ISSPA 2005
 The International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications
 August 29- Sep. 1, 2005, Sydney Australia
 Special Session: 3D Biometrics
 Organizers: M. Bennamoun and A. Mian.
 
 Biometric identification and authentication has long been the focus of
 research. Many techniques use fingerprints, iris, voice, face and other
 modalities. Most of these techniques however extract 2D signatures from
 their respective biometrics. However, with the recent advancement in the
 area of 3D acquisition technology, 3D biometrics are becoming the focus
 of attention of many researchers. It is believed that 3D biometrics have
 the potential to achieve higher accuracy, particularly when combined
 with other modalities. They also solve common problems such as
 illumination, and pose, which currently plague the traditional 2D
 biometrics techniques. 
 
 The objective of this special session is to bring together experienced
 researchers developing novel 3D biometrics identification and
 authentication techniques. The session will focus mainly on biometrics
 which are 3D by nature e.g. 3D face. In particular, contributions should
 be made in the areas of:
 -/ 3D face identification and authentication
 -/ 3D ear identification, authentication and classification
 -/ Multimodal biometrics
 -/ Fusion of Multimodal Biometrics
 -/ Realtime biometrics identification
 -/ Imperceptible biometrics acquisition and identification
 
 Other areas, including 2D biometrics, will also be considered. However,
 only about six papers will be chosen to be included in the special
 session.  Any additionally accepted papers will be part of regular
 sessions. For more details about the conference, visit the conference
 website: http://www.elec.uow.edu.au/isspa2005/
 
 Please note that it is a condition of submission to this special session
 that each author has to review 2 other papers.  Please make your
 submission to biometrics@csse.uwa.edu.au in pdf format. For further
 information about the special session, contact A. Mian at
 biometrics@csse.uwa.edu.au . 
 
 Important dates:
 Full paper submission          March 25, 2005
 Notification of acceptance     May 25, 2005
 Camera ready paper due         June 10, 2005
 
 Mohammed Bennamoun, Ing., M.Sc., Ph.D.
 Assoc Professor, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 
 The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 
 Crawley, WA 6009  Australia.
 Phone: +61 8 6488 2715, Fax: +61 8 6488 1089.
 http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/~bennamou/