Multimedia Security, Volume 1

Foreword by Cédric Richard

Cédric RICHARD

Director of the CNRS GdR ISIS, Côte d’Azur Observatory, University of Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

With the relentless increase in bandwidth and storage space, as well as the proliferation of mobile devices and the development of new standards, multimedia data is affecting our societies by changing the way that we access data and information. It is also changing our relationship to culture, by transforming interactions between individuals and their relationships with organizations. Multimedia activities are present in all major sectors of activity (security, health, telecommunications, etc.) and have supported their successive developments because of the common backbone they build, from information support to the application and user.

In this context, by protecting confidentiality and copyright, verifying integrity, analyzing and authenticating content, tracing copies and controlling access, particularly critical questions about multimedia data security are being asked. For example, the protection strategies implemented must take into account the specific needs of multimedia while meeting the requirements of the means of communication, thus establishing a compromise. A wrong approach can indeed lead to excessive coding of the data, or the alteration of their perceptual quality, and thus failure in the targeted security objectives.

As an interface discipline, the art of multimedia security is difficult!

However, with this two-part book, ...