[DFSci] IWDW'09: Extended Deadline: 9 April

[Hans Schaathun]

Dear Colleague,

The Programme Chairs have decided to extend the deadline of IWDW'09 to
9 April this year.  We look forward to receiving your contribution.
Please see http://www.iwdw.org.uk/ for details.

On behalf of IWDW'09
:-- Hans Georg Schaathun

** Introduction

The 8th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW09) is a
premium forum for researchers and practitioners working on novel
research, development, and applications of digital watermarking,
steganography, steganalysis, and forensics techniques for multimedia data. 
Recent developments apply techniques from advanced coding theory and 
formal verification in order to improve our understanding of
robust watermarking systems and related security protocols. 

Major advances in authentication and restoration have further improved
detection, localization accuracy and recovery of tampered regions. Data
forensics has recently generated new and exciting opportunities,
challenges and applications for researchers. IWDW09 aims to provide an
international forum for researchers and the dissemination of the latest
cutting-edge research results in these important areas. We invite
submissions of high-quality original research papers with two prizes to
be awarded for the best paper and best student paper. 

The host for IWDW09 is the University of Surrey, in the beautiful
Cathedral Town of Guildford. The town is centrally located in
the South-East of England. Both Heathrow and Gatwick airports, as well
as Central London and the ferry port of Portsmouth, are all within an
easy commute and less than one hour away by public transport.

** Areas of Interest

+ 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 content               
+ Reversible data hiding
+ Data hiding in special media
+ Data hiding and authentication
+ Steganography and steganalysis
+ Data forensics
+ Copyright protection and DRM
+ Visual cryptography

** Instructions for Authors

Interested parties are invited to submit papers related to the
areas of interest above.
Papers must present original research; assumptions must be clearly
stated and supported by strong empirical evidence and/or mathematical
proof.

Submissions may be up to 15 pages, and will be reviewed by
at least three reviewers.
As in previous years, accepted papers will be published by
Springer-Verlag in /Lecture Notes in Computer Science/
Complete intstructions can be found on the official IWDW
website.

To be included in the proceedings, at least one author of each 
paper has to register and present the paper, either as a poster
or as a talk.

** Deadlines
  9 April       Submission of original manuscripts
  20 May        Notification of acceptance
  20 June       Submission of Camera-ready versions
  6 July	Discounted Registration (early bird)

** Contacts and further information

Contact email: info at iwdw.org.uk
Website:  http://www.iwdw.org.uk/
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 686140 (Maggie Burton)
Facs: +44 (0) 1483 686051