MCSS 2012 - MCSS 2012 : 5th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and 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’12) 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:
Audio-visual systems including novel multimedia architectures and SOMA
Multimedia and data fusion in personal, sensor, p2p and ad-hoc networks
Acquisition of multimedia content and QoE management in content distribution networks
Seamless mobility of multimedia services including mobile and wireless access networks
Watermarking technology and applications
Network measurement, monitoring and performance evaluation of multimedia services
Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services
Searching methods, search engines and applications
Multimedia surveillance and compound security, object tracking and threat detection
Semantic description of multimedia data and metadata information systems
Intelligent monitoring of objects and areas, recognition with automatic categorization
Modern computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of multimedia content
Interactive multimedia applications
Ethical issues and law aspects in video surveillance, Internet monitoring, security research
Intelligent urban environment observation systems including safety monitoring and evacuation
Cybercrime ? threats and counteracting
Cryptography and data protection, including quantum cryptography
Evaluation of security features in end-user applications
Parallel processing of audio & video, video processing through cloud computing, video transcoding
Intelligent searching of multimedia content
Biometric applications
Privacy protection
The conference objectives are in conformance with the objectives of the FP7 Security Research. During the conference, a presentation of the FP7 Security Research will be shown. Objectives of the FP7 Security Research are as follows:
to develop technologies for building capabilities needed to ensure the security of citizens from threats (terrorism, natural disasters, crime), while respecting human privacy,
to ensure optimal use of technologies to the benefit of civil European security,
to stimulate the cooperation for civil security solutions,
to improve the competitiveness of the European security industry, and
to deliver mission-oriented research results to reduce security gaps.