Enhancing Privacy Protection in Multimedia Systems
Call for Papers
The right to privacy has long been regarded as one of the basic universal human rights. In the last thirty years, advances in computing technologies have brought dramatic improvement in collecting storing and sharing personal information among government agencies and private sectors. The combination of ubiquitous sensors, wireless connectivity, and powerful recognition algorithms make it easier than ever to monitor every aspect of our daily activities. From the use of sophisticated pattern recognition in surveillance video to the theft of biometric signals and personal multimedia contents — people have become increasingly worried about the privacy of their multimedia data. To mitigate public concern about privacy violation, it is imperative to make privacy protection a priority in current and future multimedia systems.
Even though research on privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) began twenty years ago, most of the existing schemes focus on textual or categorical data and are inadequate to protect multimedia. The particular challenges include but are not limited to the difficulty in extracting semantic information for protection, the ability to apply cryptographic primitives to high data-rate multimedia streams, basic signal processing algorithms for protecting privacy without destroying the perceptual quality of the signal, and privacy models for governing and handling privacy rights in multimedia systems. In the last few years, there has been much exciting new theoretical and practical work to tackle these challenges by combining expertise from multimedia, pattern recognition, cryptography, and computer security. This work has the potential of not only providing enhanced level of privacy, but also revolutionizing the research frontier in the fundamental studies of multimedia and security. The goal of this special issue is to collect cutting-edge research work in privacy protection technologies for multimedia, and to provide a high-quality forum for researchers from different areas to explore future opportunities in this area.
We seek submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research and field experiments on topics which include, but are not limited to:
- Privacy in multimedia database systems
- Privacy in multimodal biometric systems
- Privacy in multimodal surveillance systems
- Privacy in mobile multimedia systems
- Privacy preserving digital right management systems
- Privacy preserving feature extraction
- Privacy preserving pattern recognition
- Privacy threat and attack models
- Signal-based obfuscation
- Reversibility in signal-based obfuscation
- Signal processing in encrypted domains
- Subject identification for privacy protection
- Location and tracking privacy in multimedia signals
- Multimedia sensor protocols that preserve anonymity/privacy
- Application of multimedia scrambling and data hiding for privacy protection
- Usability issues in privacy-protected multimedia systems
- Legality and economics of privacy in multimedia systems
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Information Security manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/is/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | March 1, 2009 |
| First Round of Reviews | June 1, 2009 |
| Publication Date | September 1, 2009 |
Guest Editors
- Sen-ching Samson Cheung, Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40507, USA
- Deepa Kundur, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
- Andrew Senior, Google Inc., NY 10011, USA