BIOSIG 2013

Anil K. Jain - Keynote Speaker

Michigan State University

http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu

Face Recognition: Sketch to Photo Matching

Facial sketches are widely used by law enforcement agencies to assist in apprehension of suspects involved in criminal activities. Sketches used in forensic investigations are either drawn by forensic artists (forensic sketches) or created with computer software (composite sketches) following the verbal description provided by an eyewitness or the victim. These sketches are posted in public places and in the media in hopes that some viewers will provide tips about the identity of the suspect. This long practiced method of identifying suspects based on facial sketch is slow and tedious and may not lead to apprehension of the suspect. At the same time, state of the art face matchers designed for photo to photo matching do not perform well for photo to sketch matching. In this talk I will describe our prototype system for matching facial sketches to photographs. Experimental results on operational data show that composite sketches are better matched than forensic sketches to the corresponding mugshots. Further, the proposed system leads to a higher sketch to photo matching accuracy compared to state of the art face matchers.

Anil K. Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University where he conducts research in pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. He has received a number of awards, including Guggenheim fellowship, Humboldt Research award, Fulbright fellowship, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement award, W. Wallace McDowell award, IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize, and ICDM Research Contribution Award for contributions to pattern recognition and biometrics. He also received the best paper awards from the IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and the Pattern Recognition journal. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR and SPIE.  Holder of six patents in the area of fingerprints, he is the author of a number of books, including Introduction to Biometrics, Handbook of Biometrics, Handbook of Multibiometrics, Handbook of Face Recognition Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition and Algorithms For Clustering Data.

Krum Garkov - Keynote Speaker

Executive Director - European agency for operational management of large-scale IT systems

The future of biometrics and evolution of the large scale IT systems

Trends, drivers, opportunities and constraints

In the last decade infrastructure and technologies that enable biometric authentication has been developed significantly. Today biometrics is considered to be one of the fundamental components of the digital world.It more and more becomes a key enabler and driver of trusted transaction control and identity management in all areas of application of the modern ICT infrastructure, and specifically in the public sector as far as the internal security is concerned. The biometrics technology itself has, in many respects, already become an indivisible part of modern infrastructure and an essential component of life.

For eu-LISA the identity management, enabled by biometrics technologies, ultimately creates a genuine opportunity to develop and increase the value that large scale IT systems, managed by the agency, add to the EU Member States and all citizens of EU.  

Dr. Krum Garkov was recently appointed as Executive Director of the new European agency for large–scale IT systems (eu-LISA). The new agency that is based in Tallinn started operation on December 1, 2012 and is responsible for the operation of various biometric components such as used in VIS, SIS II and EURODAC.

Prior to joining eu-LISA Mr. Garkov was involved in operational management with industry such as Experian Group LTD, Hewlett Packard, National Revenue Agency and with the Centre for Mass Privatization in Sofia Bulgaria. Mr. Garkov is goal-oriented, innovative technology strategist driving large-scale global operations to elevate the performance of industry leaders. He is a sharp negotiator and superb problem solver with an exemplary record combining proven leadership ability with vast knowledge base to optimize IT portfolio management and operational efficiency across diverse industries, from technology to and financial service industry giants. He has more than 17 years of cross-cultural experience spanning the public and private sectors complemented by two Master degrees in the area of Information technologies, an EMBA and project management certification.

Oliver Bausinger

Project Manager -  German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Fingerprint Sample Quality Metrics in NFIQ2.0

The keynote talk will provide a technical update on the status of the second generation NIST Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ2.0) algorithm.

NFIQ2.0 aims to satisfy the need of industry and operators of mobile capture devices for a new quality assessment of fingerprint images. Quality measurement plays a vital role in improving biometric system accuracy and efficiency during the capture process (as a control-loop variable to initiate reacquisition), in database maintenance (sample update), in enterprise-wide quality assurance surveying and in invocation of quality-directed processing of samples in multimodal systems. Biometric quality analysis is a technical challenge because it is most helpful when the quality measures reflect the performance sensitivities of one or more target biometric comparison subsystems.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) addressed this problem in August 2004 when it issued the NIST Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ) algorithm. With advances in fingerprint technology since 2004, an update to NFIQ is needed and thus NIST and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have launched in 2011 the NFIQ2.0 project again implemented as open‐source software with the intent to be used in large governmental and commercial deployments

Oliver Bausinger studied mathematics and computer science at the University of  Tübingen.

Since 2006, he is part of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). He’s the coordinator for the application of biometrics in public sector applications and he's BSI's project lead on the introduction of biometrics  for border control applications at the German Federal Police. Prior to working on inspection infrastructures and architectures, he  supervised the introduction of biometrics in second generation ePassports and  the new national German Identity Card.

He's also a regular member of the biometric standardization committees in ISO and CEN and believes that true interoperability comes in existence as an effort of excluding options, not of creating more of them.