The International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking 2012
(IWDW12), hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was held in Shanghai,
China, from October 31 to November 3, 2012.
Following the tradition of IWDW, IWDW12 aimed to provide a strong technical
program to cover advanced theoretical and practical developments in the
field of digital watermarking, steganography and steganalysis, forensics and antiforensics,
and other multimedia-related security topics. With 70 submissions
from 20 different countries and areas, the Technical Committee selected 42 (27
oral and 15 poster) papers for presentation at IWDW12, one paper for the best
student paper award, and one for the best paper award. Jianhua Li, the Dean
of School of Information Security Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
in his welcome speech introduced the rapid development of Zhang Jiang
Hi-Tech Park, where IWDW12 was held. There were three invited lectures. The
first was entitled “Advanced Research in JPEG Steganography” given by Vasilii
Sachnev; the second entitled “Counter-Forensics: The Art of Misleading” delivered
by Rainer B¨ohme; the third entitled “Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted
Images” presented by Xinpeng Zhang. In addition, there was a 90-minute open
discussion in the late afternoon of November 2.