10Biometric Technology Today September 2011

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Biometrics 2011 will open its doors at the QEII Conference Centre on 18-20 October at a critical time in the industry’s development. Large-scale govern-mental and commercial programmes are now a reality, performance is pushing new boundaries and millions of people are using the technology on a daily basis. Yet biometrics companies are far from being in a comfort zone and serious issues must still be addressed.

Biometrics 2011 – the big biometrics show

Elsevier’s biometric show Biometrics 2011 is the largest biometrics show in Europe, and, depending on how you measure these things, the largest international show in the world.

Sitting centre stage in the international biometrics industry, it has become the annual pilgrimage for hundreds of attendees and companies across the world for more than a decade. The show provides a melting pot of expertise, developments, practical advice, research and, of course, commercial opportu-nity. For anybody wanting to get an instant flavour of biometrics, and what it can offer to them, then Biometrics 2011 continues to deliver. More than 50 speakers will impart their knowledge and experience across 15 seminar tracks.

Lights, cameras, actionThe most visual aspect of the Biometrics 2011 show is the two-day exhibition (19-20 October). Over two days, more than 1000 visi-tors are expected to pour into the show.

In the region of 45 of the leading biometrics companies will take part in the exhibition from

technology providers to integrators, solution providers to consultants.

A new addition to the exhibition floor this year is the Free Seminar Series, open to visitors and delegates. The streams will be:

Get Ready for Biometrics: Tomorrow’s Technology Today! This seminar takes a look at biometrics in sectors such as government, financial and healthcare. It looks at biometric best practice, technical and cultural issues, it explores pub-lically available specifications and standards which corporate enterprise can use when roll-ing out biometrics, and it explores successful technologies, such as fingerprint, face and signature.

Biometrics Unplugged

This stream gets under the skin of biometrics addressing some of the industry’s more sensi-tive subjects, such as covert face recognition, confidence in the technology and, of course, privacy. Explosive market growth is forecast if

the biometrics industry can overcome some of these thorny issues.

Making Biometrics Work for You

How do you want to use biometrics? Do you want to secure your office premises or monitor time and attendance? Do you want to protect data handled by your mobile workforce? Or do you want to secure financial transactions? This seminar investigates the ways in which biometrics can step up to the plate in ways that other technologies can’t.

ConferenceNot only is the conference full of cutting-edge test results, but it also covers large-scale gov-ernment programmes, commercial and public sector biometrics and looks at biometric trends, challenges and opportunities. It bores down into some of the most important vertical markets for the biometric sector, such as law enforcement, passenger facilitation and border management.

Technologies such as iris recognition, and the use of biometrics as a software service (SaaS), are put in focus, as are a multitude of other issues, such as: privacy and ethics; biometric vulnerabilities and liveness detection; and biometric enrolment challenges.

Conference highlightsThe programme is peppered with highlights, including keynotes from Dave Buckley, CEO, Cross Match Technologies, and the US-VISIT programme. Other highlights include:

Face-in-the-crowd biometrics: here’s looking secretly at youProfessor Brian Lovell, NICTA and The University of Queensland, Australia.

In the surveillance world there are certain grand challenges – holy grails that research-ers and those who use surveillance pursue

Biometrics 2010 exhibition.

Visit www.biometrics2011.com for full details of the event and how to register.

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doggedly, excited by the immense technical issues such challenges pose. Paramount in these is real-time face-in-the-crowd technol-ogy: a recognition system advanced enough to sift through large crowds of people, none of whom are consciously facing the CCTV cam-eras. This type of face recognition has been called the ‘killer application’ in biometrics. This talk describes technologies underpinning face in the crowd recognition systems and results from formal trials.

Advancements in the use of biometrics and identity manage-ment for US travel documentsKirit Amin, CIO and managing director of Consular Systems and Technology, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State, US.

At last year’s show, the US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, described the biometric technologies it employs in the processing of applications for US passports and visas, including face, iris, and fingerprint recog-

nition. The transition to online photo submis-sion for most visa applicants is now complete and the Bureau will soon pilot near-simultane-ous iris and live-face image acquisition for visa applicants at a limited number of consulates and online photo submission for selected pass-port card applicants.

Building the world’s largest biometric database: From concept to realityVivek Raghavan, Volunteer Biometrics, Unique Identification Authority of India, India.

The world’s largest biometric programme has come an incredibly long way in 12 months. This talk will reveal how the biometric database has emerged from a concept to reality.

Biometrics in Mass Transit – A Case Study of Gatwick Airport Developments in 2011Perry Hailey, technology leader, Gatwick Airport, and, Jim Slevin, transport business unit manager, Human Recognition Systems, UK.

This presentation focuses on the deployment of biometric systems forming part of a major refurbishment of the South Terminal at Gatwick Airport in 2011 to create a slicker, more straight-forward experience for passengers. The speech will present the purpose and objectives for the two biometric systems deployed, which included facial recognition for journey and queue meas-urement, and iris (at a distance) for automated facilitation of Gatwick’s Common User Lounge.

Vital principles for large-scale database search using iris

John Daugman, professor, Cambridge University, UK.

Professor Daugman is the inventor of iris recognition and will address the audience on how to minimise trade-offs between speed, accuracy, and error rates.

Evaluation of Anti-Spoof (Liveness) DetectionStephanie Schuckers, associate professor, Clarkson University and director, Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) and Elaine Newton, senior advisor for Identity Technologies, NIST, US.

This speech will give an in-depth overview of anti-spoofing technology, from performance evaluation to the results of the LiveDet 2011 competition.

Biometric Border Control for the EU VISFares Rahmun, Federal Office of Administration (BVA), Germany, and Markus Nuppeney, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany.

The Visa Information System (VIS) mandates European member states to issue biometric visas and check them during the border control process. The start of operation is scheduled for 11 October 2011, with the bor-der starting 20 days later. This speech, there-fore, gives a timely overview of the German experience.

Brian Lovell.

Kirit Amin.

Vivek Raghavan.

John Daugman.