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BIOSIG 2020
19th International Conference  of the Biometrics Special Interest Group
September 16-18, 2020
Darmstadt, Germany
https://biosig.de/
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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  authentication applications. 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 European Union SmartBorder Concept,
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 2020 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 Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC),
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 interest
group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). The conference will
be technically co-sponsored by IEEE and papers will be added to IEEE Xplore.

The BIOSIG-Conference is part of the Darmstadt Biometric Week, which will take
place at the premises of Fraunhofer IGD from September 14 to 18, 2020. The
agenda of the week will contain the following events: German Biometric Working
Group meeting, EAB-Research-Project-Conference, EAB-awards, BIOSIG,
EAB-Biometrics-Training-Event.

We invite stakeholders and technical experts to submit original research papers
to BIOSIG. Industrial contributions presenting lessons learnt from practical
usage, case study, recent results of prototypes, are also welcomed.

Paper Submission Instructions:
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Submissions should be full papers (max. 8 pages) in English. Each paper will be
subjected of a double blind peer review. Authors should upload their submission at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biosig2020
and follow the instructions given at:
https://biosig.de/paper-submission
Note that those contributions, which will be accepted as poster presentation, will
be limited to 8 pages. Those contributions, which will be accepted as full research
paper, might be extended to 12 pages.

BIOSIG is supporting reproducible research (RR). All contributions are encouraged to:
– present experiments related to publicly available datasets as a first requirement for RR;
– make generated system scores openly available as a second requirement for RR.
Additionally, the sharing of plots or performance figures should align with the international
standard ISO/IEC 19795-1. Moreover open source code of the proposed methods and detailed
instructions to reproduce the experiments is strongly encouraged.

We are seeking a harmonized appearance of the conference proceedings and thus invite
authors to align their manuscripts with the Harmonized Biometric Vocabulary, as published
in the international standard ISO/IEC 2382-37:
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c066693_ISO_IEC_2382-37_2017.zip

Important Dates:
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30.05.2020  Deadline for submissions
20.07.2020  Notification of authors via e-mail
20.08.2020  Deadline for final papers (ready for press)
14.09.2020  German Biometric Working Group Meeting
14-16.09.2020  EAB-Research Project Conference
16.09.2020  EAB European Research and Industry Award
17.-18.09.2020  Main Conference: Talks and Presentations
17.-18.09.2020  EAB Biometrics Training Event

Topics of Interest:
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The topics of the conference include but are not limited to: Biometric standards and
interoperability, multimodal and multi-biometrics (sensor, modality, sample, feature,
score and decision fusion), security analysis of biometric components or systems,
on-card comparison, fake resistance, liveness detection, aging of reference data,
template protection, derivation of cryptographic keys from biometrics, 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 socio-technological aspects,
biometrics for public administrations.

Best regards,
Christoph Busch, Arslan Brömme, Antitza Dantcheva, Christian Rathgeb, Kiran Raja, Andreas Uhl