WCCI 2008 Special Session Call for Papers
Session Title: Intelligent Computation on Biometrics
Scope and motivation
Biometric technologies have gained significance in practical applications and became increasingly popular in government applications. Continual improvements in accuracy, transaction speed and affordability have increased their ease of use and cost-effectiveness. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, biometric feature changes, and measurement environment variations. A biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice so that biometric matching is never exact and the matching is always a “fuzzy comparison”. This feature makes computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., an ideal approach for solving different biometric problems.
The objective of this special session is to to bring researchers from academia and industry together to exchange the latest theoretical and experimental results in the field. This event will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers and practitioner to present the state of the art biometric research and technology, and the potential problems in real applications. Possible topic areas include, but are certainly not limited to the following areas:Organizers
David Zhang (csdzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk)
David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in Computer Science in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Currently, he is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of the Biometrics Technology Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 1998. He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beihang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG); Book Editor, Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Trans on SMC-A/SMC-C/Pattern Recognition; Technical Committee Chair of IEEE CIS and the author of more than 10 books and 160 journal papers. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
Qinghan Xiao (qinghan.xiao@drdc-rddc.gc.ca)
Qinghan Xiao, IEEE Senior Member, received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1985 respectively, and his PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1994. Currently, he is a Defence Scientist at the Defence R&D Canada Ottawa. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, biometrics, and RFID technology. Dr. Xiao serves as the Chair of Task Force on Biometrics of the IEEE/CIS Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications, and has been appointed Testing and R&D Chair of the Interdepartmental Biometrics Working Group (Canada).