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<div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
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<div>IET Biometrics (SCI 2016 IF: 1.382)</div>
<div>Special Issue on <span style="font-size: 10pt;">UNCONSTRAINED EAR RECOGNITION</span></div>
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<div>Submission deadline: 1 September 2017</div>
<div>Guest Editors: Vitomir Struc and Peter Peer</div>
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<div>** Motivation **</div>
<div>Despite the numerous application possibilities in security, surveillance applications, forensics, criminal investigations or</div>
<div>border control, the existing research in ear recognition has seldom gone beyond laboratory settings. This can mostly be</div>
<div>attributed to the enormous appearance variability of ear images when captured in unconstrained settings. However, due to</div>
<div>recent advances in computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence (e.g. with deep learning), many recognition</div>
<div>problems are now solvable in unconstrained settings and many biometric modalities (including ear images) that were</div>
<div>commonly too complex for real-life deployment are now becoming a viable source of data for identity recognition.</div>
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<div>The goal of this Special Issue is to present the most advanced and up-to-date work related to unconstrained ear</div>
<div>recognition, report recent findings and make fundamental and/or empirical contributions to the field. The Special Issue is</div>
<div>meant to reflect the current state of technology in the area of ear recognition and serve as a reference for researchers</div>
<div>working on problems relevant to ear-recognition technology. </div>
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<div>** Topics of Interest **</div>
<div>We solicit original high-quality papers on various topics related to ear recognition in unconstrained settings. Authors of </div>
<div>submitted papers are requested to clearly explain how their work contributes to the field. Topics of interest include, but </div>
<div>are not limited to:</div>
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<div>+ Pre-processing techniques for ear recognition</div>
<div>+ Normalization techniques for ear recognition</div>
<div>+ Ear recognition in unconstrained settings</div>
<div>+ Ear detection/segmentation/localization techniques</div>
<div>+ Ear recognition with different modalities (2D, 3D, IR, NIS, ear-prints, heterogeneous)</div>
<div>+ Machine learning techniques for ear recognition</div>
<div>+ Elimination of influence of covariate factors</div>
<div>+ Context-aware ear recognition and detection</div>
<div>+ Fusion techniques involving ear images </div>
<div>+ Individuality models/studies for ear recognition</div>
<div>+ Scalability studies for ear recognition technology</div>
<div>+ New datasets and performance evaluations</div>
<div>+ Overviews and surveys related to ear recognition</div>
<div>+ Related applications (e.g., in forensics).</div>
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<div>** Important Dates **</div>
<div>Submission deadline: <span style="white-space:pre"></span>1 September, 2017</div>
<div>Author notification: <span style="white-space:pre"></span>April, 2018</div>
<div>Target publication date: <span style="white-space:pre"></span>May, 2018</div>
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<div>** Submission Procedure **</div>
<div>All papers must be submitted through the journal’s Manuscript Central system:</div>
<div>http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-bmt</div>
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<div>** Guest Editors **</div>
<div>Peter Peer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</div>
<div>Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia</div>
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