This volume contains accepted papers presented in IIH-MSP 2017, the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. The scope of IIH-MSP includes the information hiding and security, the multimedia signal processing and networking, and the bio-inspired multimedia technologies and systems. This volume of Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies contains papers published in IIH-MSP 2017 with the subjects related to multimedia security and applications, wearable computing, IoT privacy and information security, biomedical system design and applications, emerging techniques and applications, soft computing and applications, applications of image encoding and rendering, and information hiding and its criteria. All collected papers are with the latest research outcomes and findings in the scoped fields. They are capable of being studied by researchers and students, who are interested in the corresponding fields, for receiving the latest advance information. The conference this year is hosted by the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia and is technically co-sponsored by the Fujian University of Technology in China, the Taiwan Association for Web Intelligence Consortium in Taiwan, the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Applications (Fujian University of Technology) in China, and the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School in China. IIH-MSP 2017 is held in 12-15, August 2017 in Matsue, Shimane, Japan. Matsue is the capital of Shimane Prefecture, which was founded in 1611. It is in the middle of the San-in region facing the Sea of Japan in the north of the Chugoku mountain area range in the Chugoku block of Japan's main island, Honshu. Matsue is around 180kms away from Hiroshima and approximately 370kms away from Osaka by train. Matsue stands as the second major city along the Sea of Japan coast, second to Niigata. It is a city engulfed by its rich history and culture, an integration of ancient traditions and spiritual heritage.
