Committees EST-2012 Conference Conference Chair: Adrian Stoica, NASA/JPL, USA Conference Co-Chairs: Charlie Frowd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Klaus McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK Program Chair: Dimitri Zarzhitsky, NASA/JPL, USA Program Co-chairs:  Ahmet Erdogan, University of Edinburgh, UK Gareth Howells The University of Kent, UK Workshop on Autonomous Systems and Security Chairs:  Klaus McDonald-Maier, University of Essex, UK Isabella Panella, Selex Galileo, UK Workshop on Biometrics Chairs:  Charlie Frowd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada Workshop on Computer Vision Chair:  Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University, Japan Workshop on Hardware Security Chair:  Svein Johan Knapskog, NTNU Norway Special Session on Novel Technologies for Intrusion Detection Chairs: Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine and Hassina Bensefia Badji Mokhtar University, Algeria Advisory Committee Don Bouldin, UTK, USA Son Dao, HRL, USA Hristo Hristov, Defence Institute, Bulgaria Nobuyuki Otsu AIST, Japan Phil Philips, Asaph Ltd., UK Horia N. Teodorescu, TU Iasi, Romania Steve Trimberger, Xilinx, USA Japan Liaison  Tetsuya Higuchi, AIST, Japan Korea Liaison Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Steering Committee Tughrul Arslan, University of Edinburgh, UK Adrian Stoica, NASA/JPL, USA Program Committee (continued) Zoe Antoniou, Nokia Research Cambridge, UK Juan Manuel Moreno Arostegui, Tech. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Nizamettin Aydin, Yildiz University, Turkey Valentina E. Balas, University of  Arad, Romania Helen Balinsky, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Tech. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Juergen Becker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Paul Benjamin, Pace University, USA Richard Bergmair, Univ of  Cambridge, UK Misty Blowers, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Ahmed Bouridane, Northumbria University, UK Patrick Bours, Gjovik University College, Norway Lionel C. Briand, University of Oslo, Norway Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA Martin Drahansky, Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic Ahmet T. Erdogan, The University of Edinburgh, UK Charlie Frowd, University of Central Lancashire, UK Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Solange Ghernaouti-Helie, Univ of Lausanne, Switzerland Danilo Gligoroski, NTNU, Norway, Michael Goldsmith, Univ. of Warwick, UK Richard Guest, University of Kent, UK Helena Handschuh, Cryptography Research, USA and KULeuven, Belgium Sue Ellen Haupt, Pennsylvania State University, USA Daniel Howard, QinetiQ, UK Terry Huntsberger, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Yumi Iwashita, Kyushu University, Japan Kimmo Jarvinen, Aalto Univ, Finland Johan Jenvald, Linkoping University, Sweden H J Kadim, LJM University, UK Didier Keymeulen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Svein Johan Knapskog, NTNU, Norway, Matthew Leinhos, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Vincenzo Loia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Mario Malcangi, Universita degli studi di Milano, Italy Konstantinos Markantonakis, Univ of London, UK Maria De Marsico, Univ. di Salerno, Italy Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, UK Javier Ortega-Garcia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Isabella Panella, Selex Galileo, UK Ioanna D. Papadopoulou, Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece Konstantinos Papapanagiotou, Univ. of Athens, Greece Pedro Melo Pinto, UTAD, Portugal George Polyzos, Athens Univ, Greece Hugo Proenca, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal Gang Qu, University of Maryland, USA Lukas Sekanina, Brno Univ. of Tech., Czech Republic Vlad P. Shmerko, University of Calgary, Canada Konstantinos Sirlantzis, University of Kent, UK Nigel Stinton, NHBC, UK Makoto Takahashi, Nagoya University, Japan João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK Ingrid Verbauwhede, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Tanya Vladimirova, University of Leicester, UK Andreas Westfeld, U of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany Uffe Kock Wiil, Univ of Southern Denmark, Denmark Wei, Yan, University College London, UK Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada Program Committee Andrea Francesco Abate, Univ. di Salerno, Italy Wael Adi, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Ali Ahmadinia, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK