The international workshop on Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) will be held in conjunction with IEEE FG 2017 in Washington DC on May 30, 2017.
Face recognition research and development have focused primarily on the visible spectrum. An emerging topic in face recognition is matching between heterogeneous
facial signatures acquired from different sensing modalities. Heterogeneous face
recognition (HFR) has the potential to solve many challenging problems and provide key
capabilities for commercial, law enforcement, intelligence, and military use. There is an emerging need for face recognition systems specifically designed for the task of
matching heterogeneous facial signatures.
This workshop is among the first to solicit proposals and provide a platform for the
face recognition community to promote research on sensors and algorithms for
heterogeneous face recognition. This workshop will bring together experts and
researchers from academia, government, and law enforcement to present HFR research
and discuss future directions.
Topics of Interest

The topics of the workshop includes but are not limited to

Sensors (visible, infrared, polarimetric, LiDAR, and emerging sensing technologies)
Face detection and fiducial point labeling for HFR
HFR scenarios:
-Infrared to visible
- Sketch (hand sketch, forensic sketch) to visible
- 3D to 2D
-Low-resolution to high resolution
-Video to image
Biometrics applications
Surveillance, Law enforcement applications


Submissions
The manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and should be no more than 8 pages in IEEE FG 2017 paper format. The submitted papers should present original work not currently under review elsewhere and should have no substantial overlap with already published work. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of IEEE FG 2017 & Workshops and will be sent for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore digital library.


Important dates

Paper Submission: February 2nd, 2017

Author notification: March 2nd , 2017

Camera-ready Paper due: March 8th, 2017

Workshop: May 30th or June 3 (TBD), 2017


ORGANIZERS
The workshop will be organized by

Saquib Sarfraz, KIT, Germany
Rainer Stiefelhagen, KIT, Germany
Sean Hu, ARL, USA
Ben Riggan, ARL, USA
Nathan Short, Booz Allen Hamilton, USA