2009 is a bad year for watermarking conferences. All of them (IH, MMSEC, IWDW, SPIE, ...) are facing a low submission number. There are certainly too many yearly conferences, but no PC wants to kill its child. Too bad! Clearly, publishing papers is no longer a problem.
Some think this is due to the brand new "yet another conference on content security", ie. WIFS. THE conference which would wipe out all the others. But no! There were 120 submissions. Not enough for the organizers who decided to restrain their ambition, as I have been told. WIFS might be single threaded without any poster session (enter the rumormill!). Maybe, they were expecting too much for a first edition.
Some think this is due to the financial crisis. Researchers have no money for traveling. The Earth thanks them for the saved CO2. But no! Conferences of our cousins the crypto broke submission records in 2009.
So? what is rotten in the realm of watermarking? Time to move on to another realm? Which one?
But there is a glimpse of hope at the end of the 2009 black tunnel. According to the latest Journal Citation Report, the TIFS journal's impact factor has jumped from 1.089 to 2.23. It is currently in the first third of the JCR ranking for electrical engineering journals, which is really good.
Conclusion: Stop calling your travel agency, and write long deep and damn good journal articles!
Miss Cucumber switching the gossip radio off.
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