The IEEE Biometrics Council invites participants to the upcoming (free)
webinar by Prof. Sébastien Marcel on “Face Presentation Attack
Detection”. Detail on the webinar are given below:

Title: Face Presentation Attack Detection
Speaker: Prof. Sébastien Marcel, University de Lausanne/IDIAP, Switzerland
When: 7 December 2022, at 10am CET (5 pm CST, 4am ET)
Where: Online (Zoom)
Registration: (free, but required):
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qEuvpABRQt-f15358CeMuA

*** Talk Summary ***
In biometrics, Presentation Attacks (PA also referred to as spoofing)
are performed by falsifying the biometric trait and then presenting this
falsified information to the biometric system, one such example is to
fool a fingerprint system by copying the fingerprint of another person
and creating an artificial or gummy finger which can then be presented
to the biometric system to falsely gain access. This is an issue that
needs to be addressed because it has recently been shown that
conventional biometric techniques are vulnerable to presentation
attacks. One of the main challenges in Presentation Attack Detection
(PAD also referred to as anti-spoofing) is to find a set of features and
models (mostly classifiers) that allows systems to effectively
distinguish signals that were directly emitted by a human from those
reproduced by an attacker. This talk will present an overview of typical
face PAs and PAD techniques.

*** About the Speaker ***
Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Senior member – H-index 63) is Professor at the
University de Lausanne (UNIL) at the School of Criminal Justice and
lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he
is teaching on “Biometrics” and “Fundamentals in Statistical Pattern
Recognition” respectively. He serves on the Program Committee of several
scientific journals and international conferences in pattern recognition
and computer vision. He is a senior researcher at the Idiap Research
Institute (Switzerland), he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy
group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition,
vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing
attacks, deepfakes) and template protection. He received his Ph.D.
degree in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in France (2000)
at CNET, the research center of France Telecom (now Orange Labs). He is
also the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and
Testing, which conducts certifications of biometric products. He is
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics and Identity
Science. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security, a Co-editor of the “Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing”, a
Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security Special Issue on “Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures”, and
Co-editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on
“Biometric Security and Privacy”. He is also the lead Editor of the
Springer Handbook of Biometrics Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1, 2 and 3).

For more information, visit:
https://ieee-biometrics.org/index.php/activities/webinars

Date: 19.4 – 20.4 2023
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
Webpage: https://warwick.ac.uk/iwbf2023/

*** About ***
The 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics
(IWBF'23) is an
international forum devoted to facilitating synergies in research and
development among
the areas of multimedia forensics, forensic biometrics, and forensic
science. State-of-the-art
research in areas such as biometrics, forensic science, surveillance,
and multimedia
forensics will be presented. The 11th edition of IWBF will be held in
Barcelona, Spain and will
represent a meeting place for those concerned with the use of advanced
biometric technologies in
forensic applications, attracting participants from industry, research,
academia, and end-users.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

+ Biometrics
+ Attacks to biometric recognition systems
+ Multimodal biometrics
+ Soft biometrics
+ Mobile biometrics
+ Biometric analysis of crime scenes
+ Forensic Science
+ Multimedia forensics
+ Integrity verification
+ Anonymization & Data Privacy
+ Data de-identification
+ Surveillance
+ Ethical and societal implications
+ Information Theoretic Security
+ Adversarial Signal Processing
+ Case studies on the aforementioned topics

*** Paper Submission ***
Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work,
in English, with up
to 6 pages including results, figures and references (overlength
submissions will not be reviewed).
Paper submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
Technical Program Committee using a
single blind reviewing procedure. All accepted papers will be published
in the IEEE Xplore® digital library.

IWBF 2023 CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IWBF2023

*** Important Dates ***
Paper submission            13 January 2023
Decisions to authors        17 February 2023
Camera-ready papers due        3 March 2023