The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the first workshop to be organized by the IEEE’s Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IEEE IFS TC). It is intended to become an annual event. Our aspiration is to create a venue for knowledge exchange that encompasses a broad range of disciplines and facilitates the exchange of ideas between various disparate communities that constitute information security. By so doing, we hope that researchers will identify new opportunities for collaboration across disciplines and gain new perspectives.    

The conference will feature prominent keynote speakers, tutorials, and lecture sessions. Appropriate topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Biometrics: emerging modalities, recognition techniques, multimodal decision, attacks and countermeasures;
• Computer security: intrusion detection, vulnerability analysis, system security;
• Cryptography for multimedia content: perceptual hash function, multimedia encryption, signal processing in the encrypted domain, traitor tracing codes, key distribution;
• Data hiding: watermarking, steganography and steganalysis, legacy system enhancement;
• Digital Rights Management (DRM): DRM primitives (secure clocks, proximity detection, etc), DRM architectures, DRM interoperability;
• Forensic analysis: device identification, data recovery, validation of forensic evidence;
• Network security: privacy protection, network tomography and surveillance, system recovery from security/privacy failure;
• Non technical aspects of security: legal, ethical, social and economical issues;
• (Video) surveillance: arrays of sensors design and analysis, content tracking, events recognition, large crowd behaviour analysis;
• Secure Applications: e-voting, e-commerce
  

Submission of papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, five-page papers, including figures and references, to the WIFS’09 Technical Program Committee. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Template style files are also provided on the conference web site. Accepted authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

Tutorial proposals: Potential topic of interest include information forensics, information security, surveillance, and the systems applications that incorporate these features. Tutorials will be held on Sunday December 6^th 2009. Brief proposals should be submitted by March 6^th 2009, to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Each proposal must include a title, an outline of the tutorial and its motivation, a 2 page curriculum vitae of the presenter(s) with contact information, and a description of the material to be covered.

Important dates (subject to changes):

This call for paper is also available in PDF format.