CONTENT PROTECTION AND WATERMARKING

Friday, January 12, 2001

Auditorium of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e),

“Blauwe Zaal,” Eindhoven

The economies of our world more and more depend on creative works and intellectual property. Meanwhile new developments such as the increasing Internet bandwidth, advanced compression techniques and growing data storage capacity make illegal distribution of creative content possible. This threatens the current business model for entertainment content. To counter widespread piracy, the PC and consumer electronic products are rapidly migrating from open platforms to protected systems using cryptography, electronic watermarking and techniques for personalised storage of content. The challenge is to prevent illegal practices while maintaining ease of use, flexibility in choosing the platform and environment to enjoy film and music, and allowing the user to create and distribute his own audio and video recordings. Trustworthy solutions are an essential prerequisite for on-line e-commerce of entertainment content. This midwinter meeting offers an introduction to this exciting new research area by keynote speakers in the field. The presentations will be given in English. More information can be found at

http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~ieeesp/midwinter2001

FINAL PROGRAM:

09.30	Registration
10.00	Welcome address
10.10	Paul Jessop, (CTO of the International Federation of  Phonographic Industries, London),  Watermarking: the Business Case
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	Ton Kalker and Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research, Eindhoven),  Technical Measures to Protect Multimedia Content: Cryptography and Embedded Signalling
12.20	Lunch
13.20	Fabien Peticolas, (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK),  Content Protection: Mission Impossible III
14.10	Jiri Fridrich (State University of New York, Binghamton),  Security of Fragile Authentication Watermarks with Localization
15.00	Tea break
15.30	Marc Vauclair (ITCL Leuven),  Content Protection and Cryptography in the Consumer Electronics World
16.20	Closing

REGISTRATION:

Participants should preregister before January 8, 2001 to Ton Kalker. Fax: +31 40 2744675, Email: midwinter2001@darkbits.com. The number of participants is limited. All registrations will be acknowledged. The admission fee including lunch is Dfl. 90,- (or BEF 1700) per person and must be paid in cash upon entering the “Blauwe Zaal”. Students pay Dfl 65,- (or BEF 1200).

Directions to TU/e can be found at http://www.tue.nl/tue-algemeen/en_index.html

ORGANIZERS

Ton Kalker (Philips Research, TU/e), Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research), Ludo Tolhuizen (Philips Research)

LOCAL ARRANGMENTS

Frans Willems (TU/e)

SPONSORS

This event is sponsored by Philips Research and co-sponsored by the Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (EIDMA), the IEEE Benelux Chapter on Information Theory, and the Audio Engineering Society (AES).