IWBF 2014
2nd International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics
27-28th March, Aula Magna, Valletta Campus
Technical Program
Thursday 27th March 2014
8:15 - 9:00
Registration
Opening Session
9:00 - 9:30
Local Organizers, COST Action IC1106 Chair, Malta COST National Coordinator, MCST Chairman, University of Malta Rector, Commissioner of Police
Invited Talk
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:50
Chair: Massimo Tistarelli, University of Sassari, Italy
Quantifying Uncertainty in Forensic Identification
Sargur N. Srihari, University of Buffalo, USA
Coffee Break
Oral Session: Forensic Fingerprint Identification
Chair: Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
10.50 - 11.10
1. A Score-level Fusion Fingerprint Indexing Approach based on Minutia
Vicinity and Minutia Cylinder-Code
Guoqiang Li, Bian Yang, Christoph Busch
11.10 - 11.30
2. Fingerprint Sample Quality Assessment via Ridge Line Count using Laplacian
of Gaussian Edge Finding
Marek Dusio, Martin Aastrup Olsen, Christoph Busch
11.30 - 11.50
3. Detecting Fingerprint Alterations by Orientation Field and Minutiae
Orientation Analysis
John Ellingsgaard, Ctirad Sousedik, Christoph Busch
11.50 - 12.10
4. Partial Fingerprint Recognition for Forensics using Minutiae-generated
Orientation Fields
Ram Krish, Julian Fierrez, Daniel Ramos, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Josef Bigun
12.10 - 12.30
5. Forensic Sensor Quality Evaluation: Towards Objective Visual Quality Indices
for Contact-Less Fingerprint and Fiber Traces
Stefan Kiltz, Jana Dittman, Claus Vielhauer
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Invited Talk
Chair: Aldo Mattei, Innovation Factory Area Science Park, Trieste, Italy
13:30 - 13.50
ENFSI 2011 Monopoly Program: Improving Forensic Methodologies Across
Europe (IFMAE)
Andrzej Drygajlo, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
13.50 - 14.20
Poster Highlights
Chair: Luís Ducla Soares, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, University of Lisbon
1. Applying Keystroke Dynamics on One-Time PIN Codes
Patrick Bours, Elnaz Masoudian
2. Effects of Severe Signal Degradation on Ear Detection
Johannes Wagner, Anika Pflug, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch
3. Subspace Clustering Applied to Face Images
Constantine Kotropoulos, Konstantinos Pitas
4. Performance of Keystroke Dynamics when Allowing Typing Corrections
Patrick Bours, Vathsala Komanpally
5. Towards Practical Space-Variant Based Face Recognition and Authentication
Enrico Grosso, Andrea Lagorio, Luca Pulina, Massimo Tistarelli
6. In The Use of The Spontaneous Pupillary Oscillations as a New Biometric
Trait
Fabiola Villalobos-Castaldi, Ernesto Suaste-Gómez
7. HPS: Histogram Preserving Steganography in Spatial Domain
Yinan Wang, Weirong Chen, Yue Li, Wei Wang, ChangTsun Li Do Biometric
Images follow Benford’s Law?
Aamo Iorliam, Anthony Ho, Norman Poh, Yun Shi
8. Generation of Iris Sensor PRNU Fingerprints from Uncorrelated Data
Luca Debiasi, Andreas Uhl, Zhenan Sun
9. Lessons Learned from the Application of Biometric-Tests on a Real Case
involving Identity Verification of a Missing Child
Andreas Lanitis, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis
14.20 - 15.00
10. A Correlation Method for Handling Infrequent Data in Keystroke Biometric
Systems
Steve Kim, Sung-Hyuk Cha, John Monaco, Charles Tappert
Coffee Break - Poster Session
Invited Talk
Chair: Michael Fairhurst, University of Kent, UK
15.00 - 16.00
Assessing Biometric Systems: an Overview of the NIST Series of Speaker
Recognition Evaluations and Technologies
Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Oral Session 2: Audio Biometrics for Forensic Examination
Chair: Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
16.00 - 16.20
1. Speaker Verification Performance with Constrained Duration
Pablo Sordo Martinez, Benoit Fauve, Anthony Larcher, John Mason
16.20 - 16.40
2. Evasion and Obfuscation in Speaker Recognition Surveillance and Forensics
Federico Alegre, Giovanni Soldi, Nicholas Evans, Benoit Fauve, Jasmin Liu
16.40 - 17.00
3. A Study of Acoustic Features for Depression Detection
Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Carmen Garcia-Mateo
Friday 28th March 2014
Invited Talk
9:00 - 10:00
Chair: Peter K. Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Validation of Computer-Assisted methods for Forensic Evaluation of
Biometric Traces
Didier Meuwly, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands
10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Break
Oral Session 3: Biometric Analysis of Crime Scene Traces and Their
Interpretation
Chair: Anthony Ho, University of Surrey, UK
10.30 - 10.50
1. Context Analysis of Artificial Sweat Printed Fingerprint Forgeries
Assessment of Properties for Forgery Detection
Jana Dittmann, Mario Hildebrandt
10.50 - 11.10
2. On High Resolution Palmprint Matching
Lúcia Carreira, Paulo Lobato Correia, Luís Ducla Soares
11.10 - 11.30
3. Enhancing the Forensic Value of Handwriting using Emotion Prediction
Michael Fairhurst, Meryem Erbilek, Cheng Li
Panel Session: Biometric Evidence Today and Tomorrow
Chair: Andrzej Drygajlo, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
11.30 - 12.30
12.30 - 13.30
Panel: Sargur N. Srihari, University at Buffalo, USA
Didier Meuwly, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
Daniel Ramos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Paulo Lobato Correia, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Lunch
Oral Session 4: Physical Biometrics for Forensic Examination
Chair: Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Austria
13.30 - 13.50
1. Binarized Statistical Features for Improved Iris and Periocular Recognition in
Visible Spectrum
Kiran Raja, Ramachandra Raghavendra, Christoph Busch
13.50 - 14.10
2. Eye Detection by Complex Filtering for Periocular Recognition
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Josef Bigun
14.10 - 14.30
3. Integrating Ocular and Iris Descriptors for Fake Iris Image Detection
Chun-Wei Tan, Ajay Kumar
14.30 - 14.50
4. Gait Recognition using Low Spatial and Temporal Resolution Videos
Sruti Das Choudhury, Yu Guan, Chang-Tsun Li
14.50 - 15.10
5. View Transformation Based Cross View Gait
Transformation Consistency Measure
Daigo Muramatsu, Yasushi Makihara, Yasushi Yagi
15:10 - 15.15
Closing
15.15 - 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.30
COST IC1106 MC Meeting
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