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Forthcoming April 2008 Multimedia Forensics and Security



Edited by: Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-59904-869-7 300+ pages; 2008 Copyright Price: US $180.00 (hardcover*) Pre-Pub Price§: US $165.00 Online Access only**: US $132.00 Illustrations: figures, tables (8 1/2” x 11”) Translation Rights: World

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As information technology is rapidly progressing, an enormous amount of media can be easily exchanged through Internet and other communication networks. Increasing amounts of digital image, video, and music have created numerous information security issues and is now taken as one of the top research and development agendas for researchers, organizations, and governments worldwide. Multimedia Forensics and Security provides an in-depth treatment of advancements in the emerging field of multimedia forensics and security by tackling challenging issues such as digital watermarking for copyright protection, digital fingerprinting for transaction tracking, and digital camera source identification.

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Internet and Web Technologies and Services; Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics; Multimedia Technology; Mobile Computing and Communications Technology

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This essential publication is for all academic research libraries, as well as those involved in information security, digital copyright protection, e-security, and digital fingerprinting. Students, researchers, academics, and personel of law enforcement and IT/multimedia practitioners who are interested or involved in the study, research, use, design, and development of techniques related to multimedia, forensics, and security will find this publication useful. Excellent addition to your library! Recommend to your acquistions librarian.

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Multimedia Forensics and Security Edited by: Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK

Table of Contents Chapter I: Authentication Watermarkings for Binary Images Hae Yong Kim, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Sergio V. D. Pamboukian, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Chapter II: Secure Multimedia Content Distribution Based on Watermarking Technology Shiguo Lian, France Telecom Research and Development, R.O.C. Chapter III: Digital Watermarking in the Transform Domain with Emphasis on SVD Maria Calagna, Universita’ di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Chapter IV: Digital Video Watermarking and the Collusion Attack Roberto Caldelli, University of Florence, Italy Alessandro Piva, University of Florence, Italy Chapter V: A Survey of Current Watermarking Synchronization Techniques Natasa Terzija, University of Manchester,UK Chapter VI: On the Necessity of Finding Content before Watermark Retrieval – Active Search Strategies for Localizing Watermarked Media on the Internet Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Germany Patrick Wolf, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Germany Chapter VII: Statistical Watermark Detection in the Transform Domain for Digital Images Fouad Khelif, The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), UK Fatih Kurugollu, The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), UK Ahmed Bouridane, The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), UK Chapter VIII: On Noise, Steganography and Active Warden Christopher B. Smith, University of Texas San Antonio, USA

Sos S. Agaian, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Chapter IX: Visibility Control and Quality Assessment of Watermarking and Data Hiding Algorithms Patrick Le Callet, University of Nantes, France Florent Autrusseau, University of Nantes, France Patrizio Campisi, Università degli Studi Roma TRE, Italy Chapter X: Computational Aspects of Digital Steganography Maciej Liśkiewicz, Univerity of Lübeck, Germany Ulrich Wölfel, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany Chapter XI: On Steganalysis and Clean Image Estimation Christopher B. Smith, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Sos S. Agaian, University of Texas San Antonio, USA Chapter XII: Steganalysis: Trends and Challenges Hafiz Malik, University of Michigan, USA R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA K.P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Chapter XIII: Benchmarking Steganalysis Andrew Ker, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Chapter XIV: Digital Camera Source Identification Matthew Sorell, University of Adelaide, Australia Chapter XV: Traitor Tracing for Multimedia Forensics Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Chapter XVI: Efficient Transparent JPEG2000 Encryption Dominik Engel, University of Salzburg, Germany Thomas Stütz, University of Salzburg, Germany Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Germany

About the Editors: Chang-Tsun Li received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology (CCIT), National Defense University (Taiwan, 1987), the MS degree in computer science from U. S. Naval Postgraduate School (USA, 1992), and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Warwick (UK, 1998). He was an associate professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at CCIT (1999-2002) and a visiting professor of the Department of Computer Science at U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (2001). He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick (UK), editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)and associate editor of the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS). He has been involved in the organisation of a number of international conferences and workshops and also served as member of the international program committees for several international conferences. His research interests include multimedia security, bioinformatics, image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, and content-based image retrieval.

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