ICB 2009
3rd IAPR International Conference on Biometrics
2 - 5 June 2009, Alghero, Italy

Endorsed by IAPR TC-4

Venue: Hotel Carlos V, Alghero,Italy. http://hotelcarlosv.it/index_uk.htm

Important Dates

- Paper submission: November 1, 2008

- Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2008

- Final camera-ready copy due: February 1, 2009


ICB 2009 Conference overview

We are now seeing increasing deployment of biometric systems in many
aspects of life, including face, fingerprint, gait and iris
recognition systems at airports as well as access to highly secure
facilities. Several applications in government, commercial, defense
and law enforcement areas have a basic need to automatically identify
humans both locally and remotely on a routine basis.  The need for
high accuracy and broad population coverage has made it necessary to
investigate the use of multi-modal biometrics. The intrinsic security
of the biometrics systems and the associated privacy concerns have
emerged as important research topics.  The 3rd International
Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2009) will bring together leading
biometric researchers, system designers, and end users to promote the
development of robust solutions to efficient and secure
authentication.

Suggested topics for presentation include, but are not limited to:

Biometric Technologies
? Face
? Fingerprint
? Gait
? Gesture
? Hand(palm prints, veins, hand geometry)
? Iris
? Signature
? Speech
? Multi-modal biometric fusion

Biometric System Design
? Architecture
? Large scale identification systems
? Template selection and update
? Smart card
? System attacks

Performance Evaluation
? Confidence interval estimation
? Databases
? Performance modeling and prediction
? Protocols and benchmarking
? Sample size requirements
? Standards

Applications
? Access control
? Border control & law enforcement
? Entertainment
? Finance
? Healthcare
? Intelligent robots
? Physical and logical security
? RFID


Author instructions

Prospective authors are requested to submit full length papers (up to
10 pages) in SPringer LNCS format.  Instructions for submission are
available at: http://icb2009.uniss.it


Conference format

The tree days will include: single track podium presentations, keynote
talks, panel discussions, poster and demo sessions.  Several biometric
competitions (mono-modal and multi-modal) are also promoted and the
results will be announced at a special session of the
conference. On-site proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
LNCS series


Best paper awards

The IAPR best biometrics student paper award will be assigned. Other
scientific awards will be also presented.


General Chair

Massimo TISTARELLI (Italy)
University of Sassari


Conference co-Chairs

Davide MALTONI (Italy)
University of Bologna

Javier ORTEGA-GARCIA (Spain)
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid


Advisory Board

Anil K. JAIN (USA)
Michigan State University

Josef KITTLER (UK)
University of Surrey

Bhagavatula Vijaya KUMAR (USA)
Carnegie Mellon University

Seong-Whan LEE (Korea)
Korea University

Tieniu TAN (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences


Program Chairs

Mark NIXON (UK)
University of Southampton

Stan Z. LI (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Arun A. ROSS (USA)
University of West VIrginia


Competitions Chairs

Bernadette DORIZZI (France)
Biosecure Foundation

Jonathon PHILLIPS (USA)
National Institute of Standards and Technologies


Demo Chairs

Manuele BICEGO (Italy)
University of Sassari

Julian FIERREZ (USA)
Michigan State University


Local Arrangements Chair

Enrico GROSSO (Italy)
University of Sassari


Publications Chair

Annalisa FRANCO (Italy)
University of Bologna


Publicity Chairs

Josef BIGUN (Sweden)
University of Halmstad

Robert ROWE (USA)
Lumidigm Inc.

Zhenan SUN (China)
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition


Sponsorship Chair

Giuseppe PARZIALE (USA)
Cogent Systems


Tutorials Chairs

Farzin DERAVI (UK)
University of Kent

Harry WECHSLER (USA)
George Mason University