face verification competition

ICB2009 FACE VERIFICATION COMPETITION:

Expression of Interest

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MOTIVATION:

With an increasing number of mobile devices with built-in webcams, e.g., PDA, mobile phones and laptops, face is arguably the most widely accepted means of person verification. However, the biometric authentication task based on face images acquired by a mobile device in an uncontrolled environment is very challenging. One way to boost the face verification performance is to use multiple samples. We aim to evaluate the performance of face verification on mobile devices given a sequence of unconstrained face images.

OBJECTIVE:

The face verification competition has several objectives:

to promote the development of algorithms for analyzing video sequences (e.g., exploring the talking face dynamics),
to assess the merit of multi-template face representation
to compare whether early integration ( e.g., feature-level fusion) is better than late integration (e.g., decision-level fusion) in dealing with sequences of query images.

CONFERENCE:

The result of the evaluation will be published in the proceedings of the upcoming International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB'09) to be held in Alghero in Sardinia Island, Italy.

ORGANIZER:

This competition will be organized by the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey.

Contact Prof. Josef Kittler or Norman Poh if you need more information.

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