It is our great pleasure to invite you to join us in Rome, Italy, for the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2015 , to be held from the 16th to the 19th of November 2015. The workshop will be hosted by Roma Tre University.

WIFS is the annual flagship workshop organized by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee. Its major goal is to bring together researchers in the field to foster ideas exchange and to allow cross-fertilization among researchers working in the different areas of information security. WIFS will serve as a powerful instrument for community building.

The conference will feature three keynote lectures, up to four tutorials, lectures and poster sessions, demo and ongoing work activities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Amonymization & Data Privacy
- Cryptography for multimedia
- Biometrics
- Surveillance
- Forensic Analysis
- Hardware Security
- Information Theoretic Security
- Multimedia Hashing
- Network Security
- Adversarial Signal Processing
- Communication and Physical-Layer Security
- Steganography and covert communications
- Usability and Human Factors
- Watermarking and Data Hiding

Submission of papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, six-page papers, including figures and references, to the WIFS Technical Program Committee. The WIFS Technical Program Committee will select the best submitted papers to be presented at WIFS 2015. Accepted papers will be scheduled in lecture tracks or in poster sessions. Authors are required to present their papers at the conference.

Tutorial proposals: Up to four tutorials will be scheduled for the first day of the conference, Monday November 16, 2015. Prospective tutorial contributors are encouraged to submit a tutorial proposal with the tutorial title, the presenters' name, affiliation, and brief CV, along with the detailed structure of the tutorial, to the Tutorials Chairs at tutorials@wifs2015.org.

Demo and ongoing works proposals: The Demo session is open to both academic researchers and industrial exhibitors. An ongoing works session will be organized to give researchers the opportunity to present their latest activities to the general audience. Formal proposals have to be submitted to the Demo Session Chair at demo@wifs2015.org.

Submission of SPL and TIFS papers: Authors of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) papers will be given the opportunity to present their work at WIFS 2015, subject to space availability and approval by the WIFS Technical Program Chairs. Proposals have to be submitted to the Technical Program Chairs at tpc@wifs2015.org.

Important dates

Tutorial/special sessions proposals......................April 6, 2015
Notification of tutorials/special sessions acceptance....April 20, 2015
Regular paper submission.................................June 19, 2015
Demo/ongoing work proposals..............................July 6, 2015
SPL/TIFS papers submission...............................July 31, 2015
Notification of demo/ongoing work proposals acceptance...August 31, 2015
Notification of paper acceptance.........................August 31, 2015
Camera-ready paper submission............................September 21, 2015
Early registration deadline..............................October 9, 2015
Author registration deadline.............................October 16, 2015

Patrizio Campisi & Nasir Memon
IEEE WIFS2015 General Chairs