Introduction

IWDW 2007 is the sixth of a series of international workshops focusing on digital watermarking and relevant techniques. It will provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present as well as to keep abreast with the latest developments in watermarking technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to and attend IWDW 2007. Since the middle of the last decade, digital watermarking has become a vigorously growing research area. The early work on digital watermarking was char-acterized by the development of a plethora of watermarking algorithms and attacks against them. The theoretical foundations of watermarking have since then been advanced rapidly, resulting in improved watermarking al-gorithms as well as more accurate models of the channel capacity and er-ror rates. However, digital watermarking research still faces many chal-lenges. In addition, new research directions such as data forensics and authentication enable new types of application scenarios.

IWDW 2007 aims to provide a high quality forum for dissemination of research results. Also, a Best Paper Prize and a Best Student Paper Prize will be awarded to selected papers.

Areas of Interests

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Mathematical modeling of watermark embedding and detection
Information theoretic and stochastic aspects of data hiding
Security issues, including attack modeling and counter-attacks
Combination of data hiding and cryptography, and its applications
Optimum watermark detection and Reliable watermark recovery
Estimation of watermark capacity
Channel coding techniques for watermarking
Bounds on error probability
Large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking
New statistical and perceptual models of content
Reversible data hiding
Data hiding in special media
Data hiding and authentication
Steganography and steganalysis
Data forensics
Copyright protection and DRM