The IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics 2022 (WSB2022) was held in Shenzhen on 9 to 13 January, 2022. Jointly organised by the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, the winter school attracted around 100 participants, including professors and senior postgraduate students from world-wide tertiary institutions. Due to the worldwide outspread of COVID-19, the winter school introduced online lecture as well.
The 5-day winter school included lectures, hands-on session, talks from industry and social programme. To consolidate the fundamental knowledge of biometrics and share the latest biometric development, the scope of the course is designed to cover the topics which mainly include mobile biometrics, anti-spoofing, template protection, and fundamental of different biometric modalities. New and challenging topics are covered in the course by internationally renowned experts from all over the world.
Fifteen world-class scholars, including
- Professor Rama Chellappa of Johns Hopkins University, US;
- Professor Anil K. Jain of Michigan State University, US;
- Professor Josef Kittler of University of Surrey, UK;
- Professor Brendan Klare of Rank One Computing, US;
- Professor Ajay Kumar of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;
- Professor Xiaoming Liu of Michigan State University, US;
- Professor Brian Lovell of University of Queensland, Australia;
- Professor Davide Maltoni of University of Bologna, Italy;
- Professor Mark Nixon of University of Southampton, UK;
- Dr. Vishal M Patel of Johns Hopkins University, US;
- Professor Arun Ross of Michigan State University, US
- Professor Zhenan Sun of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
- Professor Tieniu Tan of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
- Professor Massimo Tistarelli of University of Sassari, Italy;
- Professor P C Yuen of Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong,
delivered lectures on:
- Remote Face Recognition;
- Biometrics: Questions & Answers;
- Fusion of Multimodal Biometrics;
- How a Global Pandemic Altered the Trajectory of Automated Face Recognition Technologies;
- Completely Contactless Finger Knuckle Identification for Real-World Applications;
- Trustworthy Face Recognition;
- Unconstrained Face Recognition;
- Hands on Fingerprint Recognition with OpenCV and Python;
- Soft Biometrics and Gait;
- Federated Learning for Biometrics;
- Privacy and Data Integrity in Biometrics;
- Iris Recognition;
- Overview on Biometrics Data Analysis and Recognition;
- Constrained and Cooperative Face Recognition; and
- Face Presentation Attack Detection;
The lectures sparked plentiful interaction between the speakers and the audience. Overwhelmingly positive comments are received.
More details at:
https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb2022/
