International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial
Intelligence (IJPRAI) is seeking original and unpublished
manuscripts for a Special Issue on Facial Image Processing
and Analysis, scheduled for publication in 1st Quarter 2009.
Face recognition systems are progressively becoming popular
as means of extracting biometric information. Face recognition
has a critical role in biometric systems and is attractive
for numerous applications including visual surveillance and
security. Because of the general public acceptance of face
images on various documents, face recognition has a great
potential to become the next generation biometric technology
of choice. Face images are also the only biometric information
available in some legacy databases and international terrorist
watch-lists and can be acquired even without subjects'
cooperation.
Though there has been a great deal of progress in face
detection and recognition in the last few years, many problems
remain unsolved. Research on face detection must confront with
many challenging problems, especially when dealing with outdoor
illumination, pose variation with large rotation angles, low
image quality, low resolution, occlusion, and background
changes in complex real-life scenes. The design of face
recognition algorithms that are effective over a wide range
of viewpoints, complex outdoor lighting, occlusions, facial
expressions, and aging of subjects, is still a major area of
research. Before one claims that the facial image processing /
analysis system is reliable, rigorous testing and verification
on real-world datasets must be performed, including databases
for face analysis and tracking in digital video. 3D head model
assisted recognition is another research area where new
solutions are urgently needed to enhance robustness of today's
recognition systems and enable real-time, face-oriented
processing and analysis of visual data. Thus, vigorous research
is needed to solve such outstanding challenging problems and
propose advanced solutions and systems for emerging
applications of facial image processing and analysis.
Manuscript submission deadline:
December 1, 2007
So much is happening in this research field... you could attend almost any
conference or workshop about biometrics to get information about face
detection...
For the time being, I decided to link to a quite professional site of
the IBG which keeps track of all major upcoming events in this area:
