Security and Privacy in Networks and Multimedia

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last two decades, the Internet has become an essential medium for entertainment, information, and business.

The significant development of Web technologies requires the application of increasingly complex systems, the enhancement of infrastructure, and improved security and privacy. The Web ecosystem is still far from advanced, and requires constant improvements, novel technologies, architectures, and algorithms. With the enforcement of privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union, privacy protection has received a great deal of attention. How these techniques could be applied is of great interest for study, and is also of practical significance.

In fact, with the rise of social media, mobile technologies, cloud services and IoT, massive amounts of multimedia content are created and disseminated as users post updates that include personal information, video and audio data, and other analytical information. Multimedia has arguably expanded well beyond the scope of its original definition. Therefore, ensuring multimedia security has become a research hotspot in the academic world.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to promote the study of security issues in data networks. We hope that your submitted articles will raise and respond to new security issues, or represent ongoing research to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of existing security issues in various environments.

In the era of information, a huge amount of digital media is being generated and transmitted every second, in the form of text, imagery, audio, and video. Multimedia has been applied in many fields of human society. Security vulnerabilities and threats may be obstacles to the popularization of multimedia services.

This Special Issue intends to collect high-quality research and review articles concerning privacy protection and security in networks and multimedia processing. We also welcome academic articles that cover security and privacy policies related to IoT and multimedia services.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Reviews or surveys;
• New technological developments;
• Security architectures and platforms;
• Intrusion detection;
• Anonymization techniques;
• Access control;
• AI security;
• Multimedia services;
• Processing of encrypted multimedia;
• Privacy-preserving data mining;
• Secure multimedia distribution in cloud computing;
• Cryptographic protocols;
• Security and privacy in online social networks;
• Security and privacy issues in smart homes;
• Empirical research and case studies.

Dr. Tomasz Rak
Dr. Dariusz Rzońca
Guest Editors

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