The International Conference on Hand-based Biometrics (ICHB) is intended to introduce the recent technical progress of hand-based biometrics and timely address the emerging challenges in designing, developing, and deploying modern hand-based biometric systems for various practical applications. ICHB aims to provide a vibrant forum for researchers, engineers, vendors, and end-users to share their latest research results, findings and experience in relevant fields. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* New sensors for hand-based biometric data acquisition;
* Preprocessing, indexing, compression, recognition, and transmission of fingerprint, palm-print, hand geometry (or hand shape), finger-knuckle-print, hand vein, and other (new) hand-based biometrics;
* Multi-modal biometrics combining hand-based and other biometric modalities, such as face-fingerprint fusion;
* Securing and anti-spoofing techniques for hand-based biometrics;
* Touchless (or contact-free) and 3D hand-based biometrics;
* Applications of hand-based biometrics;
* Other related areas.

Submissions may be up to six pages in IEEE conference format. Details can be found on the conference website. All accepted papers will be published and included in IEEE Xplore, and selected papers (extended version) will be invited for a special issue on Information Sciences (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 3.29).

Important dates

* Submission of full-length papers: August 1, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011
* Submission of camera-ready papers: September 15, 2011