[visionlist] Call for participants - Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge and IET Biometrics special issue

[Vitomir Štruc]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

1st Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC)
and Special issue of IET Biometrics

Organized as part of IJCB 2017

http://awe.fri.uni-lj.si/uerc
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** CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS **
We invite researchers working in the field of automatic ear
recognition to participate in the 1st Unconstrained Ear Recognition
Challenge (UERC) that will be held in the scope of the IEEE/IAPR
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2017). The goal
of the challenge is to advance the state-of-technology in the field
of automatic ear recognition, to provide participants with a
challenging research problem and introduce a benchmark dataset
and protocol for assessing the latest techniques, models, and
algorithms related to ear recognition. If you are interested in
taking part in UERC 2017, please visit:

http://awe.fri.uni-lj.si/uerc

The challenge will be held on an extended version of the Annotated
Web Ears (AWE) dataset. Image of the dataset were collected with
a semi-automatic procedure that involved web-crawlers and a subsequent
manual inspection. Because the AWE images were not gathered in
controlled laboratory-like conditions, they better represent the
variability in ear appearance than existing datasets of ear images.

** Publication **
The results of UERC will be published in an IJCB conference paper
co-authored jointly by all challenge participants. Additionally, a
special issue on Unconstrained Ear Recognition will be organized in
IET Biometrics and the most innovative approaches (not necessarily
the best performing ones) taking part in UERC will be invited to submit
extended papers of their approaches to the special issue.

** Organizers **
Ziga Emersic
Peter Peer
Vitomir Struc

** Important Dates **
UERC Kick-off:        1 February 2017
Results due:          17 April 2017
Descriptions due:     1 May 2017
Paper submission:     20 May 2017


-- 
ass.prof. Vitomir Štruc, PhD
Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: +386 1 4768 839
Fax: +386 1 4768 316
URL: luks.fe.uni-lj.si/nluks/people/vitomir-struc/

Co-organizer: Workshop on Biometric in the Wild 2017
http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17
Program Co-chair: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis 2017
http://www.isispa.org/
Competition Co-chair: International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017
http://www.ijcb2017.org/