Biometrics for national security and defense has come a long way in the last few years with leaps of new technological innovation, but more advancements in multi-modal and ruggedized equipment are still needed to improve database accuracy. Additionally, there is a great demand for advanced biometric solutions by the White House, DoD, and DHS initiatives such as HSPD 24, HSPD 12, and US-VISIT.
IDGA’s 3rd Annual Biometrics for National Security and Defense is your opportunity to meet with key decision-makers and technology experts on what the government’s next steps are in securing our warfighters, our government employees, and our homeland for the years to come.
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3rd Annual Biometrics for National Security and Defense
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presents a training conference… Accuracy Focus Day!
3Rd Annual
Biometrics
for National Security
TM
and Defense Hear about the latest
advancements in biometrics
March 15 – 17, 2010 • Washington, D.C. from key-decision makers,
including:
This year’s community event elaborates on new The Honorable Zachary
requirements and solutions to change the Lemnios
biometrics landscape. Attend sessions on: Director, Defense Research
& Engineering & DoD Chief
• The latest advancements in biometric technologies Technology Officer
and capabilities
Shonnie Lyon
• Sharing biometric data across all Services and Deputy Director, US-VISIT
agencies Program, Department of
• Biometrics used as a tool for intelligence gathering Homeland Security
and exploitation B. Scott Swann
• Current and future biometrics initiatives Executive Program Manager,
Criminal Justice Information
• And so much more! Division, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
Plus! Gain insight into the latest DoD, Tom Cowley
Director, Maritime
DHS and FBI Efforts to secure our nation. Credentialing,
See p. 4 for details. Transportation Security
Administration
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many changes the biometrics community is
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IDGA’s 3rd Annual Biometrics for service and defense. We bring together
National Security and Defense speaker panels comprised of military
opportunity to meet with key dec is your
ision-makers and technology experts and government professionals while
the government’s next steps are in on what attracting delegates with decision-
securing our warfighters, our gov
employees, and our homeland for ernment making power from military,
the years to come. government and defense industries.
For more information, please visit
This annual community event will us at www.idga.org.
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Identify opportunities for multi-m
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Examine newly-developed biometric
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Look at the most current and dev
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Discuss programs such as HSPD-2 attendees are saying
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3. BIOMETRICS PERFORMANCE
ACCURACY FOCUS DAY
BIOMETRICS PERFORMANCE MONDAY,
ACCURACY FOCUS DAY 15 March 2010
Sign up for this in-depth and interactive Focus Day examining the latest technologies that support biometrics for national security and
defense. During this focus day, you can expect smaller, classroom-style sessions, live applications, and in-depth discussions with the class
leaders and fellow attendees.
7:30 am – 8:00 am Registration and Coffee
8:00 am – 10:00 am Measure the performance of biometrics technologies!
Performance Testing
Measurement and evaluation of biometric device performance is critical to • Determining the number of tests to run on a new technology
end users and consumers of these devices. Theoretical correlation models
can be used to derive variance estimates of biometric performance metrics. How you will benefit:
In this talk, Dr. Schuckers will review performance metrics for biometric • Gain insight to possible metrics that are used in other areas but are not
matching systems and discuss statistical methods for assessing these metrics. used in biometrics
The focus of the talk will be on the traditional methods for biometric • Expand your knowledge of methods for assessing a single metric and
performance including false match and false non-match rates as well as progress to methods for comparing metrics from different systems
system measures such as failure to enroll and failure to acquire. • Discover how large a sample size should be in determining accuracy
What will be covered: Session Leader:
• Statistical methods for biometrics performance Comparison
Dr. Michael Schuckers, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science
• Evaluation of biometric systems Failure to Enroll, Failure to Acquire
and Statistics, Saint Lawrence University
• False Match Rate, False Non-match Rate, and Receiver Operating
Characteristic Curves
10:15 am – 12:15 pm Model Selection and Prediction for biometrics!
Multi-Level Fusion
Robust designs of biometric systems are proposed to address challenges using • Multi-Level Fusion: Feature, Score, and Decision
layered categorization, adaptive and pro-active training strategies, and data • Multi-Layer Fusion: Modality, Quality, and Method
fusion. Some of these challenges are related to an expanded biometric
processing space that involves less than perfect-sensors, missing information, How you will benefit:
and/or corrupt data. Scale space and recognition-by-parts support layered • Gain insight into promising venues for future R&D
categorization, semi-supervised learning and transduction support adaptive • Examine methods for voting and ensemble
and pro-active strategies, and boosting and non-linear mappings support • Enhance your knowledge of Performance Evaluation and Error Analysis
multi-level and multi-layer data fusion. This discussion will introduce predictive
quality-based fusion approaches to multi-modal and multi-algorithm data as Session Leaders:
well as present experimental results to illustrate novel and robust biometrics. Professor Harry Wechsler, Department of Computer Science, George
Mason University
What will be covered: Dr. Natalia Schmid, Department of Computer Science and Electrical
• Biometrics and Forensics
Engineering, West Virginia University
• Information Theory and Statistical Learning
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Will be Served Discover how interoperability issues can affect performance!
Biometric System Interoperability
The proliferation of biometric systems in a networked environment has lead to • Evaluation techniques to assess interoperability of different subsystems
designing of systems that are not homogenous. Instead of stand-alone and • Current efforts in the area of interoperability
monolithic authentication architectures of the past, today’s networked world
mixes disparate systems. This raises the issue of interoperability and its effect on What you will learn about:
performance. For a biometric system, interoperability can affect any of the • Gain insight into how biometric system interoperability issues can effect
subsystems of the biometric model: data acquisition, feature extraction, storage, performance
matching and decision making. This workshop will discuss the challenges of • Learn about ongoing efforts and advances in field of biometrics to tackle
interoperability at each stage, previous efforts conducted in the biometrics area the challenge of interoperability
with respect to interoperability, and current efforts in the academia and
standardization communities to resolve interoperability challenges. Session Leaders:
Dr. Shimon K. Modi, Director of Research, Biometrics Standards,
What will be covered: Performance & Assurance Laboratory, Purdue University
• Effect of interoperability on biometric adoption
Back to back sessions on digital tampering!
2:45 pm – 4:05 pm PART I 4:05 pm – 5:25 pm PART II
Digital Image Forensics On the Limitations of Visually-Based Image Forensics
Photography lost its innocence many years ago. Shortly after the first In an attempt to quell rumors regarding the health of North Korea's leader Kim
commercially available camera was introduced, photographs were being Jong-Il, the North Korean government released a series of photographs showing a
manipulated and altered. With the advent of high-resolution digital healthy and active Kim Jong-Il. Shortly after their release the BBC claimed that the
cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing photographs were doctored. The article pointed to purported visual incongruities
software, the manipulation of digital images is becoming more common. which were claimed to be the result of photo tampering. The BBC was wrong.
We are seeing the impact of these technologies in nearly every corner of our Because judgments of photo authenticity are often made by eye, we wondered
lives. As the technology that allows for digital media to be manipulated and how reliable the human visual system is in detecting discrepancies that might arise
distorted is developing at break-neck speeds, our understanding of the from photo tampering. This discussion will describe three experiments that show
technological, ethical, and legal implications is lagging behind. This session that the human visual is remarkably inept at detecting simple geometric
will discuss some of these issues and describe computational techniques inconsistencies in shadows, reflections, and planar perspective distortions. It will
which have been developed for detecting tampering in digital media. also describe computational methods that can be applied to detect the
inconsistencies that seem to elude the human visual system.
Session Leader:
Dr. Hany Farid, William H. Neukom Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, Dartmouth University
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4. MAIN SUMMIT TUESDAY, MAIN SUMMIT WEDNESDAY,
DAY ONE 16 March 2010 DAY TWO 17 March 2010
7:30 Registration and Coffee 7:45 Registration and Coffee
8:20 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:20 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
8:30 Development of a Higher Curricula for Biometrics 8:30 US-VISIT: Tactical Program Developments
US-VISIT Program
Opening Session
and Identification • Creating efficient and effective biometrics systems
• Key solutions to potential security threats • Latest developments for biometrics processing and capture
• Future requirements and capabilities for biometrics and identity • Integration of Identity Management with departments and agencies
management solutions Shonnie Lyon, Deputy Director, US-VISIT Program, Department
Dr. Michael Yura, Identity Management and Biometrics, of Homeland Security
Carnegie Mellon University, IDGA Advisory Board Member
9:10 The Next Generation Identification
9:10 Biometric Technologies and Capabilities • Operating of Next Generation Identification systems
NGID Focus
Enabling biometrics across the enterprise for the DoD • What is currently being offered?
Keynote
•
•Supporting the National Security Strategy • Plans looking ahead to the future
The Honorable Zachary Lemnios, Director, Defense Research B. Scott Swann, Executive Program Manager, Criminal Justice
& Engineering & DoD Chief Technology Officer Information Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
9:50 Networking and Refreshment Break 9:50 Networking and Refreshment Break
10:35 Biometric Data Sharing in Federal Enterprises: HSPD- 10:35 Transportation Worker Identification Credential
24 Policy Framework • Deployment of smartcard and biometric technologies based on the
• A strategic overview of HSPD-24 latest and most advanced federal government standards
Keynote
• The impact of HSPD-24 on Federal departments and agencies • Implementing secure data sharing across multiple agencies and
since approval departments
• The future of biometrics in Federal government • Addressing the complexities of rolling out a sophisticated
Monte Hawkins, Director, Identity Management and credentialing program nationwide
Biometrics Policy, White House National Security Staff Tom Cowley, Director, Maritime Credentialing, Transportation
Security Administration
11:15 Policy Friction Points in a Changing Biometrically
DoD Biometrics
Enabled World 11:15 Securing Our Ports and Facilities
• Old policies and guidance that inhibit innovative ways to use biometrics • TWIC implementations – one year later
• Privacy and constitutional rights • Implementing TWIC reader requirements
• ‘’End States’’ in a biometrically enabled world • Deployment of readers in all environments
Al Miller, Policy Science and Engineering Advisor Office of Commander David Murk, Chief, Cargo and Facilities Division,
the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Integration U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters
11:55 Luncheon 11:55 Luncheon
1:15 Advancing Identification Technology 1:15 Biometrics as an Intelligence Tool
• Automated credibility assessments • Standoff and night Identity
• Identification in non-real environments • Biometrics and persistent ISR
• Fusion of all information sources • Biometrics and Multi-INT fusion
This session will be led by a Program Director from the Martin Kruger, ISR Thrust Area Manager, Expeditionary Warfare and
National Science Foundation Combating Terrorism S&T Department, Office of Naval Research
1:55 Empowering our Partners to Connect, Identify and Know 1:55 Building Smarter Soldier Biometric Sensor Systems
• The FBI Rapid DNA Analysis Initiative • Next Generation of biometric sensors and systems for the war fighter
• FBI Next Generation Identification • Rugged environments, miniaturization, and power advances
• The Biometric Center of Excellence • Full interoperability with high capacity data networks
• Emerging biometrics • Utility to the war fighter through fusion of biometrics and non-
James Loudermilk, Senior Level Technologist, Science and biometric data
Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation LTC(R) Jerry D. Jackson Jr., USA, Defense Biometric Systems Analyst
2:35 Networking and Refreshment Break 2:35 Networking and Refreshment Break
Naval Intelligence Focus
3:20 Current and Future Biometrics Initiatives 3:20 The Coast Guard and Biometrics at Sea System: Status
• Multi-modal biometrics from fingerprints to face, palm and iris Update and Future Plans
• Voice biometrics • Structure for the proof of concept
• Sharing biometric information across agencies • Operational results
• Program development and opportunities for future partnerships
Greg Fritz, Product Director, Biometrics Enterprise Core
DoD Biometrics
Capability, PM Department of Defense Biometrics Dr. Thomas L. Amerson, Project Lead, USCG Research &
Development Center
4:00 Building DoD Identities Using Biometrics
• Binding biometrics to identities: HSPD-12 and physical access systems 4:00 Development and Creation of Higher Biometric Standards
• A biometric enrollment station • IREX: Interoperable image based iris recognition
• Blending biometric enrollment with DoD issuance and physical • Learn what was gained from the IREX test
• MBTE: multiple biometrics in a variety of scenarios
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Lynn Prince, Defense Manpower Data Center Patrick Grother, Staff Scientist, National Institute of Standards
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