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)