BioSecure :A Network of Excellence on

Biometric identity authentication

B. Dorizzi, GET-INT, FranceG. Chollet, GET-ENST, Paris

BioSecure : Objectives

Federate the teams involved in the biometric field

Proposal for a NoE with the following objectives : Identify and meet the scientific and technical

challenges in the Biometric field Explore non technological aspects of biometrics

such as security v.s. privacy, acceptability, reliability, impact on society and ethical aspects

Some specific Objectives :

Reference algorithms for most of the Biometric modalities

Evaluation protocols on publically available databases

Fusion of modalities 4 weeks residential workshop in sept. 2005

General approach foreseen

Collaborative research program

Creation of a European development and evaluation platform for the Technological Research

Creation of a European Certification Center and usage observatory

Support technology : integration on smart-card, PDA etc…

Citizen awareness

Need and Relevance Commercial products still present some defects :

Performance, Variability, User Acceptance, Sensor Variability

European efforts are disseminated Europe has usage and legislation particularities,

cultural diversity

Network Initiator : GET, 25 partners of COST 275, 12 other

academic partners, 20 Industrial and end user partners : ST-Microelectronics, France Telecom, Bouygues Telecom, Gemplus, OPSIS, ELRA/ELDA, ORGA, etc…

• Integration

– Contribution to standardization : Databases and Evaluation

– Federation of most of the 4th and 5th PCRD actions in biometrics

– Subnetworks organization / e-communication

• Links with :

– IP: IRISEP (Iris-based verification) initiated by TRT-France,

– Personal Trust Device” , coordinated by IMEC and Gemplus/France,

– MOSES, coordinated by INFORMA/Italy,

– ICAF “Identity Contol with Automatic Face Recognition”,

coordinated by ZN vision, Germany

4th and 5th PCRD actionsin Biometrics

COST 275

IST projects co-initiated by members of this consortium:

M2VTS (ACTS, 1995-1998) Multimodal Verification for Telesurveillance and Security Applications

BANCA (IST-1999-n°1159) - Biometric Access Control for Networked and e-Commerce Applications

VIRSBS: Visual Intelligent Recognition for Secure Banking Services

Some partners are (or were) also involved in other EC projects :

MUHCI (RTN, 2000-2003) Multimodal Human Computer Interaction, EAGLES , CAVE, PICASSO, ECVision ( IST Project 35454), SAFE : Secure Access Front End (TRIAL Start-Up -2000-2002), MTM (speaker verification), BIOTEST

Partners

Main academic actors in the fieldMust satisfy excellence criteria :

publications, PhD, etc…Involved in different aspects of

biometricsWith experience in evaluation

campaignsQuestion : Place of the Industrials, of

the small companies...

Structuration of the network : Topics

Academic research in such modalities as:

speechfacesignature fingerprintirishand shape etc..

Multimodality : data fusion

Topics (2)

Non technical questions : legal, market, privacy

Support technologiesCommercial applications

Further Steps

General Assembly on july 2nd, 2004Constitution of a « steering committee »Constitution of a « technical board » with all

the coordinators of the WorkpackagesConstitution of a Forum of Industrial PartnersClustering with other projects (in particular

BioSec, eCrypt, FIDIS, SecurePhone,…) …