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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">21<sup>st</sup> Int.l Summer School for
Advanced Studies on<br>
Biometrics for Secure Authentication:</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">Biometrics: Trustful, Fair and Privacy-Friendly<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">Alghero, Italy – June 3 - 7 2024</span></b></font></p>
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<p><font size="+1"><b>Contact:</b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><a href="mailto:tista@uniss.it" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US">tista@uniss.it</span></a><a href="http://biometrics.uniss.it" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue" lang="EN-US"> </span></a></font><font size="-1"><b><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"></span></b></font></p>
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<div><span lang="EN-US"></span><font size="+1"><b>Application
deadline: <font color="#fd0000">FEBRUARY 29</font></b></font><font size="+1"><b><font color="#fd0000"><span lang="EN-US"><sup>th</sup></span>
2024</font><br>
</b><span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">(download the
application form at: </span><a href="http://biometrics.uniss.it" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">http://biometrics.uniss.it</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US">)</span><span style="font-size:10pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></span></font><font size="-1"><br>
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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.</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is what we simply call today "Biometrics".</span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="yellow"><font color="blue"><font color="yellow"><font color="black">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.</font></font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="yellow"><font color="blue"><font color="yellow"><font color="black">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?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This school follows the successful track of the
International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003.</span></p>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In this 21st edition, the courses will focus on
the lessons learned and on new and emerging issues:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="yellow"><font color="blue"><font color="yellow"><font color="black"></font></font></font></font></p><ol style="list-style-type:inherit"><font color="yellow"><font color="blue"><font color="yellow"><font color="black"><b><span class="gmail-im">
<li> The impact of AI and advanced learning techniques in Biometrics.
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<li> How to make "Deep Biometric" systems <i>explainable</i>.
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<li> How to exploit new biometric technologies in forensic and emerging applications.
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</span><li> How to develop fair, trustful and privacy-friendly biometric systems.
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<li> Where are we going now?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p><span class="gmail-im">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Open sessions will be organised
with questions and answers moderated by the leading experts
in the field.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Participant
application</span></b><b><span></span></b></p>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" size="2">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.</font><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.<span class="gmail-im"><br>
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.<br>
The scholarship request form can be downloaded from the
school web site <a href="http://biometrics.uniss.it" target="_blank">http://biometrics.uniss.it</a><br>
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Send a filled application form (download from <a href="http://biometrics.uniss.it" target="_blank">http://biometrics.uniss.it</a>)
together with a short resume to: </span></span></p><span class="gmail-im">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Prof.
Massimo Tistarelli –</span></b><span> e-mail: <a href="mailto:biometricsummerschool@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:blue">biometricsummerschool@gmail.com</span></b></a></span></p>
</span><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Submission of applications:
February 29th, 2024</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Notification of acceptance:
March 15th, 2024</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>Registration: April 15th, 2024</span></li></ul>
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</span><b><u><span lang="EN-US">Advance pre-registration is strictly
required by February 29<sup>th</sup> 2024</span></u></b><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span>The
school will be hosted by Hotel Dei Pini (<a href="https://www.hoteldeipini.com/" target="_blank">https://www.hoteldeipini.com/</a> )
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.</span></p>
<span>The
organisers and all lecturers are fully committed to make this
year's school as successful, instructing and inspiring as in
the past years.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US">School Committee:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Massimo Tistarelli</span></b><span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">Computer
Vision Laboratory – University of Sassari, Italy</span><span><br>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US">Josef Bigun </span></b><span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">Department of
Computer Science – Halmstad University, Sweden</span><span><br>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US">Enrico Grosso</span></b><span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">Computer
Vision Laboratory – University of Sassari, Italy</span><span><br>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US">Anil K. Jain</span></b><span><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">Biometrics
laboratory – Michigan State University, USA </span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Distinguished
lecturers from past school editions</span></b><b><span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Josef </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">Bigun</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">David Meuwly</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">West Virginia University – USA</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Emilio Mordini MD</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-US">Responsible Technologies – Italy</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Vincent Bouatou</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US">Mark Nixon</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">University of Southampton – UK</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span>Kevin
Bowyer </span></b><span></span></p>
<span>University of
Notre Dame – USA</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US">Alice O’Toole</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">University of Texas – USA</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span>Deepak
Chandra </span></b><span></span></p>
<span>Google Inc. –
USA</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Maja Pantic</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">Imperial College – UK</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Rama Chellappa</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">University of
Maryland – USA</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Johnathon Phillips</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">NIST – USA</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">John Daugman</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">University of Cambridge – UK</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Tomaso Poggio</span></b></p>
<span lang="EN-US">MIT – USA</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Farzin Deravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University of Kent – UK</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nalini
Ratha</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span>IBM </span><span>– USA</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">James Haxby</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><span lang="EN-US">Dartmouth University – USA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Arun Ross</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><span lang="EN-US">Michigan State University </span><span lang="EN-US">– USA</span><b><span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US">Anil K. Jain</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">Michigan State
University – USA</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tieniu
Tan </span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CASIA-NLPR
– China</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Joseph Kittler</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">University of Surrey – UK</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span>Massimo
Tistarelli</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Università
di Sassari – Italy</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span>Davide
Maltoni</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Università
di Bologna – Italy</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span>Alessandro
Verri</span></b><span></span></p>
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di Genova – Italy</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">John Mason</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Swansea University – UK</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">James Wayman</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">University of
San Josè </span><span lang="EN-US">– USA</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Aldo
Mattei</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Arma
dei Carabinieri – Italy</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Lior Wolf</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span lang="EN-US">Tel Aviv
University </span><span lang="EN-US">– Israel</span></p>
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