Special Issue on Novel Insights on Ocular Biometrics In Image and Vision Computing Call for Papers


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Special Issue on Novel Insights on Ocular Biometrics In Image and Vision Computing

Aims and Scope

Notwithstanding the enormous potential of the traits in the ocular
region for biometric applications, this line of research still raises
several open issues, which justifies the ongoing research efforts. For
instance, the relatively recent emergence of the periocular and sclera
traits makes it worth recording the progress of this area. Also, all
the traits underlying ocular biometrics and their possible combination
still need to be more thoroughly investigated, not only to improve
recognition robustness, but also to perceive the potential of this
kind of traits to play a significant role in solving emerging problems
in the biometrics domain, such as "systems interpretability",
"weakly/partial supervised recognition" or "forensics
evidence and biometric recognition". This special issue aims at
providing a platform to publish and record the recent research on
ocular biometrics in order to push the border of the state-of-the-art.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Ocular biometrics at-a-distance and in-the-wild;

· Ocular biometric beyond texture feature

· Ocular biometrics in mobile environments;

· Segmentation, enhancement issues of ocular biometrics;

· Interpretability in ocular biometrics;

· Weakly supervised ocular biometric recognition;

· Liveness of ocular biometrics;

· Adaptability of ocular biometrics;

· Databases on ocular biometrics;

· Ocular biometrics for forensics applications;

· Ocular biometrics for classifying gender, age, ethnicity;

· Ocular biometrics for newly born or twins;

· Fusion of different ocular biometrics like sclera, iris, periocular region etc.

Submission guidelines

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the 
"Information for Authors" of the journal found at 
http://ees.elsevier.com/imavis

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion
into the special issue, it is important that authors select
"VSI:NIOB" when they reach the "Article Type Name" step in
the submission process.

Timeline

The following is the tentative timeline:

    Call announcement: 15th March 2019
    Paper submission deadline: 31st December 2019
    The first round of reviews completed: 31st January 2020
    The second round of reviews completed: 20th March 2020
    Final paper submission for publication: 31st March 2020

Guest editors

    Dr. Maria De Marsico (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy) demarsico@di.uniroma1.it
    Dr. Hugo Proença (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) hugomcp@di.ubi.pt
    Dr. Sambit Bakshi (NIT Rourkela, India) bakshisambit@nitrkl.ac.in
    Dr. Abhijit Das (Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée, France) abhijit.das@inria.fr

Contact and Queries

Dr. Sambit Bakshi, managing guest editor, 
bakshisambit@nitrkl.ac.in, sambitbaksi@gmail.com