Oct 4, 2011

The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the primary annual event organized by the IEEE’s Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee. The 3rd edition of WIFS will be held this year in Iguazu Falls, Brazil from November 29th to December 2nd, 2011. The IFS-TC invites researchers and industry practitioners to participate in WIFS, which continues to grow both in terms of audience participation as well as coverage of technical topics. We present below some of the highlights of WIFS.

The conference will feature a single-track schedule of oral presentations of 40 papers reviewed by the worldwide experts in the field of information forensics and security. These include papers in the areas of computer and cloud security, biometrics, secure signal processing, applied cryptography, data hiding, digital rights management, hardware security, forensic analysis, network security, information theoretic security, video surveillance and other topics.

WIFS will host tutorials from leading experts in various areas of information forensics, and biometric security. These include:
1. Information Security from a Hardware Perspective, by Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)
2. Social Science and its Impact on Cyber Security by Dr. Shari Pfleeger (Dartmouth College) / Deanna Dace Caputo (Mitre.org)
3. Multimedia Forensics by Nasir Memon (NYU Polytechnic)
4. 3-D Reconstruction tools and techniques for Forensics and Surveillance by Eugene Liscio (AI2-3D, Canada)

WIFS will feature keynote speeches in the area of biometrics and pattern recognition, computer and cloud security, and digital watermarking. The keynote speakers this year include:
1. Patrick J. Flynn, Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
2. Bill Horne, Research Manager, Cloud and Security Lab of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
3. Ton Kalker, VP of Technology, FutureWei Technologies

For the first time at WIFS, authors have been invited to submit a concise description of new research ideas and on-going projects to a Poster Track of WIFS 2011. The Poster Track is intended to provide a venue for research that is not mature enough to warrant a full paper but which would be of interest to the general community. In addition to the regular WIFS papers, the papers accepted in the Poster Track will be published as 2-page contributions in the WIFS proceedings.

To obtain further information about the conference, details about traveling to Iguazu Falls, and obtaining a visa to visit Brazil, readers are requested to visit the official WIFS website at http://wifs11.org.

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