CALL FOR PAPERS 
               3rd International Conference on
    AUDIO- and VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION
               Halmstad, Sweden, June 6-8, 2001

                        Important dates
         Paper submission deadline:    January 15, 2001
         Acceptance notification:      March 1,    2001
         Camera ready papers:          April 10,   2001

The interest for security and multi-modal biometric signal processing
has been increasing. The explosive growth of Internet and mobile
telephony have contributed to this awareness. An important element of
security is automatic authentication of persons. AVBPA has an ambition
to bring together the leading biometric signal analysis researchers of
image and voice modalities, in an attempt to contribute with robust
solutions to efficient and secure communication.  The conference, that
has been organized biannually, is an official event of the
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-TC14).


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM:

The scientific program will include contributed and invited
presentations dealing with all aspects of multi-modal biometrics.
Contributions covering the topics below are solicited. However, all
submissions addressing issues related to biometric signal analysis
using audio and/or image processing techniques are strongly
encouraged. Main technical areas are:

Features and Measurements

- Biometrics of face and voice
- Biometrics of finger prints
- Still image based features
- Motion/depth based features
- Audio and lip-movements
- Text dependent/independent/prompted audio features
- Multi-modal features


Biometrics and Communication

- Psychophysics of face, speech, and gesture
- Audio-visual speech recognition
- Categorization, e.g. age and gender
- Gesture interpretation
- Audio-visual tracking
- Source coding and compression

Decision Strategies

- Training procedures
- Efficient Enrollment
- Sensor fusion
- Decision fusion
- Protocols and benchmarking
- Databases and standardization


Architecture and Hardware

- Resolution and color in recognition
- Special sensors
- Compact embedded systems
- Smart cards
- Smart cars
- Centralized or distributed systems

Contest

A contest will be organized on biometric algorithms. The results will
be published in the proceedings.  The details, i.e. on how to
participate, the databases and the test protocols that will be
used...etc., will be made available on the avbpa-home page.

CONTACT INFO AND PAPER SUBMISSION

The web and e-mail addresses of the conference are:
  http://www.hh.se/avbpa  and  Electronic mailto:avbpa@hh.se
Accepted papers will be published in proceedings with Springer Verlag
(LNCS).  The papers should not exceed 6 pages and have abstracts with
approximately 200 words. Word processing templates are available
www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (under Section "Proceedings...").

The important dates are given at the top and the bottom for convenience.

Halmstad and the west cost of Sweden, well known to  north European
tourists, 
offer a beautifull experience of nature in June.  The School of
Information 
Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering at Halmstad University that 
organizes this event looks forward to welcome you in Halmstad.

General Chair
Josef Bigun,
Halmstad University,
Box 823, SE-301 18 Halmstad,
Sweden

Invited Speakers

Anil Jain
   Michigan State Universiy (USA)
Josef Kittler (UK)
   University of Surrey
Satoshi Nakamura (Japan)
   ATR


Programme Committee

Josef Bigun (Sweden)
Frederic Bimbot (France)
Mats Blomberg (Sweden)
Jean-Francois Bonastre (France)
Gunilla Borgefors (Sweden)
Roberto Brunelli (Italy)
Hans du Buf (Portugal)
Horst Bunke (Switzerland)
Rama Chellapa (USA)
Gerard Chollet (France)
Robert Frischholz (Germany)
Sadaoki Furui (Japan)
Dolores Garcia-Plaza Cuellar (Spain)
Dominique Genoud (USA)
Bjorn Granstrom (Sweden)
Kenneth Jonsson (Sweden)
Jurgen Luettin (Switzerland)
John Mason (UK)
George Matas (Czech Republic)
Bruce Millar (Australia)
Jonathon Phillips (USA)
Tomaso Pogio (USA)
Nalini Ratha (USA)
Gael Richard (France)
Fabrizio Smeraldi (Sweden)
Massimo Tistarelli (Italy)
Harry Wechsler (USA)
Thomas Vetter (Germany)


IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline:    January 15, 2001
Acceptance notification:      March 1,    2001
Camera ready papers:          April 10,   2001