Multimedia Data and Network Security: Emerging Trends and AI-Driven Threats and Defenses
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X). This special issue belongs to the section "AI-Driven Innovations".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 18
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Interests: machine learning and computer vision with applications to cybersecurity; biometrics; deepfakes; affect recognition; image and video processing; perceptual-based audiovisual multimedia quality assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
This growth in multimedia data types has led to the emergence of various cybersecurity threats that pose significant risks to the information security of networked systems. Multimedia content, including streaming videos, interactive multimedia, cloud storage, and new IoT devices, has changed how we communicate, entertain, and live. The emerging threats include automated and adversarial attacks, advanced persistent threats, deepfake-based misinformation, privacy infringements, and unauthorized alterations. Traditional countermeasures can rarely cope with the quantity, complexity, and originality of cyberattacks that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for offense and defense. This Special Issue explores pressing challenges and innovations in securing multimedia data and the networks through which it is transmitted. This Special Issue invites high-quality, original research and review articles presenting cutting-edge methodologies, frameworks, and technologies to enhance multimedia data and network security. Topics of interest include deepfake detection and generation, AI-powered intrusion detection, multimedia forensics and authentication, steganography and digital watermarking, secure communication and streaming, encryption and cryptography, privacy-preserving processing, federated learning, and real-time defense mechanisms. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, this Special Issue aims to disseminate the latest findings, stimulate innovation, and shape future research directions in the field. We welcome your valuable contributions to this crucial discourse.
Dr. Zahid Akhtar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multimedia security
- network security
- data encryption
- digital watermarking
- steganography
- content protection
- cryptography
- secure multimedia communication
- secure multimedia streaming
- multimedia forensics
- network intrusion detection
- secure data transmission and storage
- multimedia authentication
- secure multimedia storage
- multimedia privacy
- AI-driven cybersecurity
- deepfake detection
- privacy-preserving machine learning
- secure cloud multimedia
- IoT multimedia security
- adversarial attacks on multimedia
- blockchain for multimedia security
- perceptual-based multimedia quality assessment
- biometric security
- secure video analytics
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