Biometric Security

International Workshop on Biometric Security

(Please, kindly download the: Call for Papers for further information)

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Chair: Prof. Marina Gavrilova, Biometric Technologies Head, University of Calgary, Canada

Contact: <marina@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> (marina AT cpsc DOT ucalgary DOT ca)

Publicity Chairs: Padma Polash Paul <pppaul@ucalgary.ca>

Madeena Sultana <deena.sultana@gmail.com>

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Aims and Scope:

Security research domain has recently witnessed tremendous growth in respect to all aspects of information access and sharing. There has been notable progress in developing successful approaches to tackle the problem of user authentication. Among those approaches, biometric-based authentication firmly established itself as one of the most reliable, efficient, and versatile tools for providing discretionary access control to a secure resource or system. While state-of-the art methods for biometric authentication are becoming increasingly more popular and better understood, the same unfortunately cannot be said about security of users populating on-line communities or cyberworlds.

The workshop invites high-quality, original and previously unpublished research in all areas of biometric security, including both theoretical foundations, system design, empirical studies on individual and multi-modal biometrics, as well as emerging biometric research trends. Image processing, machine intelligence, cognitive sciences and information fusion provide strong theoretical foundations and drive current state-of-the-art biometric research. Biometric template protection, on-line security, social biometrics, context-based biometrics, robotic biometrics and Artimetrics (Biometrics for Artificial Entities) are emerging areas of biometric, which fit perfectly with overall Cyberworlds Conference themes.

Topics of the session:

Topics of interest, but are not limited to:

– Physiological and behavioral biometric algorithms, systems, recognition, performance (includes fingerprint, face, palm, gait, signature, eye, iris, retina, vein, DNA biometrics)
– Emerging biometrics: EEG, heart rate, typing patterns and text recognition
– Biometric image processing, feature extraction and matching
– Pattern Recognition for Biometrics
– Cancellable Biometrics and Template Protection
– Privacy and Biometrics
– Biometric based passwords and encryption
– Biometric Databases and Evaluation
– Empirical and theoretical studies, standards and models
– Multi-modal biometrics (sensor level, feature level, decision level, rank level and match level)
– Biometric architectures
– Machine Intelligence in Biometrics
– Cognitive biometrics
– Social biometrics
– Context-based Biometrics
– Robotic Biometrics (Artimetrics)
– Security Applications and Biometric Systems
– On-line Security and Biometrics
– Virtual World Security and Biometrics

For information on paper submission, deadlines, and fees please consult CYBERWORLDS’2014 conference web site.

All workshop papers will undergo rigorous refereeing, accepted papers will be published as part of main Cyberworlds Conference CPS Proceedings and indexed by major citation engines.

A special issue in the International Journal of Biometrics (Inderscience) is being planned for the selected top papers presented in the workshop.

ijbm A special issue in the International Journal of Biometrics (Inderscience) is being planned for the selected top papers presented in the workshop.

 

Program Committee Members (to be extended):

Stephen J. Elliott (Purdue University, USA)
Marina Gavrilova (University of Calgary, CANADA)
Stanislav Klimenko (ICPT, Russia)
Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA)
Khalid Saeed (AGH University, POLAND)
Alexei Sourin (NTU, SINGAPORE)
Roman Yampolskiy (University of Louisville, USA)
Patrick Wang ( Northeastern University, USA)
Yingxu Wang (University of Calgary, CANADA)