Special Session on Biometric Technologies, Systems and Applications of 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (CISDA 2012), Ottawa, Canada, 11-13 July 2012

A special session of Biometric Technologies, Systems and Applications will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners, from industry, government, and academia, to share their research and experiences in the field of Computational Intelligence in Biometrics . The focus of this special session is on innovative, new technologies designed to address important issues in the development of Biometrics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

•Biometric applications for national security and defense
•Innovations and advanced techniques in biometrics systems
•Biometric algorithms and design studies
•Signal and image processing for biometric data
•Liveness detection and spoofing countermeasures
•Multiple biometrics, multi-modal biometrics and intelligent data fusion
•Privacy issues and template protection techniques
•Mobile biometric devices and embedded biometric systems
•Biometric conformance and interoperability testing/evaluation

Organizers: Qinghan Xiao, DRDC Ottawa, Canada, Kevin Jia, International Game Technology, USA and Fabio Scotti, University of Milan, Italy

Contact: Qinghan.Xiao@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, Kevin.Jia@IGT.com and fscotti@dti.unimi.it

Important Dates:
April 23, 2012:
Submission of full paper
May 14, 2012:
Notification of acceptance/rejection
June 4, 2012:
Submission of final camera-ready manuscript