Connectionists: Extended deadline: Call for participation to the 22nd Int.l Summer School on Biometrics - June 2-6 2025

Thu Feb 6 03:59:31 EST 2025

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*22nd Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics in the
Generative AI Era*

*Alghero, Italy  –  June 2 - 6 2025*

http://biometrics.uniss.it

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

*Extended application deadline: MARCH 2*
*nd 2025 *(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. This year's main topic
will be the impact of generative AI on the development and deployment of
biometrics in different application domains.*

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 decade the advent of Deep Learning and, more recently,
Generative AI, strongly impacted both research and application of automatic
biometric data analysis and recognition. However, other issues and
concerns, not directly related to the computational performance, 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 2003and it 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 1,800 € (400 € in
videoconference) for students and 2,400 € (800 € in videoconference) for
others, including full board accommodation, all courses and handling
material.
A limited number of scholarships offered by the school sponsors, partially
covering the fees, will be awarded to Ms/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

Poster boards will be also available to all participants to display their
current research or professional activities.

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 March 2nd, 2025
   - Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2025
   - Registration: April 15th, 2025

*Advance pre-registration is strictly required by March 2nd 2025*

*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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