Information Forensics and Security: A quarter-century-long journey
It provides a historical overview for researchers and practitioners in IFS, but is incremental as it summarizes existing contributions.
The paper reviews the 25-year evolution of Information Forensics and Security (IFS), highlighting major technological advances and future trends to address societal needs in the digital era, with the IEEE Signal Processing Society as a key leader.
Information Forensics and Security (IFS) is an active R&D area whose goal is to ensure that people use devices, data, and intellectual properties for authorized purposes and to facilitate the gathering of solid evidence to hold perpetrators accountable. For over a quarter century since the 1990s, the IFS research area has grown tremendously to address the societal needs of the digital information era. The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has emerged as an important hub and leader in this area, and the article below celebrates some landmark technical contributions. In particular, we highlight the major technological advances on some selected focus areas in the field developed in the last 25 years from the research community and present future trends.