Sep 22, 2011

Detailed Information on ICASSP 2012 Track on Information Forensics and Security (IFS Track)

The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, on March 25 - 30, 2012. The Information Forensics and Security (IFS) track of ICASSP welcomes submissions in topics that include (but are not limited to):

WATERMARKING AND INFORMATION HIDING
- theoretical analysis
- practical systems
- attacks
- hardcopy watermarking
- emerging applications

STEGANALYSIS AND COVERT CHANNEL
- steganography
- steganalysis
- design and analysis of covert channels
- new steganography applications
- steganography in new media

COPYRIGHT PROTECTION
- DRM
- robust hashing
- fingerprinting and traitor tracing

BIOMETRICS
- protection of biometric templates
- attacks on biometric systems
- privacy protection in biometric systems
- multi-modal biometric fusion

APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY
- signal encryption and decryption
- signal processing in the encrypted domain
- visual secret sharing
- side channels attacks

INFORMATION THEORETIC SECURITY
- secure transmission over wire-tap channel
- Noise-based secret key generation
- Shannon's security

NETWORK AND SYSTEM SECURITY
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- System recovery
- Key management
- Physical layer security

ANONYMIZATION AND PRIVACY
- Anonymization and de-anonymization
- Privacy attacks
- Privacy preservation
- Applications and systems

FORENSICS ANALYSIS
- Imaging and multimedia forensics;
- Counter-forensics
- Biometric forensics;
- Computer system forensics;
- Communication and network forensics;

SURVEILLANCE
- privacy protection in surveillance systems
- video surveillance
- security in video surveillance

EMERGING APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS
- security in cloud computing
- security in the smart grid
- security in social networks

Prospective authors should note that the list of EDICS available through ICASSP submission website may not correspond to the list above. Authors are encouraged to submit their paper by selecting the closest topic in that list. The technical program chair of the IFS track will be in charge of re-accommodating the submitted papers according to the list indicated in this e-mail.

The important dates for ICASSP are as follows:

Submission of Regular PapersSeptember 27, 2011
Notification of AcceptanceDecember 22, 2011
Author's Registration DeadlineJanuary 26, 2012

More information about the conference is available at the ICASSP website. For more information about the IFS track, please contact the IFS Technical Committee Chair: Mauro Barni, University of Siena (barni@dii.unisi.it)