Digital Watermarking - 6th International Workshop, IWDW 2007 Guangzhou, China, December 3-5, 2007, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)

th It is our great pleasure to present in this volume the proceedings of the 6 Inter- tional Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW), which was held in Guangzhou, China, during December 3-5, 2007. The workshop was hosted by the Sun Yat-sen University and sponsored by both the National Science Foundation of China and the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology. Since its birth in the early 1990s, digital watermarking has become a mature e- bling technology for solving security problems associated with multimedia distribution schemes. Digital watermarks are now used in applications such as broadcast monit- ing, movie fingerprinting, digital rights management, and document authentication, to name but a few. Still, many research challenges remain open, among them security and robustness issues, reversibility and authentication. Continuing the tradition of previous workshops, IWDW 2007 also featured-besides papers dealing with digital watermarking-contributions from other related fields, such as steganography, ste- nalysis and digital forensics.