Security Area @ ACM MM 2014

Multimedia Security, Privacy and Forensics Area at ACM Multimedia 2014

The growth of multimedia as demonstrated by social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube, combined with advances in multimedia content analysis, underscores potential risks for the unethical use of multimedia user data. In small scale or in isolation, multimedia analytics is a reasonably contained privacy threat. However, when linked together and used at Internet scale, the threat can be much larger, which necessitates the protection and careful stewardship of multimedia just like any other user data. The multimedia community therefore has an obligation to understand how these risks apply to multimedia data, how to mitigate them, and to educate the public on the issues.

The Multimedia Security, Privacy, and Forensics area combines methods from the security, forensics, and privacy community that are relevant for multimedia. For this area, we seek strong technical submissions that address privacy, security, and forensic-related multimedia approaches and technology. The submissions should clearly advance one or more of the three fields and must have a clear multimedia focus. For example, we discourage submissions of purely vision-based approaches to surveillance, or 3D scene analysis, or image watermarking.