** Apologies for cross-posting ** CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline extended to February 6th, 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Biometrics in the Wild (B-Wild 2017) In conjunction with IEEE FG 2017 May 30/June 3, 2017 (TBD) Washington D.C., USA http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - Paper Submission: February 6th, 2017 (firm deadline, no further extensions) - Notification of Acceptance: March 3rd, 2017 - Camera-Ready Papers: March 8th, 2015 ORGANIZERS: - Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, United States - Abdenour Hadid, University of Oulu, Finland - Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States - Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, United Kingdom - Vitomir Struc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Program Committee: - Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University, United States - Terry Boult, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States - Thirimachos Bourlai, West Virginia University, United States - Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame, United States - Patrizio Campisi, Universita degli Studi “Roma TRE”, Italy - Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, United States - Xilin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Jean-Luc Dugelay, Eurecom, France - Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey - Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, United States - Manuel Günther, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States - Hu Han, Michigan State University, United States - Gang Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China - Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, University of Houston, United States - Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, United Kingdom - Ajay Kumar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China - Andreas Lanitis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus - Jiwen Lu, Tsinghua University, China - Karthik Nandakumar, IBM Research Collaboratory, Singapore - Vishal Patel, Rutgers, United States - Peter Peer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Jonathon Phillips, NIST, United States - Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Finland - Norman Poh, University of Surrey, United Kinkdom - Arun Ross, Michigan State University, United States - Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, United States - Walter Scheirer, Harvard University, United States - Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Science, China - Massimo Tistarelli, University of Sassari, Italy - Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria - Mayank Vatsa, IIIT-Delhi, India ** Submissions ** The manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and should be no more than 8 pages in IEEE FG 2017 paper format. The submitted papers should present original work not currently under review elsewhere and should have no substantial overlap with already published work. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of IEEE FG 2017 & Workshops and will be sent for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore digital library. A special issue on "Biometrics in the Wild" that will build on the BWild workshop series will also be organized in Image and Vision Computing. **About** To goal of this workshop is to present the most recent and advanced work related to biometric recognition in the wild. Submitted papers should clearly show improvements over the existing state-of-the-art and use the most challenging datasets available. We are interested in all parts of biometric systems ranging from detection, landmark localization, pre-processing, and feature extraction techniques to modeling and classification approaches capable of operating on biometric data captured in the wild. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Biometric recognition in the wild (face, ear, gait, palms, iris, periocular…), - Biometric detection in the wild (face, eyes, ears, body, …), - Soft biometrics in the wild, - Context-aware techniques for biometric detection and recognition, - Landmark localization in the wild, - Robust machine learning for biometrics in the wild, - Normalization techniques for recognition in the wild, - Multi-modal biometrics in the wild, - Novel databases and performance benchmarks, - Privacy protection and de-identification of biometric identifiers, - Spoofing of biometric systems, - Deep learning approaches for unconstrained biometric recognition, - Related applications. ** Date and Venue ** The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (IEEE FG 2017) in Washington DC, USA on either May 30th or June 3rd, 2017 (TBD). For more information on BWild 2017 please visit: http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17/ -- ass.prof. Vitomir Štruc, PhD Laboratory of Artificial Perception, Systems and Cybernetics Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768 839 Fax: +386 1 4768 316 URL: luks.fe.uni-lj.si/nluks/people/vitomir-struc/ Co-organizer: Workshop on Biometric in the Wild 2017 http://luks.fe.uni-lj.si/bwild17 Program Co-chair: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis 2017 http://www.isispa.org/ Competition Co-chair: International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017 http://www.ijcb2017.org/