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).
Videos of the keynotes are online
Thanks again to our keynote speakers Denis Teyssou (AFP): “A state of the art in journalism about fake image and video detection“ Emmanuelle Anceaume (CNRS/IRISA): “A primer on blockchain technology and the bitcoin cryptocurrency“ Thanks to Alain Crenn from Inria Rennes for the video editing.
Proceedings of the conference are online
Check them on IEEEXplore
Copies of the slides
The copies of the slides of the tutorials are available: Methods for Understanding Deep Neural Networks and their Predictions, Grégoire Montavon (TU Berlin, Germany) Biometric Spoofing and Anti-Spoofing aka Presentation Attack Detection, Sébastien Marcel (Idiap Research Institute) Security and Privacy in Machine Learning, Nicolas Papernot (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Awards
During the Gala Diner, the organising committee awarded some reviewers and authors: Best Reviewer Award (200€) Kari Kostiainen, ETH Zurich Andrew Paverd, Aalto University This award acknowledges the outstanding quality of the reviews of Andrew Paverd and Kari Kostiainen. These reviews were numerous, long, helpful, and respectful of the authors works.…
There will be buses
We have set up a shuttle between Rennes downtown and the conference venue at Inria Rennes. The meeting point downtown is near the restaurant “Brasserie de la Paix”, Place de la République. If you miss the WIFS shuttle (or if the shuttle is full :), don’t worry, take the regular…
Useful information
Attendees of IEEE WIFS 2017 should have received the `useful information’ booklet be email. Some of them didn’t. Please check your spam mailbox. In any case, here it is: https://project.inria.fr/wifs2017/files/2017/12/WIFS-2017_Useful-information.pdf
Friday 8th December: National cluster workshop
As a follow-up of IEEE WIFS, the national cluster GdR-ISIS is organising a workshop in the same venue as WIFS. Everybody is welcomed. Speech will be in english, there is no registration fees. You need to register here http://www.gdr-isis.fr/index.php?page=reunion&idreunion=342 The program: 9h30 : accueil café 10h : introduction 10h15 :…
Music Festival: Les transmusicales
I have already mentioned that Rennes has its annual music festival “Les Transmusicales” just after IEEE WIFS, from 7-10 December. Be careful: Hotels downtown are expected to be crowded starting from Thursday 7th. This gives WIFS attendees the opportunity to attend some concerts. The program of the festival can be…
Logistic
For logistic reasons, we need to collect some information about the catering and the social events. Please let us know as soon as possible which events you will be attending. To do so, it’s very simply: just go on your profil page ( http://v4.congres-vert.org/wifs2017/login.html ), type your last name and your reference number…
National GdR-ISIS workshop on Friday 8th of December
The GdR-ISIS is a national cluster gathering French research labs in Signal and Image processing. Caroline Fontaine is organising a one-day workshop in the same conference room as IEEE WIFS. In particular, Prof. Slava Voloshynovskiy (University of Geneva, Switzerland) is giving a talk on Digital Security for physical goods. All…
