Advances in Multimedia Computing and Security and the Introduction of New Senior Editors

The Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) is the official international journal of the Korea Information Processing Society, and has become the leading journal in the various areas of information processing technology in Korea that was indexed in ESCI, SCOPUS, EI, DOI, DBLP, COMPENDEX, EBSCO, Google Scholar, and CrossRef. This rapid growth represents result as paper submissions amount of papers submitted in 2016 is about 15 times higher than in 2013. Thus, the accepted rate has been decreasing, which means that we have been publishing outstanding papers from the high competition. This issue contains 14 peer-reviewed papers that cover the areas of advanced multimedia computing and security, which include theoretical research presenting new theories and techniques. It introduces as a new image clustering method [1], community model for Smart TV [2], eigenspaces for extracting features from facial images [3], an interactive authoring tool for mobile augmented reality (AR) content [4], an image deblocking scheme for JPEG compressed images [5], an image-centric integrated data model of medical information by diseases [6], the sparsification of digital images [7], treatment planning in smart medical technology [8], the detection of Korean vehicle license plates [9], and the acceleration of group fusion on multi-cores [10]. This issue also includes advanced security research [11,12] on multimedia security, a novel DWT-SVD canny-based watermarking [13], and a blind color images watermarking [14]. We’ve invited new senior editors, who are highly-esteemed professors and researchers, to join our Editorial Board in order to significantly improve JIPS. They have been doing an excellent job in filtering out unsuitable papers and finding outstanding ones that will improve the journal’s reputation and competitiveness. We would not not be able to continue to expand the growth of JIPS without their efforts, so I would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Editorial Board members for their continued hard work and dedication to JIPS. It is my great pleasure to introduce their research outcomes and welcome our new senior editors.