Connectionists: Call for Applications: 21st Int.l Summer School on Biometrics 2024

Wed Jan 3 06:36:25 EST 2024

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*21st Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure
Authentication:*

*Biometrics: Trustful, Fair and Privacy-Friendly *

*Alghero, Italy  –  June 3 - 7 2024*

http://biometrics.uniss.it

*Contact:* tista at uniss.it <http://biometrics.uniss.it>

*Application deadline: FEBRUARY 29*
*th 2024 *(download the application form at: http://biometrics.uniss.it)

* For the past 20 years this international Summer School provided and
active and dynamic forum to closely follow the most recent developments in
science and technology to offer a cutting edge, intensive training course,
always up to date with the current state-of-the-art.*

Machine learning, Image understanding, Signal analysis, Neuroscience,
Robotics, Forensic science, Digital forensics and other disciplines,
converged in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced
systems to facilitate the interpretation of signals recorded from
individuals acting in a given environment.

This is what we simply call today "Biometrics".

Over the last two decades automatic biometric recognition reached a very
high accuracy even on very large and challenging datasets. However, other
issues and concerns, not directly related to the recognition accuracy,
arise including the fairness, reliability and trustfulness of current
biometric systems.

This edition of the school will address these issues trying to answer some
compelling questions, such as: How to mitigate bias in biometric systems?
How to design privacy-preserving and "ethical" biometric devices? What can
we learn from human perception? How to better deploy current AI approaches?
How to cope for adversarial attacks in biometric recognition? What is the
scalability and real potential for biometric systems? What is the potential
impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention?

This school follows the successful track of the International Summer
Schools on Biometrics held since 2003.

In this 21st edition, the courses will focus on the lessons learned and on
new and emerging issues:

   * 1. The impact of AI and advanced learning techniques in Biometrics. 2.
   How to make "Deep Biometric" systems explainable. 3. How to exploit new
   biometric technologies in forensic and emerging applications. 4. How to
   develop fair, trustful and privacy-friendly biometric systems. 5. Where are
   we going now? *

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.

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

*Participant application*

To attend the school classes, physical presence of the participants will be
required. In exceptional cases of travel limitations remote participation
with videoconference facilities, will be also allowed.

The expected school fees will be in the order of 1,700 € (400 € in
videoconference) for students and 2,300 € (800 € in videoconference) for
others. The fees will include full board accommodation, all courses and
handling material.
A limited number of scholarships, partially 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

Send a filled application form (download from http://biometrics.uniss.it)
together with a short resume to:

*Prof. Massimo Tistarelli –* e-mail: *biometricsummerschool at gmail.com*
<biometricsummerschool at gmail.com>

   - Submission of applications: February 29th, 2024
   - Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2024
   - Registration: April 15th, 2024

*Advance pre-registration is strictly required by February 29th 2024*

*School location*

The school will be hosted by Hotel Dei Pini (https://www.hoteldeipini.com/
) in the Capo Caccia bay, near Alghero, Sardinia. This is one of the most
beautiful resorts in the Mediterranean Sea. The structure is beautifully
immersed into the Capo Caccia bay. The hotel Dei Pini has a recently
renovated conference centre, fully equipped for scientific events. The
school venue, as well as the surroundings, proved to be a perfect
environment for the school activities.
The organisers and all lecturers are fully committed to make this year's
school as successful, instructing and inspiring as in 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*

*Josef **Bigun*

Halmstad University – Sweden

*David Meuwly*

Netherlands Forensic Institute – NL

*Thirimachos Bourlai*

West Virginia University – USA

*Emilio Mordini MD*

Responsible Technologies – Italy

*Vincent Bouatou*

Safran Morpho – France

*Mark Nixon*

University of Southampton – UK

*Kevin Bowyer *
University of Notre Dame – USA

*Alice O’Toole*

University of Texas – USA

*Deepak Chandra *
Google Inc. – USA

*Maja Pantic*

Imperial College – UK

*Rama Chellappa*
University of Maryland – USA

*Johnathon Phillips*

NIST – USA

*John Daugman*
University of Cambridge – UK

*Tomaso Poggio*
MIT – USA

*Farzin Deravi*

University of Kent – UK

*Nalini Ratha*

IBM – USA

*James Haxby*

Dartmouth University – USA

*Arun Ross*

Michigan State University – USA

*Anil K. Jain*

Michigan State University – USA

*Tieniu Tan *

CASIA-NLPR – China

*Joseph Kittler*

University of Surrey – UK

*Massimo Tistarelli*

Università di Sassari – Italy

*Davide Maltoni*

Università di Bologna – Italy

*Alessandro Verri*

Università di Genova – Italy

*John Mason*

Swansea University – UK

*James Wayman*

University of San Josè – USA

*Aldo Mattei*

Arma dei Carabinieri – Italy

*Lior Wolf*

Tel Aviv University – Israel

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