First International Conference on AUDIO- AND VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION Crans-Montana, Switzerland 12-14 March 1997 (see http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/IMAGES/AVBPA for most recent infor- mation) With the emergence of communication and computer science synergies, the interest for security issues is increasingly at the center of attention. An important element in this is automatic authentication of persons. The 1st International Conference on Audio- and Video- based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA) will bring together the speech and face recognition researchers in an attempt to con- tribute to robust solutions for this challenging problem. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME The scientific programme will include the presentation of four invi- ted talks and of contributed papers. Contributions covering the to- pics below are solicited. However, all submissions addressing issues related to person authentication with audio and/or video techniques are encouraged. Main technical areas are: Features and Measurements: * Biometrics of face and voice * Still image based features * Multiple image based features * Motion/depth based features * Audio and lip-movements * Text dependent audio features * Text independent audio features Decision Strategies for Audio- &Video-based Data: * Training procedures * Decision theory and strategies * Fusion of multiple decisions System Architecture and Hardware: * Centralized versus distributed databases * Image and speech communication * Sensor resolution and recognition studies * Tracking cameras * Special sensors Prospective contributors are encouraged to submit papers and to attend AVBPA. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented in a combination of single track and double track parallel sessions. All the presented contributions will be inclu- ded in the proceedings volume, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series in time for distribution at the conference. Invited Speakers: Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, USA) Sadaoki Furui (NTT, Japan) John Mason (University of Wales Swansea, UK) Tomaso Poggio (MIT, USA) TECHNICAL PROGRAMME The conference board (below) Marc Acheroy (Belgium) Martin Bichsel (Switzerland) Frederic Bimbot (France) Mats Blomberg (Sweden) Louis Boves (The Netherlands) Roberto Brunelli (Italy) Paloma Domingo (Spain) Hans du Buf (Portugal) Danielle Falavigna (Italy) Goesta Granlund (Sweden) Jean-Paul Haton (France) Thomas Huang (USA) Takeo Kanade (USA) Josef Kittler (UK) Jens-Peter Koester (Germany) Christoph von der Malsburg (Germany) Henri Meloni (France) Bruce Millar (Australia) Andrea Paoloni (Italy) Alex Pentland (USA) Ioannis Pitas (Greece) Douglas Reynolds (USA) Massimo Tistarelli (Italy) Saburo Tsuji (Japan) Richard Winski (UK) Hezy Yeshurun (Israel) CONFERENCE BOARD General Chairs: Josef Bigun Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Gerard Chollet CNRS URA-820 and Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence ENST Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP) Paris, France Martigny, Switzerland Publications: Gunilla Borgefors (Sweden) Local Arrangements: Gilbert Maitre (Switzerland) Publicity: Gabriella Sanniti di Baja (Italy) Luc Vandendorpe (Belgium) Registration: Benoit Duc (Switzerland) Stefan Fischer (Switzerland) Industry and Research Liaison: Eric Badique (EU) Philip Lockwood (France) AVBPA is sponsored by the Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (SGAICO) and by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should send three copies of a full paper to Dr. Josef Bigun, before September 15, 1996. Papers should be at most 6 pages long, since this is the estimated length of the proceedings version. The first page should contain the title of the paper, a 200-word abstract and 3-5 keywords. Important Dates: September 15, 1996 Paper submission November 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance December 15, 1996 Camera-ready papers due Paper Submission Cover Sheet (Attach to 3 copies of full paper) Paper Title: Technical Areas: Author to contact (Please select one Author to be notified about paper status) First Name: Family Name: Address: Telephone: Fax: Email: