<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>[apologies for duplicate receipt]</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">Check out the Competitions embraced by IJCB 2021 and start preparing your contribution!</span><br>
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<span><b><span><span>1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none;">
</span></span></span></b></span><b>7th Edition of International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify">The
LivDet 2021 competition is open to all academic and industrial
institutions which have a solution for software-based fingerprint
liveness detection and verification problem. Each participant
is invited to submit its algorithm in a Win32 or Linux console
application. The performance will be evaluated by utilizing a very large
data set of #fake” and #live” fingerprint images captured by two
devices. This edition of LivDet 2021 has two challenges:
i) The Liveness Detection in Action challenge to investigate at which
extent the integration of a liveness detector can impact, at the
state-of-the-art, on the whole performance of a fingerprint verification
system. Ii) The Fingerprint representation challenge
to investigate the compactness and the discriminability of feature
vectors used by state-of-the-art Fingerprint Presentation Attack
Detectors.
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b>Organisers</b>: Prof.Gian Luca Marcialis<b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;"></span></b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">For further information, please contact</span></b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">:
Gian Luca Marcialis, livdet.diee@unica.it</span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b>Website</b>:
<a href="http://livdet.diee.unica.it/" id="ydp5034d079LPlnk84050" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://livdet.diee.unica.it</a><span class="ydp5034d079MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b>Schedule</b>: Final report for IJCB around: May, 31th, 2021</p>
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<span><b><span><span>2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none;">
</span></span></span></b></span><b>Liveness Detection Competition – Face (LivDet-Face 2021)
</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify">Despite
the high accuracy of current face recognition algorithms, the overall
reliability of face recognition systems depends also on their
capabilities of presentation attack detection (PAD).
LivDet-Face 2021 competition will serve as a benchmark in face
presentation attack detection by offering (a) independent assessment of
the current state of the art in face PAD, and (b) evaluation protocol,
including publicly available datasets of spoof and
live face images, that can be easily followed by researchers after the
competition is closed. LivDet-Face 2021 will accept either/both single
image-based and video-based algorithms from the competitors. For more
information please visit https://face2021.livdet.org/</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><b>Organisers</b>: Dr. Stephanie Schuckers, Keivan Bahmani, Sandip
Purnapatra, Nic Smalt, Georgia College of Engineering, Dr. Thirimachos
Bourlai, Dr. Sébastien Marcel, Dr.
Amir Mohammadi</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">For further information, please contact</span></b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">:
Dr. Stephanie Schuckers, sschucke@clarkson.edu</span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b>Website</b>: https://face2021.livdet.org/<span class="ydp5034d079MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><b>Schedule:</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt">Registration begins: February 15, 2021</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt">Registration ends: April 25, 2021</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt">Submission deadline: April 30, 2021</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt">Results released: End of May</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt">Paper submission to IJCB: May 31, 2021</p>
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<b><span><span>3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none;">
</span></span></span></b><b>Deepfake Game Competition (DFGC 2021)
</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-align:justify">DeepFake
technology is developing fast, and realistic face-swaps are growingly
deceiving and hard to be detected. On the contrary, DeepFake detection
methods are also improving. There is a
two-party game between DeepFake creators and detectors. We are
organizing this competition to provide a common platform for
benchmarking the adversarial game between current state-of-the-art
DeepFake creation and detection methods. The expected outcome is
a comprehensive study of the DeepFake adversarial game in the current
status and to further facilitate the research community to build a
better defend against DeepFake together.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Organisers</b>: Bo Peng, Wei Wang, Jing Dong, Qi Li and Zhenan Sun</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">For further information, please contact</span></b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">:
</span><span style="color: black; background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">Bo Peng, bo.peng@nlpr.ia.ac.cn</span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><b>Website</b>:
<a href="http://dfgc2021.iapr-tc4.org/" id="ydp5034d079LPlnk677786" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://dfgc2021.iapr-tc4.org/</a><span class="ydp5034d079MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b>Schedule</b>:</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Feb. 22-Mar. 15: Participants registration.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Mar. 1: Competition starts. Participants can submit their solutions.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Apr. 15: Submission system closes.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Apr. 15 – 30: Checking top solutions and announcing winners.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">May 30: Submitting competition summary paper.</p>
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<b><span><span>4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none;">
</span></span></span></b><b>Human Identification at a Distance 2021 (HID 2021)</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify">The
competition will mainly focus on human identification at a distance in
videos (HID). It will be hosted by the professional competition web site
https://codalab.org/ as the previous competition
HID2020 in conjunction with ACCV2020. We have organized a similar
competition in 2020. This is the 2nd competition on HID. The dataset
proposed for the competition will be CASIA-E, which is to be released to
the scientific community. It contains 1000 subjects
and hundreds of videos sequences for each subject. Consequently, it is a
challenging dataset for HID.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><b>Organisers</b>: S. Yu, Y. Huang, L. Wang, Y. Makihara, E. B. Garca Reyes, F. Zheng and M. A. R. Ahad</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">For further information, please contact</span></b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">:
Prof. Shiqi YU <yusq@sustech.edu.cn></span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b>Website</b>:
<a href="http://hid2021.iapr-tc4.org/" id="ydp5034d079LPlnk671328" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://hid2021.iapr-tc4.org</a><span class="ydp5034d079MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b>Schedule</b>:
</p>
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraph"><b><span><span>5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none;">
</span></span></span></b><b>NIR Iris Challenge Evaluation in Non-cooperative Environments: Segmentation and Localization (NIR-ISL 2021)
</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify">For
iris recognition in non-cooperative environments, iris segmentation has
been regarded as the first most important challenge still open to the
biometric community, affecting all downstream
tasks from normalization to recognition. In recent years, deep learning
technologies have gained significant popularity among various computer
vision tasks and have also affected the iris biometrics, especially iris
segmentation. To investigate recent developments
and attract more interests of researchers in the iris segmentation
method, we are planning to host the challenge competition. In this
challenge, we aim to benchmark the performance of iris segmentation on
NIR iris images from Asian and African people captured
in non-cooperative environments. Moreover, we specially split the
general iris segmentation task in the conventional iris recognition
pipeline into the segmentation of noise-free iris mask and the
localization of inner and outer boundaries of the iris, which
are narrowly referred to as iris segmentation and iris localization.
Therefore, the challenge encourages the submission of a complete
solution taking the iris segmentation and iris localization into
consideration.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Organisers</b>: Dr. Caiyong Wang, Dr. Yunlong Wang, Jawad Muhammad, Tianhao Lu, Prof. Qichuan Tian, Prof. Zhaofeng He, Prof. Zhenan Sun</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">For further information, please contact</span></b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">: </span>Dr.
Caiyong Wang, wangcaiyong@bucea.edu.cn</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><b>Website</b>:
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/nir-isl2021/home" id="ydp5034d079LPlnk446233" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
https://sites.google.com/view/nir-isl2021/home</a></p>
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Site opens: February 15, 2021 </p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Registration starts: February 15, 2021</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Training dataset available: February 15, 2021</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Testing dataset made available: March 1, 2021
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Registration closes: April 1, 2021</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Prediction results and technical reports submission deadline: April 1, 2021
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Results announcement: April 10, 2021</p>
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<b><span><span>6.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none;">
</span></span></span></b><b>Competition on Masked Face Recognition (IJCB-MFR-2021)
</b></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify">Given
the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential to enable contactless
and smooth-running operations, especially in contact-sensitive
facilities like airports. Face recognition has been
preferred as a contactless means of verifying identities. However,
wearing masks is now essential to prevent the spread of contagious
diseases and has been currently forced in public places in many
countries. The performance, and thus the trust on contactless
identity verification through face recognition can be impacted by the
presence of a mask.<span>
</span>The effect of wearing a mask on face recognition in a
collaborative environment is currently a sensitive issue. The MFR
competition is the first to attract and present technical solutions that
enhance the accuracy of masked face recognition on real face
masks and in a collaborative face verification scenario.<span>
</span>All participants, who achieve competitive results, will be
invited as co-authors for a summary paper of MFR. The paper will submit
IJCB 2021.</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Organisers</b>: Fadi Boutros,Dr. Naser Damer, Prof. Kiran Raja, Prof. Raghavendra Ramachandra, Prof. Arjan Kuijper</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">For further information, please contact</span></b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">: Fadi
Boutros (fadi.boutros@igd.fraunhofer.de)</span></p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span> </span>Website</b>:
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">
</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ijcb-mfr-2021/home" id="ydp5034d079LPlnk238418" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;">https://sites.google.com/view/ijcb-mfr-2021/home</span></a></p>
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<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">15, February - Call for participation, website release, and registration open
</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">31, April<span>
</span>- Deadline for algorithm submission </p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">15, May - Announcement of results to participants</p>
<p class="ydp5034d079MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">31, May - Submit competition paper to IJCB 2021</p>
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