(last update of this page: May 2024)

Conference and Events Organization

1. Keynotes and Tutorials Co-Chair at WIFS 2024, 16th IEEE Intl Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, December 2-5, Rome, Italy (one of the two flagship events of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (of which I am elected member)’

2. Special Session Co-Chair on “Trends and Challenges in Biometrics and Forensics” at WIFS 2023, 15th IEEE Intl Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, December 4-7, Nuremberg, Germany (one of the two flagship events of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (of which I am elected member), https://wifs2023.fau.de/specialsessions.html

3. Area Chair of IJCB-2023, the IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (25-28 September 2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia), the premier conference on biometric recognition (>100 participants) after the merging of ICB and BTAS, https://ijcb2023.ieee-biometrics.org/about/area-chairs/

4. Organizing Committee of EAB-RPC, the Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany) since 2018. Organized by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), in cooperation with the Joint Research Center (DG-JRC) of the European Commission (until 2021), eu-LISA through its Governance and Capabilities Unit (since 2022), Fraunhofer IGD and Halmstad University. Started in 2014, the conference is currently the largest event on research funded by the European Union in the area of Biometrics and Identity Management (>100 participants from academia, industry and agencies)

5. Host and Co-Chair of DFCC, Digital Forensics Sweden, (June 16, 2022, Halmstad University, with 16 on-site and XX remote participants), a national network of >30 academic and industry members on digital security (including Swedish Police, FOI, Tullverket, MSB, Saab, or Ericsson), which meets ~4 times/year across the country, and of which Halmstad University is one of the two academic co-founders (with Linköping University)

6. Area Chair (Track 4: Biometrics and Human-Computer Interaction) of ICPR-2022, the IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (August 21-25, 2022, Montréal, Québec), the flagship conference of IAPR, the International Association of Pattern Recognition (>1000 participants)

7. Area Chair of IJCB-2021, the IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (August 4-7, 2021, Shenzhen, China), the premier conference on biometric recognition (>100 participants) after the merging of ICB and BTAS, https://ijcb2021.iapr-tc4.org/area-chairs/ 

8. Publication co-chair of IWBF-2020, the 8th IEEE Intl Workshop on biometrics and Forensics (April 29-30. 2020, Porto, Portugal)

9. Tutorial co-chair of BTAS-2019, the 10th IEEE Intl Conf Biometrics: Theory, Apps & Systems (September 23-26, 2019, Tampa, FL), one of the premier conferences on biometric recognition (>100 participants)

10. Host and Co-Chair of Workshop on Forming a strong EU-research consortium and proposal, 8 June 2018 in Copenhagen (11 participants from different countries) to discuss forthcoming EU H2020 calls and identify suitable project ideas

11. Host and Co-Chair of SBF, the Swedish Biometrics Forum from January 2018, hosted by Halmstad University, and supported by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB). Three meetings held (January 2018, June 2018, May 2019) before SBF integrated into Digital Forensics Sweden (DFCC), consistently attracting >15 participants, ~60% from industry and agencies of Sweden and neighbouring countries (Denmark, Norway, Germany) (http://islab.hh.se/mediawiki/SBF)

12. General Co-Chair of ICB-2016, the 9th IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (June 13-16, 2016, Halmstad, Sweden with >100 participants), the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the field of biometrics. (http://icb2016.hh.se/Welcome)

13. Technical Committee of MM4CSF 2015, the International Workshop on Multimedia Crime Scene Forensics for Fingerprint Acquisition and Processing, in conjunction with ICME 2015, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, July 3, Torino, Italy

14. Local Organizing Committee of the Joint COST 2101 & 2102 BIOID MultiComm 09, Intl Conf on Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication, 16-18 Septiembre 2009 (Madrid, Spain)

15. Local Organizing Committee of the 4th Intl Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC2007), http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2006

16. Local Organizing Committee of the EU FP7 Biosecure Network of Excellence 1st Technical Meeting, October 2004 (Madrid, Spain)

17. Local Organizing Committee of ODYSSEY-04, the ISCA-IEEE International Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 31 May - 3 June 2004 (Toledo, Spain)

Chairing of Conference/Workshop Sessions

1. Round Table Co-Chair on “EES and ETIAS Entry into Operation: Research Opportunities for Innovation” at EAB-RPC, Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany), in 2022. https://eab.org/events/program/271

2. Session(s) Chair, EAB-RPC, Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany), various sessions since 2018

3. Posters and Demos Chair, EAB-RPC, Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany), in 2018 (5 demos), 2019 (7 demos), 2022 (4 demos)

4. Session Chair, ISCMI 2021, 8th IEEE Intl. Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence, November 26-27 (Cairo, Egypt, online), Session 2: Image Analysis and Processing (7 papers), http://www.iscmi.us/index.html

5. Session Chair, EAB-RPC, Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany), various sessions in 2021

6. Poster and Demo Chair, EAB-RPC, Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany), in 2018 (5 demos) and 2019 (7 demos)

7. Opening and Closing sessions of SBF, the Swedish Biometrics Forum (January 2018, June 2018, May 2019)

8. Panel Co-Chair on Research Funding Applications at SBF, the Swedish Biometrics Forum, May 2019 (Halmstad, Sweden)

9. Panel Co-Chair on Risk Management of Catastrophes Using Biometrics at SBF, the Swedish Biometrics Forum, January 2018 (Halmstad, Sweden)

10. Session Chair, ICB 2016, 9th IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, June 2016, (Halmstad, Sweden), Keynote Lecture III (Prof. Didier Meuwly: Forensic Biometrics: Quantifying Forensic Evidence from Biometric Traces), http://icb2016.hh.se