AIMS AND SCOPE
The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security
(WIFS) 2024 will be the 16th edition of the major annual event organized
by the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee
(IFS-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The major goal of
WIFS is to bring together researchers working in the different areas of
information forensics and security to discuss challenges, exchange
ideas, and share state-of-the-art results and technical expertise, with
the aim of building a community capable of providing adequate tools and
solutions to face the challenges of tomorrow.
WIFS 2024 will be held in Rome, Italy, from December 2 to December 5,
hosted by Roma Tre University, and it will see the participation of
researchers from all over the world, who will allow to have a high-level
technical program, also thanks to the expertise of the program committee
involved, and who will have the opportunity to exploit an interesting
social program taking advantage of the charm of the Eternal City.
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
The organizing committee invites proposals for Tutorials on relevant and
emerging topics in the area of Information Forensics and Security.
Tutorials will be given during the first day of the conference, on
Monday December 2, 2024.
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
The organizing committee invites proposals for innovative and
high-quality special sessions on emerging topics, which complement the
regular program of the conference. Special sessions should both provide
an overview of the state of the art in the proposed field, and highlight
the most promising research directions, trends and issues. Special
session proposals will be evaluated based on the proposed topic, the
expected impact, the expected quality of the contributed papers, and the
session organizers and contributing authors. Special session paper
submissions will be reviewed via the same process used for the regular
program, and papers are expected to meet the same quality standards.
Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE
Xplore.
CALL FOR DEMOS
The organizing committee invites proposals for demonstrations of
applications in information forensics and security topics. Demos are
intended as real, practical, and interactive proof of the presenters'
research ideas and scientific or engineering contributions, with the
goal of providing researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to
discuss working systems, applications, prototypes, or proof-of-concepts.
Accepted and presented demos will be described in short papers that will
be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
CALL FOR CHALLENGES
The organizing committee invites proposals for challenges addressing
problems that will engage and excite the information forensics and
security research community. Challenge organizers should provide a
dataset to participating teams, including data to train and test the
proposed algorithm. They are also in charge of checking the submitted
results/models. The organizers will be asked to summarize the challenge
outcomes in a paper that will be presented during the workshop and
submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Prospective authors are invited to submit research papers be up to 6
double-column pages, including references and figures, presenting
original works and addressing Information Forensics and Security aspects
in a broad sense. The review process will be single-blind (author’s
names can be reported in the submitted papers). Accepted and presented
papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. It is planned
to organize a special issue with invitations for a selection of the best
presented papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
• Anonymization and Data Privacy
• Applied Cryptography
• Biometrics
• Communication and Physical-Layer Security
• Cybersecurity
• Forensic Analysis
• Hardware Security
• Multimedia Content Hash
• Network Security
• Surveillance
• Usability and Human Factors
• Watermarking and Data Hiding
• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Steganography and Covert Communications
• Information Theoretic Security
• Security of Large Networked Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
• Special Session proposal: March 18, 2024
• Special Session notification: March 29, 2024
• Challenge proposal: April 15, 2024
• Challenge notification: April 19, 2024
• Tutorial proposal: June 2, 2024
• Tutorial notification: June 7, 2024
• Paper/Demo submission: June 30, 2024
• Reviews notification: September 2, 2024
• Rebuttal deadline: September 6, 2024
• Acceptance notification: September 13, 2024
• Camera-ready submission: September 27, 2024
• Early registration: October 4, 2024
• Workshop: December 2 – 5, 2024
CONTACTS
For further information, please visit https://wifs2024.uniroma3.it or
send an email to wifs2024.contacts@uniroma3.it.
Special Issue: Artificial Neural Networks to Aid Prediction and Diagnosis of Neurological Diseases
January 4th, 2024 
Daniela Lopez de Luise I am writing to invite you to contribute a paper to a special issue entitled Artificial Neural Networks to Aid Prediction and Diagnosis of Neurological Diseases.
Journal of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (IF=2.6)
https://www.aimspress.com/mbe/article/6259/special-articles
• Deep learning aided diagnosis of neural disorders
• Deep learning approaches for Parkinson's disease diagnosis
• Deep learning-based Alzheimer disease detection
• Deep learning applications to classification of psychiatric disorders
• Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders using deep learning
• Deep learning for brain disorder diagnosis
• Brain tumor detection using deep learning
• Deep learning approaches for brain cancer classification
• Deep learning models for automated sleep stage classification
• Deep learning for automatic seizure detection
• Brain age prediction using deep learning
• Deep learning methods for analysing Covid-19 stress
Guest Editors
Dr. Diego Oliva
Dr. Renjith V Ravi
Dr. Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Ph.D
Dr. Gerald Schaefer
Dr. Marco Antonio Perez-Cisneros
SHREC2024 call for track proposals
January 4th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PROPOSALS
SHREC2024 – 3D Shape Retrieval Challenge 2024
http://www.shrec.net/
At Eurographics 2024 Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval, 26-27 August 2024
Nota bene: Full paper submissions will follow a two-stage review process and will be published in the international journal Computes & Graphics upon acceptance.
We strongly encourage to consider the graphics replicability stamp initiative, http://www.replicabilitystamp.org/, and to apply for this additional sign of recognition.
Introduction
The general objective of the 3D Shape Retrieval Challenge is to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms. SHREC2024 is the nineteenth edition of the challenge. Like previous years, it is organized in conjunction with the Eurographics Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval, where the results will be reviewed and presented at the symposium.
Thanks to the efforts of previous track organizers, SHREC already provides many resources to compare and evaluate 3D retrieval methods. For this year's contest, we aim to explore new and updated tracks. Therefore, the participants are invited to have an active role in the organization of the event. This includes proposing track themes, building or acquiring a training and test collection, and deciding upon the queries, relevance assessment, and performance measures.
The participants of each track will collectively write a paper, which will be peer reviewed, and published in Computers & Graphics upon acceptance. At least one author per track must register for the symposium, and present the results. The registration must be unique for the paper, multiple papers on one registration does not count. We also cordially invite all other participants of a track to register and attend the workshop.
Tracks
The tracks organized in the past years have covered different aspects and tasks of 3D shape retrieval, for example: rigid or non-rigid models; partial (e.g. range scan) or complete models; sketch-based 3D retrieval; generic or domain specific models (e.g. CAD, biometrics, architectural and molecular), and various aspects such as metric learning, outlier detection, correspondence, robustness, stability, registration, classification, recognition, pose estimation, and machine learning, and change detection.
Now we solicit again proposals for tracks. You may opt for one of the above themes, or propose new ones. Track organizers are responsible for all aspects of organizing the track, such as: the task, the data collection (copyright issues, etc.), the queries, the ground truth, the experimental design, the evaluation method, the procedural aspects, writing the final paper in collaboration with the collaborators, and submitting it. See below for examples of previous SHREC editions. We strongly encourage to consider the graphics replicability stamp initiative, http://www.replicabilitystamp.org/, to apply for this additional sign of recognition, and to include this in your track proposal.
Procedure
The following list is a step-by-step description of the activities:
- Potential track organizers send their proposal to shrec@cs.uu.nl, describing the envisioned task, collection, queries, ground truth, evaluation method, expected number of participants, and plans to apply for the graphics replicability stamp.
- Promising tracks and their organizers will be listed at the SHREC web page, the track organizers start working out the details and recruite participants.
- Participants register for the tracks they want to participate in.
- Each track is performed according to its own schedule, compliant with the worskop submission and reviewing schedule.
- The track organizers collect the results.
- The track results are combined into a joint paper. Papers are subject to peer review, accepted journal papers are published in Computers & Graphics.
- The description of the tracks and their results are presented at Eurographics 2024 Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval, 26-27 August 2024.
SHREC Time Schedule
Important dates
- January 30, 2024: Submission deadline for track proposals.
- January 31, 2024: Notification of acceptance of track proposals.
- January 31 to March 29, 2024: Each track has its own time line.
- March 29, 2024: Submission deadline for full papers for review.
- April 22, 2024: First review done, first stage decision on acceptance or rejection.
- May 20, 2024: First revision due.
- June 17, 2024: Second stage of reviews complete, decision on acceptance, rejection, or acceptance as short paper.
- July 1, 2024: Final version submission.
- July 5, 2024: Final decision on acceptance or rejection.
- August 2024: Publication online in Computers & Graphics journal.
- August 26-27, 2024: Presentation at the Eurographics 2024 Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval, 26-27 August 2024
The individual tracks will have their own time schedule for registration of participants, release of queries or submission of executables, and submission of results, etc.
Organization
For information about the contest, the results, etc. of previous years, see past events:
SHREC 2023 SHREC 2022 SHREC 2021 SHREC 2020 SHREC 2019 SHREC 2018, SHREC 2017, SHREC 2016, SHREC 2015, SHREC 2014, SHREC 2013
For more information, please contact shrec@cs.uu.nl.
Springer 3rd International Conference on Advanced Engineering, Technology and Applications
January 4th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to invite you to contribute to the International Conference on Advanced Engineering, Technology and Applications (ICAETA), scheduled for May 24-25, 2024. This prestigious event is co-organized by the University of Catania, Italy and Istinye University, Turkey, and will be held online, enabling global participation.
We warmly invite authors to submit their full papers for consideration. All submissions will undergo a thorough peer-review process by at least three independent experts. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the proceedings, with selections based on originality, significance, and technical rigor.
For further information visit the conference website
Publications & Indexing
Accepted papers that meet our quality standards will be published in the Springer “Lecture Notes in Networks and System” (LNNS) series, which is indexed in renowned databases including SCOPUS, DBLP, INSPEC.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2024
Notification to Authors: April 20, 2024
Camera-Ready Submission: May 20, 2024
Organizers
University of Catania, Italy
Istinye University, Turkiye
Best regards,
Conference Secretariat
ICAETA-2024
info@icaeta.com | akhtar.jamil@nu.edu.pk
Special Issue “Entropy in Soft Computing and Machine Learning Algorithms III”
January 4th, 2024 Daniela Lopez de Luise I hope this message finds you well.
I am writing to invite you to contribute a paper to a special issue I lead in the journal Entropy (IF = 2.7), entitled “Entropy in Soft Computing and Machine Learning Algorithms III”, which is focused on the use of entropy in soft computing and machine learning methodologies. You contributed your work to the former volumes of this themed issue, and we welcome you to join this one.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/9QJTV26NW7
The official deadline for submission is 29 February 2024, you may send your manuscript at any time before the deadline.
If the idea can retain your attention, please don’t hesitate to contact me or the assistant editor (chiara.hu@mdpi.com) for further information. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Guest Editors
Dr. Diego Oliva
Dr. Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad