Topics include but are not limited to:

• Biometric Technologies: face, fingerprint, DNA, ear, hand, handwriting, gait, gesture, iris, ocular,handprint/footprint, vascular, voice, other modalities, multi-modalities, soft biometrics, and novel sensing technologies.

• Biometric System Designs & Standards: anti-spoofing, cancelable template and protection, encryption, largescale identification and big data, mobile and remote biometrics, security and privacy, smart card,standardization, template selection and update.

• Biometric Applications: border and access control, civil registry, e-payment, forensics, law enforcement, health care, mobile and internet, social networking.

• Biometric Evaluations: aging effects, confidence interval estimation, databases, environment impacts,performance modeling and prediction, protocol and benchmarking, social impacts, and usability studies.

• Multibiometrics: New data sensing technologies for multibiometrics and mobile-biometrics; Data preprocessing,template update, feature extraction, recognition, and matching techniques for multibiometric and mobile-biometric systems; Cloud-based solutions for multibiometrics and mobile-biometrics

• Biometrics Databases: Establishing new public databases for biometrics and mobile-biometrics

• CAD designs for clinical applications

• Performance evaluation of CAD systems for clinical applications

• Medical and biological imaging

• Multi-dimensional microscopy imaging

• Image processing for biological systems

• Medical images filtering, restoration and segmentation

• Image representation and analysis

• Medical image texture analysis

• Feature extraction and image description

• Medical image quality assessment

• Artificial intelligence and evolutionary based image processing