Special Session @ EUSIPCO 2023
The processing of biometric and human information poses a particular challenge to modern processing systems, as the data require not only special protection for reasons of privacy and security, but also often has the processing of this data direct impact on individuals or groups of individuals. Therefore, in order to protect the individuals’ rights, increase the trust in the processing systems and thus the acceptance, and to avoid disadvantages and bias based on the individuals’ characteristics, it is necessary to increase the interpretability and explainability of systems that process this data. Furthermore, there is also the need of interpretability for developers of systems that process this kind of data to better understand their systems. Based on that, this special session aims at providing an interdisciplinary venue to present and discuss novel developments and studies that address the explainability and interpretability of systems that process biometric or human information to strive for more understandable processing systems
With the increase in complexity of processing systems, due to the amount of processed data, the advantages and impact of new technologies such as deep learning, the lack in understandable processing system manifested. While this drawback may be negligible in some cases, it plays a more significant role in the processing of human and biometric data for ethical reasons. The security and privacy of the personal data processed, as well as the transparency of decisions concerning the individual, must be guaranteed. This has brought new problems to light that have so far only begun to be solved and require further attention and research as the field in understandable processing systems is still understudied.
In comparison to a regular session, this session focus on interpretable solutions or solutions to increase interpretability and takes into account the human aspects associated to the use of technology. On the one hand, the person who will operate the system. On the other hand, the person which information is processed given that understanding automatic decisions in this domain is governed by special ethical, legal and technical requirements. Therefore, the special session will also focus on interdisciplinary works and takes into account user studies or findings from the cognitive, security-privacy or legal fields that involve the processing of biometric or human-centric data .
The submission timeline follows the main conference timeline (for details see here).
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 March 2023! 06 March 2023
The paper submission details can be found here.
To submit to this special session, select 20.4: Explainability and Interpretability in Biometric and Human-centric Information Processing as the Primary Session Topic in the submission web tool.
Special session paper submissions at EUSIPCO are reviewed via the exact same process as submissions to the regular program, and papers are expected to meet the same quality standards. The accepted papers will be published like the main track papers.
Marco Huber
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Darmstadt, Germany
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Pedro C. Neto
INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Ana F. Sequeira
INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Aythami Morales
Biometrics and Data Pattern Analytics Lab, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Naser Damer
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Darmstadt, Germany
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany