Multimedia and Social Network Analysis 2020
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 473
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Interests: computational intelligence and its applications; information security and assurance; bio- and medial-informatics; data mining and pattern recognition; social network analysis; petroleum exploration and reservoir modelling
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Interests: data mining; computational intelligence; digital forensics; cybersecurity; bioinformatics; computer vision
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Interests: machine learning; pattern recognition; financial engineering; text classification; signal processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rich formats of multimedia and an abundance of tools allow users numerous ways to create multimedia material for the purposes of using the Internet. Meanwhile, advertisers, hackers, criminals, enemies, and terrorists alike create, alter, forge, or manipulate multimedia material for their commercial, political, malicious, or illegal purposes, which may pose serious threats to public safety, societal wellbeing, or even national security. For example, adulterated or forged images and videos may be used for propaganda; unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material violates the owner’s rights; and steganography may be used for illicit cover communications, for carrying malware, or for facilitating scamming or phishing schemes. Multimedia forensics, therefore, is an important topic of cybersecurity.
Social networks have become primary venues of multimedia communications and provide source material aplenty for multimedia forensics research. Additionally, the social networks’ connectivity pattern, information diffusion, and influence processes, as well as social bots, are related topics of great interest in the broader study of multimedia forensics.
This Special Issue solicits original research papers on topics including but not limited to the following:
- Image, audio, and video steganalysis;
- Multimedia security and forgery detection;
- Cybercrime and fraud analysis;
- Multimedia-embedded malware analysis and detection;
- Video surveillance, video search matching, and anomaly detection;
- Security and privacy in virtual and augmented reality applications and games;
- Social network analysis, privacy, security, and forensics;
- Social network bot detection, automation tools analysis;
- Cloud computing security and forensics;
- Countermeasures to steganography, forgery, covert channels, and other threats to security;
- Biometrics and facial recognition.
Prof. Dr. Andrew H. Sung
Prof. Dr. Qingzhong Liu
Prof. Dr. Mengyu Qiao
Prof. Dr. Bernardete Ribeiro
Prof. Dr. Rakesh M. Verma
Guest Editors
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