• Biometrics modalities and technologies
• Biometrics systems security and privacy
• Biometrics legislation and governance
• Innovations in biometric technologies
• Biometric applications
• Biometrics social impact and usability
• Biometrics and cryptography


• Biometrics Technologies


• Face, gait, vein, fingerprint, palmprint, speech, voice, iris, signature, multimodal biometric fusion


• Biometrics Performance Evaluation


• Confidence interval estimation, performance modeling and prediction, protocols and benchmarks, standards


• Biometrics Applications


• Travel and transportation, homeland security, banking and finance, maritime/airport security, automobile security, RFID and smart cards, boarder control, healthcare, access control, law enforcement, cybersecurity, encryption and  watermarking

Security Technologies:

• Cybersecurity
• Security protocols
• Multimedia security and forensics
• Cloud computing security
• Security & privacy in information systems
• Innovations in security technologies
• Security management and governance

 

• Cloud computing


• Cloud standards, cloud reliability, secure cloud computing, cloud management, cloud databases, private vs. public clouds, cloud internetworking, virtual private inter-cloud, cloud applications


• Fault Tolerant Computing


• survivability quantification, security quantification, self-healing, self-protecting and fault-tolerant, software aging and rejuvenation, safety-critical systems and software, architecture and system design for dependability, fault tolerant algorithms and protocols, tools for design and evaluation of dependable systems


• Information Security in Internet


• Digital rights management, copyright protection scheme, access control, database security, cryptographic protocols, distributed systems security, intrusion detection and avoidance, secure electronics commence, data & system integrity, privacy and anonymity, authentication, security and protection of IT infrastructure, wireless network security, multimedia security, digital forensics, watermarking, cryptography, virus detection and prevention, image copyright protection