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The 16th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP 20), the 13th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications and Tools (FITAT 2020) , are technically co-sponsored by Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam, Shandong University of Science and Technology in China, Northeast Electric Power University in China, Chungbuk National University in South Korea, National University of Mongolia in Mongolia, Fujian University of Technology in China.

Objective: IIHMSP/FITAT-2020 are annual events serving as international forums for researchers and practitioners from information hiding, multimedia signal processing, data mining, bioinformatics, database and applications to exchange latest research outcomes in the field of Information Technology (IT). Multimedia technologies facilitate the creation of global information infrastructure for acquiring, storing, communicating data with different forms. Proliferation of multimedia applications raises challenges such as multimedia security and privacy, big data in multimedia, and intelligence in multimedia processing. We invite submissions of original research papers for the conference tracks:

1. Information Hiding and Security
2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Networking
3. Database, Data mining, Bioinformatics and Applications
4. Emerging and Interdisciplinary Technologies
5. Industrial Applications and Doctoral Research Proposal

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

Track I: Information Hiding and Security

• Watermarking: techniques, attacks, protocols, applications
• Steganography and steganalysis: techniques, protocols, applications
• Cryptography and cryptanalysis: techniques, protocols, applications
• Data authentication issues and access control themes
• Broadcast and public key encryption
• Forensic analysis and tracing traitors
• Digital rights management and legal aspect
• RFID security and home network privacy
• Platform integrity and trusted computing
• Systems engineering and development for information hiding & security
• ASIC/FPGA/GPGPU design and implementation for information hiding & security
• Enabling technologies and emerging standards for information hiding & security

Track II: Multimedia Signal Processing and Networking

• Multimedia sensing and sensory systems
• Multimedia source coding and channel coding
• Multimedia signal analysis and visualization
• Multimedia signal mining and data fusion
• Wired and wireless Multimedia networking and communication techniques
• Multimedia/multimodal signal interpretation and automatic recognition
• Multimedia hyperlink techniques and applications
• Advances in multimedia content description interfaces
• Systems engineering and development for multimedia systems
• Enabling technologies and emerging standards for multimedia systems

Track III: Database, Data mining, Bioinformatics and Applications

• Big data technologies: techniques for mining structured/unstructured, spatial-temporal, streaming and multimedia data, machine learning from big data, data visualization, and search and optimization for big data, and their applications
• Database Technologies: database theory, indexing, performance tuning, query processing and optimization, multimedia databases, information retrieval, and web technologies
• Data Mining Technologies: parallel and distributed data mining algorithms, mining on data streams and sensor data, spatial data mining, text, video, multimedia data mining, mining social network, graph mining, and data mining support for designing information systems, and their applications
• Artificial Intelligence Technologies: neural networks, models, learning paradigms, architectures and implementations, and their applications
   
• Bioinformatics: biological data mining, computational biology, cancer informatics, computational drug discovery, gene expression analysis, gene pattern discovery, Sequence analysis, transcriptomic, epigenetics, protein interaction, cheminformatics and their applications
   
• Biomedical informatics: biomedical intelligence & clinical data analysis, health monitoring system, healthcare technologies, clinical engineering, biometrics, biomedical text mining and ontologies, image interpretations, and their applications

Track IV: Emerging and Interdisciplinary Technologies

• E-commerce, emerging object/web technologies, and information economics related topics such as web services, remote monitoring, financial market analysis, data warehousing and the semantic web
• Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing for intelligent multimedia processing
• Human-machine multimodal interaction: e.g. face/speech recognition, facial expression and emotion categorization, gesture analysis and recognition, etc.
• Smart city, Smart buildings and urban development, Smart grid and microgrids, Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling, Renewable energy models and prediction.
• IT integrated manufacturing, medical informatics, digital libraries, and mobile computing
• Base disciplines of computer science, telecommunications, operations research, economics and cognitive sciences
• Methods and tools related to the model-driven development, domain-specific languages, software architecture, and quality of architecture and design for all domains including automotive, healthcare, telecommunications, and finance

Track V: Industrial Applications and Doctoral Research Discussions

• Advancement of the theory and practice of electrical and electronic engineering in the development, design, manufacture and application of electrical systems, apparatus, devices, and controls to the processes and equipment of industry and commerce
• Promotion of safe, reliable, and economic installations
• Industry leadership in energy conservation and environmental, health, and safety issues
• Creation of voluntary engineering standards, recommended practices and the professional development of its membership
• Doctoral research proposal

Venue: Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Paper Submission Details:

All contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review period. Submitted papers should be prepared in English in Springer style and should be 6 to 8 pages. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the prestigious series Springer (indexed by ISI, EI, DBLP, Inspec, Scopus, etc.). A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues in high quality scientific journals.

Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iihmspfitat2020

Important Dates:

• Submissions of papers:       April 25, 2020            June 14, 2020       June 25, 2020
• Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2020             June 28, 2020      July 16, 2020
• Camera-ready papers:         June 30, 2020             July 31, 2020
• Registration and payment: June 30, 2020             July 31, 2020
• Conference:                           November 5-7, 2020

Sponsor: Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam, Shandong University of Science and Technology in China, Northeast Electric Power University in Chi na, Chungbuk National University in South Korea, National University of Mongolia in Mongolia, Fujian University of Technology in China.

Supporters: Springer-Verlag (Please see the details: http://springer.com)

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