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For more than 20 years, the fields of Information Hiding and Multimedia Security have blended advances of multiple disciplines, accumulating a substantial body of knowledge. This workshop has established a reputation as one of the premier outlets for research in these and related areas. Continuing this tradition, the workshop's 2022 edition solicits novel papers documenting research or industrial practice. The workshop will be held at the spectacular campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Submitted papers should address security and privacy aspects in relation to multimedia host signals in a broad sense (images, audios, videos, texts, network traffic, etc.):

    Forensics and counterforensics
    Steganography and steganalysis
    Covert and subliminal channels
    Watermarking and fingerprinting
    Networks and protocols
    Anonymity and privacy
    Biometrics and deep fake analytics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use or advances of the following methods:

    Information, coding, and complexity theory
    Game and decision theory
    Statistical modelling
    Machine learning and deep learning
    Adversarial machine learning
    DNN watermarking
    Deep learning security
    Secure Signal Processing
    Benchmarking and replication
    Obfuscation and Privacy-preserving systems

Authors are invited to submit either short papers (4-6 pages, for preliminary yet interesting results) or full papers (10-12 pages, with general and detailed research contributions). Full papers are expected to back their key claims with strong evidence (such as mathematical proofs, statistical modelling, or extensive testing).

Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference. Submissions should be properly anonymized for double blinded review, therefore authors and their affiliations should be removed and language be adjusted to prevent easy identification.

There will be two awards for the most outstanding papers: one for the best paper and one for the best student paper, with a student as first author.

Proceedings will be produced and published by ACM.

For questions relating to the Call for Papers, please feel free to contact the Program Chairs.