Call for Papers 12th Information Hiding Conference, 2010, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. June 28 - 30, 2010 Web: http://ih2010.cpsc.ucalgary.ca E-mail: ih2010@ucalgary.ca For many years, Information Hiding has captured the imagination of researchers. Digital watermarking and steganography protect information, conceal secrets or are used as core primitives in digital rights management schemes. Steganalysis and forensics pose important challenges to investigators; and privacy techniques try to hide relational information such as the actors' identities in anonymous communication systems. These and other topic share the notion that security is defined by the difficulty to make (or avoid) inference on certain properties of host data, which therefore has to be well understood and modeled. Current research themes include: - Anonymity and privacy - Covert/subliminal channels - Digital rights management - Fingerprinting and embedding codes - Multimedia and document security - Multimedia forensics and counter forensics - Novel applications of information hiding - Other data hiding domains (e.g. text, software, etc.) - Security metrics for information hiding - Steganography and steganalysis - Theoretical aspects of information hiding and detection - Watermarking (algorithms, security, attacks) Continuing a successful series that brought together these closely linked research areas, the 12th edition of Information Hiding will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Interested parties are invited to submit novel papers on research and practice which are related to the above areas of interest. Claims about information hiding technology, such as robustness or steganographic security, must be backed by strong evidence in the paper (such as mathematical proofs, statistical modeling or extensive testing). Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format and should be no more than 15 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. Authors can submit their manuscripts on-line on the conference website where detailed instructions are provided. The submitted papers should be anonymized avoiding obvious references. General Chair: Philip W. L. Fong, University of Calgary, Canada Program Committee: Rainer Boehme, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA (Co-Chair) Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada (Co-Chair) Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge, UK Mauro Barni, Universita di Siena, Italy Patrick Bas, CNRS, France Francois Cayre, GIPSA-lab/Grenoble INP, France Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore Christian Collberg, University of Arizona, USA Ingemar J. Cox, University College London, UK Gwenael Doerr, Thomson Security Lab, France Hany Farid, Dartmouth College, USA Jessica Fridrich, SUNY Binghamton, USA Teddy Furon, INRIA, France Neil F. Johnson, Booz Allen Hamilton and JJTC, USA Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany Darko Kirovski, Microsoft Research, USA John McHugh, University of North Carolina, USA and RedJack, LLC. Ira S. Moskowitz, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Andreas Pfitzmann, TU Dresden, Germany Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Phil Sallee, Booz Allen Hamilton, USA Berry Schoenmakers, TU/e, Netherlands Kaushal Solanki, Mayachitra Inc., USA Kenneth Sullivan, Mayachitra Inc., USA Local Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary. Key Dates - Abstract Deadline: March 13th 2010 Full Papers Due: (EXTENDED) March 20th 2010 Notification of Acceptance: May 10th 2010 Pre-proceedings Copy: May 30th 2010 Registration Deadline for Authors: May 28th 2010 Final Version: July 31st 2010