The 14th ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop (MMSec) will be held at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, on September 6 - 7, 2012. Since its inauguration in 1998, MMSec has been intended for disseminating knowledge in the areas of multimedia security such as data protection, multimedia forensics, hidden communications and biometrics, as well as topics in privacy, policy and legal issues in relation to multimedia security and forensics in real world applications. We expect the workshop to facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among key stakeholders from academia, industry, practitioners and government agencies around the globe.
Scope and Topics

Papers addressing issues of secure multimedia processing, access, distribution, storage and consumption are welcomed. Theoretical and practical coverage of the following topics will be considered. We also welcome software and hardware demos.
Topics include but are not limited to:

Integrity verification of digital content
Source device identification and linking
Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification
Multimedia network protection, privacy and security
Multimedia authentication and encryption
Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain
Steganography and steganalysis
Biometrics
Application of smart cards and ID cards
Secure multimedia system design and protocol security
Security evaluation and benchmarks
Emerging applications
Privacy, policy and legal issues as well as their interaction with technological development