Welcome
It WAS our great pleasure to welcome you in Rennes France, for the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2017, from December 4, to December 7, 2017. The workshop took place at Inria Rennes.
WIFS is the primary annual event organised by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Its major objective is to bring together researchers from relevant disciplines to exchange new ideas and the latest results and to discuss emerging challenges in different areas of information security.
WIFS 2017 featured keynote lectures, tutorials, technical sessions. Topics of interest broadly include (but are not limited to): Forensics Analysis, Biometrics, Secure Communication, Multimedia Security, Infirmation Theoretic Security, Cybersecurity, Hardware Security, Surveillance, Network Security, Applied Cryptography (See the Program of the week).
Call for demos
WIFS 2017 will feature a demo session this year. The demo session will take place in the morning on Wednesday, December 6th, concurrently with a poster session to maximize visibility. The demo session is intended for academic and industrial exhibitors who wants to disseminate their IFS results in a more…
New institutional sponsor: Région Bretagne
The Council of Brittany is sponsoring IEEE WIFS 2017. Brittany is one of the 18 regions of France, it covers the north-west part of (the nose of) France bordering Normandy and the Loire Valley.
Call for IEEE TIFS article posters
A tradition at WIFS is to offer authors of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security the opportunity to promote their recent article during a poster session. Here are the conditions: The article has been published in IEEE TIFS this scholar year: from Sept. 2016 to Sept. 2017. One co-author…
Technical program committee
Some asked why the technical program committee was not yet disclosed. It is simply because the area chairs did not know in advance the workload and the distribution of the submissions per topic. Now that the reviews have been assigned, here is the list of people who committed to work…
New institutional sponsor
The Fondation Rennes 1 “Progresser, Innover, Entreprendre” is sponsoring IEEE WIFS 2017. La fondation Rennes 1 connects the University of Rennes 1 to a network of companies in order to foster innovation and economical growth.
First Silver sponsorship
We are delighted to receive the support of the Digital Watermarking Alliance. Thank you so much! The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) is an international alliance of industry leading organizations that deliver valuable digital watermarking solutions to a broad range of customers and markets around the world. Members include ContentArmor, Irdeto, MarkAny, Media Science…
100
We have received 100 submissions. We thank the authors for the hard work. Now, it is up to the program chairs to assign papers to the area chairs who will assign them to reviewers. May the best win and Good luck to all!
Tirer sur la corde
Ah, authors! They are all the same: you give them a deadline extension, and they ask for more 🙂 Due to numerous requests, the program co-chairs have decided that: The authors who have submitted their paper before the deadline (Friday 23rd of June, midnight Paris time) will have the chance…
The reviewing process is double blind!
Please anonymize your submission. Remove authors’ names and anonymize references to your previous papers. Instead of writing “In our previous papers [1], we show that…” -> “In paper [1], the authors show that …” We have already received submissions not following these guidelines. The program co-chairs will contact these authors.…
Second industrial sponsor
We are proud to receive the support of Digimarc. A Leading Innovator and Technology Provider Digimarc enables businesses and governments worldwide to identify all forms of content, including audio, video, packaging, and imagery. Digimarc develops solutions, license intellectual property, and provide development services to global business partners across a wide…
