CALL FOR PAPERS

Invited Sessions on Advances in Biometrics

To contribute to the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 13), October 16-18, 2013, Beijing, China

IIH-MSP 2013 is the ninth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing. This year the conference is co-sponsored by IEEE and hosted by the Beijing University of Technology, China. The proceedings shall be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

In IIH-MSP 2013 the Advanced Biometrics session(s) shall cover the following aspects:
1. Improved methods for biometric recognition and performance evaluation
2. Biometrics as services
3. Security and privacy issues
4. New biometric sensing technologies and new applications
We solicit submissions in full-papers presenting high quality original research and development related to

Domain 1: Improved methods for recognition and performance evaluation
• New biometric modalities / features
• Continuous biometric authentication
• Multi-biometrics and fusion
• Sample and sensor quality assessment
Domain 2: Biometrics as services
• Biometric web services
• Cloud biometrics
• Off-the-shelf technologies for biometrics
Domain 3: Security and privacy issues
• Biometric template protection methods
• Anti-spoofing devices and algorithms
• Security and privacy assessment
Domain 4: New biometric sensing technologies and new applications
• New sensing technologies for biometrics
• General-purposed devices for biometrics
• Mobile biometrics
• Medical biometrics

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 MS-Word 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: June 21st, 2013
• The date for notification: July 15th, 2013
• The date for camera-ready paper submission: August 10th, 2013

Organizing committee:
• Patrick Bours, Gjøvik University College, Norway
• Christoph Busch, Gjøvik University College, Norway
• Alexander Nouak, European Association for Biometrics (EAB) / Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
• Stephen Wolthusen, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
• Xuebing Zhou, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), Germany
• Bian Yang, Gjøvik University College, Norway

Co-sponsor:
European Association for Biometrics (EAB)

IIH-MSP 2013 website:
http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~iihmsp13/