CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - SSBC 2020 ******************************************************** Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020) Held in conjunction with IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2020https://ieee-biometrics.org/ijcb2020/Program.html#acom Important dates: Registration is already open SSBC Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ssbc2020/home ******************************************************** We invite research groups working on ocular biometrics, segmentation problems or other related vision tasks to take part in the 2020 Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2020). Sclera biometrics have gained significant popularity among emerging ocular traits in the last few years. In order to establish the sclera as a viable biometric trait and to evaluate its potential for automated biometric systems, several works have been presented in the literature, using the sclera vasculature as a standalone biometric trait and in combination with the iris. Despite these initiatives, sclera biometrics need to be studied more extensively to ascertain their usefulness. Among the numerous challenges still open in this area, efficient and robust sclera segmentation is among the most important ones, affecting all downstream tasks, ranging from normalization to recognition. While a considerable amount of research has been directed towards sclera segmentation in recent years, the performance of existing techniques especially in cross-sensor scenarios and across different acquisition conditions is still not well explored. To investigate these issues, to document recent developments and to attract (and raise) the interest of researchers in this emerging biometric trait, we are organzing SSBC 2020 - a competition (and group benchmarking effort) held in conjunction with IJCB 2020 focusing on the problem of sclera segmentation. The competition builds on past sclera segmentation competitions, namely SSBC 2015, SSRBC 2016, SSERBC 2017, SSBC 2018 and SSBC 2019 held in conjunction with BTAS 2015, ICB 2016, IJCB 2017, ICB 2018 and ICB 2019 respectively. SSBC 2020 is the next in the series of sclera segmentation challenges and aims to benchmark sclera segmentation models in both cross sensor settings as well as across different acquisition conditions. The competition is open to everyone. Registartion is already open. For details see: https://sites.google.com/view/ssbc2020/home *** SUMMARY PAPER *** All participating researchers (achieving competitive performance) will be invited as co-authors for a summary paper of SSBC 2020 that will send for consideration at IJCB 2020. *** ORGANIZERS *** Dr. Abhijit Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Prof. Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Prof. Peter Peer, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija Assoc. Prof. Vitomir Štruc , University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija Matej Vitek , PhD candidate, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija