Prof. Massimo TISTARELLI
School Director

(Dynamic Face recognition)
Computer Vision Laboratory
University of Sassari, Italy
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Prof. Joseph BIGUN
School Co-Director

(Feature extraction techniques in biometric systems)
Professor of Signal Analysis
Halmstad University and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Prof. Anil K. JAIN
School Co-Director

(Multibiometrics)
Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University, USA
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Dr. David ACKERMAN

(Iris recognition at a distance)
Sarnoff corp. - USA
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Dr. Julien BOHNE

(Biometric system identification : from the lab to the field)
Sagem Morpho - France
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Dr. Vincent BOUATOU

(Large scale biometrics systems)
Sagem Morpho - France
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Prof. Thirimachos BOURLAI

(Practical Biometric Recognition Systems and Project)
West Virginia University - USA
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Dr. Raffaele CAPPELLI

(Fingerprint recognition)
University of Bologna - Italy
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Dr. Deepak CHANDRA

(MultiModal Smartphone Authentication)
Google Inc. - USA
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Dr. Peter CLAES

(Facial Biometrics from DNA)
KU Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering, Belgium
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Prof. Rama CHELLAPPA

(Face recognition from video)
University of Maryland - USA
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Prof. John DAUGMAN

(Biometric Entropy, Epigenetics, and Iris Recognition)
Cambridge University - UK
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Dr. Farzin DERAVI

(Standardization and assessment of biometric systems)
Department of Electronics, University of Kent - UK
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Prof. Andrzej DRYGAJLO

(Biometrics and criptography)
Head Speech Processing and Biometrics Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) - Switzerland
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Prof. Jean-Luc DUGELAY

(Biometrics and Multimedia Forensics)
Department of Digital Security, EURECOM - France
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Dr. Julian FIERREZ

(Iris Recognition)
Biometric Recognition Group, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Spain
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Prof. Mark GASSON

(Biometrics – Data Protection and related Security Aspects)
School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading - UK
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Dr. Ida GOBBINI M.D.

(Neuropsychology of visual perception)
Dep. of Psychology, University of Bologna - Italy
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Prof. James V. HAXBY

(Cognitive Neuroscience)
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College - USA
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Prof. Barry W. JOHNSON

(Security and privacy)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Virginia - USA
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Prof. Ioannis A. KAKADIARIS

(3D-Aided Face Recognition)
Computational Biomedicine Lab
Depts. of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston - USA
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Prof. Joseph KITTLER

(Face recognition and multimodal classifiers)
Head, Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey - UK
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Prof. Chang-Tsun LI

(Multimedia Forensics)
Computer Science Department
Università di Bologna - Italy
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Prof. John MASON

(Speaker recognition and visual recognition)
Faculty of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea - UK
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Dr. Aldo MATTEI

(Biometrics in forensic investigations)
Carabinieri, Latent Print Unit at Forensic Lab - Italy
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Dr. Martin MEINTS

(Biometric Security and Privacy)
Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ICPP) - Germany
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Prof. Nasir MEMON

(Touch Gesture Biometrics)
New York University - USA
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Dr. Didier MEUWLEY

(Forensics in biometrics)
Nederlands Forensisch Instituut (NFI) - Netherlands
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Prof. Emilio MORDINI

(Biometrics, human body and bioethics)
Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship - Italy
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Prof. Mark NIXON

(Gait and posture biometrics)
School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton - UK
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Prof. Alice O'TOOLE

(Human face recognition)
University of Texas at Dallas - USA
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Prof. Maja PANTIC

(Machine Understanding of Facial Behaviour)
Computing Department, Imperial College London, UK
EEMCS, University of Twente - The Netherlands
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Prof. Vishal PATEL

(Continuous Human Authentication)
Johns Hopkins University - USA
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Dr. Jonathon PHILLIPS

(Grand Challenges and Progress in Face Recognition and Visual Biometrics)
National Institute of Standards and Technology - USA
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Dr. Bo PI

(Biometric sensor embedding in mobile applications)
Goodix Inc. - USA
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Prof. Tomaso POGGIO

(Machine Learning and Neuroscience)
Mc Govern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA
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Dr. Norman POH

(Embedding quality measurements in multiple classifier fusion)
Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey - UK
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Dr. Fred PRESTON

(Deployment of biometric technologies)
Motorola Ltd - UK
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Dr. Nalini RATHA

(Large scale biometrics identification)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - USA
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Prof. Fabio ROLI

(Multiple Classifier Systems and Biometric Recognition)
Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., University of Cagliari, Italy
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Prof. Arun ROSS

(Multibiometric systems and fusion)
Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University - USA
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Dr. Robert ROWE

(Spoofing and liveness detection)
Lumidigm Inc. - USA
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Dr. Takashi SHINZAKI

(Palm vein recognition)
Research Center for Image Processing and Biometrics Technologies
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. - Japan
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Prof. Ben A. M. SCHOUTEN

(Biometric systems and applications)
EUROPEAN BIOMETRICS FORUM
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven - The Netherlands
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Prof. Nicu SEBE

(Human-centered Computing: Challenges and Perspectives)
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento - Italy
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Prof. Zhenan SUN

(Iris Recognition: Sensors, Algorithms and Applications)
National Laboratory for Pattern Recognition, CAS Institute of Automation - China
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Prof. Tieniu TAN

(Human identification from the iris)
National Laboratory for Pattern Recognition, CAS Institute of Automation - China
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Prof. David VAN LEEUWEN

(Evaluation metrics for forensic biometrics)
Radboud University - Netherlands
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Prof. Alessandro VERRI

(Machine learning techniques for biometrics)
Department of Computer Science
University of Genova - Italy
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Prof. James L. WAYMAN

(Biometric Systems)
San Jose State University - USA
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Prof. Harry WECHSLER

(Face authentication using recognition-by-parts, boosting and transduction)
Department of Computer Science, George Mason University - USA
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Prof. Lior WOLF

(Unsupervised Learning and Deep Neural Networks)
Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University - Israel
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