IWDW 2008 is the seventh of a series of international workshops focusing on digital watermarking and relevant techniques. It will provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present as well as to keep abreast with the latest developments in watermarking technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to and attend IWDW 2008. Since the middle of the last decade, digital watermarking has become a vigorously growing research area. The early work on digital watermarking was characterized by the development of a plethora of watermarking algorithms and attacks against them. The theoretical foundations of watermarking have since then been advanced rapidly, resulting in improved watermarking algorithms as well as more accurate models of the cha nnel capacity and error rates. However, digital watermarking research still faces many challenges. In addition, new research directions such as data forensics and authentication enable new types of application scenarios.

IWDW 2008 aims to provide a high quality forum for dissemination of research results. Also, a Best Paper Prize and a Best Student Paper Prize will be awarded to selected papers.