In recent years, Multimedia Communications, Services and Security have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future. The objective of the Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS’20) conference is to present research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia communications, systems and security. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. The main topics of interest are as follows:

  1. Data and privacy protection
  2. Inter-sector technology challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity
  3. The human factor in cybersecurity
  4. Development of cybersecurity education and cybersecurity certification schemes
  5. Cybersecurity competence centres and technology roadmaps
  6. Security in SCADA systems and smart grids
  7. Secure Internet of Things technologies
  8. Cybercrime-threats and counteracting
  9. Ethical issues and law aspects in video surveillance, Internet monitoring and security research
  10. Evaluation of security features in end-user applications
  11. Intelligent monitoring, threat detection, recognition of objects and events
  12. Interactive multimedia and biometric applications
  13. Security of multimedia and data fusion in networks
  14. Transport control and safety
  15. Cryptography techniques and protocols including spread-spectrum cryptography
  16. Watermarking technology for data and privacy protection
  17. Network security solutions
  18. Risk management and assessment frameworks
  19. Sensitive data anonymization and protection
  20. Human-Machine Interfaces
  21. Audio-visual systems including novel multimedia architectures
  22. Computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of multimedia content
  23. Acquisition of multimedia content and QoE management in content distribution networks
  24. Security solutions for industrial applications