Content Gazette - January 2021 - 17

Call for Papers

BIOSIG 2021

20th International Conference
of the Biometrics Special Interest Group

15.-17.09.2021, Darmstadt, Germany
http://www.biosig.de
interest group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). The
conference proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library®.
We invite stakeholders and technical experts to submit original research
papers. Industrial contributions presenting lessons learnt from practical
usage, case study, recent results of prototypes, are also welcomed.
Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize
individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miss-use
incidents we do observe a significant fraud in e-commerce and thus
growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applications in areas like border control,
national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale
applications such as the upcoming European Union Entry Exit System (EES), the Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and also reliability, interoperability, scalability and usability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.
Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve
recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexing methods can
accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally, quality of captured
biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover,
mobile biometrics is an emerging area and biometrics-based
smartphones can support deployment and acceptance of biometric
systems.
However, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected.
The relevant techniques in the area of presentation attack detection
(liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement
biometric systems, in order to improve fake resistance, prevent potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft etc.
The BIOSIG 2021 conference addresses these issues and will present
innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future
applications. The conference is jointly organized by the Competence
Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the German Federal
Office for Information Security (BSI), the European Association for
Biometrics (EAB), the TeleTrusT-Association, the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (NBL), National Research Center for Applied
Cybersecurity (ATHENE), the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer
Graphics Research IGD, IET Biometrics Journal and the special

We plan to organise the conference as hybrid event with on-site activities and
options for remote participation.

Important Dates
30.05.2021
26.07.2021
20.08.2021
13.09.2021
13.-15.09.2021
15.09.2021
16./17.09.2021

Deadline for submissions
Notification of authors via e-mail
Deadline for final papers (ready for press)
Satellite Workshop TTT Working Group
EAB-Research Project Conference
EAB European Research and Industry Award
Main Conference: Talks and Presentations

Invited Talks

Topics of Interest
Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: Biometric
standards and interoperability, multimodal and multi-biometrics,
security analysis of biometric components or systems, on-card
comparison, fake resistance, liveness detection, aging of reference
data, template protection, de-identification, user interface design for
biometric systems, biometric performance measurement, sample
quality, best practices, usability, continuous authentication, forensics
and other emerging applications, ethical, legal and sociotechnological aspects, biometrics for public administrations.

Organizing Committee
General Chair: Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch
Program Chairs: Antitza Dantcheva, Kiran Raja, Christian Rathgeb,
Andreas Uhl
Publication Chair: Arslan Brömme
Publicity Chair: Victor Philipp Busch, Ana Filipa Sequeira
Local Chairs: Alexander Nouak, Claudia Prediger

TBA

Special Interest Group BIOSIG
The BIOSIG Group is dedicated to the foundations of biometrics. Its
objective is to to link practical experience with academic innovations.
Thus, the Special Interest Group BIOSIG together with its co-organizers
is providing with its annual conference a suitable platform to work on
these issues.

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