Scope

Biometric authentication is increasingly gaining popularity in a large spectrum of applications, ranging from governmental programs (National ID card, Visa, fight against terrorism) to personal applications such as logical and physical access control. Although a number of effective solutions are nowadays available, new ideas and techniques are necessary to overcome some of the limitations of current systems. This workshop will bring together researchers working on various aspects of biometric techniques in an attempt to develop robust solutions to many challenging problems in biometrics. Moreover, this workshop will try to identify trends for future developments and the means for promoting the use of biometric systems in various application domains. This one-day workshop will consist of technical presentations, with 2 invited papers and 16-20 contributed papers.

Topics

The workshop will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing with all aspects of biometrics. In particular, we solicit papers covering the topics listed below. Submissions addressing related issues are also strongly encouraged.

• Fingerprint, Face, Hand, Palmprint, Iris, Speech and any other biometrics
• Sensing technologies and new devices
• Feature detection and representation for biometric authentication
• Invariant measures for authentication
• Multi-modal and multi-expert techniques
• Psychophysics of human authentication
• Performance evaluation and assessment criteria
• Template protection and techniques for securing biometric systems
• Applications and new challenges

Tentative dates and deadlines:

Paper submission: Jan 26, 2004
Notification of Acceptance
Camera Ready Papers: March 30, 2004
On-line registration to BioAW 2004 is managed by the ECCV web-site. The fee for BioAW 2004 is 80 €.

Chairs:

• Prof. Davide Maltoni, University of Bologna, Biometric Systems Laboratory, via Sacchi 3, 47023 Cesena (FC) - ITALY
  Email: maltoni@csr.unibo.it
• Prof. Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, Department of Computer Science & Engineering 3115 Engineering Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226
  Email: jain@cse.msu.edu

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