The challenges of generalization of algorithms and solutions in biometrics has been a long-standing but critical problem. The advancements in biometric solutions have achieved very high accuracy for various problems on databases investigated for the relative problem. However, the recent works have pointed the deficiencies in scaling of such algorithms across databases and sensors. The problem is persistently seen for identification and verification across cross-spectral data, attack detection across variety of data. The limited scalability of the algorithms needs newer and robust solutions to make the biometric systems adaptable for various kind of data. BTAS-2019 - Special session on Generalizability and Adaptability in Biometrics is organized to evaluate the impact and mitigation measures of such generalization problems in biometric systems. This half-day Special Session in conjunction with BTAS-2019, calls for high-quality, previously unpublished works related to approaches and methodologies.

Papers are invited to report on following topics, but not limited to:
- Novel algorithms for identification and verification solutions across heterogeneous data.
- Attack detection mechanisms for heterogeneous data.
- Cross-sensor scalability issues in biometrics.
- Cross-database attack (e.g., spoofing/presentation attack) detection mechanisms
- CNNs for generalizability solutions.

Submission Guidelines:

- BTAS 2019 Special Session - GAPinB invites researchers to submit original research papers
- Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 4 pages for technical content including figures and references, and one optional 5th page containing only references).
- Papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. Please remove author names, affiliations, email addresses, etc. from the paper. Remove personal acknowledgments.
- During BTAS-GAPinB 2019 review process, the paper should not be submitted to or be under review in other conferences, workshops, journals. Submitted papers may be checked with a plagiarism detection tool.
- Accepted papers from the Special Session will be included in the BTAS2019 Proceedings through IEEE. Papers must be submitted online through the submission system that will be announced from this page and will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least three reviewers.

The submission guidelines can be found at: http://ieee-biometrics.org/btas2019/Program.html#cfp
Authors should upload their submission at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BTASSS2019

Important Dates:
Workshop: 23 Sep, 2019
Full Paper Submission: 05 Aug, 19
Acceptance Notice: 20 Aug, 19
Camera-Ready Paper: 10 Sep, 19