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JPEG Privacy & Security 2nd Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation
November 27, 2015
Call for Contributions and Participation

La Jolla, CA, USA – February 23rd, 2016

Privacy and security support for image data is becoming steadily more important seen the fact that image collections are increasingly more stored in distributed and cloud repositories rather than in private repositories. Moreover, social media and online photo repositories, for example, are currently offering insufficient means to secure privacy-sensitive information carried by the picture or to signal associated IPR metadata. Observing that on a daily basis billions of pictures are shared in JPEG legacy formats on these media, it is evident that embedding additional functionality that would safeguard this type of information and functionality would benefit a significant user base.

Hence, the JPEG Committee has launched a new activity called JPEG Privacy & Security<http://jpeg.org/items/20150910_privacy_security_summary.html>. This activity aims at developing a standard for realizing secure image information sharing which is capable of ensuring privacy, maintaining data integrity, and protecting intellectual property rights. This activity is not only intended to protect private information carried by images - in the image itself or the associated metadata - but also to provide degrees of trust while sharing image content and metadata based on individual preferences. It is necessary to extend the existing coding standards by adding such preferences. JPEG Privacy & Security will explore ways on how to design and implement the necessary functionality without significantly impacting on coding performance while ensuring scalability, interoperability, and forward and backward compatibility with current JPEG standard frameworks.

A first successful workshop was organized on October 13, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Representatives from academia, law enforcement agencies, non-governmental organisations and standardisation organisations presented requirements imposed by the use cases they typically address and shared their view on what needs to be achieved within the scope of JPEG privacy and security standardization effort.

As follow-up of the successful workshop in Brussels, the JPEG committee organises on February 23, 2016 during the JPEG meeting in La Jolla, CA, USA a second workshop targeted on improving the committee’s understanding of industry, user and policy needs in terms of technology and supported functionalities.

Interested parties are invited to participate to this workshop and if interested to propose contributions as well. The latter would typically exist of a short presentation of max. 10-15 minutes addressing requirements, applications and use cases, and relevant technologies for the addressed domains. The organising committee will make a selection out of the received contributions.

If you are interested to deliver a contribution to workshop, please contact Takaaki Ishikawa ( takaxp@ieee.org) and Peter Schelkens ( Peter.Schelkens@vub.ac.be).

Attending the workshop is free of charge but requires registration<http://2016isoiec.regstep.com/home/page/register>.

Organising Committee: Peter Schelkens (Belgium), Takaaki Ishikawa (Japan) and Ambarish Natu (Australia).

To stay posted on the action plan for JPEG Privacy & Security, please regularly consult our website at www.jpeg.org<http://jpeg.org/items/20150910_privacy_security_summary.html> and/or subscribe to our e-mail reflector e-mail reflector<https://listserv.uni-stuttgart.de/mailman/listinfo/jpeg-privacy>.

More information on JPEG Privacy & Security can be found at the JPEG website<http://www.jpeg.org/>.

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Cheers

Ambarish S Natu