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The following topics are dealt with: intelligent video processing; techniques and algorithms for multimedia security; advanced data hiding and coding techniques for audio signals; visual based context awareness computing; steganography and watermarking; advanced multimedia processing and retrievals; wired and wireless multimedia networking and applications; intelligent surveillance and pattern recognition; multimedia in ubiquitous computing and application services; intelligent watermarking techniques; image authentication; visual cryptography; circuit techniques for multimedia signal processing; network-aware multimedia: QoS and security; semantic annotation and retrieval techniques for image and video databases; recent technologies and applications of audio data hiding; intelligent image and signal processing; digital forensics and data hiding discovery; intelligent document processing and management systems; protection and authentication for multimedia information; behavior analysis and abnormal event detection; statistical image processing and application; human information processing and its applications; multimedia signal processing for plasma diagnostics; ubiquitous multimedia services and applications for residential users; coding and protocols in security and applications; advanced reversible data hiding and steganalysis; intelligent image fusion and its application; Internet multimedia technology and applications; multimedia signal processing for intelligent applications; advances in biometrics; digital archives and digital heritages; application of intelligent computing to signal and image processing and image processing and VLSI implementation.