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