Special Session on " Secure Biometric Systems 2012 "

will be held in conjunction with
IEEE National Conference on Computing & Communications Systems (NCCCS 2012),

20 November, 2012, Durgapur


In this information age, security is one of the main concerns for individuals as well as for vulnerable things which would be susceptible to attack, and security threats often come from malicious users, criminals, and cross-border terrorists. Therefore, it is necessary to protect an individual's identity and all valuable things from these malicious users. As a result, biometric technology has emerged as a secure means of authentication and identification of individuals, which uses physiological and behavioral characteristics for measuring the individuality as an authentication. There exist several biometric characteristics such as fingerprint, face, iris, palm print, hand geometry, signature, ear, retina, DNA, gait, etc., to authenticate a person successfully. Biometrics systems are divided into two groups: unibiometrics systems and multibiometrics systems. Unibiometric identifiers use single source of biometric evidence and multibiometric system consolidates evidences obtained from multiple biometric sources. Both the relevant and irrelevant information of two or more traits are fused together. B iometrics system has several governmental and commercial applications such as electronic data security, Internet access, ATM, credit card, physical access control, cellular phone, medical records management, national ID card, voter ID card, welfare-disbursement, border security control, passport control, airport control, corpse identification, criminal investigation, parenthood determination, missing children, etc.

The special session will serve as a platform to cover the advanced topics and approaches of biometric systems and technologies.


Topic of Interest:

Only original and unpublished high quality research papers are solicited from the researchers and practitioners on traditional and advanced topics of biometrics. The topics include but are not limited to:

-- Face, fingerprint, iris, palmprint and hand geometry, ear, gait, signature, footprint, etc.
-- Template update, feature extraction and matching in biometric systems
-- Biometrics cues and performance measurements
-- Multibiometrics fusion
-- Biometrics system architecture for evidence integration
-- Fusion based verification and identification techniques in multibiometrics
-- Data normalization techniques in biometrics fusion
-- Multi-classifiers fusion and score weighting schemes in biometrics
-- Machine vision and soft computing techniques in biometrics systems
-- Biometrics database indexing and searching techniques
-- Online and offline multibiometric systems
-- Multi-sensor fusion in multibiometrics
-- Multispectral biometrics image fusion
-- Multi-sample based systems
-- Multi-instance based multibiometrics systems
-- Performance modeling and resource computation of biometrics systems
-- Security and reliability assessment for biometrics systems
-- Complexity analysis of biometrics systems
-- Cryptography applications in biometrics

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers in IEEE paper format. The page limit for a full-length paper is 5 pages. Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome, with the limit of 4 pages.

More details will be available in the following link:

http://www.ncccs12.org/sps.htm