IWDW2016 15th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2016) Beijing, China 17-19 September, 2016 http://www.iwdw.net/ The 15th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2016) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners working on novel research, development and applications of digital watermarking and forensics techniques for multimedia security. We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2016 Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2016 Submission of Camera-Ready Versions: 1 September 2016 AREAS OF INTEREST Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Mathematical modeling of embedding and detection Information theoretic, stochastic aspects of data hiding Security issues, including attacks and counter-attacks Combination of data hiding and cryptography Optimum watermark detection and reliable recovery Estimation of watermark capacity Channel coding techniques for watermarking Large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking New statistical and perceptual models of multimedia content Reversible data hiding Data hiding in special media Data hiding and authentication Steganography and steganalysis Digital multimedia forensics & anti-forensics Copyright protection, DRM, forensic watermarking Visual cryptography & secret image sharing Security based on human vision system The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS.