CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Audio and Video Based Biometric Person Authentication Guildford, United Kingdom, 9-11 June 2003 http://avbpa2003.ee.surrey.ac.uk avbpa@eim.surrey.ac.uk The interest in security and in using multi-modal biometric signal processing for security applications has been increasing over the last decade. The growth of Internet and mobile telephony has been an important factor in this respect. An important element of security is automatic authentication of persons. AVBPA will bring together the leading biometric signal analysis researchers and practioneres, concerned with image and voice modalities, to promote the development of robust solutions to efficient and secure communication. The conference 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 Gait and other visual biometrics Still image based features Motion/depth based features Audio and lip-movements 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 Sensor fusion Decision fusion Protocols and benchmarking Databases and standardization Architecture and Hardware Resolution and color in recognition Special sensors Compact embedded systems Centralized or distributed systems INVITED SPEAKERS Takeo Kanade (USA) Jerry Friedman (USA) Frederic Bimbot (USA) CONTACT INFO AND PAPER SUBMISSION The web and e-mail addresses of AVBPA are: http://avbpa2003.ee.surrey.ac.uk avbpa@eim.surrey.ac.uk PAPER SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES Accepted papers will be published in proceedings by Springer Verlag (LNCS). The submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages and have abstracts with approximately 200 words. Word processing templates are available http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (under Section "Proceedings..."). The important dates are: Paper registration: January 13th, 2003 Paper submission deadline: January 19th, 2003 Acceptance notification: February 20, 2003 Camera ready papers: April 1, 2003 The conference: June 9-11, 2003 GENERAL CO-CHAIRMEN Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Samy Bengio (Switzerland) Josef Bigun (Sweden) Horst Bunke (Switzerland) Rama Chellapa (USA) Gerard Chollet (France) Farzin Deravi (United Kingdom) Sadaoki Furui (Japan) Dolores Garcia-Plaza Cuellar (Spain) Dominique Genoud (USA) Bernd Heisele (USA) Anil Jain (USA) Kenneth Jonsson (Sweden) Seong-Whan Lee (Korea) Jurgen Luettin (Switzerland) John Mason (UK) Jiri Matas (Czech Republic) Bruce Millar (Australia) Jonathon Phillips (USA) Salil Prabhakar (USA) Marek Rejman-Greene (UK) Nalini Ratha (USA) Gael Richard (France) Massimo Tistarelli (Italy) Juanjo Villanueva (Spain) Harry Wechsler (USA)