Beschreibung
14th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG)
Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft andmiscues incidents we do observe a significant fraud in ecommerce and thus growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applicationsin areas like border control, national ID cards, e-banking,e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale applications such as theEuropean Union Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and alsoreliability, interoperability, scalability, system reliability andusability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.
Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexingmethods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally,quality of captured biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover, mobile biometrics is an emerging area and biometrics based smartphones can support deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.
However, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The relevant techniques in the area of presentation attack detection (liveness detection) and template protectionare about to supplement biometric systems, in order to improvefake resistance, prevent potential attacks such as crossmatching, identity theft etc.
The BIOSIG 2015 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications. The conference is jointly organized by the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), the ICT COST Action IC1106, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), the TeleTrusT-Association, the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (NBL), the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and the special interest group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI).
Organizing Committee
General Chair: Christoph Busch
Program Charis: Arslan Brömme, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl
Publication Chair: Arslan Brömme
Publicity Chair: Victor-Philipp Busch
Local Chairs: Alexander Nouak, Claudia Prediger
Program Committee
- Harald Baier (CASED, DE)
- Oliver Bausinger (BSI, DE)
- Thirimachos Bourlai (WVU,US)
- Patrick Bours (GUC, NO)
- Sebastien Brangoulo (Morpho, FR)
- Patrick Bours (GUC, NO)
- Ralph Breithaupt (BSI, DE)
- Julien Bringer (Morpho, FR)
- Arslan Brömme (GI/BIOSIG, DE)
- Christoph Busch (CAST-Forum, DE)
- Victor-Philipp Busch (Sybuca, DE)
- Patrizio Campisi (Uni Roma 3, IT)
- Nathan Clarke (CSCAN, UK)
- Adam Czajka (NASK, PL)
- Henning Daum (secunet, DE)
- Nicolas Delvaux (Morpho, FR)
- Farzin Deravi (UKE, UK)
- Martin Drahansky (BUT, CZ)
- Andrzej Drygajlo (EPFL, CH)
- Julian Fierrez (UAM, ES)
- Simone Fischer-Hübner (KAU, SE)
- Lothar Fritsch (NR, NO)
- Steven Furnell (CSCAN, UK)
- Sonia Garcia (TSP, FR)
- Patrick Grother (NIST, US)
- Daniel Hartung (GUC,NO)
- Olaf Henniger (Fhg IGD, DE)
- Detlef Hühnlein (ecsec, DE)
- Christiane Kaplan (softpro, DE)
- Stefan Katzenbeisser (CASED, DE)
- Tom Kevenaar (GenKey, NL)
- Ulrike Korte (BSI, DE)
- Bernd Kowalski (BSI, DE)
- Ajay Kumar (Poly, HK)
- Herbert Leitold (a-sit, AT)
- Guoqiang Li (GUC, NO)
- Stan Li (CBSR, CN)
- Paulo Lobato Correira (IST, PT)
- Davide Maltoni (UBO, IT)
- Johannes Merkle (secunet, DE)
- Didier Meuwly (NFI, NL)
| - Emilio Mordini (CSSC, IT)
- Elaine Newton (NIST, US)
- Mark Nixon (UoS, UK)
- Alexander Nouak (Fhg IGD, DE)
- Markus Nuppeney (BSI, DE)
- Hisao Ogata (Hitachi, JP)
- Martin Olsen (GUC, NO)
- Javier Ortega-Garcia (UAM, ES)
- Michael Peirce (Daon, IR)
- Dijana Petrovska (TSP, FR)
- Anika Pflug (CASED, DE)
- Ioannis Pitas (AUT, GR)
- Fernando Podio (NIST, US)
- Reinhard Posch (IAIK, AT)
- Raghu Ramachandra (GUC, NO)
- Kai Rannenberg (Uni FFM, DE)
- Nalini Ratha (IBM, US)
- Christian Rathgeb (CASED, DE)
- Slobodan Ribaric (FER, HR)
- Arun Ross (WVU, US)
- Heiko Roßnagel (Fhg IAO, DE)
- Raul Sanchez-Reillo (UC3M, ES)
- Stephanie Schuckers (ClU, US)
- Günter Schumacher (JRC, IT)
- Takashi Shinzaki (Fujitsu, JP)
- Max Snijder (EAB, NL)
- Luis Soares (ISCTE-IUL, PT)
- Luuk Spreeuwers (UTW, NL)
- Rainer Stiefelhagen (KIT, DE)
- Elham Tabassi (NIST, US)
- Tieniu Tan (NLPR, CN)
- Cathy Tilton (Daon, US)
- Massimo Tistarelli (UNISS, IT)
- Dimitrios Tzovaras (CfRaT, GR)
- Andreas Uhl (COSY, AT)
- Markus Ullmann (BSI, DE)
- Raymond Veldhuis (UTW, NL)
- Anne Wang (Cogent, US)
- Jim Wayman (SJSU, US)
- Peter Wild (UoR, UK)
- Andreas Wolf (BDR, DE)
- Bian Yang (GUC, NO)
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Sponsors & Co-Organizers
Sponsors
Co-Organizers
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) organizes largest European research conference on September 7-8, 2015
On September 7-8, 2015 Europe’s largest conference on research in the area of Biometrics and Identity Management funded by the European Commission will take place at the premises of Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. The second EAB-Research Project Conference 2015 will be co-located with the IEEE BIOSIG conference that will take place later that same week.
The EAB and numerous EU FP7 projects namely FIDELITY, FastPass, BEAT, FutureID, MobilePass, Eksistenz, PACS, ORIGINS, ABC4EU, SIIP, INGRESS and HECTOS are jointly organizing the 2nd EAB Research Project Conference (EAB-RPC) to present research results and to discuss the benefits of this research for our European society. This second conference will present updates of the projects introduced in the first conference back in 2014 (see www.eab.org/events/program/69 for further information). New projects in the fields of border control, speaker verification, template protection and more will be presented. Experts from the biometric community will report about their results and will discuss in a panel the impact of the new EU regulation on privacy and data protection specifically regarding biometric research and deployment. Furthermore, a second panel will be devoted to discuss the interaction of biometric research and international standardisation that can be progressed by future research topics in the Horizon2020 research program.
Motivation:
Biometrics and Identity Management are key research topics that are currently investigated in a variety of EU-projects running under the seventh Framework program. International research is dealing with innovative solutions for secure and privacy compliant biometrics and federated identity management. For the second time all major European research projects in the area of Biometrics and Identity Management are being provided a single platform for information exchange and discussion. This will contribute to a stronger research community at European level and a stronger position for European R&D in an international context.
Further information:
For the program of and for registration to the EAB Research Project Conference 2015, please refer to this URL: www.eab.org/events/program/79
The organizer of the conference:
The European Association for Biometrics (www.eab.org), founded in November 2011 and located in The Netherlands, is a pan – European non – profit association seeking to advance the proper and beneficial use of biometrics in Europe, taking into account the interests of European citizens, industry, academia and governments. The EAB is the European platform for biometrics, currently having over 160 members from 35 countries. Driven by developments in connection with immigration challenges, the requirements of e-passport implementations and a whole range of emerging commercial applications, the EAB fulfils the role of an independent and multi-stakeholder platform where stakeholders can meet, exchange information and visions, discuss new initiatives and benefit from training and education programs. The stakeholder groups represented by the EAB include operators, governments, industry, research, academia and citizens.
For more information about the EAB please contact secretariat@eab.org.
Programm
Wednesday, September 09
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17:30 | 19:30 | BIOSIG registration |
19:30 | 22:00 | EAB Award ceremony and BIOSIG welcome reception |
BIOSIG - MAIN CONFERENCE -
Thursday, September 10
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10:00 | 10:10 | Christoph Busch | Hochschule Darmstadt | BIOSIG Conference Opening |
10:10 | 10:50 | Fares Rahmun | BVA | Concepts for EU Smart Borders |
10:50 | 11:20 | Karl Ricanek | University of North Carolina Wilmington | A Review of Face Recognition against Longitudinal Child |
11:20 | 11:55 | Break | | |
11:55 | 12:25 | Ester Gonzalez-Sosa | University Autonoma Madrid | Pose Variability Compensation using Projective Transformation for Forensic Face Recognition |
12:25 | 12:55 | Andreas Ranftl | Halmstad University | Face Tracking Using Optical Flow: Development of a Real-Time AdaBoost Cascade Face Tracker |
12:55 | 14:10 | Lunch-Break | | |
14:10 | 14:50 | Javier Ortega-Garcia | UAM | Behavioural Biometrics |
14:50 | 15:20 | Ning Jia | University of Warwick | On Reducing the Effect of Silhouette Quality on Individual Gait Recognition: a Feature Fusion Approach |
15:20 | 16:00 | Break | | |
16:00 | 16:30 | Peter Wild | University of Reading | Segmentation-level Fusion for Iris Recognition |
16:30 | 17:00 | Michael Happold | none | Structured Forest Edge Detectors for Improved Eyelid and Iris Segmentation |
17:00 | 18:30 | Opening Poster Session | | |
| | Lisa de Wilde | University of Twente | Exploring How User Routine Affects the Recognition Performance of a Lock Pattern |
| | Thomas Herzog | University of Salzburg | JPEG Optimisation for Fingerprint Recognition: Generalisation Potential of an Evolutionary Approach |
| | M. Hamed Izadi | EPFL | Rejecting Low Quality Pairs of Minutia Cylinder-Code for Improved Fingerprint Matching |
| | Satyanand Singh | JNTU Hyderabad | Self Learning Fuzzy Clustering Analysis and its Application in Speaker Recognition |
| | Heinz Hofbauer | University of Salzburg | Investigation of Better Portable Graphics Compression for Iris Biometric Recognition |
| | Pedro Tome | Idiap Research Institute | Palm Vein Database and Experimental Framework for Reproducible Research |
| | Nils Rogmann | Hochschule Darmstadt | Liveness Detection in Biometrics |
| | Nassima Kihal | University of Montreal | Corneal Topography: An Emerging Biometric System for Person Authentication |
| | Naser Damer | Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research | Weighted Integration of Neighbors Distance Ratio in Multi-biometric Fusion |
| | Nahuel González | Laboratorio de Sistemas de Información Avanzados | Finite Context Modeling of Keystroke Dynamics in Free Text |
| | Thomas Klir | TU-Darmstadt | Fingerprint Image Enhancement with Easy to Use Algorithms |
| | Soumik Mondal | Gjøvik University College | Does Context Matter for the Performance of Continuous Authentication Biometric Systems? An Empirical Study on Mobile Devices |
| | Pattabhi Ramaiah | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad | Sparsity-based Iris Classification using Iris Fiber Structures |
| | Christof Kauba | University of Salzburg | Robustness Evaluation of Hand Vein Recognition Systems |
| | Dominik Klein | Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik | A Comparative Study on Image Hashing for Document Authentication |
| | Christian Kahindo | Institut Mines-Telecom / Telecom SudParis | A Signature Complexity Measure to Select Reference Signatures for Online Signature Verification |
| | Alaa Darabseh | Texas Tech University | On Accuracy of Keystroke Authentications Based on Commonly Used English Words |
| | Márjory Da Costa-Abreu | UFRN | Exploring Gender Prediction From Iris Biometrics |
| | Christof Jonietz | Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Karlsruhe | Towards Touchless Palm and Finger Detection for Fingerprint Extraction with Mobile Devices |
| | Rig Das | University Roma Tre | EEG Biometrics for User Recognition using Visually Evoked Potentials |
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18:00 | 18:30 | Andreas Wolf | BDR | Non-open meeting: Election of the BIOSIG LG |
18:30 | 21:00 | Social Event: Dinner with Barbeque | | |
BIOSIG - MAIN CONFERENCE -
Friday, September 11
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9:00 | 9:45 | Josef Bigun | Halmstad University | Dense frequency and orientation maps in fingerprint processing |
9:45 | 10:15 | Martin Aastrup Olsen | Gjøvik University College | Predicting Dactyloscopic Expert Fingerprint Image Quality Assessments |
10:15 | 10:45 | Luuk Spreeuwers | University of Twente | Identification performance of evidential value estimation for fingermarks |
10:45 | 11:25 | Break | | |
11:25 | 11:55 | Jesse Hartloff | University at Buffalo | Privacy Preserving Technique for Set-Based Biometric Authentication using Reed-Solomon Decoding |
11:55 | 12:25 | Benjamin Tams | Secunet | Improved Fuzzy Vault Scheme for Alignment-Free Fingerprint Features |
12:25 | 12:55 | Edlira Martiri | Gjøvik University College | Protected Honey Face Templates |
12:55 | 14:05 | Lunch-Break | | |
14:05 | 14:45 | Ajay Kumar | HK Polytechnic University | Finger Recognition: From Knuckles to 3D Finger Recognition |
14:45 | 15:15 | Pierre Ferrez | University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland | Contact-less Palm/Finger Vein Biometrics |
15:15 | 15:50 | Break | | |
15:50 | 16:20 | Guoqiang Li | Gjøvik University College | A Fingerprint Indexing Scheme with Robustness against Sample Translation and Rotation |
16:20 | 16:50 | Kribashnee Dorasamy | CSIR | Evaluating the Change in Fingerprint Directional Patterns under Variation of Rotation and Number of Regions |
16:50 | 17:00 | Christian Rathgeb | Best Paper Awards - Closing Session | |
Referent*innen
Fares Rahmun - Keynote Speaker
Federal Office of Administration (BVA), Cologne, Germany
Concepts for EU Smart Borders
Abstract
The Smart Borders initiative will have an mayor impact on the perspective border crossing performance in Schengen. In October 2014 the European Commission published the "Technical Study " aiming at identifying and assessing the most suitable and promising options and solutions for the implementation. In 2015 the proof of concept shall be finalized by an European pilot project led by the IT agency Eu-LISA. Germany will start its operation in the context of this pilot project on the 22nd of June 2015. The presentation will give an insight on the first findings of this evaluation.
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Fares Rahmun is working for the German Federal Office of Administration (BVA) as IT Project Manager for Government Information Technology Solutions for 10 years and as such is in charge of the technical integration of the European Visa Information System (VIS) in Germany. He conducted several national and European pilot projects in the area of biometrics and is involved in the German implementations for capturing and checking fingerprints of visa applicants, which contributes to the Technical Guideline Biometrics in public sector applications (TR-03121) by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
In the context of border management Fares is a member of the Frontex Working Group dealing with the development of “Good Practices” for the practical implementation of the VIS at EU borders and is currently the technical project manager for the EU Smart Borders Initiative.
Fares holds a degree of M.Sc. in Business Information Systems from the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne.
Javier Ortega-Garcia - Keynote Speaker
ATVS, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid, Spain
Cognitive Biometric Authentication: Remote Authentication Based on Human-Machine Interaction
Abstract
The advantages of biometric systems are clear in terms of security and convenience of use, which has led these technologies to take on a leading role in the last years. The most popular biometric technologies (such as fingerprint, face or iris) have been linked in general to access control applications or forensic science. These technologies typically require specific sensors, reducing this way their universality and interoperability. Moreover, there is currently an increasing demand for remote authentication solutions (i. e., in web authentication or interacting with smartphones) that cannot be adequately met with the already mentioned biometric technologies.
Cognitive biometrics emerged in this context towards a better authentication in web and mobile scenarios. User behavior, actions and responses are analyzed while interacting with certain devices or applications (such as common tasks with a smartphone), to carry out authentication along time. Behavioral biometric traits like speech, handwriting, or mouse dynamics in large volumes of data derived from human-machine interaction can improve continuous authentication systems making use of cognitive information.
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Javier Ortega-Garcia received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion), in 1989; and the Ph.D. degree "cum laude" also in electrical engineering (Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion), in 1996, both from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Dr. Ortega-Garcia is founder and co-director of the Biometric Recognition Group - ATVS. He is currently a Full Professor at the Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he teaches Digital Signal Processing and Speech Processing courses. He also holds a Masters Degree course in Biometrics. His research interests are focused on biometrics signal processing: on-line signature verification, speaker recognition, web-based biometrics, data fusion and multibiometrics. He has published over 150 international contributions, including book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers. He chaired "Odyssey-04, The Speaker Recognition Workshop", "ICB-09, the 3rd IAPR International Conference on Biometrics" and "ICB-2013, the 6th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics".
Josef Bigun - Keynote Speaker
Halmstad University, Sweden
Dense frequency and orientation maps in fingerprint processing
Abstract
Dense frequency and orientation maps are needed, for low-quality image processing in general, image enhancement in fingerprints in particular. Such dense maps open up also a novel research question since a good estimation of both, allows continuous ridge counting. The interrelationship of both maps, and how to estimate them when none is known initially will be the theoretical focus of this presentation whereas the applications will be drawn from forensic fingerprints.
We will present the idea of a logarithmic scale space driven by the trace of the Structure Tensor, which has been utilized to estimate dense orientation maps since 3 decades, to obtain the dense frequency map itself. In contrast to the common scale space, the log-scale space is non-linear and absolute frequency estimation turns out to be an
orientation estimation in it.
Both frequency and orientation maps of the same picture can successively improve each other, combined in an image enhancement scheme. In fingerprints, such an image enhancement scheme can be obtained simply by projections of local images on Gabor filters, dynamically calculated (or pointed at) by using the dense frequency and orientation maps. Analytic and experimental comparisons with emphasis on understanding the relationship of the novel scheme to state of the art on forensic fingerprints, where the ground truth is known, as test bed will be discussed. Among others examples of ridge-counting, without ridge detection, thinning, etc, and at fractions of the local fingerprint period along any path (not only between minutiae) will be discussed.
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Josef Bigun obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Linkoeping University, in 1983 and 1988 respectively. In 1988, he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne where he worked as Adjoint Scientifique until 1998 with the exception that in 1997 he was Visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, (KTH) Stockholm. He has been elected Professor to the Signal Analysis Chair, his current position, at Halmstad University and Chalmers Institute of Technology in 1998.
He has been in technical and organizational committees of several national and international conferences. In particular he co-chaired the first international conference on Audio and Video Based Person Authentication in 1997. He served in the executive committees of several scientific associations, including the international association for pattern recognition, IAPR.
He has contributed to the initiation and progress of several national, e.g. VR and SSF projects, and international projects consortia, e.g. the EU projects BBfor2, BIOSECURE, IT-VIRSBS and ACTS-M2VTS. His scientific interests include a broad field in Computer Vision and pattern recognition including biometric signal analysis, texture analysis, motion analysis, 3-D modelling and understanding of the biological recognition mechanisms of audio-visual signals. Prof. Bigun has been awarded the grades of fellow of IAPR, and fellow of IEEE.
Ajay Kumar - Keynote Speaker
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Finger Recognition: From Knuckles to 3D Finger Recognition
Abstract
Human hands are easier to present, convenient to be imaged and can reveal variety of features representing anatomy of humans for the biometric identification. Hand-based biometrics has been employed for over 2000 years and continues to reveal new features, when images under multiple spectrums and imaging resolutions, to uniquely identify individuals. This talk will detail on two recent advancements on hand-based biometrics, i.e. finger knuckle and 3D fingerprint identification, which can initiate new applications in law-enforcement, immigration, consumer and mobile biometrics. I will also outline fundamental significance of such research in significantly altering the theoretically believed limits on the accuracy of identifying the human population on planet using the most popular hand biometric modality today
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Ajay Kumar received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2001. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, Delhi, India, from 2005 to 2007. He is currently working an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research interests are on biometrics with an emphasis on hand biometrics, vascular biometrics, iris, and multimodal biometrics. He holds five U.S. patents, and has authored extensively on biometrics and computer vision-based industrial inspection. He is an area editor for the Pattern Recognition Letters Journal and serves on the IEEE Biometrics Council as the Vice President (Publications). He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security from 2010 to 2013, and served on the program committees of several international conferences and workshops in the field of his research interest. He was the Program Chair of the Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing in 2010, the Program Co-Chairof IJCB 2011 (Washington DC), ICB 2013 (Madrid), CVPR Biometrics Workshop in 2013-2015 and has served as General Co-Chair for IJCB 2014 (Tampa) and ISBA 2015 (Hong Kong).
Public Radio, KPRC NBC News, KTRH ABC News, and KHOU CBS News. Selected professional service leadership positions include: General Co-Chair of the 2013 Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems Conference (BTAS 2013), General Co-chair of the 2014 SPIE Biometric and Surveillance Technology for Human and Activity Identification, Program Co-Chair of the 2015 International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference, and Vice-President for Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council.