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<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming volume entitled <b>Deep Biometrics</b> to be published by Springer, the largest global
scientific, technical, and medical ebook publisher. The volume will be available both in print and in ebook format by late 2018/early 2019 on SpringerLink, one of the leading science portals that includes more than 8 million documents, an ebook collection
with more than 160,000 titles, journal archives digitized back to the first issues in the 1840s, and more than 30,000 protocols and 290 reference works.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Below is a short description of the volume:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Recent development in machine learning, particularly deep learning, has brought out drastic impact on Biometrics, which is a classic topic to utilize Machine
Learning for biometric identification. Particularly, Deep Learning can benefit from the training with large unlabelled datasets via semi-supervised or unsupervised learning.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">This book aims to highlight recent research advances in biometrics using semi-supervised and unsupervised new methods such as Deep Neural Networks, Deep
Stacked Autoencoder, Convolutional Neural Networks, Generative Adversary Networks, Ensemble Methods, and so on, and exploit these novel methods in the emerging new areas such as privacy and security issues, cancellable biometrics and soft biometrics, smart
cities, big biometric data, biometric banking, medical biometrics, and healthcare biometrics, etc..</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">The goal of this volume is to summarize the recent advances in using Deep Learning in the area of biometric security and privacy. Topics of interest include:
(but not limited to)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Deep Learned Biometric Features</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Convolutional Neural networks</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Deep Stacked Autoencoder</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Deep Face Detection</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Deep Gait Recognition</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Biometrics in Cybersecurity</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Biometrics in Cognitive Robot</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Healthcare Biometrics</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Medical Biometrics</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Biometrics in Social Computing</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Biometric Block Chain</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Privacy and Security Issues</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Iris, Fingerprints, DNA, Palmprints</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Gait, EEG, Heart rates</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Multimodal Fusion</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Soft Biometrics</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Cancellable Biometrics</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Big data issues in Biometrics</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Biometrics for Internet of things</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"> Submission of revised chapters Feb 15, 2019</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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