The 15th IWDW, International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2016) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners working on novel research, development and applications of digital watermarking and forensics techniques for multimedia security. This year, IWDW 2016 is hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS), Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on September 17-19, 2016. We invite submissions of high-quality original research papers. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Two prizes are to be awarded for the best paper and the best student paper, respectively. The proceedings of IWDW 2016 will be published on the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Mathematical modeling of embedding and detection
    Information theoretic, stochastic aspects of data hiding
    Security issues, including attacks and counter-attacks
    Combination of data hiding and cryptography
    Optimum watermark detection and reliable recovery
    Estimation of watermark capacity
    Channel coding techniques for watermarking
    Large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking
    New statistical and perceptual models of multimedia content
    Reversible data hiding
    Data hiding in special media
    Data hiding and authentication
    Steganography and steganalysis
    Digital multimedia forensics & anti-forensics
    Copyright protection, DRM, forensic watermarking
    Visual cryptography & secret image sharing
    Security based on human vision system