ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs Josef Kittler University of Surrey, UK Ajay Kumar The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Sudeep Sarkar University of South Florida, USA	Honorary Chairs Anil Jain Michigan State University, USA Tieniu Tan Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Program Committee Chairs
Terry Boult University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA Davide Maltoni University of Bologna, Italy	Stan Li Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mayank Vatsa IIIT Delhi, India
Sponsorship Chair Venu Govindaraju University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Marios Savvides Carnegie Mellon University, USA	Finance Chair Arun Ross Michigan State University, USA
Publications Chair Richa Singh IIIT Delhi, India Raymond Veldhuis University of Twente, The Netherlands	Award Commitee Chair Patrick Flynn University of Notre Dame, USA Mark Nixon University of Southampton, UK
Industry Track Chair Sharath Pankanti IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Brendan Klare Michigan State University, USA	Doctoral Consortium Chair Kevin Bowyer University of Notre Dame, USA Karl Ricanek University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Competition Chair Raffaele Cappelli University of Bologna, Italy Walter Scheirer Harvard University, USA	Local Arrangements Chair Rangachar Kasturi University of South Florida, USA Anuj Srivastava Florida State University, USA
Tutorial Chair Ioannis Kakadiaris University of Houston, USA Karthik Nandakumar Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore	Publicity Chair Zhenan Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kar Ann Toh Yonsei University, South Korea
Advisory
Massimo Tistarelli University of Sassari, Italy Jean-Christophe Fondeur Morpho, France	Rama Chellappa University of Maryland, USA Brian Lovell The University of Queensland, Australia