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This year, the Nominations and Elections Subcommittee of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) has called for nomination of new IFS-TC members (by September 30) and the new IFS-TC Vice Chair (by October 20). The nomination material for both calls shall be submitted to the IFS Nominations and Elections Subcommittee (email alias: ifs-election@ieee.org) by the corresponding deadline.

Proposals for special sessions at WIFS 2019 to complement the regular technical program are welcomed.

A special session consists of at least 3 and up to 6 papers, with a unifying theme that focuses on fields of special and emerging interest to the information forensics and security community.

Proposal Submission: Prospective organizers of Special Sessions should submit
proposals with the following information:

In recent years the ubiquity of mobile computing platforms such as smartphones and tablet devices has rapidly increased. These devices provide a range of interaction in an untethered environment unimaginable a decade previously. With this ability to interact with services and individuals, comes the need to accurately authenticate the identity of the person requesting the transaction, many of which may carry financial or legally-binding instruction.

In the last decade, a large number of techniques have been proposed to ensure integrity and authenticity of data in security-oriented applications, e.g. multime-dia forensics, biometrics, watermarking and information hiding, network intrusion detection, reputation systems, etc.... The development of these methods has re-ceived a new boost in the last few years with the advent of Deep Learning (DL) techniques and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

Candidates are sought for a 2-year (renewable) post-doctoral fellowship position to work at the Reasoning for Complex Data (Recod) Lab. (http://www.recod.ic.unicamp.br/) at the Institute of Computing (www.ic.unicamp.br/en ), University of Campinas, Unicamp (www.unicamp.br/index.php/english ), Campinas, SP, Brazil.

Dear IFS-TC members,

On behalf of the IFS-TC Nominations and Elections Subcommittee, I would like to call for nomination of new TC members.

The elected new members will serve from 2019年1月1日 to 2021年12月31日. Since there are 10 TC members whose term expires at the end of 2018, we expect to elect 10 new members this time.

- Candidates can be self-nominated or nominated by current TC members, retired TC members, as well as established people in the IFS field.

EAB is launching a call for nominations for the twelfth European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research and innovations in Europe.

The 2018 IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P-2018) is the 6th edition of a successful series, organized by the IEEE SPS Italy Chapter and the National Telecommunications and Information Technologies Group – GTTI, with the sponsorship of IEEE (S3P program) and EURASIP (Seasonal School Co-Sponsorship agreement).

The school will be held in San Vincenzo (Livorno), Italy, September 10-14, 2018.

The theme of the 6th edition of the school is Signal Processing for Information Security

POSITION TITLE: Postdoctoral Researcher in computer science and engineering in security for the TeamPlay European project

IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is a unique annual event which is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Biometrics Council and IEEE Signal Processing Society. The 2018 edition of this workshop will be held in Hong Kong. WIFS is the unique workshop series organised by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in watermarking and cryptography are sought at the IMT Atlantique/LaTIM/IMAGINE research team to work on a project on the security of big data, and on a project on the security of genetic data.

More information can be found in this first and this second pdfs.

Daniela Oliveira (UFL), Jeremy Epstein (NSF), and Anderson Rocha (UNICAMP, Brazil) are Guest Editors to the Special Issue on Security and Privacy Research in Brazil for the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine’s November/December 2018 issue.

The updated deadline is 11 March 2018

Open-position for a postdoc in the DéjàVu project in Brazil.

Candidates for a 2-year (renewable) post-doctoral fellowship position are sought to work at the Reasoning for Complex Data (Recod) Lab (http://www.recod.ic.unicamp.br/) at the Institute of Computing (www.ic.unicamp.br/en), University of Campinas, Unicamp (www.unicamp.br/index.php/english), Campinas, SP, Brazil.

Dear all,

Due to the close proximity of ICIP to the nomination deadline, we have extended the period for nominating new IFS TC members to October 8, 2017:
- Nomination Period: August 18 - (削除) September 24 (削除ここまで) October 8 (both included)
- Election Period: October 9 – October 15
- Final Results Announcement: October 18

The IEEE Signal Processing Society announces the fifth edition of the Signal Processing Cup: "Forensic camera model identification challenge" endorsed by the Information Forensics and Security TC.

A video tutorial on Multimedia Forensics, by Roberto Caldelli and Rabab Ward, has been recently presented at ICIP 2017.

The video has been produced by IEEE-SPS and IEEE-IFS TC in cooperation with UBC Studios with the intent to widely divulge what Multimedia Forensics can do and its applications.

The video can be accessed through:

http://signalprocessingsociety.org/our-story/multimedia-content

https://youtu.be/NRRzs0bB0a0

The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome, the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018. The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications.

The call for nomination of new TC member is now open!

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is pleased to organize the Student Career Luncheon at ICIP 2017, Tuesday, September 19, 12:30~14:00.
At the luncheon, students will meet representatives from industry, who will introduce their companies and job opportunities. Company representatives will also have the opportunity to interview and recruit attendees during the event.

• Application Deadline: June 30, 2017 at 12:00 PM EDT

Applications

EAB is launching a call for nominations for the eleventh European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research and innovations in Europe.

The Technical Committee on Information Forensics and Security (IFS-TC) is inviting proposals for its flagship workshop WIFS, to be held in Fall/Winter2018. The workshop is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the Biometrics Council (BMC). The proposal
should target an audience around 120-160 attendees. Interested groups and individuals are strongly encouraged to approach the members of the IEEE IFS-TC WIFS subcommittee to openly discuss and improve their proposals¹. The proposals should be complete and detailed.

Important Dates for submitting SPS Travel Grant Application for ICIP 2017

• Application Open: May 8, 2017
• Application and Recommendation Letter Deadline: May 24, 2017 at 12:00 PM EDT
• Application Closed: May 24, 2017 at 12:00 PM EDT
• Decisions Announced: June 2, 2017
• ICIP Travel Grant Application Form: Application Form (link is externa

The IEEE international Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the primary annual event organized by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee with the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Biometrics Council. 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. The 9th edition of WIFS will be held in Rennes, France, from December 4 to December 7, 2017.

EAB is launching a call for nominations for the eleventh European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research and innovations in Europe.

This article provides the guidelines for submissions to IEEE T-IFS in which the proposed system relies on deep learning.