PAMI TC November 2002 Newsletter
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Newsletter
November 4, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAMI Technical Committee (PAMI-TC) Information
Web site
Chair
How to Join the PAMI-TC
Call for Proposals
United States' National Science Foundation ITR Program
Call for Papers at Upcoming PAMI-TC-sponsored Conferences and Workshops
4th International Conference on Audio and Video Based
Biometric Person Authentication, 9-11 June 2003
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PAMI-TC INFORMATION
The web page for the PAMI-TC is now located at
http://tab.computer.org/pamitc/
Questions, comments, and suggestions for the PAMI-TC should be sent to the
current TC chair:
Charles R. Dyer
Department of Computer Sciences Office 6379 Comp Sci & Stat Bldg
University of Wisconsin-Madison Tel +1 608-262-1965
1210 West Dayton Street Fax +1 608-262-9777
Madison, WI 53706-1685 Dept +1 608-262-1204
USA E-mail dyer@cs.wisc.edu
Web http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dyer/
The recipient list of this PAMI-TC electronic newsletter and other publications,
e.g., the IAPR Newsletter, is determined by the IEEE Computer Society's list.
To join this technical committee, or to update your information, especially
your email address, visit the following web site and fill in the online form.
http://www.computer.org/TCsignup/
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The area of pattern discovery has become critical both because of
the scientific challenges involved in dealing with massive
amounts of data and because of its relevance to national security
needs. While steady incremental progress based on classical
paradigms have made solutions to a few specific problems
technologically feasible, for more complex tasks there is a clear
need and scope for fundamental research to exploit available
computational resources and more advanced analytics together.
Recent progress has been based on ideas drawn from several
disciplines e.g., computer science, engineering, mathematics,
statistics, biology, medicine etc.
The United States' National Science Foundation Information
Technology Research (ITR) program, which stresses innovative and
multidisciplinary approaches for significant problems, would be a
good vehicle for funding basic research in pattern discovery.
Some technical issues are: High dimensional data modeling, novel
clustering techniques, combination of ensemble of classifiers,
methods for scaling up supervised learning algorithms. Active and
reinforced learning, learning and inference associated with
graphical models including factor graphs, MRFs. Kernel machines,
transductive inference techniques. Deformable templates; (time)
sequential and 3D pattern recognition. Use of (stochastic)
grammars. Fusion of multi-modal data from heterogeneous sensors
in complex pattern recognition tasks; novel fusion paradigms.
Current applications may include: Biometrics e.g., face,
fingerprint, voice, iris, gait recognition. Tracking and
surveillance including bio-surveillance possibly arising from
epidemiological considerations e.g., spatio-temporal event
detection. Recognition and discovery of information arising from
fusion of data obtained via e.g., global sensing systems,
biological, infrared and other detectors. Biomedical and
financial forecasting applications may also be considered.
In order to facilitate review and proper tracking of proposals,
submission should be accompanied by the following designation of
NSF program unit:
Large ITR projects: CISE directorate.
Medium ITR projects: CISE directorate, CCR division
Small ITR projects: CISE directorate, CCR division, "Special Project"
as a program unit.
After submitting a proposal via FastLane, please let us know the proposal
number by sending an email to:
Sankar Basu
Program Director, CISE/CCR Division
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1145
Arlington, VA 22230
Phone: 703-292-8910
Email: sabasu@nsf.gov
ITR DEADLINES:
Large projects: Mandatory pre-proposals November 18, 2002.
Medium projects: February 12, 2003
Small projects: December 12, 2002.
ITR 2003 Website:
http://nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02168/nsf02168.htm
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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Conference on Audio and Video Based
Biometric Person Authentication
Guildford, United Kingdom, 9-11 June 2003
http://avbpa2003.ee.surrey.ac.uk
avbpa@eim.surrey.ac.uk
The interest in security and in using multi-modal biometric
signal processing for security applications has been increasing
over the last decade. The growth of Internet and mobile telephony
has been an important factor in this respect. An important
element of security is automatic authentication of persons.
AVBPA will bring together the leading biometric signal analysis
researchers and practioneres, concerned with image and voice
modalities, to promote the development of robust solutions to
efficient and secure communication. The conference is an
official event of the International Association for Pattern
Recognition (IAPR-TC14).
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Thecientific program will include contributed and invited
presentations dealing with all aspects of multi-modal biometrics.
Contributions covering the topics below are solicited. However,
all submissions addressing issues related to biometric signal
analysis using audio and/or image processing techniques are
strongly encouraged. Main technical areas are:
Features and Measurements
Biometrics of face and voice
Biometrics of finger prints
Gait and other visual biometrics
Still image based features
Motion/depth based features
Audio and lip-movements
Multi-modal features
Biometrics and Communication
Psychophysics of face, speech, and gesture
Audio-visual speech recognition
Categorization, e.g. age and gender
Gesture interpretation
Audio-visual tracking
Source coding and compression
Decision Strategies
Sensor fusion
Decision fusion
Protocols and benchmarking
Databases and standardization
Architecture and Hardware
Resolution and color in recognition
Special sensors
Compact embedded systems
Centralized or distributed systems
INVITED SPEAKERS
Takeo Kanade (USA)
Jerry Friedman (USA)
Frederic Bimbot (USA)
CONTACT INFO AND PAPER SUBMISSION
The web and e-mail addresses of AVBPA are:
http://avbpa2003.ee.surrey.ac.uk
avbpa@eim.surrey.ac.uk}
Paper Submission and Important Dates:
Accepted papers will be published in proceedings by Springer Verlag (LNCS).
The submitted papers should not
exceed 8 pages and have abstracts with approximately 200 words. Word processing templates are available www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (under Section ``Proceedings...''). The important dates are:
Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2003
Acceptance notification: February 20, 2003
Camera ready papers: April 1, 2003
The conference: June 9-11, 2003
GENERAL CO-CHAIRMEN
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Samy Bengio (Switzerland)
Josef Bigun (Sweden)
Horst Bunke (Switzerland)
Rama Chellapa (USA)
Gerard Chollet (France)
Farzin Deravi (United Kingdom)
Sadaoki Furui (Japan)
Dolores Garcia-Plaza Cuellar (Spain)
Dominique Genoud (USA)
Bernd Heisele (USA)
Anil Jain (USA)
Kenneth Jonsson (Sweden)
Seong-Whan Lee (Korea)
Jurgen Luettin (Switzerland)
John Mason (UK)
Jiri Matas (Czech Republic)
Bruce Millar (Australia)
Jonathon Phillips (USA)
Salil Prabhakar (USA)
Marek Rejman-Greene (UK)
Nalini Ratha (USA)
Gael Richard (France)
Massimo Tistarelli (Italy)
Juanjo Villanueva (Spain)
Harry Wechsler (USA)
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September 2002 Newsletter
Chuck Dyer