[Imageworld] [CFP] Workshop IWCF 2012

[Kazuhiko Kawamoto]

Dear Colleagues,

The following is the call for papers to a workshop
in conjunction with ICPR2012.
Please distribute to who are interested in.

Workshop Chairs and Publicity Chairs of ICPR2012

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5th International Workshop on Computational Forensics 
iwcf12.arsforensica.org

in conjunction with

2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan
www.icpr2012.org

The workshop will be the 5th in the sequel of four earlier workshops 
in Manchester (UK), Washington D.C. (USA), The Hague (Netherlands), 
and Tokyo (Japan) respectively.

Important Dates:
July 6th, 2012  Full papers due
August 10th, 2012 Acceptance notice
August 24th, 2012 Final manuscripts due

Forensic and criminal analysis is becoming increasingly data intensive 
and widely distributed. Especially for electronic data it is common 
practice to seize all data carriers that are believed to contain 
relevant evidence material. For example, in criminal cases against 
large companies, intelligence work on money laundering and terror 
finance, the content of all servers, personal computers, mobile 
phones, PDAs, printers, copiers, backups and so on are collected. All 
these relevant devices and their digital content have to be dealt with 
together with truckloads of paper documents and data from other 
sources. It all amounts to many terabytes of data. In addition, crime 
investigators and intelligence analysts urgently demand the 
possibility to enrich the collected evidence with information from 
other/open sources, e.g., data available on the Internet.

This year the workshop will emphasize challenges in applying pattern 
recognition  and artificial intelligence methodologies to digital 
evidence in mobile devices and distributed, networked computing, i.e., 
cloud enviorments. Though the workshop will also address a broad 
spectrum of forensic disciplines that deal with ultra-large scale 
investigations and big data processing, e.g., in pathology, biology, 
drugs, text, speech, image and video analysis. For example, research 
might allow to handle and to increase the performance in large-scale 
investigations; automatic search through terabytes of electronic data 
storage within closed systems and open Internet; enable cross-media 
search and data integration for accessing diverse sources of 
information; yield to more objective evidence analysis and final 
decision making; enable extracting profiles of perpetrators maps of 
crimes; visualization of criminal and terroristic associations and 
their relationships.


Paper Submissions:

Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical, 
experimental or unique application nature. Manuscripts have to be 
prepared in English in accordance with the Springer LNCS format 
guidelines. The maximum number of pages is 12. Electronic submissions 
received via the workshop site until July 6th, 2012, will be evaluated 
for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness by at least 
three independent experts. Acceptance will be notified to the author 
until August 10, 2012. Detailed information is available at the 
following site:
iwcf12.aforensica.org


Workshop Co-Chairs:
Katrin Franke, Gjovik University College, Norway
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Andre Arnes, Gjovik University College, Norway

Program Committee:
Lashon B. Booker, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Thomas Breuel, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Darren Bilby, Google Inc, Switzerland
Joseph Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Oscar Cord?n, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Patrick De Smet, FOD Justitie, Belgium
Andrzej Drygajlo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Cinthia Freitas, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil
Rune Erlend Fl?isbonn, Kripos, Norway
Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA
Zeno Geradts, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
Pavel Gladyshev, University College Dublin, Ireland
Peter Gill, University of Strathclyde, UK
Robert Hayes, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Lawrence Hornak, West Virginia University, USA
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA
Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland
Didier Meuwly, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
Brent Ostrum, Canada Border Services Agency, Canada
Olivier Ribaux, Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland
Marcus K. Rogers, Purdue University , USA
Hiroshi Sako, Hosei University, Japan
Christopher J. Solomon, University of Kent, UK
Sargur N. Srihari, University at Buffalo, USA
Inger Maria Sunde, Norwegian Police University College, Norway
Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Joost van Beusekom, German Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Dirk Vandermeulen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Cor J. Veenman, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
Thomas Walmann, ?kokrim, Norway
Takashi Watanabe, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
Eli Winjum, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

... Tentative as of February 6th, 2012 ...