Organizers: Abhijit Das, Umapada Pal, Michael Blumenstein, Miguel A. Ferrer
Description: Ocular biometrics has received significant attention from researchers from industry, academia as well as government. The major reason behind the success of the ocular trait is due to the iris pattern. Although studies have reflected significant achievements in iris biometrics, its application in the visible spectrum (for mobile environments, at a distance/ in the wild) is an open challenge. To address these challenges, two new traits namely conjunctival vasculature (sclera) and peri-ocular are proposed, that can be combined with iris to increase iris biometric applicability in less constrained conditions. However, the state-of-the-art related to recognition based on ocular biometrics in the visible spectrum still faces various open, unexplored, and unidentified challenges. Therefore, this subject of research should receive structured and systematic multidisciplinary efforts in signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and information fusion. Therefore, the goal of this special session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in this area of biometrics to address a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to systems based on this subject.
Submission Instructions:
Papers will be submitted through CMT.
Select the "Special Sessions" track, and indicate "Ocular Biometrics in the Visible Spectrum" in the paper's metadata.
Manuscripts should follow main conference's length and formatting guidelines.
Key dates are:
Friday June 30 papers are due.
Friday July 21 authors are notified of decision.
Organizers: Prof. Chang-Tsun Li (U. Warwick UK & Charles Sturt University, Australia), Prof Massimo Tistarelli (U. Sassari, Italy), Andreas Uhl (U. Salzburg, Austria)
Description:The potential of applying biometrics to forensics comes naturally as several forensic questions rely on identifying, or verifying the identity, of people allegedly involved in crimes. Although these two scientific communities have operated in relative isolation over the past couple of decades, forensic biometrics have been successfully applied through the development of automatic fingerprint identification systems, and most recently, through the development of face recognition systems. The potential of forensics biometrics, however, can be extended to other biometric traits, such as iris, palm recognition, gait analysis, etc. Several international projects and initiatives have been devoted to facilitating the cross-fertilisation of ideas and concepts from these two closely related disciplines. The EU project - Computer Vision Enabled Multimedia Forensics and People Identification (Acronym: IDENTITY: http://identity.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/) is one of the most recent among these initiatives, with a theme for linking biometrics to forensic science. This special session is focused on this IDENTITY theme and is intended for providing a forum for the IDENTITY consortium to engage the wider scientific community through exchange of ideas and recent progresses in the thematic areas.
Submission Instructions:
Papers will be submitted through CMT.
Select the "Special Sessions" track, and indicate "Linking Biometrics with Forensic Science" in the paper's metadata.
Manuscripts should follow main conference's length and formatting guidelines.
Key dates are:
Friday June 30 papers are due.
Friday July 21 authors are notified of decision.