A workshop on Multimodal User Authentication will be held on December 11-12, 2003, at the Radisson Hotel in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. The workshop is sponsored by a UC Discovery Grant and is being held in cooperation with the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), EURASIP, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

The MMUA workshop will focus on recent advances and new paradigms in Multimodal User Authentication. Technical papers and demos are solicited for presentation at the workshop, especially in the following areas:

• Iris identification

• Eye and face analysis

• Speaker recognition/verification

• Fingerprint recognition

• Audio/Image indexing and retrieval

• Joint audio/video processing

• Gesture analysis for biometrics

• Signature recognition

• Multimodal fusion and integration techniques for authentication

• Applications and implementations of multimodal user authentication systems

The Radisson Hotel, Santa Barbara, is just across from the Pacific Ocean, East Beach, and the Santa Barbara Pier. It is located at the city's edge, where palm trees meet the ocean's waves. Santa Barbara is just two hours away from the Los Angeles International Airport, Beverly Hills and downtown Los Angeles.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a photo-ready paper electronically - see the Info for Authors page. Demo proposals will also be accepted.

Attendance may be limited with priority given to those who submit written technical contributions or demonstration systems.

  INVITED SPEAKERS (Click here for titles and abstracts)

• James Wayman, San Jose State University

• Josef Bigun,  Halmstad University

• Gary Strong, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  SCHEDULE

The workshop is supported by a UC Discovery Grant from the Industry-University Cooperative Research Program.

In cooperation with ISCA EURASIP  and the IEEE Signal Processing Society.