ANNOUNCEMENT AND  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                        Second International Conference on 
                   Audio- and Video-Based Person Authentication

                        22-24 March 1999 --- Washington, DC

               http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/lsd/avbpa/avbpa.html

 Audio and video based techniques for the the representation, analysis,
 and recognition of humans and human actions has become an extremely
 active area of research in both the audio and video communities.  As
 with the first conference, the Second International Conference on Audio
 and Video-based Biometric Authentication will bring together researchers
 from all related areas.  One of the goals of the conference is to foster
 discussion among the different communities and exchange ideas on solving
 the challenging problems related to both areas. 


 Contributions

 The scientific program will include invited talks and contributed
 papers.  We are soliciting papers in all aspects of audio, video, and
 image processing of human actions.  This includes papers from speech,
 image processing, computer vision, neuroscience, and psycho-physics that
 have an algorithmic component.  Papers will be evaluated on their
 relevance to the conference, originality, and empirical results
 (especially for mature aspects of the fields). Below is a partial list
 of relevant topics:
                    Multi-modal systems
                    Fusing of audio and video
                    Speaker identification
                    Speaker verification
                    Face recognition, detection and tracking
                    Analysis and synthesis of face and gesture
                    Algorithm and system evaluation
                    Hand and body movement analysis
                    Active vision
                    Biometrics
                    Computational neuro-models
                    Computational psycho-physics
                    Other related topics

 Submission of Papers

 Four copies a paper must be submitted to the address below by the
 submission deadline by 1 August 1998 (see conference webpage for
 complete submission instructions). 

 AVBPA99, c/o Prof. Rama Chellappa
 Rm 4417, A. V. Williams Building, 115 Paint Branch Dr
 University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

 Conference Chair
     Larry Davis, UMD

 Program Co-chairs
     Rama Chellappa, UMD
     Jonathon Phillips, NIST

 Demo Chair
     Harry Wechsler, GMU

 Progam  Committee
     J. Atick, Visionics/Rockefeller
     I. Biederman, USC
     J. Bigun, EPFL
     A. Bobick, MIT
     T. Chen, CMU
     G. Cholet, CNRS
     S. Furui, Toyko Inst. Tech.
     G. Gordon, Interval
     B. H. Juang, Bell Labs
     J. Kittler, U of Surrey
     C. Kyriakakis, USC
     C. von der Malsburg, USC/Bochum
     J. Mason, U of Wales Swansea
     A. Martin, NIST
     A. O'Toole, UT Dallas
     A. Pentland, MIT
     C. Podilchuk, Bell Labs
     S. Shamma, UMD
     D. Stork, Ricoh/Stanford
     M. Turk, Microsoft
     J. Weng, MSU