Workshop on Security and Privacy in AR, VR, and XR

First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in AR, VR, and XR (SePAR)

June 4th-7th, 2024 - Perth, Australia

https://separ-workshop.github.io/

The Security and Privacy of AR, VR, and XR (SePAR) workshop aims to raise awareness and advocate for novel solutions regarding security vulnerabilities and privacy risks of XR applications. It will be held in Perth, Australia, in conjunction with the 25th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM). We are looking for new and innovative work, including in-progress developments, which can raise awareness and interesting discussions and potentially be published as an improved paper at a first-tier venue, after.

The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to discuss the latest advances in AR/VR security and privacy topics, including:

• Security: Threats to AR/VR systems and applications, and defense mechanisms.

• Privacy: Collection and use of personal data in AR/VR systems, user privacy controls, and privacy enhancing technologies.

• Policy and regulation: Legal and ethical implications of AR/VR, and regulatory frameworks.

• In-Network Computing: to preserve user privacy as a default feature of networks

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Studies on the disclosure of threats in XR applications
• Attacks on XR applications and users on the network level
• Privacy and utility metrics in the context of VR and AR
• Techniques for anonymization or removal of sensitive information from XR data streams
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for XR networking traffic
• Anomaly detection in encrypted XR traffic
• Analysis of encryption protocols used in the context of XR on all network layers
• Privacy policies in the context of XR applications
• Privacy preservation as a virtualized network function
• Programmable networks for delay-sensitive applications such as AR/XR

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: February 23rd, 2024

• Notification of acceptance: March 31st, 2024

• Camera-ready version due: April 14, 2024

• Workshop date: June 4th, 2024 (tentative)

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. See: IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Papers should be original and unpublished work that is not currently under review for another conference or journal. Submissions should be made electronically through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31893&track=121696).

PC Chairs

* Stefanie Roos (University of Kaiserslautern)

* Giang Nguyen (Centre for Tactile Internet, CeTI, TU Dresden)

* Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

TPC

* Patricia Arias-Cabarcos (Universität Paderborn)

* Frederik Armknecht (Universität Mannheim)

* Robin Berjon (Protocol Labs)

* Christian Becker (Universität Stuttgart)

* Aurélien Bellet (INRIA Montpellier)

* Franziska Boehm (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (FIZ))

* Ulf Brefeld (Leuphana Uni Lüneburg)

* Ana-Maria Cretu (EPFL)

* Tung Doan (TU Dresden)

* Jordi Forné (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

* Sébastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal)

* Oana Goga (CNRS)

* Maria Gorlatova (Duke University)

* Jaap-Henk Hoepman (iHub and Radboud University Nijmegen)

* Dali Kaafar (Macquarie University)

* Bailey Kacsmar (University of Alberta)

* Jussi Kangasharju (Helsinki University)

* Katharina Kaesling (TU Dresden)

* Stefan Katzenbeisser (Uni Passau)

* Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University)

* Volkmar Lotz (SAP)

* Mark Roman Miller (Illinois Institute of Technology)

* Melek Önen (EURECOM)

* Franziska Roesner (University of Washington)

* Indra Spiecker, gen. Döhmann (Universität Frankfurt)

* Anthony Steed (University College London)

* Xiang Su (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

* Hinako Sugiyama (International Justice Clinic, UC Irvine Law School)

* Florian Tschorsch (Technical University Dresden)

* Xin Wang (National Institute of Informatics)

* Christiane Weis (NECLabs Europe)

* Limin Zheng (Zhejiang University)

Web co-chairs:

* Simon Hanisch (Centre for Tactile Internet, CeTI, TU Dresden)

* Fritz Windisch (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

For up-to-date information, please visit the workshop’s website: https://separ-workshop.github.io/