Post-ECCV  Workshop on

BIOMETRIC  AUTHENTICATION

Copenhagen, Denmark - June, 1st 2002

http://www.dist.unige.it/BIOMET-2002

 

 

Workshop program

 

 

Morning

 

 

·         8.40                              Welcome and opening remarks

Session 1   -  Face recognition I

Session 2   -  Fingerprint recognition

o        Complex filters applied to fingerprint images detecting prominent symmetry points used for alignment - Kenneth Nilsson and Josef Bigun (Halmstad University, Sweden).

o        Fingerprint Matching Using Feature Space Correlation - Arun Ross, James Reisman and Anil Jain (Siemens Corp. – State University of Michigan, USA).

o        Fingerprint Minutiae: A Constructive Definition - Ruud M. Bolle, Andrew W. Senior, Nalini K. Ratha and Sharath Pankanti (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA).

 

Session 3   -  Psychology and biometrics

o        Pseudo-entropy similarity for human biometrics  - Leonid Kompanets (Technical University of Częstochowa - Institute of Mathematics and Computer, Częstochowa, Poland).

o        Mental Characteristics of Person as Basic Biometrics  - Tetiana Valchuk, Roman Wyrzykowski and Leonid Kompanets (State University of Communication & Information Technologies, Kyiv, Ukrain - Technical University of Częstochowa - Institute of Mathematics and Computer, Częstochowa, Poland).

 

 

 

 

Afternoon

 

 

Session 4   -  Face detection and localization

o        Detection of frontal faces in video streams - M. Castillon, J. Lorenzo, J. Cabrera, M. Hernandez and J. Mendez Rodriguez (University of Las Palmas, Spain).

o        Genetic model optimization for Hausdorff distance-based face localization - Klaus J. Kirchberg, Oliver Jesorsky and Robert W. Frischholz (BioID AG, NL Erlangen, Germany).

o        Coarse To Fine Face Detection Based on Skin Color Adaption - Hichem Sahbi and Nozha Boujemaa (IMEDIA Res. Group, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France).

 

Session 5   -  Face recognition II

o        Robust face recognition using dynamic space warping - Hichem Sahbi and Nozha Boujemaa (IMEDIA Res. Group, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France).

o        Subspace classification for face recognition - Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio and Davide Maltoni (Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' di Bologna, Italy).

 

 

 

Session 6   -  Gait and signature analysis

o        Gait appearance for recognition - L Lee and W.E.L. Grimson (MIT AI Lab, USA).

o        View-invariant estimation of height and stride for gait recognition - Chiraz BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler and Larry Davis (CFAR - University of Maryland, College Park – MD, USA).

o        Improvement of on-line signature – Masato Kawamoto (Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Electrical Engineering , Japan).

 

Session 7   -  Classifiers for recognition

o        Biometric identification in forensic cases according to the Bayesian approach - Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Javier Ortega-Garcia and Jose-Juan Lucena-Molina (Speech and Signal Processing Group Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain).

o        A New Quadratic Classifier Applied to Biometric Recognition - Carlos E. Thomaz, Duncan F. Gillies and Raul Q. Feitosa (Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK).