CVPR 2018 Biometrics Workshop

With a very security conscious society, biometrics based authentication and identification have become center of focus for many important applications as it is believed that biometrics can provide accurate and reliable identification. Biometrics research and technology continue to mature rapidly, driven by pressing industrial and government needs and supported by industrial and government funding. As the number and types of biometrics architectures and sensors increases, the need to disseminate research results increases as well. This workshop is intended to be positioned at the frontier of biometrics research and showcase the most excellent and advanced work underway at academic and private research organizations as well as government labs.

Many of the applications require higher level of accuracy performance not feasible with a single biometrics today. Additionally, it is also believed that fusing multiple biometrics will also improve wider coverage of population who may not be able to provide a single biometrics and also improve security of the systems in terms of spoof attacks. This workshop will address all aspects of research issues in different modes and levels of fusion of biometrics samples, sensing modes and modalities with a sole goal of improving performance of biometrics. Theoretical studies on sensor fusion techniques applied to biometrics authentication, recognition and performance are encouraged. The topics of interest are:

Overall Meeting Sponsors

General Chair: Bir Bhanu (University of California, Riverside, bbhanu@ucr.edu)

Program Chair: Ajay Kumar (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ajay.Kumar@polyu.edu.hk)

• Josef Bigun, Halmstad University, Sweden
• Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA
• Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China
• Amit Roy-Chowdhury, University of California, Riverside, USA
• Xiaogang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Jaihie Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea
• Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
• B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Jonathon Phillips, NIST, USA
• Arun Ross, Michigan State University, USA
• Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA
• Tieniu Tan, NLPR, China
• Terry Boult, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
• Yury Vizilter, State Research Institute of Aviation Systems (GosNIIAS), Russia
• Pong C Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
• Fabio Roli,University of Cagliari, Italy
• Karthik Nandakumar, IBM Research Collaboratory, Singapore
• Christoph Busch, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
• Julian Fierrez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• Koichi Ito, Tohuku University, Japan
• Venu Govindaraju, SUNY Beffalo, USA
• Patrick Flynn, Notre Dame University, USA
• Stan Z. Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• Vivek Kanhangad, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
• Qian Zheng, Zhejiang University, China
• Richa Singh, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
• Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Paper submission: March 5, 2018 Decisions: April 4, 2018 Camera ready papers due: April 15, 2018

Workshop Date: June 18, 2018

Invited Talk

Title of the Talk: Face Recognition by Deep Learning - The Imbalance Problem Presenter: Chen Change Loy

Panel Session

Panel Title: Impact of Deep Learning on Biometrics and Trends Panel Session Chair: Brian Lovell Panelists: Gang Hua (Microsoft, USA) Xiaoming Liu (Michigan State University, USA) Mayank Vasta (IIIT, Delhi, India) Terry Boult (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)

1. All the submissions will be subjected to double-blind review process. Therefore author names, affiliations, email addresses, personal acknowledgements, etc. should be removed from the paper. Please use the submission template [Latex] [MS-Word].
2. The submissions can be up to 8 pages (excluding references) during the review process.
3. All the papers must be submitted in IEEE format using the templates provided. Submitted papers should not have been published, accepted or under review elsewhere.
4. Authors are required by the IEEE to transfer copyrights for any papers to be published in the conference proceedings. This is performed at the time when the camera ready version is submitted for production. If a paper is withdrawn from the proceedings, copyright gets reverted to the authors.
5. All the papers should be submitted using CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CVPRW2018

* The reviews for all the papers submitted for the CVPR 2018 Biometrics Workshop can be accessed from CMT on April 6, 2018.

** Details for the camera ready submission and instructions will be sent by email.

Salt Palace Convention Center (weblink https://www.visitsaltlake.com/salt-palace-convention-center/) Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Bir Bhanu Email: bbhanu@ucr.edu

Ajay Kumar Email: Ajay.Kumar@polyu.edu.hk