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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming volume entitled “<b>Deep Biometrics</b>” to be published by Springer, the largest
global scientific, technical, and medical ebook publisher. The volume will be available both in print and in ebook format by late 2018/early 2019 on SpringerLink, one of the leading science portals that includes more than 8 million documents, an ebook collection
with more than 160,000 titles, journal archives digitized back to the first issues in the 1840s, and more than 30,000 protocols and 290 reference works.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Below is a short description of the volume:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Recent development in machine learning, particularly deep learning, has brought out drastic impact on Biometrics, which is a classic topic to utilize
Machine Learning for biometric identification. Particularly, Deep Learning can benefit from the training with large unlabelled datasets via semi-supervised or unsupervised learning.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This book aims to highlight recent research advances in biometrics using semi-supervised and unsupervised new methods such as Deep Neural Networks,
Deep Stacked Autoencoder, Convolutional Neural Networks, Generative Adversary Networks, Ensemble Methods, and so on, and exploit these novel methods in the emerging new areas such as privacy and security issues, cancellable biometrics and soft biometrics,
smart cities, big biometric data, biometric banking, medical biometrics, and healthcare biometrics, etc..</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The goal of this volume is to summarize the recent advances in using Deep Learning in the area of biometric security and privacy. Topics of interest
include: (but not limited to)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Deep Learned Biometric Features</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Convolutional Neural networks</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Deep Stacked Autoencoder</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Deep Face Detection</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Deep Gait Recognition</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Biometrics in Cybersecurity</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Biometrics in Cognitive Robot</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Healthcare Biometrics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Medical Biometrics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Biometrics in Social Computing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Biometric Block Chain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Privacy and Security Issues</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Iris, Fingerprints, DNA, Palmprints</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Gait, EEG, Heart rates</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Multimodal Fusion</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Soft Biometrics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Cancellable Biometrics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Big data issues in Biometrics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Biometrics for Internet of things</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Each contributed chapter is expected to present a novel research study, a comparative study, or a survey of the literature. Note that there will
be no publication fees for accepted chapters.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Important Dates:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Submission of abstracts Nov 15, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Notification of initial editorial decisions Nov 20, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Submission of full-length chapters Dec 15, 2018</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Notification of final editorial decisions Jan 15, 2019</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Submission of revised chapters Feb 15, 2019</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> • Dr Weizhi Meng</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Applied Mathematics & Computer Science</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">• Professor Chang-Tsun Li</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Email: chli@csu.edu.au
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