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Call for papers

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IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2017)
Location: New Delhi, India
Dates: February 22-24 2017
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
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ISBA is a unique conference series initiated by the IEEE Biometrics Council and its third edition will be held in New Delhi, India. This conference is intended to meet the emerging need for a winter meeting, especially for the Asian participants where the introduction of large scale biometrics programs have attracted significant increase in research and development efforts. It will be a forum that brings together experts in biometrics, security, and human behavior to consider research issues and solutions that are robust, comprehensive, and broader than currently considered in each of these individual research areas. This conference serves to provide a new form for such broad areas defining human side of security and user behavior as well as social influence in the biometrics security.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Anti-Spoofing, Behavioral Biometrics, Biometric System Evaluation, Biometrics in Law Enforcement, Cybercrime

• De-identification, Detection and Tracking, Device Identification, Digital Forensics

• Human Behavior Analysis, Human Activity Understanding, Identity Management, Information Security, Person Re-identification

• Performance Evaluation, Privacy-preserving Computing, Predictive Analytics, Single and Multi-modal Biometrics

• Social Biometrics, Social and Criminal Network Inference, Surveillance Identification, Template Protection and Data Privacy

• Usability and Performance, User-centric Biometric Security

Submitted papers may not be accepted or under review elsewhere. Submissions may be up to eight pages in conference format (double blind reviewing). Papers accepted and presented at ISBA 2017 will be published in conference proceedings and made available in IEEE Xplore library.

Important dates

Submission deadline: October 10, 2016
Decision to authors: December 10, 2016
Camera ready submission: December 20, 2016
Conference: February 22-24, 2017

General Chair
Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, USA)

General Co-chairs
Ajay Kumar (PolyU, Hongkong)
Richa Singh (IIIT-Delhi, India)

Program Co-chairs
M. Ehsan Hoque (University of Rochester, USA)
Nitesh Saxena (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Vishal M. Patel (Rutgers University, USA)
Mayank Vatsa  (IIIT-Delhi, India)

Publication Chair
Soma Biswas (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Finance Chair
Angshul Majumdar (IIIT-D, India)

Publicity Chair
Abhinav Dhall (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Industry Liaison
Sameer Shah (HCL, India)

http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/