Information management and security in media-sharing social networks

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Recent massive sharing and distribution of multimedia over networks creates a technological revolution to the entertainment and media industries and introduces the new concept of web-based social networking communities. However, it also poses new challenges to the efficient, scalable, reliable exchange of multimedia over networks. Proper management and protection of multimedia at such an unprecedented scale is beyond the capability of current technologies and demands new solutions to address critical challenges including content protection and intellectual property rights management; reliability and scalability; and media object management. Our long-term objective is to establish a multimedia management and security framework to provide effective management, secure and reliable sharing of digital media in large-scale social networks. This objective will be accomplished by achieving the following specific goals via investigating both fundamental technologies and system design methodologies: 1) developing trustworthy multimedia forensic technologies to protect multimedia intellectual property rights; 2) developing innovative content recognition methodologies to accurately identify and effectively manage digital media objects; 3) understanding the impact of human factors on multimedia social networks; 4) providing guidelines on multimedia system design to enhance media accessibility and security, and to support automated network-service monitoring; and 5) building an information management and content protection testbed. The proposed project focuses on the training of interdisciplinary, highly-qualified personnel with expertise in communications, media content security, and information management. The proposed research will significantly impact state-of-the-art platforms for information management and security in media-sharing networks. The success of the proposed research will definitely enhance Canada's competitiveness in the multimedia and entertainment industries by giving our Canadian industrial partners a valuable edge over their global competitors.