The International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) was organized during September 4-6 2013 at Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. The conference attracted large participation with 106 registered participants from 24 countries.

The participants of the conference also voted for the best paper and the best poster that were presented at the conference. The winner of the BIOSIG 2013 best paper award was Sandra Cremer for her presentation “Quality driven iris recognition improvement”, which convinced the majority of the participants. Amongst the poster contributions, Teodors Eglitis was the winner of the BIOSIG 2013 best poster award, for his work on “FPGA based palmprint and palm vein biometric system”.

Conference Report for IEEE BIOSIG 2013 can be read in the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter October 2013 Volume 9 page 6.

Poster can be viewed here