Biometrics is an important area of interest to the Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision research communities. This is clearly evident by a large number of conferences and events that are being organized and sponsored by IAPR and/or by its Technical Committee 4 on Biometrics (TC4). Furthermore, there has been a rapid growth in the number of organizations worldwide that are deploying biometric technologies in diverse application scenarios. For this reason, IAPR TC4 has been very active in promoting biometrics at various scientific, technological, educational and policy events.

SBIA and YBIA

The 2012 edition of the TC4 flagship event, International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), held in New Delhi, India, facilitated the establishment of the IAPR Senior Biometrics Investigator Award (SBIA) and IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award (YBIA). The objectives and criteria of the awards are similar to the prestigious IAPR KS Fu award, except that they will be given to outstanding scientists in the biometrics field. SBIA and YBIA will be presented in even and odd years, respectively. The first edition of this award was presented at the 2014 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) in Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA.

The recipient of the award will be selected from a pool of nominees, subject to the approval of the President of IAPR. The Prize Committee will be appointed by the TC4, and will consist of at least three active members of TC4. One of the committee members will be the most recent recipient of the award.

IAPR Senior Biometrics Investigator Award (SBIA)

SBIA 2024: Prof. Davide Maltoni, University of Bologna, Italy
SBIA 2016: Prof. John Daugman, University of Cambridge, UK.
SBIA 2014: Prof. Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA

IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award (YBIA)

YBIA 2023: Prof. Xiangyu Zhu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
YBIA 2021: Prof. Vishal M. Patel, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
YBIA 2019: Prof. Zhen Lei, Institute of Auomation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
YBIA 2017: Prof. Julian Fierrez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
YBIA 2015: Dr. Gang Hua, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA.
YBIA 2013: Prof. Arun Ross, Michigan State University, USA.

IAPR Best Biometrics Student Paper Award

The IAPR Best Biometrics Student Paper Award (BBSPA) consists of a cash amount and a suitably inscribed certificate. The award is drawn from a TC4 BBSPA endowment fund created with surplus donated by the organizers of AVBPA05, with Professor Takeo Kanade as General Chair, Dr. Nalini Ratha and Professor Anil Jain as Program Co-Chairs, and Dr. Atul Chhabra as Treasurer. The first BBSPA was presented at the Second IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2007) held in Seoul, Korea on 27-29 August 2007.

The selection process starts with the IJCB Organizers, who pass candidate papers to the TC4 Awards Committee for the final selection.

The BBSPA List:

YearConferenceStudentPaper titleAll authors
2008ICPR 2008Bappaditya MandalVerification of Human Faces Using Predicted EigenvaluesBappaditya Mandal, Xudong Jiang and Alex Kot
2010ICPR 2010Worapan KusakunniranMulti-view Gait Recognition Based on Motion Regression using Multilayer PerceptronWorapan Kusakunniran, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang, Hongdong Li
2011IJCB 2011Soweon YoonLatent Fingerprint Enhancement via Robust Orientation Field EstimationSoweon Yoon, Jianjiang Feng, and Anil K. Jain
2012ICB 2012Soweon YoonOn Matching Altered FingerprintsSoweon Yoon, Qijun Zhao, and Anil K. Jain
2013ICB 2013Qiang JiaGenerating Face Images under Multiple Illuminations Based on a Single Front-lighted Sample without 3D ModelsQiang Jia, Chi Fang, Di Wen and Xiaoqing Ding
2014IJCB 2014Bin YangAggregate Channel Features for Multi-view Face DetectionBin Yang, Junjie Yan, Zhen Lei, and Stan Li
2015ICB 2015Jianqing ZhuMulti-label CNN-Based Pedestrian Attribute Learning for Soft BiometricsJianqing Zhu, Shengcai Liao, Dong Yi, Zhen Lei, and Stan Z. Li
2016ICB 2016Nianfeng LiuAccurate Iris Segmentation in Non-cooperative Environments Using Fully Convolutional NetworksNianfeng Liu, Haiqing Li, Man Zhang, Jing Liu, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan
2017IJCB 2017Nima KarimianOn the Vulnerability of ECG Verification to Online Presentation AttacksNima Karimian, Damon Woodard and Domenic Forte
2018ICB 2018Ali DaboueiFingerprint Distortion Rectification using Deep Convolutional Neural NetworksAli Dabouei, Hadi Kazemi, Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh, Nasser Nasrabadi, and Jeremy Dawson
2019ICB 2019Juxing HuSeg-Edge Bilateral Constraint Network for Iris SegmentationJuxing Hu, Hui Zhang, Lihu Xiao, Jing Liu, Xingguang Li, Zhaofeng He, and  Ling Li
2020IJCB 2020Fariborz TaherkhaniPF-cpGAN: Profile to Frontal Coupled GAN for Face Recognition in the WildFariborz Taherkhani, Veeru Talreja, Jeremy Dawson, Matthew C. Valenti, and Nasser M. Nasrabadi
2021IJCB 2021Changyuan Jiang PointFace: Point Set Based Feature Learning for 3D Face RecognitionChangyuan Jiang, Shisong Lin, Wei Chen, Feng Liu and Linlin Shen
2023IJCB 2023Ashwin PrakashAdapt-FuseNet: Context-aware Multimodal Adaptive Fusion of Face and Gait Features Using Attention Techniques for Human IdentificationAshwin Prakash, Thejaswin S, Athira Nambiar, Alexandre Bernardino
2024IJCB 2024Yuxiang GuoDistillation-guided Representation Learning for Unconstrained Gait Recognition (Presentation video)Yuxiang Guo, Siyuan Huang, Ram Prabhakar Kathirvel, Chun Pong Lau, Rama Chellappa, Cheng Peng