IEEE Biometrics Council

Mission

The mission of the IEEE Biometrics Council is to advance and coordinate throughout IEEE, the work in the field of biometrics technologies and applications and to expand IEEE's role in this interdisciplinary area.

The fields of interest of the Council include the theory, design, and application of biometric characterization of human beings, based on physical and/or behavioral features and traits, in particular for identification, identity verification, and encryption.

The Council promotes technical activities, sponsors technical meetings and sessions, publishes periodicals, promotes educational activities, develops standards, and engages in any other activity defined within its fields of interest.

Compendium

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Nominations

Nominations Open:
We are looking to fill the following positions in the Council:

President-Elect
VP for Finance
VP for Technical Activities
VP for Conferences

Please send in your nominations to the Chair of the Nominations Committee, Prof. Rama Chellappa (Rama@umiacs.umd.edu) by October 15, 2011.

Conferences

IEEE BIOSIG 2012

International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group

Darmstadt, Germany, September 6-7, 2012

www.biosig.org/biosig2012

IEEE BTAS 2012 - Sep 23-27, 2012

2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security

Greater Boston, Massachusetts, November 13-15, 2012

ieee-hst.org

Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security

Tenerife, Spain, December 2-5, 2012

www.wifs12.org

10th IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition
Shanghai, China, April 22-26, 2013
www.afgr2013.org

IAPR/IEEE ICB 2013 - June 5-8, 2013

IEEE BIOSIG 2013 - Sep 5 and 6, 2013