Connectionists: ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT: Call for Applications - 18th Int.l Summer School on Biometrics 2021

Mon Feb 1 16:47:42 EST 2021

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*18^th Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on
Biometrics for Secure Authentication:*

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***BIOMETRICS FOR AI / AI FOR BIOMETRICS*

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*Alghero, Italy  –  May 31 - June 4 2021*

http://biometrics.uniss.it <http://biometrics.uniss.it>***
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To face the expected travel limitations due to the Covid-19 outbreak, 
the school is planned as a mixed virtual event, allowing participation 
both in person and remotely with videoconference facilities

*Contact:*tista at uniss.it 
<mailto:tista at uniss.it><http://biometrics.uniss.it>*
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*Application deadline: FEBRUARY 15**^th 2021
*(download the application form at: http://biometrics.uniss.it 
<http://biometrics.uniss.it>)

 From the early days, when security was the driving force behind 
biometric research, today’s challenges go far beyond security. 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”.

For the last eighteen 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 18^th edition, the 
courses will mainly focus on new and emerging issues:

•*The impact of AI in Biometrics and Biometrics in AI;*

•*How to make “Deep Biometrics” systems /explainable/;*

•*Biometrics for social interactions and emerging applications;*

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

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, at least, 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 is open to about 70 highly qualified, motivated and 
pre-selected participants. Phd students, post-docs, researchers, 
forensic examiners, police officers and professionals are encouraged to 
apply.
The school fees will be in the order of 1.600 euro (400 euro in 
videoconference) for Phd students and 2.200 euro (800 euro in 
videoconference) for others. The fees will include all live 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 HERE 
<http://biometrics.uniss.it/Summer_School_scholarships_2021.doc>.
Phd students and post-docs are encouraged to submit a short paper (6 
pages maximum) for an oral presentation on their recent research activity.
Poster boards (physical and virtual) will be also available to all 
participants to display their current research or professional advances.

Send a filled application form (download from http://biometrics.uniss.it 
<http://biometrics.uniss.it>)//together with a short curriculum vitae to:**

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

  * Submission of applications: February 15th, 2021
  * Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2021
  * Registration: April 25th, 2021

*_Advance pre-registration is strictly required by February 15^th _**_2021_*

  *School location*

The school lectures will be delivered as a *mixed mode event*, allowing 
both physical (if the medical advice at the time of the school will 
allow it in full security) and remote attendance with videoconferencing 
facilities.

  * For participants attending in videoconference, live lectures will be
    delivered online with full sharing of the lecturing material and
    allowing live interaction with the participants. Private and group
    meetings with each lecturer will be organised to deepen the
    discussion started in the class.

  * Ad-hoc teleconferencing and communication tools will be also set up
    for practical hands-on sessions and to allow a good engagement of
    the participants and the lecturers.

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

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

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.

  *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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