Biometric systems are considered as essential human pattern recognition systems that make individuals identification by determining the authenticity of specific measurable physiological or behavioral characteristics possessed by individuals. Biometric technologies are thus defined as the “automated methods of identifying or authenticating the identity of a living person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic”. In today’s networked society seeks secured environment that brings security in fully automated airport entrance, ATM machines, high alert zones, border control, hospital management, online banking transaction, prevention of historical documents, computer login and criminal investigation departments. Identification and verification of individuals through biometric automated system can be one of the solutions to these problems. Biometrics technology is used in real time environment that addresses these security issues. For person identification and authentication, various physiological and behavioral characteristics are used such as face, fingerprint, voice, signature, iris, palmprint and hand geometry, ear, etc. Sometimes, biometric itself not able to meet these criteria on security issues along. To strengthen security using biometrics traits, various cryptography techniques are also embedded with biometrics.

The special session will serve as a platform to cover the advanced aspects and approaches of biometric technologies in networked society for real time environments.


Topic of Interest

Original and unpublished high quality research papers are solicited from the authors on advanced topics of biometrics. The topics include but are not limited to:

Face, finger, ear, eye, iris, retina, vein pattern, palm, gait, foot, exotic
Biometric template update, feature extraction and matching
Biometric cues and performance measurements
Multibiometrics fusion
Biometric system architectures for evidence integration
Fusion based verification and identification techniques
Data normalization techniques in biometrics fusion
Multi-classifiers fusion and score weighting schemes in biometrics
Machine vision and soft computing techniques in biometrics fusion
Biometric database indexing and searching techniques
Online and offline biometric systems
Performance modeling and resource computation in biometrics systems
Security and reliability assessment for multi-biometrics systems


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010
Author Notification: August 30 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2010
Conference date: December 9 - 11, 2010


Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit their paper in springer single-column (submitted paper should not exceed 10 pages including illustrations, results, references) format as an attachment (PDF or DOC format) by email to the special session chair at: drkisku@ieee.org / drkisku@gmail.com.

Authors should format the papers according to the Springer template.

The style files and templates are available for users of LaTeX and Microsoft Word at the conference website:

http://www.sersc.org/SECTECH2010/ps.php

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present their work at the special session. All attendees must register for the SecTech 2010 conference.


Proceedings and Special Issues:
Manuscripts will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least two referees will review each paper proposal submission under a double-blind peer-review process.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with the regular papers published by Springer-Verlag. Proceedings will be distributed during the conference.

Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in peer reviewed journals.


Organization

Session Chair(s):

Dakshina Ranjan Kisku,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Asansol Engineering College, West Bengal University of Technology,
Asansol - 713305, India
Email: drkisku@ieee.org / drkisku@gmail.com

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