Call for Posters and More!

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. The 2024 Symposium marks the 45th annual meeting of this flagship conference. New this year, IEEE S&P 2024 is very excited to have a special recognition for AI-Selected “Best” Posters!

Presenting a poster at IEEE S&P is a great chance for researchers to obtain valuable feedback on their ongoing work from knowledgeable participants at the conference. Posters are solicited that present unpublished, in-progress, or late-breaking research, or extensions of published work on security-and privacy-related topics. Additionally, posters presenting interdisciplinary work that is relevant to security and privacy research but was published outside the security community are welcome.

Poster abstracts are due Friday, April 12, 2024   Monday, April 29, 2024. At least one author of each accepted poster will be required to attend the conference in person. Accepted poster abstracts will be posted on the conference website.

Important Dates

Poster abstracts due: Friday, April 12, 2024   Monday, April 29, 2024 AOE
Acceptance notification: Friday, Apr 26, 2024  Monday, May 6, 2024

Submission Details

Submit an abstract no longer than two pages describing the work, together with a draft of the poster itself. The abstract title should begin with the keyword “Poster:”. Include all authors with contact information and institutional affiliation in your abstract. Abstracts should briefly describe the particular problem being addressed and detail your approach to the problem. Providing preliminary results is suggested but not required. If the work was previously published outside the security community, or is an extension of any published work, please include a reference to the existing publication.

Please use the 2-column IEEE conference proceedings style for preparing your abstract. All submissions should be in PDF format. Your abstract should not exceed the two page limit; non-conforming submissions will not be considered for review. All submissions must also include a draft of the poster to receive feedback before the conference. Presented posters can be sized up to 24 x 36 inches (or A1) either portrait or landscape but should be scaled down to letter or A4 for submission as a PDF.

All materials should be submitted to https://posters.sp2024.ieee-security.org

If accepted, at least one author must be registered, and a final version of the poster abstract must be submitted by Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Monday, May 13, 2024 AOE. The abstract will be placed on the conference website prior to the poster session but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

For more information, please contact the posters chair at sp24-posters@ieee-security.org.

AI-Selected “Best” Poster Recognition

This year, we will have a special competition where a vision-language model, i.e., GPT-4V, will judge the actual posters for a set of criteria. The posters receiving full score on the criteria below will be recognized during the awards ceremony. Of course, there are multiple ways by which one can design a poster that is scored perfectly by a vision-language model!

Please be aware that by participating in this context, your poster will be uploaded to a cloud-based API. You can opt out from this competition on the submission website.

This is the GitHub repository that contains the code which will be used to score the posters: https://github.com/wi-pi/ai-selected-best-poster. And the criteria is listed below. It is worth noting that this criteria might change before the conference date. However, the repository will always be up-to-date.

Criteria for the AI-Selected “Best” Poster Recognition

This is the criteria to be used to score the posters. It is mostly adapted from the Rubric for Scientific Posters provided by the writing center at Harvard University:

Organization

• 3-4: Navigation is explicitly indicated with numbers or visual guides.
• 1-2: Navigation is implicit (e.g., headings and blocks of text imply organization).
• 0: It is not at all clear how I should move through information on the poster.

Graphics

• 3-4: Graphics are clear from 3-5 feet away. Color is used to highlight important points or to convey quantitative information. Visual anchors guide and help orient viewer to content.
• 1-2: Graphics can be seen but not understood from 3-5 feet away. Colors distract the viewer or do not aid in comprehension. No use of visual anchors to orient the viewer to the content.
• 0: Graphics are not distinguishable from text. Too much or too little color creates confusion. Graphics underused.

Data Visualization

• 3-4: Charts and graphs communicate the major results and implications. Axes are clearly labeled. Color and/or visual cues are used to highlight important data points.
• 1-2: Data are presented in charts and graphs, but the figures do not clearly communicate the results. No visual cues to draw attention to a big result.
• 0: No data presented, or raw data presented without interpretation. The viewer must spend time to interpret data before they can understand the poster.

Text

• 3-4: Title and major headings are legible from 3-5 feet away. Explanatory text is associated with each graphic. 30% to 50% of the poster content is comprised of text.
• 1-2: Titles and major headings are legible from 3-5 feet away, but the poster is comprised of <30% or >50% text. Explanatory text is not directly adjacent to the graphic described.
• 0: Titles and/or major headings are illegible from 3-5 feet away. Poster is comprised of <30% or >50% text.

Space Utilization

• 3-4: Empty space is organized and large enough to visually organize content segments from 3-5 feet away. No large areas of white space.
• 1-2: Empty space is employed but is insufficient to visually organize the content as viewed from 3-5 feet away.
• 0: Little to no empty space; the poster looks like a mass of text and diagrams. Difficult to navigate from 3-5 feet away. Large areas of white space.

Objectives or Questions

• 3-4: The research objectives or questions are explicitly stated with the use of a heading.
• 1-2: The research objectives or questions are implicitly present but buried in the background information.
• 0: I could not find the research objectives or questions.

Main Points

• 3-4: The main points are clearly labeled and easy to find.
• 1-2: The main points are present but not obvious and not labeled.
• 0: I could not find the main points.

Poster Jury

Nojan Sheybani	University of California San Diego
Osama Bajaber	Virginia Tech
Shimaa Ahmed	Visa Research
Lea Thiemt	Technical University of Munich
Tu Le	University of Virginia
Xinyue Shen	CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Neal Mangaokar	University of Michigan
Brian Tang	University of Michigan
Sanket Goutam	Stony Brook University, New York
Tamjid Al Rahat	University of California Los Angeles
Fan Wu	University of Illinois
Ryan Feng	University of Michigan
Daniel Dubois	Northeastern University
Meng Yan	Shanghai Jiaotong University
Alec Diallo	University of Edinburgh
Qinying Wang	Zhejiang University
Emmy Fang	University of Toronto
Grace Guyue Liu	NYU Shanghai
Muoi Tran	ETH Zurich
Veena Krish	Stony Brook University, New York
Yu Xia	Hudson River Trading
Abdul Karim Gizzini	SogetiLabs Research and Innovation
Kunyang Li	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Naman Gupta	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Prajwal Panzade	Georgia State University