[CALL FOR PAPERS]

Invited Sessions on Advances in Biometrics
within the 8th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Information Hiding and
Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 12)

July 18-20, 2012, Piraeus-Athens, Greece

IIH-MSP 2012 is the eighth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. This year the conference is co-sponsored by IEEE and hosted by the University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.

In IIH-MSP 2012 there are 3 Invited Sessions on Biometrics, covering the following aspects:
1. Improved methods for recognition and performance evaluation;
2. Security and privacy issues;
3. Disruptive biometric sensing technologies and new applications.

We invite researchers and professionals in the field of biometrics and related fields to submit fullpapers presenting high quality original research and development for the following tracks, covering but not limited to the following topics:

Session 1: Improved methods for recognition and performance evaluation
 Biological biometrics: Finger, face, iris, palm, vein, ear, teeth, finger knuckle, brain wave, heart sound, etc.
 Behaviour biometrics: gait, keystroke dynamics, mouse dynamics, in-air signature, etc.
 Continuous biometric authentication
 New biometric modalities / features
 Multi-biometrics and fusion
 Fast biometric feature indexing
 Aging model
 Performance evaluation
 Sample and sensor quality assessment

Session 2: Security and privacy issues
 Biometric template protection methods
 Privacy-enhancing biometrics
 Anti-spoofing devices and algorithms
 Security and privacy assessment

Session 3: Disruptive biometric sensing technologies and new applications
 Disruptive sensing and data processing technologies for biometrics
 Multi-spectral imaging for biometrics
 On-the-move sensing and processing
 Mobile biometrics
 Medical biometrics
 Biometrics-enabled new applications

Participants are requested to send their papers in full-paper format, with a length between 4 and 6 pages in A4 size (pages beyond 4 are subject to additional cost). Submissions should be sent in MSWord or PDF format according to IEEE standards to the following e-mail addresses:
xuebing.zhou@cased.de or bian.yang@hig.no

Important Dates:
 The deadline for paper submission: March 10th, 2012
 The date for notification: March 30th, 2012
 The date for camera-ready paper submission: April 27th, 2012

Organizing committee:
 Oliver Bausinger, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany
 Patrick Bours, Gjøvik University College, Norway
 Arslan Broemme, GI - SIG BIOSIG, Germany
 Christoph Busch, Gjøvik University College, Norway
 Farzin Deravi,University of Kent, United Kingdom
 Tanya Ignatenko, Philips Research, The Netherlands
 Qiong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology,China
 Judith Liu-Jimenez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Claudia Nickel, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Germany
 Xiamu Niu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 Alexander Nouak, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Germany
 Raul Sanchez-Reillo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 Stephen Wolthusen, Gjøvik University College, Norway
 Bian Yang, Gjøvik University College, Norway
 Xuebing Zhou, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Germany

Co-sponsor:
European Association for Biometrics (EAB)

IIH-MSP 2012 website:
http://iihmsp12.unipi.gr/