Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Forensics:  Multimedia forensics | Counter Forensics | Acquisition Device Identification| Evidence Validation | Benchmarking

• Biometrics: Single or Multi-Modalities Systems | Security and Privacy | Spoofing | Performance Evaluation

• Security and Communication: Covert Channels | Physical Layer Security | Steganography | Secret Key Extraction | Digital Watermarking

• Multimedia Security: Broadcast encryption | Near duplicate detection | Data Hiding | Authentication | Forensics

• Information theoretic security: Differential Privacy | Adversarial Machine Learning | Game theory | Communication with Side Information

• Cybersecurity: Model and validation | Cloud Computing | Distributed Systems with Byzantines |Social Networks | Rumors and Alternative Facts

• Hardware security: New primitives |Phyisical Unclonable Functions | Anti-Counterfeiting | Side Channels Attacks | Forensics

• Surveillance: Tracking | Object / Person Detection | Behavior Analysis| Anti-Surveillance and De-identification | Privacy

• Network Security: Intrusion Detection | Protocols | Traffic Analysis | Anonymity | Mobile Ad-hoc Networks | Internet of Things

• Applied cryptography: Processing in the encrypted domain | Multiparty computation | traitor tracing | property preserving encryption

• Moreover, IEEE WIFS 2017 will host 2 special sessions on the following topics:

• Physical Object Identification and Authentication, chaired by Slava Voloshynovskiy (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Boris Škoric (Univ. of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands,

• Social networks and user-generated content verification, chaired by Ewa Kijak (University of Rennes, France) and Vincent Claveau (CNRS / IRISA, Rennes)