Many researchers are interested in hiding information or, conversely, in preventing others from doing so or detecting and extracting the hidden data. Although the protection of digital intellectual property has recently motivated most of the research in this area, there are many other applications of increasing interest to both the academic and business communities. Current research topics include:
Continuing a series of successful workshops that brought together these closely linked research areas, the International Workshop on Information Hiding will be held in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), from Monday 6th June to Wednesday 8th June 2004.
Barcelona is a lively Mediterranean city with a Roman subsoil and a horizon in the 21st century — Gothic architecture stands alongside Gaudi's magic creations and contemporary buildings. Barcelona also excels in the quality and quantity of its cultural events, including gastronomy, which has a well-deserved reputation. Furthermore, the highly competitive prices offered by hotels ensure Barcelona is an attractive proposition. Barcelona has a good transportation system, including underground, and is well-connected by air with most European cities.
Instructions for authorsInterested parties are invited to submit novel papers on research and practice which are related to the above areas of interest. We want a balanced program and seek submissions on topics such as anonymous communication, anonymous online transactions, privacy, and covert/subliminal communications, along with our usual quality steganography, watermarking and fingerprinting submissions.
Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Technical papers should follow the required format. The papers should be at most 15 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Technical papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. The submitted papers should be anonymized avoiding obvious references.
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 modelling or extensive testing).
Authors can submit their papers online at http://einfseg1.uoc.es/ where detailed instructions are provided. Questions regarding the program should be directed to the program chairs, Stefan Katzenbeisser (katzenbe@in.tum.de) and Mauro Barni (barni@dii.unisi.it). All other questions should be directed to the general chairs Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí (jherreraj@uoc.edu) and Fernando Pérez-González (fperez@gts.tsc.uvigo.es).
Submissions received after the submission deadline or failing to conform to the guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Where possible, all further communications to authors will be via email.
Ross J. Anderson
University of Cambridge, England
Mauro Barni
Universita de Siena, Italy -Program co-chair
Jan Camenisch
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Christian Collberg
University of Arizona
Ingemar J. Cox
University College London, England
Jessica Fridrich
SUNY Binghamton, U.S.A.
Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain -General co-chair
John McHugh
SEI/CERT, U.S.A.
Ira Moskowitz
Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Stefan Katzenbeisser
Technical University Munich, Germany -Program co-chair
Darko Kirovski
Microsoft Research, U.S.A.
Richard C. Owens
University of Toronto
Fernando Pérez-González
University of Vigo, Spain -General co-chair
Andreas Pfitzmann
Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Michiel van der Veen
Philips Research, Netherlands
