I hope all attendees enjoyed the MM&Sec workshop and will attend MM&Sec 2009 in Princeton!

The 10th ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop will take place in Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK. Its objective is to identify key research issues in the areas of multimedia security, such as data protection, media forensics, covert communication, and security in biometrics. We expect the workshop to motivate such research and to establish fruitful relationships with the key actors from academia, industry, and government. The workshop will include a keynote address, full papers, short papers, and a rump session. This event continues a successful series of workshops started in 1998.

• Discussion of emerging technologies in digital multimedia authentication, encryption, identification, fingerprinting, steganography and steganalysis, secure multimedia networking and biometric user authentication.
• Identification of critical high impact research problems addressing specific deficiencies in the field of secure multimedia distribution and consumption.
• Formulation of target applications of identified technologies in both the commercial, civilian, and military sectors.
• Exposition of legal and business issues connected to multimedia security.

Papers addressing security in multimedia processing, transmission, and consumption are welcomed. Both theoretical concepts dealing with fundamental performance issues and application-oriented contributions within this scope will be considered. Software and hardware demonstrations are highly encouraged.

• Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification.
• Multimedia authentication and encryption. Signal processing in encrypted domains.
• Steganography and steganalysis.
• Data hiding in biometrics, security issues of biometrics, biometric template protection, security in multimodal and multifactor authentication.
• Practical systems exhibiting data hiding characteristics.
• Digital media forensics.
• Multimedia network protection, privacy and security.
• Secure multimedia system design, trusted computing, and protocol security.
• Security evaluation and benchmarks.
• Emerging applications.
• Legal and business issues as well as their interaction with technological development.