IEEE Biometrics Council

Have you found time to read the June issue of the Biometrics Council newsletter yet? The 50th issue, released on IEEE-Biometrics.org on June 1, provides fantastic updates on what’s happening in the world of biometrics. If you missed it a few weeks ago, make sure to circle back to catch up on all the latest news, discoveries, and Council updates. A few highlights of what you’ll find inside: > In “Source Code,” Eurecom assistant professor Chiara Galdi discusses a novel approach to speaker anonymization proposed in the recent paper, “Speaker Anonymization with Neural Audio Codec Language Models.” > Explore commercial off-the-shelf software for biometric recognition based on the periocular area, the feature-rich region around the eye in “BioID's Periocular Recognition for Secure Authentication of Partially Covered Faces.” > Review a list of the latest papers addressing topics in biometrics that have been accepted (via early access) or published in various IEEE Journals in “Biometric Alert.” Read these articles and many more in the full issue. #IEEE #Biometrics https://lnkd.in/etd6Mvzp

Missed our April webinar? Watch the live recording! Indulge in some summer professional development while beating the heat. A recording of the Biometrics Council’s webinar “Biometric Recognition in the Era of AI-Generated Content” is available to stream online. In April, Professor Xiaoming Liu of Michigan State University gave an intriguing talk on the impressive progress researchers have made in the area of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (#AIGC). His presentation centered on several key topics, including 1) how to bridge the gap between the training data distribution and test data distribution; 2) how to generate a complete synthetic database to train face recognition models; 3) how to estimate the 3D body shape from an image of the clothed human body; and 4) how to manipulate a human body image by changing its body pose, clothing style, background, and identity. A fellow of IEEE and IAPR, Dr. Liu is the MSU Foundation Professor, and Anil and Nandita Jain Endowed Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Michigan State University. He is also a visiting scientist at Google Research. He has authored more than 200 publications and has filed 35 patents. His work has been cited over 25000 times with an H-index of 76. #biometrics #computerscience #ai #artificialintelligence #webinar Watch the recorded webinar here:  https://lnkd.in/gNmNZ5ur 

Exciting news for T-BIOM! IEEE Biometrics Council is happy to introduce the new editor-in-chief of our flagship publication, IEEE Transactions of Biometrics and Identity Science. Professor Emeritus Mark Nixon will officially began his three-year term this month and will serve as EIC until June 2027. Get to Know Mark Nixon Mark S. Nixon is a Professor Emeritus in the Vision, Learning and Control research group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton UK. His research interests are in image processing, biometrics and computer vision. His team pioneered gait as a biometric and were among the pioneers of ear biometrics. His team develops new techniques for static and moving shape extraction, which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis. Mark was previously the president of the IEEE Biometrics Council and Vice Chair IEEE PSPB. He is a fellow of the IAPR (for services to #biometrics and #computervision) and the Distinguished Fellow of the BMVA 2015. He has been chair/program co-chair BMVC’98, ICPR’04, IEEE BTAS’10, ICPR’16, IEEE ISBA’16, IAPR/IEEE IJCB’17, and ICB’19 and will co-chair IJCB 2025. Please join us in welcoming Mark in his new role! The Council extends our congratulations and good wishes in continuing T-BIOM’s excellent tradition.  #facerecognition #biometrics #IEEE #IAPR #TBIOM #biometricscouncil

More #IJCB paper submission opportunities! Special sessions paper submissions for the upcoming IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics are due this coming Wednesday, July 3, 2024. IJCB 2024 will take place September 15-18, 2024, in Buffalo, New York. In addition to the special session on “Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems,” which the Council posted about last week, there are six other sessions planned throughout the conference. Special Session 1: Generative AI for Futuristic Biometrics GENAI2024 will explore the potential of generative AI in developing different proactive defensive and reactive attack detection strategies to secure the future of biometrics. Special Session 2: Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems ADMA-2024 aims to profile recent developments and push the border of the digital manipulation detection technique on biometric systems. Special Session 3: Face Morphing Attack and Detection Techniques FMADT-2024 will address a range of topics and algorithms under the general umbrella of face morphing attack and detection techniques. Special Session 4: Recognition at Long Range and from High Altitude RLRHA-2024 addresses biometric recognition from imagery captured at long ranges and high altitudes along with related challenges such as atmospheric turbulence, occlusion, and non-traditional viewpoints. Special Session 5: Multimodal Human Behavior Understanding and Generation MUG-2024 will focus on all aspects related to multimodal human behavior spotting, recognition, and generation. Special Session 6: Responsible AI for Biometrics AI4BIO addresses the ethical deployment of biometric technologies into various sectors such as security, finance, healthcare, and consumer electronics to avoid potential misuse, discrimination, and violation of privacy and human rights. Special Session 7: Face Recognition in the Era of Synthetic Images and Its Boundless Vulnerabilities SIBV-SS aims to understand and protect the integrity of deep face recognition networks, including deepfakes, the use of synthetic media for privacy-preserving learning, facial attribute anonymization, adversarial attacks, morphing, and presentation attacks. Key Dates Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2024 Acceptance notice: July 24, 2024 Find links and paper submission details for each session here: https://lnkd.in/eiemHM-s Read more about each session here:  https://lnkd.in/ev7AnN9a #IEEE #IJCB2024 #Biometrics #ComputerVision #AI #FaceRecognition #IEEEBiometricsCouncil

Still dreaming of #computervision in Istanbul? FG 2024 attendees can now relive the highlights of last month’s conference, which took place May 27-31, 2024, in Turkey’s largest city. A photo gallery is now accessible through the event website. View the Gallery: https://lnkd.in/eHAm2-Kr The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. Co-sponsored by IEEE Biometrics Council and IEEE Computer Society, and supported by Istanbul Technical University, its broad scope includes advances in fundamental computer vision, pattern recognition, and computer graphics; machine learning techniques relevant to face, gesture, and body motion; interdisciplinary research on behavioral analysis; new algorithms and applications. Thank you to all the speakers, presenters, organizers, and attendees who made the 18th installment such a success. See you again in 2026! #IEEE #biometrics #IEEEComputerSociety #facialrecognition #patternrecognition #IEEEBiometricsCouncil

New #IJCB paper submission opportunity! The Biometrics Council is organizing a special session on “Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems” as part of the upcoming IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, which will take place September 15-18, 2024, in Buffalo, New York.  The session, dubbed ADMA-2024, will offer the opportunity to present the latest research on various types of manipulation attacks in biometrics, including presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes, and more. The deadline to submit is July 3, 2024.  #IJCB2024 #IEEE #Biometrics #Biometricsecurity #Deepfakes Key Dates Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2024 Acceptance notice: July 24, 2024    For more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eKfvbbvv.

Congratulations to the #FG2024 Award Winners! The 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition took place in May in Istanbul, Turkey. An awards component of the event recognized the following leaders for their excellence and contribution to the fields of biometrics; computer learning; pattern recognition; and face, gesture, and body analysis and recognition. Below are the winners for 2024. > Test of Time Award Lijun Yin, Xiaozhou Wei, Yi Sun, Jun Wang, and Matthew Rosato, “A 3D facial expression database for facial behavior research,” FG 2006 > Best Paper Award Can Chen and Scott McCloskey, “High-resolution Image Enumeration for Low-resolution Face Recognition” > Best Student Paper Award Anshul Gupta, Samy Tafasca, Naravich Chutisilp and Jean-Marc Odobez, “A Unified Model for Gaze Following and Social Gaze Prediction” > Best Poster Award Miroslav Purkrábek and Jiri Matas, “Improving 2D Human Pose Estimation in Rare Camera Views with Synthetic Data” #FG2024 #FacialRecognition #FaceRecognition #PatternRecognition #ComputerLearning #IEEE #IEEEBiometricsCouncil #Biometrics

Start the week off with an update on all things biometrics in the most recent Biometrics Council Newsletter, now available on IEEE-Biometrics.org. The June 2024 edition is full of the latest in biometrics research, news from around the world, and updates from the Council. So what’s inside this spring issue? > Take in the editor’s letter with greetings from editor in chief Andrew Teoh. > Heed the call for site proposals for the 2026 installments of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition and the International Joint Conference on Biometrics. #IJCB #FG2026 > Review a carefully curated selection of news articles from around the world. > Learn more about an address delivered by Professor Yasushi Yagi in Shenzhen, China, titled "What Can We Know from Gait? Identity, Gender, Age, Emotions, Intentions, Health, etc.," in a special feature article. > Get to know the co-founder and CTO of Keyless, Dr. Paolo Gasti, in an in-depth interview by Dr. João Neves. > Meet “Researcher on the Rise” Victoria Mingote Bueno, a research scientist who helped develop the Voice input Voice output Lab based in Zaragoza, Spain. > Read an interview with “Biometrics Pioneer” Patrick J. Flynn, a professor of computer science and engineering at Notre Dame with remarkable research contributions to the biometrics field. > Gain a deeper understanding of the currently available biometric template protection schemes in a Lecture Notes tutorial. > Keep current on the latest from the field, with a featured paper on an efficient face recognition model for edge devices, a look at the Cross-Covariate Gait Recognition Dataset, and more! #IEEE #Biometrics #IEEEBiometricsCouncil #Keyless #GaitAnalysis #FaceRecognition Read the Full Newsletter https://lnkd.in/etd6Mvzp

On Wednesday, May 29, 2024, Professor Beatrice de Gelder (shown here) presented a keynote titled “Linking Body Movement Analysis and Brain Activity” to the crowd gathered for day 3 of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.  As professor of cognitive neuroscience in the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and a member of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre, de Gelder’s current research focuses on face and body recognition and, recently, the neuroscience of art. She spoke to #FG2024 attendees about recent studies that have attempted to use computational methods to analyze body posture and whole body movements, illustrating how the results may be related to brain activity.  Stay tuned for more updates from the FG Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. #IEEE #Biometrics #IEEEBiometricsCouncil #FacialRecognition #ComputerVision #BodyMovement

Attendees at #FG2024 were treated to a fascinating first keynote presentation on Tuesday, May 28, as the annual conference kicked off in Istanbul, Turkey. Professor Shiguang Shan (shown here), the deputy director of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a talk on “Gaze Analysis and Applications.” In his presentation, Professor Shan introduced recent attempts in analyzing the eyes including 3D gaze estimation, 2D/3D gaze following, and dyadic gaze pattern analysis, as well as the potential of using gaze analysis to diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder.  #IEEE #facialrecognition #gazeanalysis #computervision #computerscience Stay tuned for more updates from the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.