Dear Colleagues,

Please see attached CFP for a special issue with Neural Network World
Journal, which is also indexed by ISI.

Best regards

Ajith
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International Journal of Neural Network World
(http://www.cs.cas.cz/nnw2/)


Special Issue on
Intelligent Computing for Multimedia Assurance

Introduction

Intelligent computing techniques, such as Neural Networks, Fuzzy
Logic, Evolutionary Computing, Rough Sets, Chaos and other similar
techniques, have been proved effective for various applications.
Taking neural network for example, a neural network is a network
composed of many simple units, while producing intelligent actions
according to certain structure, dynamics and learning method. Till
now, neural networks have been widely used in various applications,
such as machine vision, pattern detection, data segmentation, data
mining, adaptive control, information assurance, etc.
   Recently, multimedia (text, image, video, audio, etc.) enriches
human's daily life, and its prosperity also attract malicious
attackers and abusers with different motivations, such as political
reasons, illegal financial benefits, or simply to win a prestige
reputation in a hacker community. The typical example is image
forgery, i.e., the original image is tampered maliciously by
replacing, cutting, warping, etc. To detect the tempering, various
methods have been reported. Among them, intelligent computing based
methods obtain better performances in some aspects, which benefit from
the intelligent techniques' learning ability. Additionally,
intelligent techniques also show some good properties for
confidentiality protection, integrity detection, ownership
authentication or copy tracing, etc.
  This special issue aims to bring together research work in the area
of intelligent techniques' applications in multimedia security and
protection, investigate the novel solutions and discuss the future
trends in this field.




Topics
The paper may focus on theoretical construction, algorithm designing
or hardware implementation. The topics include but are not limited to

Multimedia forensics based on intelligent computing
Multimedia encryption based on intelligent computing
Medical image security based on intelligent computing
Biological image security based on intelligent computing
Sensitive multimedia content filtering based on intelligent computing
Secure multimedia retrieval and index based on intelligent computing
Multimedia content authentication based on intelligent computing
Piracy tracking and catching based on intelligent computing
Digital rights management based on intelligent computing
Information hiding based on intelligent computing
Secure multimedia communication based on intelligent computing
Secure video/audio surveillance based on intelligent computing
Other security issues and applications

Submission
  Concerning the manuscript preparation, please refer to the "Guide
for Authors" page at the journal website,
http://www.uivt.cas.cz/nnw/submit.shtml. Further, the manuscript must
be submitted in the form of PDF file to one of the guest editors. The
submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and the
corresponding author's name and affiliation. All papers will be
rigorously reviewed based on the quality: originality, high scientific
quality, well organized and clearly written, sufficient support for
assertions and conclusion.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 1, 2009 (extended)
Notification date: May 31, 2009
Camera-ready due: June 30, 2009

Guest Editors

Dr. Shiguo Lian
France Telecom (Orange Labs) Beijing, China
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Prof. Ajith Abraham
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
E-mail: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Http://www.softcomputing.net