IWDW 2010 is the 9th 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. IWDW 2010 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 the selected papers. Accepted papers can be resubmitted to the LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Mathematical modeling of embedding and detection
• Information theoretic, stochastic aspects of data hiding
• Security issues, including attacks and counter-attacks
• Combination of data hiding and cryptography
• Optimum watermark detection and reliable recovery
• Estimation of watermark capacity
• Channel coding techniques for watermarking
• Large-scale experimental tests and benchmarking
• New statistical and perceptual models of content
• Reversible data hiding
• Data hiding in special media
• Data hiding and authentication
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Data forensics
• Copyright protection, DRM, and forensic watermarking
• Visual cryptography

If you want to submit a paper, please see our Call for Papers (PDF), or additional Instruction `for Authors' in the left hand menu. Further information will be published here as the time of the event approaches.