(17) Final Program – The final program is now available. [November 25th]
(16) Guideline for Presenters – please the instructions regarding the oral and poster presentations. [November 18th]
(15) Ongoing Work Poster Format – The authors of accepted ongoing work must use A1 poster format according to the PPT template available here. [October 26th](14) Preliminary Program – The
WIFS'11 preliminary program is now available. [September 29th]
(13) Collaboration with Brazilian Federal Police
– This year's WIFS will have an interesting interaction between
Scientific Researchers and Forensics Experts from the Brazilian Federal
Police (DPF). DPF will present about 12 scientific challenges they face
in their operations regarding forensics and surveillance issues. The
presentations are part of WIFS normal program and will take place in all
the three days of the event.
In
addition, DPF will also hold a poster section with recent solved cases
and demos in which discussions can take place on other possible forms of
solving such cases. The poster section will take place during
coffee-breaks.
We will post a preliminary program in the website in the next couple of days. [September 27th]
(12) Frequently Asked Questions
We have been receiving several questions about the trip to Brazil. We found this website which might be useful:
http://www.brazilsf.org/visa_faq_eng.htm
More info can be found in the Travel Information section. [September 27th]
(11) 2011 WIFS Registration - 2011 WIFS registration is now open. Please click here to register. We recall that at least one author per paper must register by September 25th, 2011 at an "Author" rate. [September 13th]
(10) Hotel Booking - We just updated the Hotel Information Section. Please check it out for more info. [September 9th]
The event will take place at the
Mabu Thermas & Resort
Avenida das Cataratas, 3175
Foz do Iguaçu - PR, Brazil, 85853-000
Phone: +55 (45) 3521 2000
Fax: +55 (45) 3529 6361
(9) Travel Info and Visas - We just updated the Travel Information Section. Please check it out for more info about the trip. [August 31st]
(8) Call for Poster Presentation of On-Going Work -
Authors are invited to submit a concise description of new research
ideas and on-going projects, which are incomplete to warrant a full
paper but of interest to the general community, to the poster track of
WIFS 2011. More information about On-Going Work submission can be found here. [August 25th]
(7) The WIFS'11 organization team is
proud to announce that we have received 123 submissions. The technical
committee worked very hard to compile a program consisting of
outstanding papers, resulting in a low acceptance rate of 32.5%. Please
login to the WIFS 2011 submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WIFS2011/) to see reviewers’ comments on your paper.
To
assure a high quality conference, please take reviewers’ comments into
account when preparing your final paper. The list of accepted papers are
available here. [August 25th]
(6) The WIFS'11 organization team is
proud to announce that we finally reached a decision about the
tutorials we will hold this year. We are going to have three accepted
tutorials and one additional invited tutorial [July 13th]. (T1) Biometric System Design: Addressing Security and Privacy
Dr. Svetlana Yanushkevich (Univ. of Calgary)
(T2) Information Security from a Hardware Perspective: Challenges and
Solutions
Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)
(T3) Social Science and its Impact on Cyber Security
Dr. Shari Pfleeger (Dartmouth College)
(Invited) Multimedia Forensics
Nasir Memon (NYU Poly)
(5) The WIFS'11 organization team is proud to announce that we got 123 submissions this year. We are now in the review phase and will post more news soon. [July 13th]
(4) Due to many requests, the WIFS'11 organization team has decided to postpone the submission deadline to July 1st, 2011. [June 17th]
(3) WIFS'11 organization team is proud to announce that this year WIFS will feature Student Best Paper Awards & Travel grants:
10 student papers will be granted awards. The top five will receive a
Gold paper award certificate, and another five will receive Silver
paper awards certificate.
Additionally,
one student author from each award paper will be offered a travel grant
to attend the conference (US$ 2,000 per Gold award papers, and US$
1,000 for Silver award). Please see "students" at the web site for details. [June 13th]
(2) WIFS'11 will feature three prominent keynote speakers: Patrick Flynn, William Horne, and Ton Kalker. For more information about the keynotes, please click here. [June 9th]
(1) WIFS'11 will also feature four tutorials in addition to the traditional scientific program. The tutorials will take place at the first day of the event and will be offered for free for all WIFS'11 registered attendees. [June 9th]
The 2011 IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS'11), will be held in Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, on November 29th - December 2nd, 2011.
WIFS is the main annual event sponsored by the IFS TC, i.e., the IEEE SPS technical committee on Information Forensics and Security. The IFS TC is also the main sponsor of the IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security.
Please join us in Brazil for this premier event.