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      ACM Workshop on Biometrics: Methods and Applications

            http://wbma03.cs.unr.edu

       in conjunction with
11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
   November 2-8, 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA

Workshop Date: November 8, 2003

Over the last two decades, considerable progress has been achieved
in the field of biometrics, mainly as a result of advances in areas
including image/video processing, computer vision, speech analysis,
and signal processing. There has been increased interest lately in
using  biometrics for security, human-computer interaction, and
related applications.  The goal of WBMA is to bring together some of
the leading biometric  signal analysis researchers and
practitioners, interested in biometrics  methods and applications,
to promote the development of robust and efficient biometric
solutions.

The workshop will consist of invited and contributed presentations
dealing with all aspects of biometrics. In particular, we solicit
papers  covering the topics below. Submissions addressing related
issues are also  strongly encouraged.

WORKSHOPS TOPICS
We invite submissions that include but are not limited to the
following topics:

* Uni-modal biometrics: face, gait, gestures, fingerprint, iris,
palm, retina, signature, voice, DNA, multi-spectral biometrics, etc.

* Multimodal biometrics and fusion techniques

* Applications of biometrics: internet, multimedia, encryption,
security, forensics, genetics, privacy, smart cards, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES
August 25, 2003: Paper submission due
September 05, 2003: Notification of acceptance
September 15, 2003: Camera-ready papers due
October 15, 2003: Advance registration due
November 8, 2003: Workshop

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Papers should be submitted no later than August 25, 2003. All paper
submissions will be handled electronically through an online WEB
submission system. The submission of your paper should be in either
PDF or PS format. No particular paper format is required during the
review process, however the two column ACM format is recommended.
Accepted papers, however, need to be submitted in standard ACM-like
2-column  format for publication in the proceedings/CD of the
workshop. The maximum  number of pages allowed for the camera-ready
papers is 8. More information  is available from the workshop's
website (http://www.cs.unr.edu/WBMA03)

REVIEW PROCEDURE
Papers will be reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute
to the state of the art in the field. Each paper will receive two
blind  reviews and should not contain names or other information
revealing authors. identity. Selection criteria include accuracy and
originality of  ideas, clarity and significance of results, and
presentation quality.

SPECIAL ISSUE
A small and high quality portion of accepted papers will be
considered for a special issue in the IEEE Multimedia magazine.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
George Bebis, University of Nevada
Nikolaos Bourbakis, ITR Institute, Wright State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (incomplete)
Ali Erol, University of Nevada
Anna Esposito, University of Naples
Apostolos Dollas, Technical University of Crete
Arnab Shaw, Wright State University
Arvind Bansal, Kent State University
Baback Moghaddam, MERL
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova
Cris Koutsougeras, Toulane University
Davide Maltoni, University of Bologna
George Papadourakis, TEI Heraklion
Greg Vert, University of Nevada
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, NEC
Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston
Ismail Haritaoglu, IBM Almaden
James Davis, Ohio State University
Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft
Mathew Turk, UCSB
Nikos Paragios, Siemens
Octavia Camps, Penn State University
Rama Chellapa, University of Maryland
Rudy Brause, JW Goethe-University
Soon Chung, Wright State University
Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete
Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM Almaden
Thanos Skodras, University of Patras