Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2023 Conference Overview and Papers Program

Abstract The ease of capturing, manipulating, distributing, and consuming digital media (e.g., images, audio, video, graphics, and text) has enabled new applications and brought a number of important security challenges to the forefront. These challenges have prompted significant research and development in the areas of digital watermarking, steganography, data hiding, forensics, deepfakes, media identification, biometrics, and encryption to protect owners’ rights, establish provenance and veracity of content, and to preserve privacy. Research results in these areas has been translated into new paradigms and applications for monetizing media while maintaining ownership rights, and new biometric and forensic identification techniques for novel methods for ensuring privacy. The Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics Conference is a premier destination for disseminating high-quality, cutting-edge research in these areas. The conference provides an excellent venue for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative work as well as to keep abreast of the latest developments in watermarking, security, and forensics. Early results and fresh ideas are particularly encouraged and supported by the conference review format: only a structured abstract describing the work in progress and preliminary results is initially required and the full paper is requested just before the conference. A strong focus on how research results are applied by industry, in practice, also gives the conference its unique flavor.