MCSS 2015 - 8th International Conference On Multimedia Communications, Services & Security

In recent years, Multimedia Communications, Services and Security have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future. The objective of the Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS'15) conference is to present research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia communications, systems and security. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. The main topics of interest are as follows:
Acquisition of multimedia content and QoE management in content distribution networks
Audio-visual systems including novel multimedia architectures and SOMA
Biometric applications
Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval
Cryptography and data protection, including quantum cryptography
Cybercrime ? threats, counteracting and computer forensics
Ethical issues and law aspects in video surveillance, Internet monitoring, security research
Evaluation of security features in end-user applications
Intelligent monitoring of objects and areas, recognition with automatic categorization
Intelligent searching of multimedia content
Intelligent urban environment observation systems including safety monitoring and evacuation
Interactive multimedia applications
Modern computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of multimedia content
Multimedia and data fusion in personal, sensor, p2p and ad-hoc networks
Multimedia efficient, scalable and robust delivery
Multimedia surveillance and compound security, object tracking and threat detection
Network measurement, monitoring and performance evaluation of multimedia services
Parallel processing of audio & video, video processing through cloud computing, video transcoding
Privacy protection
Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services
Safety and security of critical infrastructures
Seamless mobility of multimedia services including mobile and wireless access networks
Searching methods, search engines and applications
Security in trusted SCADA and smart-grids
Semantic description of multimedia data and metadata information systems
Tools and infrastructure for extraction, fusion, exchange and analysis of big data including cyber-offenses generated data for forensic investigation
Watermarking technology and applications