converged networks, which means that they 
must adapt to different network conditions and types as multimedia 
information can be utilized in various networked environments, e.g. in 
fixed, wireless, mobile networks, etc. All of these make providing 
security for multimedia even harder to perform.

This special issue intends to bring together diversity of international 
researchers, experts and practitioners who are currently working in the 
area of digital multimedia security. Researchers both from academia and 
industry are invited to contribute their work for extending the existing 
knowledge in the field. The aim of this special issue is to present a 
collection of high-quality research papers that will provide a view on 
the latest research advances on secure multimedia transmission and 
distribution but also on multimedia content protection.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Emerging technologies in digital multimedia security
- Digital watermarking
- Fingerprinting in multimedia signals
- Steganology (steganography and steganalysis)
- Information theoretic analysis of secure multimedia systems
- Security/privacy in multimedia services
- Multimedia and digital media forensics
- Multimedia integrity verification and authentication
- Multimedia systems security
- Digital rights management
- Digital content protection
- Tampering and attacks on original information
- Content identification and secure content delivery
- Piracy detection and tracing
- Copyright protection and surveillance
- Forgery detection
- Secure multimedia networking
- Multimedia network protection, privacy and security
- Secure multimedia system design, trusted computing, and protocol security

Instructions for Authors

Original and high quality contributions that have not yet been published 
or are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed 
conferences are sought. The submitted papers should be formatted 
according to the journal style. For more detailed information concerning 
the requirements for submission, please refer to the journal homepage 
and Instructions for Authors section at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/530

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted to 
Multimedia Systems through the online submission system available at 
https://www.editorialmanager.com/mmsj/. During the submission process 
authors should identify that the paper is for the special issue “Digital 
Media Security and Right Management”.

All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on their originality, high 
scientific quality, organization, clarity of writing, conclusions and 
relevance to this Special Issue. The manuscripts will be accepted or 
rejected in line with the usual standards of Multimedia Systems.

Important Dates
Manuscript due: 1 September 2012
Acceptance/rejection notification: 15 December2012
Final manuscript due: 15 January 2013
Publication date: 2013

Editors of the Special Issue
Wojciech Mazurczyk and Krzysztof Szczypiorski
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Email: {wmazurczyk, ksz}@tele.pw.edu.pl