CVPR 2019 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
• Stan Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
• Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA
• Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China
• Xiaogang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 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
• 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
• Julian Fierrez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• Venu Govindaraju, SUNY Beffalo, USA
• Allen Yang, University of California Berkeley, USA
• Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA
• Iacopo Masi, University of Southern California, USA
• Vivel Kanhangad, IIT Indore, India
• Matteo Ferrara, University of Bologna, Italy
• Sunpreet S Arora, VISA, USA
• Anush Sankaran, IBM Research, India
• Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University, Italy
• Qijun Zhao, Sichuan University, China

Paper submission: March 8, 2019 (11:59pm PST) Decisions: April 8, 2019 Camera ready papers due: April 14, 2019

Workshop Date: June 17, 2019

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Panel Session

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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. All the papers accepted for the biometrics workshop must be presented by one of the authors, and at least one of the authors must register at the standard registration rate before the paper registration deadline. If any accepted paper is not presented by any of the registered co-authors of this paper, it will be recommended for withdrawal from the IEEE Xplore proceedings and no communication will be sent to any of the co-authors.
5. 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.
6. All the papers should be submitted using CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BIOM2019

Best Paper Award:

• B.-N. Kang, Y. Kim, B. Jun, D. Kim for the paper titled “Hierarchical Feature-Pair Relation Networks for Face Recognition” Presented at CVPR Biometrics Workshop 2019

Highest Impact Award:

• Abdenour Hadid for the paper titled “Face Biometrics Under Spoofing Attacks: Vulnerabilities, Countermeasures, Open Issues, and Research Directions” Presented at CVPR Biometrics Workshop 2014

Long Beach Convention Center (weblink https://www.longbeachcc.com/) Long Beach, California, USA

Bir Bhanu Email: bbhanu@ucr.edu

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