IWIHC 2015 - 2nd International Workshop on Information Hiding and its Criteria for evaluation

Copyright protection has become an important issue due to the growing amount of illegal content being distributed all over the world. The IHC (Information Hiding Criteria) Committee is working to improve this situation through the use of watermark technologies. In particular, it aims to help develop standard evaluation criteria and to sponsor watermark competitions based on these criteria to promote the development of protection measures for the content industry. The evaluation criteria will be revised in accordance with the advances in watermarking technology, the needs of the content industry, and the practicality of the competition.
This workshop is the first in the world to combine advanced research themes in the techniques and algorithms for information hiding based on the common criteria for evaluation. With the common evaluation criteria for information hiding, each proposed technique or algorithm is fairly compared with other ones, which is clearly beneficial not only for academia but also for industry. The workshop will provide an international forum for researchers, academicians, and practitioners in the field of fundamental tools and applications using information hiding for images, videos, audios, and texts to present their latest results in these areas.