Secure Steganography in Multimedia Content
Call for Papers
Steganography, the art and science of invisible communication, aims to transmit information that is embedded invisibly into carrier data. Different from cryptography it hides the very existence of the secret. Its main requirement is undetectability, that is, no method should be able to detect a hidden message in carrier data. This also differentiates steganography from watermarking where the secrecy of hidden data is not required. Watermarking serves in some way the carrier, while in steganography, the carrier serves as a decoy for the hidden message.
The theoretical foundations of steganography and detection theory have been advanced rapidly, resulting in improved steganographic algorithms as well as more accurate models of their capacity and weaknesses
However, the field of steganography still faces many challenges. Recent research in steganography and steganalysis has far-reaching connections to machine learning, coding theory, and signal processing. There are powerful blind (or universal) detection methods, which are not fine-tuned to a particular embedding method, but detect steganographic changes using a classifier that is trained with features from known media. Coding theory facilitates increased embedding efficiency and adaptiveness to carrier data, both of which will increase the security of steganographic algorithms. Finally, both practical steganographic algorithms and steganalytic methods require signal processing of common media like images, audio, and video. The field of steganography still faces many challenges, for example,
- how could one make benchmarking steganography more independent from machine learning used in steganalysis?
- where could one embed the secret to make steganography more secure? (content adaptivity problem).
- what is the most secure steganography for a given carrier?
Material for experimental evaluation will be made available at http://dud.inf.tu-dresden.de/~westfeld/rsp/rsp.html.
The main goal of this special issue is to provide a state-of-the-art view on current research in the field of steganographic applications. Some of the related research topics for the submission include, but are not limited to:
- Performance, complexity, and security analysis of steganographic methods
- Practical secure steganographic methods for images, audio, video, and more exotic media and bounds on detection reliability
- Adaptive, content-aware embedding in various transform domains
- Large-scale experimental setups and carrier modeling
- Energy-efficient realization of embedding pertaining encoding and encryption
- Steganography in active warden scenario, robust steganography
- Interplay between capacity, embedding efficiency, coding, and detectability
- Steganalytic application in steganography benchmarking and digital forensics
- Attacks against steganalytic applications
- Information-theoretic aspects of steganographic security
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 | August 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | November 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | February 1, 2009 |
Guest Editors:
- Miroslav Goljan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
- Andreas Westfeld, Institute for System Architecture, Faculty of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany