Special Session on "Advances in Multibiometrics Systems"

in conjunction with 8th International Conference on Informations, Communications and
Signal Processings (ICICS 2011),

13 - 16 December, 2011, Singapore


In recent years, use of biometric systems has been increasing tremendously in the field of identification and verification of individuals. Human physiological or behavioral characteristics are available uniquely to each individual as biometrics evidence and a biometrics system can verify or identify a person correctly. Unimodal biometrics systems are designed based on a single identifier, such as face, fingerprint, iris, palmprint, etc. Unimodal systems suffer from several limitations and often degrade the overall performance and accuracy of the system. Unibiometric identifiers use single source biometric evidence and often are affected by several problems such as lack of invariant representation, non-universality, noisy sensor data and lack of individuality of the biometric trait and susceptibility to circumvention. These problems can be minimized by using multibiometric systems that consolidate evidences obtained from multiple biometric sources. Both the relevant and irrelevant information of two or more traits are fused together. It exploits the useful and redundant information from each biometrics trait and also minimizes the effect of noises, non-invariant representation, absence of universality, spoof attack.

The special session will serve as a platform to cover the advanced topics and approaches of multimodal 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Only original and unpublished high quality research papers are solicited from the researchers and practitioners on traditional and advanced topics of multimodal biometrics. The topics include but are not limited to:

-- Template update, feature extraction and matching in multibiometric systems
-- Multibiometrics cues and performance measurements
-- Multibiometrics fusion
-- Multimodal biometrics system architecture for evidence integration
-- Fusion based verification and identification techniques in multibiometrics
-- Data normalization techniques in multibiometrics fusion
-- Multi-classifiers fusion and score weighting schemes in biometrics
-- Machine vision and soft computing techniques in multibiometrics fusion
-- Multibiometrics 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 multibiometrics systems
-- Security and reliability assessment for multi-biometrics systems
-- Complexity analysis of multibiometrics systems


Submission Procedure:

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.

Note: Papers less than 4 pages will not be reviewed and may be rejected outright!

All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum length of 5 pages (Letter size, single space, Times Roman of font size 10, two columns format), including figures, tables and references using the template for ICICS 2011.

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The authors of the accepted papers will be allowed to make a correction in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers within the stipulated deadline. The conference proceedings will be distributed amongst the participants during the conference. Accepted papers must be presented by author(s) personally to be published in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: July 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2011
Submission of camera-ready papers: September 15, 2011
Registration of authors of accepted papers: On or before September 15, 2011
Conference date: December 13–16, 2011


Organizers:

Mr. Dakshina Ranjan Kisku
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Asansol Engineering College (West Bengal University of Technology),
Kanyapur, Asansol – 713304, West Bengal, India
Email: drkisku@ieee.org

Dr. Phalguni Gupta
Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur – 208016, India

Dr. Jamuna Kanta Sing
Reader,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, India