February 4, 2010: Update on satellite workshops

Satellite workshops on Monday March 1, and Friday March 5 are open to all, and registration is included in IBPC 2010 registration. No extra fee or registartion is required, but an email notofocation to the contact person for each satellite workshop is appreciated. Agenda for these sessions will be posted soon.

February 1, 2010: Conference program online

The first draft agenda is now available.

January 31, 2010: Satellite Workshops Announced

In conjunction with the IBPC 2010, three satellite workshops will be held at NIST. These sessions are open to all, and registration is included in IBPC 2010 registration. An email notofocation to the contact person for each satellite workshop is appreciated.

• The future of the NIST Fingerprint Image Quality software (NFIQ) will be discussed on Monday March 1 from 13:30 until 16:30. Interested parties should contact Elham Tabassi at NIST.
• On Friday March 5, a meeting will be held to solicit comments on metrics and testing methods for protecting biometric templates from 09:00 until 11:00am. This workshop is open to all interested parties. Please contact Elaine Newton at NIST.
• Finally on March 5, at 11:30 a session on fingerprint feature markup and testing will be held. This workshop will discuss work in this area, interoperability, reference datasets, and the possibilities for semantic conformance testing. Interested parties should email the IBPC chairs.

January 6, 2010: On-line Registration is open

Please visit the registration link for on line registration. On-Site Registration is not possible for any conference held on NIST campus. All attendees must be pre-registered. On-line registration will end at 5 pm EST on February 22, 2010. Photo identification must be presented at the main gate Visitors Center to be admitted to the workshop.

For hotel accomodation, please visit logistics link.

September 21, 2009: Call for Papers

The call for papers has been updated to reflect expanded U.S. government support for the conference.

September 2, 2009: Announcement

In cooperation with the National Physical Laboratory and Fraunhofer IGD, NIST is pleased to announce an international forum for the discussion of recent advances in the fields of biometric testing and biometric performance specification. I The conference aims to identify the important and new performance metrics and to expose best practice for evaluation. New performance results are not themselves in scope - instead the intention is to capture recent and best practice, to contrast that with the past, and to expose what is needed in the future. The overarching goal is to refine the concept of biometric performance and to ultimately elevate adoption and effectiveness of biometric technologies.

Important Dates:

• 2009 - October 30: Submission of abstracts
• 2009 - November 13: Notification of acceptance
• 2010 - February 12: Submission of PPT presentation
• 2010 - February 22: Final copy for proceedings
• 2010 - March 2: Conference opens

September 2, 2009: Call for Papers

We seek abstracts for papers and presentations addressing biometric performance, and measurement and specification thereof. All aspects of performance, from the design, through the initial human interaction, quality control, algorithmic function, to assurance and summarization are in scope. Abstracts could be 1-5 pages long, in MS Office or PDF format. The conference is open to all parties, including members of the testing community, core technology providers, system builders and operators. Of particular interest are novel testing techniques and metrics, and papers that address gaps between operational need and test capability. The formal call for papers will be presented and circulated at the BIOSIG Workshop (Darmstadt, DE), the Biometrics Consortium (Tampa, USA) and other venues.

Background

In the context of multifactor authentication, biometrics fill the role of the something you are and their utility rests on the correct analog-to-digital conversion to the particular human characteristic or trait. This is itself multi-disciplinary involving biological aspects, human factors, physical sensor technologies, and computer vision and signal detection functions, Thereafter, the algorithmic tasks leading up to correct recognition exploit capabilities in image and signal processing, machine learning, pattern recognition and classification. These steps are often non-trivial and are potential sources of error. Performance, accordingly, is never perfect and always subject to tradeoffs between acceptance at one stage and rejection at a later one.

Prior NIST workshops, in 2006 and 2007, used the term "quality" as a proxy for performance. The goals of those forums was to distinguish quality-by-design from quality-by-practice and to identify measureable quantities that predict recognition outcome.