[visionlist] CFP: IVC Special Issue on Biometrics in the Wild

[Vitomir Štruc]

** Apologies for cross-posting **

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Image and Vision Computing (IVC) Special Issue on:
Biometrics in the Wild

Submission deadline:        30 June, 2017
Target publication date:   April, 2018
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CALL FOR PAPERS

IVC SI: Biometrics in the Wild

** Motivation **
Biometric recognition from data captured in unconstrained settings, 
commonly referred to as biometric recognition in the wild, represents a 
challenging and highly active area of research. The interest in this 
area is fueled by the numerous application domains that deal with 
unconstrained data acquisition conditions such as forensics, 
surveillance, social media, consumer electronics or border control. 
While the existing biometric technology has matured to a point, where 
excellent performance can be achieved for various tasks in ideal 
laboratory-like settings, many problems related to in-the-wild scenarios 
still require further research and novel ideas. The goal of this special 
issue is to present the most advanced work related to biometric 
recognition in unconstrained settings and introduce novel solutions to 
open biometrics-related problems. Submitted papers should make a 
significant contribution in terms of theoretical findings or empirical 
observations, demonstrate improvements over the existing 
state-of-the-art and use the most challenging datasets available.

** Topics of Interest **
We invite high-quality papers on topics related to biometric recognition 
in the wild, including, but not limited to:
• Region of interest detection (alignment, landmarking) in the wild,
• Soft biometrics in the wild,
• Context-aware techniques for biometric detection and recognition,
• Novel normalization techniques,
• Multi-modal biometrics in the wild,
• Biometric recognition in the wild,
• Biometrics from facial behavior (e.g., eye movement, facial 
expressions, micro-expressions),
• Biometrics based on facial dynamics,
• Novel databases and performance benchmarks,
• Ethical issues, privacy protection and de-identification,
• Spoofing and countermeasures,
• Deep learning approaches for unconstrained biometric recognition,
• Related applications, especially mobile.

** Important Dates **
Submission deadline:             30 June, 2017
Notifications to authors:         31 January, 2018
Target publication date:         April, 2018

** Guest Editors **
Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, United States
Abdenour Hadid, University of Oulu, Finland
Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

** Advisory Editors **
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, United States
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

For more information visit:
www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-biometrics-in-the-wild


-- 
ass.prof. Vitomir Struc, 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/