Supplement on Secure Media III October 2005 MOTIVATION The enormous growth of digital media is raising complex intellectual property, authenticity, and other security issues. The field is expanding in terms of fundamental research, applications, and connections to other areas. However, the scattering of quality papers among a dozen journals and compartmentalizing of research have been obstacles to the advancement of secure media research. This supplement to the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing is intended to create a focal point for research and technology in secure media. SCOPE The scope of this IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing supplement on secure media is all aspects of secure media, including: acquisition, processing, storage, and communication. Emphasis is on fundamental contributions and their applications. Technical topics include information-theoretic analysis, coding, signal modeling, (insecure) channel modeling, pattern recognition, decision and estimation theory, game theory, cryptography, cryptanalysis, complexity analysis, system architecture, quality metrics, and benchmarking.   Topics:   • Watermarking, Data-hiding, Steganography, Steganalysis, Fingerprinting, Secure Identification, Content Authentication, Trusted Sensors, Digital Forensics, Biometrics, Secure Networks. • Nonsecurity applications based on related technologies (e.g., content identification, information embedding, database annotation).   Guest Editors:   • Ton Kalker, Philips Research and Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. • Pierre Moulin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
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