Intern. Workshop on Multimedia Forensic Data Analysis Forensic'2019

July 19th, 2019, New York, USA

Workshop Chair

• Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences, IBaI, Germany

Workshop Committee

• Paul Elzinga, Data scientist at Politie Nederland Politie Nederland, The Netherlands
• Piere Guisset, Administrateur delegue INNOVITY SA INNOVITY SA Universite catholique de Louvain Bruxsels, Belgien
• Aslo Mattei, Crime Lab Deputy Director, Head of latent print unit Arma dei Carabinieri University of Ferrara , Italy
• Peter W. Pfefferli, Forensic Expert, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland

Scope of the Workshop

The increased usage of digital media in daily life has resulted in the demand for novel multimedia data analysing techniques that can help to use these data for forensic purposes. The processing of these data for police investigation purposes can help to speed up the investigation and make them more effective. If these data should be used in a court of law as evidence, techniques that can confirm the origin and integrity are necessary. These techniques should be robust and reproducible. They should also allow to work on sparse sample sets since in police investigation cases the data are usually rare. Multimedia content is comprised of images, videos, text and audio. These data allow to identify and compare objects or persons based on grey level, texture, color, geometrical or biometrical features. If they serve as evidence in court of law case they need to be trustworthy. The new techniques such as the internet and the new software services such as search engine like google, internet communities such as facebook make these multimedia content available in a new form and allow to derive new information from it such as links between groups, information pieces or events. The developed methods should aim to work on sparse data sets and allow to store the actual case in a data base in such a manner that they can easily retrieved, generalized and used as comparative cases for different police investigations.

All kinds of topics related to multimedia forensic data analysis are welcome. Some related topics are:

• Person Identification in Images and Videos
• Analysis of Handwritings
• Multi Lingual Topic Modelling
• Kinship Analysis
• Gender Recognition
• Speech Analysis (native speaker recognition)
• Analysis of Border Control Images
• Genetic Data Analysis

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2019
• Notification Date: May 29th, 2019
• Camera-Ready Deadline: June 12th, 2019
• Workshop date: July 13th, 2019

• Please submit the electronic version of your camera-ready paper to EasyChair Forensic 2019.

Submission Requirements

All papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by ibai-publishing.

Paper submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 15 pages. Author's instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at Please submit to info@ and insert in the header of this mail Forensic2019.

After the conference, authors are invited to submit a revised version of their paper to the International Journal Transactions on Mass Data Analysis of Signals and Images of the ibai publishing Please submit a revised version of your paper after the conference to info@