Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee

Award Subcommittee

Chair: Nasir Memon (as EiC of TIFS)
Members: Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Shih-Fu Chang, Teddy Furon, and Stefan Katzenbeisser
Mission: Members of this subcommittee preferably should include IEEE Fellows or individuals that have received an award as to bring experience to the Awards nominations process. This committee collects nominations from Technical Committee members and the community as a whole (nomination process is open) and narrows down the list, with the final names being voted on by the Technical Committee, which then passes its recommendations to the Awards Board. This procedure applies for all the SPS awards and Distinguished Lecturers. This subcommittee will also identify Senior Members that are considered qualified for elevation to Fellow and help find an individual that can nominate the candidate (neither the subcommittee nor the TC will nominate or endorse Fellow candidates). The Chair of this subcommittee would act as a liaison to the Society’s Awards Board.

Education/Tutorial Subcommittee

Chair: Deepa Kundur
Members: Patrizio Campisi, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Gaurav Sharma, Slava, Voloshynovskiy, and Min Wu
Mission: Responsibilities of the subcommittee include liaison with the Signal Processing Education Technical Committee, and creation of content of interest to SPS members involved in the Technical Committee that is not appropriate for publication in the Society’s conferences and periodicals (such as tutorial style articles on Wikipedia or Connexions, etc).

Industry/Government Subcommittee

Chair: Darko Kirovski
Members: Gwenaël Doërr and Shantanu Rane
Mission: This involves supporting the Membership Board in industry and government activities. Responsibilities include forwarding information to relevant members from industry and the government, who are interested in activities of the Technical Committee and keeping them involved, as appropriate. Responsibilities include liaison with the Industry DSP standing Committee.

Nominations and Elections Subcommittee

Chair: C.-C. Jay Kuo
Members: Jana Dittmann, H.-Y. Mark Liao, and Rich Lippmann
Mission: Membership in the nominations subcommittee is restricted to elected Technical Committee members. The role of this subcommittee is to collect nominations for Technical Committee members and Vice Chair positions, and conduct the election process. The Nominations Subcommittee shall ensure that the candidate pool for new TC members represents the diversity of SPS members in the Technical Committee area, which includes: gender, geographic, academic/industry, junior/senior, etc. This subcommittee will also help nominate Associate Editor candidates to relevant Editors-in-Chief in the Society.

Student subcom

Chair: Alessandro Piva
Members: Ja-Ling Wu and Wade Trappe
Mission: This subcommittee will be formed by students, either elected members or Affiliate TC members. The Chair of the Student Subcommittee will be a Student. This subcommittee may provide tutorials for students, courses, networking events, access to job postings, student grants, and other activities of interest to students.

Technical Direction Subcommittee

Chair: Mauro Barni
Members: Jan Allebach, Robert Cunningham, Jessica Fridrich, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Alex C. Kot, Nasir Memon, Fernando Pérez-González, Gaurav Sharma, Jim Wayman, and Min Wu
Mission: This subcommittee identifies future trends and directions in information forensics and security and promotes the vitality and growth of the IFS-TC. In addition, this subcommittee manages and maintains the EDICS for the TC and ensures it is being used consistently in all TC related conferences and workshops. Further, this subcommittee works with the Editor-in-Chiefs of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and various SP Society sponsored or co-sponsored publications to ensure that IFS areas are accurately and adequately represented in the EDICS of these publications.

Area Chairs

Mission Area chairs drive the review of papers for that area submitted to SPS’s conferences and workshops. Each Area Chair will have a number of reviewers, which shall normally include elected Associate and Affiliate Technical Committee Members. Other responsibilities may include proposal of special sessions and special issues in that area.

1. Data hiding (steganography, steganalysis, watermarking) chaired by F. Pérez-González
2. Multimedia security (robust hashing, DRM, multimedia forensics) chaired by G. Doërr
3. Signal processing and cryptography (secure signal processing, multimedia encryption, privacy protection) chaired by S. Katzenbeisser
4. Network security chaired by W. Trappe
5. Biometric security chaired by P. Campisi
6. Surveillance and monitoring (video surveillance, anomaly detection, monitoring) chaired by M. Liao
7. Information theoretic aspects of security chaired by TBA
8. Applications and systems (including, for the time being, security issues in cloud computing, smart grids, security in social networks) chaired by J-J. Kuo

Website and Publicity Subcommittee

Chair: Gwenaël Doërr
Members: H. Vicky Zhao (IFS Jobs Marketplace) and Shantanu Rane (IFS Message Board & Liaison to SPS eNewsletter)
Mission: This subcommittee maintains the Technical Committee web site together with SPS staff, and promotes the awareness of the TC activities via SPS eNewsletter, SPS web site, and other applicable venues.

WIFS Subcommittee

Chair: Gwenaël Doërr
Members: Mauro Barni, Dinei Florencio (associate member), Patrick J. Flynn, Darko Kirovski, and Anderson Rocha (associate member)
Mission: This involves soliciting proposals for workshops, helping volunteers with access to historical data regarding workshops and best practices, as well as putting in place a process to ensure there are enough proposals in time for voting and TC decision making.

Regional Representatives

Europe: Jean-Luc Dugelay
Asia: Qibin Sun
South America: Anderson Rocha (associate)
Mission: (Regions 1-6, Regions 7/9, Region 8, and Region 10). The four regional representatives shall support the Society’s Regional Directors-at-Large in the area of expertise of the Technical Committee. The representatives shall promote and foster local activities of that Technical Committee (such as conferences and meetings) and encourage new chapter development; publicize the activities of the Technical Committee in that region and help attract members from that region to the Technical Committee.

T-IFS Liaison

Members: Mauro Barni, Dinei Florencio (associate member), Patrick Flynn, Darko Kirovski, Alex C. Kot, H.-Y. Mark Liao, Nasir Memon, Alessandro Piva, Wade Trappe, and Min Wu
Mission: The role of this sub-committee is to foster links between the IFS TC and the T-IFS.