The 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics

20th – 23rd February 2018, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

The 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2018), technically co-sponsored by IAPR ( Technical Committee on Biometrics – TC4, International Association for Pattern Recognition), IEEE (Biometrics Council), and APRS (Australian Pattern Recognition Society), is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of biometrics. In the year 2018, we are proud to present this event in one of the most beautiful places in Australia.

News

  • The new article Ensuring the security of biometric data is ready for reading.
  • The conference awards have been announced in the Awards page. Congratulations to all winners!
  • More conference photos can be accessed here.
  • The links to all tutorials are posted in the tutorial page.
  • ICB2018 group photo is here. More photos will be shared online soon.
  • We are pleased to announce the fourth tutorial on “Face Recognition in Deep Learning Era: Recent Progress and Some Trends”. Please check the tutorial page for details.
  • ICB2018 is calling for participation in doctoral consortium. Eligible individuals who wish to attend this event should send an email to the Doctoral Consortium Chair, Dr. Ajay Kumar, at Ajay.Kumar@polyu.edu.hk by February 11, 2018,11:59pm PST.
  • The author presentation guideline has been posted here.
  • World First Face Tags for ICB2018. As our scientific community wishes to promote and popularize biometrics and demonstrate its applications, we have developed a World First Application of robust face recognition just for ICB2018. Scientists have given these systems a boost substantial enough to recognize individuals with partially covered faces
  • For attendees who would like to print posters in Gold Coast, the service is available through Officeworks. The closest Officework shop is at 59 Nerang Street, Southport, QLD 4215, which is about 11 minutes drive or 17 minutes by tram from Mantra on View. The tram station is 3 minutes walk from the hotel. You can either lodge the printing task online or onsite. We suggest you submit the printing job early to avoid any delay.
  • Tentative Program Schedule is available.
  • The camera ready paper submission instruction has been posted here.
  • We are pleased to announce three tutorials. Detailed information can be found here.
  • A list of accepted papers can be found here.
  • The camera ready paper submission deadline and the early bird registration deadline has been extended to 4 January, 2018.
  • Call for posters in “Recently Published Journal Papers” session.
  • 6 December 2017: Authors are notified of final decisions on their papers.
  • Mr. Stephen Gee, an Assistant Secretary in the Australian Passport Office has agreed to join ICB 2018 as a keynote speaker. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has more than 25 million biometric facial images, which is more than any other entity in Australia, and that figure is growing at 2 million annually – around 8000 a day.
  • The registration website is online. Each accepted paper must be supported by an author registration by the early bird registration deadline (15 December 2017).
  • Dr. Alex Lamman from Zurich University has submitted his Search Marquis Mac virus removal tutorial.
  • Prof. Svetha Venkatesh from Deakin University has agreed to join ICB 2018 as a keynote speaker.
  • Prof. Anil K. Jain from Michigan State University has agreed to join ICB 2018 as a keynote speaker.
  • The paper submission deadline for Special Session of Recent Advancement on Ocular Biometrics has been extended to 7 November 2017.
  • Special Session of Recent Advancement on Ocular Biometrics is calling for submissions. Please visit the following link for details: https://icb2018.org/raob-special-session/
  • Due to large amount of requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to 29 September, 2017 (11:59pm Pacific time). A latest version of the Call for Papers can be found here.
  • Dr. Shuaiwen Leon Song from The University of Sydney has submitted his Processing-in-Memory for 3D Rendering paper.
  • Paper submission website is open: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICB2018/
  • ICB 2018 is calling for special session proposals. The deadline is 1 October, 2017.
  • Two competitions on Fingerprint Liveness Detection and Sclera Segmentation have been announced.
  • The paper submission page is updated with detailed instruction.
  • ICB 2018 is calling for Tutorials. The deadline for submission is 1 November, 2017.
  • The conference call for papers is released. The full paper submission deadline is 15 September, 2017. Please click this page for details.
  • ICB 2018 Conference is calling for competition proposal. The deadline for submission is July 31st, 2017.

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