For more than 20 years, the fields of Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec) have allied advances of multiple disciplines, accumulating a substantial body of knowledge. The IH&MMSec workshop has established its reputation as one of the premier outlets for research in these and related areas. Continuing this tradition, the 2024 workshop edition solicits novel papers documenting research, industrial, or government practice. The event will be held at Parador de Baiona, a historic fortress with a spectacular view over the ocean, situated in the beautiful town of Baiona in Galicia (Spain).

For more information and updates, the conference website is: http://www.ihmmsec.org<http://www.ihmmsec.org/>



List of Topics

Submitted papers should address security and privacy aspects in relation to multimedia host signals (including images, audios, videos, texts, network traffic, etc.):
 

•  Forensics and counter-forensics
•  Steganography and steganalysis
•  Covert and subliminal channels
•  Watermarking and fingerprinting
•  Networks and protocols
•  Anonymity and privacy
•  Biometrics
•  Deep fake analysis

This year a call for special sessions is included. For details about the corresponding proposal procedure, please refer to the conference website.


Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
 

•  Short papers: 4-6 pages, describing preliminary results, e.g. work in progress with limited test sets or just giving indications or tendencies...
•  Full papers: 10–12 pages, describing general and detailed research contributions. Full papers are expected to back their key claims with strong evidence (such as mathematical proofs, statistical modelling, or extensive testing).

Technical papers submitted for IH&MMSec 2024 are to be written in English.
Authors are invited to submit either short papers (4-6 pages, including references, for preliminary yet interesting results) or full papers (10-12 pages, including references, with general and detailed research
contributions). Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference. Manuscripts must be properly anonymized for double-blind review.
The manuscript must be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ihmmsec24
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ihmmsec24>
 

Important dates

• December 7, 2023: Deadline for special session proposals
• January 12, 2024: Submission system (EasyChair) opens
• February 16, 2024: Paper submission deadline
• April 12, 2024: Acceptance notification
• May 3, 2024: Camera-ready submission is due
• June 24-26, 2024: In-person workshop meeting in Baiona

Committee

General Chair

• Fernando Pérez-González, University of Vigo, Spain

Technical Program Chairs

•  Pedro Comesaña Alfaro, University of Vigo, Spain
   
•  Christian Krätzer, University of Magdeburg, Germany
   
•  H. Vicky Zhao, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China

Special Sessions Chair

•  Benedetta Tondi, University of Siena, Italy

Venue

The workshop is intended to be in-person in Baionna, Spain.

On behalf of the organisers of IH&MMSec '24