Engineering: Innovations in Multimedia Information Processing & Security

Multimedia information processing and security is an important field of computer science and engineering, that has attracted the interest of the researchers and scientists over the years. But in the recent years the proliferation of the digital devices in our day to day use has resulted in creation of large amount of multimedia information at an exponential rate. At a time when everything has been digitized and when multifaceted information is being transmitted by different media sources (sound, text, video, etc.), it has become essential to develop methods that enable qualifying the reliability of automated information processing systems. Therefore, it demands the generation of methods that enable for efficient processing and securing of the multimedia information thus generated. The aim of the special issue is to bring forth the latest advancements in the domain of multimedia information processing and the methods to secure the generated information. It aims to collect research papers in the domain of latest information processing and security solutions. The topics relevant to the special issue include (but are not limited to) the following topics: Multimedia Search and Recommendation; Web-Scale Retrieval; Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning; 3D and sensor data processing; Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship); High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features; Deep Learning in Multimedia information processing; Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection; Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis; Affective and Perceptual Multimedia; Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans; Object Detection and Tracking; 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications; Multimedia Systems and Middleware; Telepresence and Virtual /Augmented /Mixed Reality; Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics; Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage; Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy; Standards and Policies for Data Management; Sentiment Analysis from Multimedia Information; Text Extraction; Secure multimedia distribution based on watermarking,Forgery detection; Copy detection; Privacy-preserving in data mining; Secure user interface; Intrusion detection and prevention; Trusted Computing; Steganography; Security in network or service convergence; Security of content sharing in social networks; Privacy-preserving data processing; Multimedia forensics; Intelligent surveillance in multimedia information system security.