----------------------------------------------------------- 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