Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020) Call for Papers

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - SSBC 2020

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Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020)

Held in conjunction with IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2020
https://ieee-biometrics.org/ijcb2020/Program.html#acom

Important dates: Registration is already open
SSBC Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ssbc2020/home
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We invite research groups working on ocular biometrics, segmentation
problems or other related vision tasks to take part in the 2020 Sclera
Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020).

Sclera biometrics have gained significant popularity among emerging
ocular traits in the last few years. In order to establish the sclera
as a viable biometric trait and to evaluate its potential for
automated biometric systems, several works have been presented in the
literature, using the sclera vasculature as a standalone biometric
trait and in combination with the iris.  Despite these initiatives,
sclera biometrics need to be studied more extensively to ascertain
their usefulness. Among the numerous challenges still open in this
area, efficient and robust sclera segmentation is among the most
important ones, affecting all downstream tasks, ranging from
normalization to recognition. While a considerable amount of research
has been directed towards sclera segmentation in recent years, the
performance of existing techniques especially in cross-sensor
scenarios and across different acquisition conditions is still not
well explored. To investigate these issues, to document recent
developments and to attract (and raise) the interest of researchers in
this emerging biometric trait, we are organzing SSBC 2020 - a
competition (and group benchmarking effort) held in conjunction with
IJCB 2020 focusing on the problem of sclera segmentation.

The competition builds on past sclera segmentation competitions,
namely SSBC 2015, SSRBC 2016, SSERBC 2017, SSBC 2018 and SSBC 2019
held in conjunction with BTAS 2015, ICB 2016, IJCB 2017, ICB 2018 and
ICB 2019 respectively. SSBC 2020 is the next in the series of sclera
segmentation challenges and aims to benchmark sclera segmentation
models in both cross sensor settings as well as across different
acquisition conditions.

The competition is open to everyone. Registartion is already open.
For details see: https://sites.google.com/view/ssbc2020/home

*** SUMMARY PAPER ***
All participating researchers (achieving competitive performance) will
be invited as co-authors for a summary paper of SSBC 2020 that will
send for consideration at IJCB 2020.

*** ORGANIZERS ***
Dr. Abhijit Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Prof. Umapada Pal,  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Prof. Peter Peer,  University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Assoc. Prof. Vitomir Štruc , University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Matej Vitek , PhD candidate, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija