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17^th IAPR/IEEE Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on
Biometrics for Secure Authentication:

 BIOMETRICS, FORENSICS AND IDENTITY SCIENCE FOR HUMAN-CENTERED APPLICATIONS

Alghero, Italy – June 8-12 2020

Contact: tista@uniss.it    http://biometrics.uniss.it

EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 30^th 2020
(download the application form at: http://biometrics.uniss.it)

Because of the Covid-19 outbreak the classes will be held remotely, and the registration fees considerably reduced, to facilitate participation.

A special keynote lecture will be given by:

prof. Tomaso POGGIO

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mc Govern Institute for Brain Research

For the last seventeen years, the International Summer School on Biometrics has been closely following the developments in science and technology to offer a cutting edge, intensive training course, always up to date with the current state-of-the-art.

What are the most up-to-date core biometric technologies developed in the field? What is the potential impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention? What can we learn from human perception? How to deploy current Deep Learning approaches? How to deal with adversarial attacks in biometric recognition?

This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003. In this 17^th edition, the courses will mainly focus on new and emerging issues:

•       Biometrics for social interactions and emerging applications;

•       How to exploit new biometric technologies in forensic and security applications;

•       Evaluation and assessment of biometric and forensic applications;

•       Deep Learning for biometrics and forensic identification.

The courses will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains. The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry. An advanced feature of this summer school will be some practical sessions to better understand, “hands on”, the real potential of today’s biometric technologies.

Participant application

The school will be open to about 50 highly qualified, motivated and pre-selected applicants. Phd students, post-docs, researchers, forensic examiners, police officers and professionals are encouraged to apply. The expected school fees will be in the order of 400 € for Phd students and 800 € for others (subject to change). The fees will include all courses and handling material. A number of scholarships, covering the fees, will be awarded to Phd students, selected on the basis of their scientific background and on-going research work.

The scholarship request form can be downloaded from the school web site http://biometrics.uniss.it.

Phd students, researchers and post-docs are encouraged to submit a short paper (6 pages maximum) for an oral presentation on their recent research activity. Virtual poster boards will be also available to all participants to display their current research advances.

Send a filled application form (download from http://biometrics.uniss.it) together with a short curriculum vitae to:       Prof. Massimo Tistarelli – e-mail: biometricsummerschool@gmail.com 

School location

The school lectures will be delivered remotely by videoconferencing facilities.

1.     Live lectures will be delivered online with full sharing of the lecturing material and allowing live interaction with the participants.

2.     Private and group meetings with each lecturer will be organised to deepen the discussion started in the class.

3.     Ad-hoc teleconferencing tools will be set up for practical hands-on sessions.

4.     Open sessions will be organised with questions and answers directed by the leading experts in the field.

The organisers and all lecturers are fully committed to make this year's school even more successful, instructing and inspiring than the past years.

School Committee:

Massimo Tistarelli

Computer Vision Laboratory – University of Sassari, Italy

Josef Bigun

Department of Computer Science – Halmstad University, Sweden

Enrico Grosso

Computer Vision Laboratory – University of Sassari, Italy

Anil K. Jain

Biometrics laboratory – Michigan State University, USA

Distinguished lecturers from past school editions