JPEG calls for industry/academic participation to its 3rd workshop on media blockchain. This free public workshop will be held in Geneva on Wednesday the 20th of March 2019 in conjunction with the 83rd ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) Meeting.

Context

Fake news, copyright violation, media forensics, privacy and security are emerging challenges for digital media. JPEG has determined that blockchain technology has great potential as a technology component to address these challenges in transparent and trustable media transactions. However, blockchain needs to be integrated closely with a widely adopted standard to ensure broad interoperability of protected images. JPEG calls for industry participation to help define use cases and requirements that will drive the standardization process.

Presentations from the 1st (Vancouver) and 2nd (Lisbon) workshop are available here:

• 1st JPEG Workshop on Media Blockchain Proceedings, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1, wg1n81033, Vancouver, CAN, October 16th, 2018
• 2nd JPEG Workshop on Media Blockchain Proceedings, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1, wg1n82017, Lisbon, Portugal, January 22nd, 2019

Practical information and registration

• Date and time: 14:00-18:00, Wednesday 20th of March 2019
• Venue: ITU Geneva, Tower Building room A, Rue de Varembé CH-1202 GENEVA
• Registration: attendance to the workshop is open and free of charge. Registration before the 15th of March is required via this form. In addition, for logistic reasons, participants should register with ITU via this form (select Invited expert in the Membership section).

Program

• 14:00-14:05 Overview of JPEG Activities (Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL)
• 14:05-14:20 Privacy-preserving photo sharing based on blockchain (Pablo Pfister, EPFL)
• 14:20-14:35 JPEG Privacy and Security Activities (Frederik Temmermans, imec-VUB)
• 14:35-15:00 Adopting Blockchain in Image Security (Deepayan Bhowmik, University of Stirling)
• 15:00-15:30 Use of blockchain for data privacy and protection, (Bryan Ford, EPFL)
• 15:30-16:00 break
• 16:00-16:30 An Introduction of ITU-T DLT Standardization (Wei Kai, CAICT)
• 16:30-16:45 Image forgery detection - A use case for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (Anthony Sahakian, CEO of Quantum Integrity)
• 16:45-17:00 FabToken: Tokenization on HyperLedger Fabric (Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, IBM Research Zurich)
• 17:00-18:00 Panel Discussion & Closing (Moderator: Fernando Pereira), panellists:
  • Deepayan Bhowmik
  • Touradj Ebrahimi
  • Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui
  • Bryan Ford
  • Wei Kai
  • Anthony Sahakian
  • Frederik Temmermans

Organizing committee

• Frederik Temmermans
• Changjin Koo
• Fernando Pereira
• Takaaki Ishikawa

More information

JPEG issued a white paper entitled “Towards a Standardized Framework for Media Blockchain” that elaborates on the initiative, exploring relevant standardization activities, industrial needs and use cases.

To keep informed and get involved in the discussion, interested parties are invited to register to the ad hoc group’s mailing list.