Call for Papers
IWDW2016
15th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking
Beijing, China 17-19 September, 2016
http://www.iwdw.net/

The 15th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2016)
is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners working on novel research,
development and applications of digital watermarking and forensics techniques for
multimedia security. We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers.
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Two prizes are to be
awarded for the best paper and the best student paper, respectively. The proceedings
of IWDW 2016 will be published on the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
by Springer.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2016
Submission of Camera-Ready Versions: 1 September 2016

AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Mathematical modeling of embedding and detection
Information theoretic, stochastic aspects of data hiding
Security issues, including attacks and counter-attacks
Combination of data hiding and cryptography
Optimum watermark detection and reliable recovery
Estimation of watermark capacity
Channel coding techniques for watermarking
Large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking
New statistical and perceptual models of multimedia content
Reversible data hiding
Data hiding in special media
Data hiding and authentication
Steganography and steganalysis
Digital multimedia forensics & anti-forensics
Copyright protection, DRM, forensic watermarking
Visual cryptography & secret image sharing
Security based on human vision system

COMMITTEES
GENERAL CHAIRS
Dongdai Lin(Institute of Information Engineering, CAS ,China)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
Yun Q. Shi (NJIT, USA)
Hyoung Joong Kim (Korea U., Korea)
Fernando Perez-Gonzalez (U. Vigo, Spain)
ORGANIZING CHAIRS
Feng Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS ,China)
Xianfeng Zhao (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS ,China)
Linna Zhou (University of International Relations, China)
INDUSTRIAl LIAISONS
Jing Dong (Institute of Automation, CAS, China)
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICITY LIAISONS
ASIA:
Heung-Kyu Lee (U. KAIST, Korea), hklee@mmc.kaist.ac.kr
Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiao Tung U.), yzhao@bjtu.edu.cn
AMERICA:
Ton Kalker (DTS, USA), ton.kalker@gmail.com
Min Wu (University of Maryland), minwu@umd.edu
EUROPE:
Anthony TS Ho (U. Surrey, UK), A.Ho@surrey.ac.uk
Stefan Katzenbeisser (TUD, Germany),skatzenbeisser@sbaresear-ch.org

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Lee-Ming Cheng, City University of Hong Kong, China
Claude Delpha, University Paris-SuD XI, France
Jana Dittmann, University Magdeburg, Germany
Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Fangjun Huang, Sun Yet-sen University, China
Xinghao Jiang, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China
Xiangui Kang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Mohan S. Kankanhalli,NUS, Singapore
Anja Keskinarkaus, University of Oulu, Finland
Minoru Kuribayashi, Okayama University, Japan
Chang-Tsun Li, University Warwick, UK
Shenghong Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Feng Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zheming Lu, University Zhejiang, China
Bin Ma, Shandong University of Political Science and Law, China
Jiang Qun Ni, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Michiharu Niimi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Akira Nishimura, Tokyo University of Information Science, Japan
Alessandro Piva, University of Florence, Italy
Yong-Man Ro, KAIST, Korea
Vasiliy Sachnev, Catholic University, Korea
Pascal Schöttle, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andreas Westfeld, HTW Dresden, Germany
Xiaotian Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dawen Xu, Ningbo University of Technology, China
Diqun Yan, Ningbo University, China
James C. N. Yang, NDHU, Taiwan
Rui Yang, Sun Yet-sen University, China
Xinpeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China
Xianfeng Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Rongrong Ni, Beijing Jiao Tung University, China
Guopu Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

INVITED LECTURERS
IWDW2016 will have three invited lectures. The first one is Tieniu Tan (Academician
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), and the other two will be finalized soon.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Submissions must be made as a PDF file of no more than 15 pages. Please submit your
manuscripts written in English. Templates are available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. All submissions will
be subjected to double-blind peer review by at least 2 reviewers. Author names should
not appear in the manuscripts. To be included to the proceedings, at least 1 author of
each paper should register and present the paper.

CONTACTS
Feng Liu: liufeng@iie.ac.cn
Xianfeng Zhao: zhaoxianfeng@iie.ac.cn
Website: http://www.iwdw.net