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The
Biometric Consortium Conference was pleased to present an excellent
program addressing all aspects of biometric technology development
and applications. We were also pleased to offer attendees a special
Biometrics Symposium on Research presented by the Biometric
Knowledge Center at West Virginia University. Our conference was
conducted over two and one-half days with a main session and two
parallel session tracks
The Conference Program is provided below
with links to the final presentations.
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Monday, September 22, 2003 |
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Regency Ballroom |
Ballroom A |
Ballroom B |
8:30am |
Welcome/Opening Remarks |
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8:40am |
National Science
Foundation Welcome - |
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9:00am |
"Information Technology
Laboratory (ITL), National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)" Welcome,
Dr. Susan F. Zevin, Acting Director and Deputy
Director, ITL |
“An
Overview of the State-of-the Art and Applications of Biometric
Technologies”, Peter T. Higgins, Principal Consultant, Higgins-Hermansen Group, LLC
This seminar covered the following: |
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9:20am |
National Biometric
Security Project,
"Overview
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9:40am |
Biometric Symposium, "Overview"
Dr. Edwin P. Rood, Director, The
Biometric Knowledge Center at West Virginia University |
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10:30am |
"Biometrics Role in Enhancing Homeland
Security Session" - Moderator: Kevin Hurst, Senior Director, National and Homeland Security, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
Special Topics -
Moderator:
Dr. Michael Yura, Senior Vice President, National
Biometric Security Project
"Biometrics and Forensic Science: What's the
Difference", |
“Implementation
Issues and Challenges”,
Peter T. Higgins, Principal Consultant, Higgins-Hermansen Group, LLC This seminar covered the following:
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10:50am |
"NIST Legislative Mandates on Biometrics", Dr. Charles L. Wilson, Manager, Image Group, Information Access Division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
“Building
an Integrated, Multi-Vendor and Multi-Biometrics, Interoperability Platform”,
Wayne Kyle, Executive Vice President, Business Development/ R&D, Biocom, LLC. |
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11:10am |
"Overview of FRVT 2002 and Recent Face Recognition
Evaluations",
Dr. Jonathon Phillips, DARPA and NIST |
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11:30am |
"Biometrics Science and Technology at the Department
of Homeland Security", Dr. Gary Strong, Manager, Behavioral and Biometrics Programs, Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate |
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11:45am |
"US-VISIT Program Overview",
Jim Williams,
Director, US-VISIT Program - Department of Homeland Security |
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1:40pm |
Transportation Security Industry
Session - Moderator:
Rick Lazarick, Program Manager, Airport Access Control Pilot Program, Transportation Security Administration “Large Scale Identity Management - An International Case Study in Aviation Security”, Jim Byrne, Senior Vice President for Government Business, Daon |
Biometric Testing and Evaluation
Session–
Moderator: Dr. Jonathon Phillips, DARPA and NIST "Reintroducing Watchlist Statistics”, Duane Blackburn, Electrical Engineer, FBI |
"Interactive Workshop:
Developing a Targeted Biometrics Market Strategy",
C. Maxine Most, Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence This workshop was designed for industry executives and sales, marketing and business development professionals responsible for creating and executing sustainable biometrics market dominance strategies. Seminar participants: * Learned the fundamental tools and techniques of a commercial process for identifying and prioritizing biometrics market opportunities. * Applied the tools and techniques in real-world market scenarios. * Had the opportunity to directly participate in a highly interactive exercise designed to provide hands-on experience with the process. |
2:00pm |
“Biometrics and the End User: A Case Study on O'Hare International Airport”, John Becker, Director of Aviation Business, Tyco Fire & Security |
"Exploring the Use of Face Recognition
Technology for Border Control Applications - Australia's Experience”, Fiona Fraser, Director, Traveller Strategies Section, Australian Customs Service |
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2:20pm |
"2D Barcodes
and Biometrics: The Secure Combination on Seafarer ID Cards",
Charles Lynch, VP Sales and Marketing, Datastrip, Inc. |
“Face Recognition Testing Results”, Dr. Jonathon Phillips, DARPA and NIST |
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2:40pm |
"Operational Testing of Biometric Access Control Systems",
Valerie Lively, Biometrics and Credential Technology Specialist, Transportation Security Administration |
"NIST Fingerprint Evaluations", Michael McCabe, Imaging Group, Information Access Division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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3:30pm |
Privacy Session -
Moderator: Nuala O'Connor Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security |
Biometric Testing and Evaluation
Session (Continued) - “Biometric Testing: It’s Not As Easy as You Think”, Dr. Valorie S. Valencia, Chief Executive Officer, Authenti-Corp |
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3:45pm |
"Healthcare Privacy”,
Dr. Brent Lowensohn, Director of Research, Kaiser Permanente |
"Status
of US and International
Biometric Testing and Reporting Standardization Efforts", Ron Sutton, Senior Biometrics Project Engineer, Lockheed Martin Information Systems, Chairman M1.4 - Task Group on Biometrics Performance Testing and Reporting of INCITS M1 |
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4:00pm |
"Biometrics and Privacy: The Constitutional
Dimension", Steven Goldberg, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
“A Look Beyond Data Exchange to Fingerprint Scanner
Interoperability”,
Teddy Ko, Senior Software Engineer and Scientist, Lockheed Martin, and Dr. Rama Krishnan, Senior System Analyst, Lockheed Martin |
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4:15pm |
"Biometrics, Privacy and Anonymity: Surveying the
Landscape”,
Lisa S. Nelson J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh |
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4:45pm |
Featured Speaker "The Future of Science and Biometrics", Dr. Eric C. Haseltine, Associate Director of Research, National Security Agency |
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5:30 pm |
End of Session |
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
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Time: |
Regency Ballroom |
Ballroom A |
Ballroom B |
8:30am |
Featured
Speaker "The European Approach to Biometrics", Dr. Gerald Santucci, Head of the Unit "Trust and Security", Directorate - General Information Society of the European Commission |
Research Symposium – Moderator: Dr. Edwin P. Rood, Director, The Biometric Knowledge Center at West Virginia University Featured Speaker "Biometrics: The Promises and the Challenges", Dr. Delores M. Etter, ONR Distinguished Chair in Science and Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, US Naval Academy |
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9:00am |
“Facial Recognition: The Pinellas
County Sheriff's Office Experience”, Lieutenant Jim Main, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office and Scott McCallum, System Analyst, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office |
“Recent Results in Human
Identification”,
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9:30am |
Featured Speaker, "Identity
Management" Dr. Joseph J. Atick, President and CEO, Identix |
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10:30am | Real World Biometric Applications
Session-
Moderator: Michael D. Hogan, Standards Liaison, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Technology Session- Moderator:
Dr. Michael Yura, Senior Vice President, National Biometric Security Project |
“Comparison and Combination of
Visible
and IR Image Face Recognition”,
Xin Chen, Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame |
10:50am |
“Protecting our Nation: Biometrics in
Government",
Robert Bucknam, Senior Vice President for Government and International Affairs, Cross Match Technologies Inc., Robert Christensen, Senior Vice President, Cross Match Technologies Inc. |
"Evaluation of Fingerprint Readers:
Environmental factors, Human factors, and Liveness Detecting Capability”, Dr. Hale Kim, Professor, INHA University |
“Modeling the Theoretical Performance
Limits of Biometrics”, Nathaniel Hall, Principal Engineer, Mitretek Systems Inc. |
11:10am |
“Integrating Biometrics into the
Database and Application Server Infrastructure”,
Shirley Ann Stern, Principal Product Manager, Sever Technology, Oracle Corporation |
“Countermeasure Performance
Evaluation for Iris Recognition Systems”,
Udo Mahlmeister, Senior Algorithms Engineer, Iridian Technologies |
“Performance Comparison of Visual and
Thermal Signatures for Face Recognition”,
Dr. Besma Abidi, Research Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee |
11:30am |
"Progress Report: Business Case for
Biometric Devices”, Dr. Virginia Franke Kleist, Assistant Professor, MIS, West Virginia University , Dr. Dick Riley, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, CITeR |
“Enhancing Facial Recognition with 3D
Technologies”,
David Tunnell, VP, Government Solutions, Genex Technologies, Inc. |
“Biometrics and Digital Keys”,
Dr. Colin Soutar, Chief Technology Officer, Bioscrypt Inc. |
1:30pm | The Emerging Role of
Biometrics in Document Security Session – Moderator: "The
Emerging Discipline of Identity Management "
Ben Miller, President and
Conference Chair, Inside ID, Inc. "What AAMVA Needs: A Unique Identifier for a 300 Million Record System", Richard Carter, Director, Technology Standards and Programs, AAMVA Joel Lisker, Senior Vice Chairman, Dudinsky, Lisker and Associates |
Speaker Recognition
Session –
Moderator: Dr. Joseph P. Campbell, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory "Conversational Biometrics: Breaking the Sound Barrier of Secure Voice Applications", Dr. Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Manager, Conversational Biometrics Group, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center "On the Deployment of Speaker Recognition for Commercial Applications: Issues and Best Practices", Dr. Larry Heck, Vice President of Research and Development, Nuance
"Model Adaptation for Speaker
Verification",
"NIST's Assessment of
Text Independent
"Advances in Speaker Recognition: Getting to |
Poster Session -
Oral Presentations “Can images be regenerated from biometric templates?”, Dr. Andy Adler, Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa “Challenges of Developing an Automated Dental Identification System”, Hany Ammar, West Virginia University “Reconstructing 3D Faces from Video and Range Data Using a Warping-based Approach”, Dr. Besma Abidi, Research Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee “Optimal Decision Level Acceptance Rules for Multimodal Biometrics Systems”, Dr. Bojan Cukic, Associate Professor, West Virginia University “Hand Silhouette Curvature Measurements as a Biometric Identifier”, Damon Woodard, Doctoral Candidate, University of Notre Dame “Fusion of Biometric Signals”, Dr. Paul Griffin, Chief Technology Officer, Identix Incorporated “Current Fingerprint Analysis Methods is Their Non-Quantitative Nature”, Charles Jaffe, West Virginia University “Dental Biometrics: Matching X-ray Images for Human Identification”, Hong Chen, Michigan State University “An Empirical Study of Multi-mode Biometric Systems Using Face, Fingerprint and Voice”, Dr. Hale Kim, Professor, INHA University “Study of Uniqueness of Fingerprints”, Dr. Hale Kim, Professor, IHNA University “Securing a Restricted Site – Biometric Authentication at Entry Point”, Eric Kukula, Graduate Student, Purdue University “Secure Matching of Fingerprint Representations Using Smart Chip Devices”, James Reisman, Siemens Corporation Research “Large Deviations Performance Analysis for Biometric Systems”, Natalia Schmid, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University “A Comparison of Statistical Methodology for Evaluating Biometric Identification Devices – Preliminary Report”, Katie Livingstone, St. Lawrence University “Software for Statistical Error Rate Estimation”, Nona Mramba, St. Lawrence University “Image Deblurring by Tight Frame Algorithms”, Lixin Shen, Research Assistant Professor, West Virginia University "Robust Automated Face Modeling and Recognition Based on 3D Shape", Gerard Medioni, Geometrix Inc. |
3:30pm | Biometric Interoperability Session –
Moderator: "Biometric
Interoperability, National and International Activities" Catherine J. Tilton, Director, Integrated Solutions Group, SAFLINK Corporation, International Representative of INCITS M1 - Biometrics, US Head of Delegation to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 37 - Biometrics |
Special Topics Session - Moderator:
Bruce Brotman, National Biometric Security Project
"Voice and Speech Tools for Corrections",
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Poster Session - Students offered poster presentations. |
3:50pm |
“Overview
of Biometric Profiles and Their John Neumann, President, Open Strategies, Inc., Fred Herr, Senior Technical Associate, Identification Technology Partners, Inc.,
John Eul,
Principal, Business Solutions |
"Applying the Biometric Fusion Approach to
Trusted Identity Programs",
Stephen Price-Francis, Vice President, Business Development, LaserCard Systems Corporation |
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4:10pm |
"Description of Biometric Data Interchange Format Standards", INCITS M1
Technical Editors: |
“Research and Development in Biometric
Anti-Spoofing”,
Dr. Kristin Nixon, Senior Scientist/Analysis, Lumidigm, Inc. |
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4:30pm |
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"Biometrics for Large-Scale Consumer
Products", Jean-François Mainguet, Biometrics FingerChip™ Chief Scientist, Atmel |
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5:00pm |
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