Information Forensics and Security: A quarter-century-long journey
Mauro Barni Patrizio Campisi Edward J. Delp Gwenael Doërr Jessica Fridrich Nasir Memon Fernando Pérez-González Anderson Rocha Luisa Verdoliva Min Wu
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.