BTAS 08
IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems
Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2008
Arlington
Virginia, USA

Conference Session Details

Monday, September 29, 2008
07:30 - 08:35
 
Registration 29/9:
Location: Regency E Foyer
Session Chair(s):
08:35 - 08:45
 
BTAS 2008 Opening Remarks:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)
08:45 - 09:25
 
Advances In Iris Biometrics I:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Natalia Schmid (West Virginia University)
Stand-off Iris Recognition System
Authors:  Frederick Wheeler (GE Global Research) , A. G. Amitha Perera (Kitware, Inc.) , Gil Abramovich (GE Global Research) , Bing Yu (GE Global Research) , Peter Tu (GE Global Research)

The Importance of Small Pupils: A Study of How Pupil Dilation Affects Iris Biometrics
Authors:  Karen Hollingsworth (University of Notre Dame) , Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame) , Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

09:25 - 10:07
 
Poster Highlights - Iris, 3D Face and 2D Face: Two-minute highlights of each of twenty-one posters.
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)
Accelerating Iris Template Matching using Commodity Video Graphics Adapters
Authors:  Randy Broussard (U.S. Naval Academy) , Ryan Rakvic (U.S. Naval Academy) , Robert Ives (U.S. Naval Academy)

An Automatic Algorithm for Evaluating the Precision of Iris Segmentation
Authors:  Jinyu Zuo (West Virginia University) , Natalia Schmid (West Virginia University)

On the Effects of Time Variability in Iris Recognition
Authors:  Pedro Tome-Gonzalez () , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez (UAM) , Javier Ortega-Garcia (UAM Madrid)

Median Filter Based Iris Encoding Technique
Authors:  Jinyu Zuo (West Virginia University) , Nalini Ratha (IBM Research) , Jonathan Connell (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

All Iris Filters are Not Created Equal
Authors:  Karen Hollingsworth (University of Notre Dame) , Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame) , Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Binary Biometrics - An Analytic Framework to Estimate the Bit Error Probability under Gaussian Assumption
Authors:  Emile Kelkboom (Philips Research) , Gary Garcia (Philips Research) , Tom Kevenaar (Philips Research) , Raymond Veldhuis (University of Twente) , Willem Jonker (Philips Research)

Recognizing Faces In 3D Images Even In Presence Of Occlusions
Authors:  Alessandro Colombo (University of Milano Bicocca) , Claudio Cusano () , Raimondo Schettini ()

Increased Resolution 3D Face Modeling and Recognition From Multiple Low Resolution Structure From Motion Models
Authors:  Chris Boehnen (University of Notre Dame) , Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Synthesizing Realistic Expressions in 3D Face Data Sets
Authors:  Jacey-Lynn Minoi (Imperial College London) , Hassan Amin () , Carlos Thomaz () , Duncan Gillies ()

Three Dimensional Face Recognition Using Iso-Geodesic and Iso-Depth Curves
Authors:  Sina Jahanbin (University of Texas at Austin) , Hyohoon Choi (Samsung Electro-Mechanics, R&D Institute) , Yang Liu (University of Texas at Austin) , Alan Bovik (University of Texas at Austin)

A 3D Face Recognition System for Expression and Occlusion Invariance
Authors:  Berk Gokberk (Bogazici University) , Nese Alyuz (Bogazici University) , Lale Akarun (Bogazici University)

3D Facial Landmark Localisation by Matching Simple Descriptors
Authors:  Marcelo Romero-Huertas (The University of York) , Nick Pears (The University of York)

3D Facial Landmarking under Expression, Pose, and Occlusion Variations
Authors:  Hamdi Dibeklioğlu (Boğaziçi University) , Albert Salah (CWI) , Lale Akarun (Bogazici University)

Fusing Frequency, Spatial and Color Features for Face Recognition
Authors:  Zhiming Liu (New Jersey Institute of Tech.) , Chengjun Liu (New Jersey Institute of techno)

Multi-factor approach to improving recognition performance in surveillance quality video
Authors:  Deborah Thomas (University of Notre Dame) , Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame) , Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Impostures of Talking Face Systems Using Automatic Face Animation
Authors:  Florian Verdet (University of Fribourg) , Jean Hennebert (University of Fribourg)

Learning Face Appearance under Different Lighting Conditions
Authors:  Brendan Moore (UCF) , Marshall Tappen (UCF) , Hassan Foroosh (UCF)

Illumination and Expression Invariant Face Recognition: Toward Sample Quality-based Adaptive Fusion
Authors:  Harin Sellahewa (The University of Buckingham) , Sabah Jassim (The University of Buckingham)

A Non-generative Approach for Face Recognition Across Aging
Authors:  Soma Biswas (University of Maryland) , Gaurav Aggarwal (University of Maryland) , Narayanan Ramanathan (University of Maryland, College Park) , Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland)

False Matches and Non-independence of Face Recognition Scores
Authors:  George Quinn (NIST) , Patrick Grother (NIST)

Profile Detection: A Subset Multi-Biometric Approach
Authors:  James Gentile (University of Notre Dame) , Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame) , Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

10:07 - 10:45
 
Coffee and Poster Session A:
Location: Regency E Foyer
Session Chair(s):
10:45 - 11:45
 
Advances in 3D Face:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Trina Russ (Digital Signal Corp)
Automatic Registration of Vertex Correspondences for 3D Facial Expression Analysis
Authors:  Matthew Rosato (Binghamton University) , Xiaochen Chen (Binghamton University) , Lijun Yin (Binghamton University)

A Novel Genetic Algorithm for 3D Facial Landmark Localization
Authors:  Tsz-Ho Yu (The Chinese University of HK) , Yiu-Sang Moon (CUHK CSE)

Expression-Compensated 3D Face Recognition with Geodesically Aligned Bilinear Models
Authors:  Iordanis Mpiperis (CERTH/ITI) , Sotiris Malassiotis () , Michael Strintzis ()

11:45 - 12:30
 
Biometrics Datasets and Evaluations:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Massimo Tistarelli (Universita di Sassari)
The Iris Challenge Evaluation 2005
Authors:  Jonathon Phillips (NIST) , Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame) , Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame) , Xiaomei Liu (University of Notre Dame) , Todd Scruggs (SAIC)

The IV2 Multimodal Biometric Database (Including Iris, 2D, 3D, Stereoscopic, and Talking Face Data), and the IV2-2007 Evaluation Campaign
Authors:  DIjana Petrovska-Delacrétaz (Telecom&management SudParis) , Sylvie Lelandais (IUT, Universite Evry) , Joseph Colineau (ThalesGroup) , Liming Chen (LIRIS) , Bernadette DORIZZI (Institut TELECOM) , Emine Krichen (Telecom SudParis) , Mohamed Anouar-Mellakh (Telecom SudParis) , Anis Chaari (IUT Evry) , Souhila Guerfi (IUT Evry) , Mohsen Ardabilian (Liris) , Johan D'Hose () , Boulbaba Benamor ()

12:30 - 14:00
 
Lunch 29/9:
Location: On your own
Session Chair(s):
14:00 - 15:00
 
Invited Talk: Professor Josef Kittler, "Multi-Biometrics for Identity Authentication":
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)
15:00 - 16:00
 
2D Face:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Ross Beveridge (Colorado State University)
Usability Testing of Face Image Capture for US Ports of Entry
Authors:  Mary Theofanos (NIST) , Brian Stanton (National Institute of Standards and Technology) , Charles Sheppard (National Institute of Standards and Technology) , Ross Micheals (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Real-time Facial Features Tracking by Discrete Gabor Jets and Mean Shift
Authors:  Jacek Naruniec (Warsaw University of Technolog)

An Optimized Illumination Normalization Method for Face Recognition
Authors:  Jukka Holappa (University of Oulu) , Timo Ahonen (University of Oulu) , Matti Pietikäinen (University of Oulu)

16:00 - 16:30
 
Tea and Poster Session A contd.:
Location: Regency E Foyer
Session Chair(s):
16:30 - 17:30
 
Advances In Iris Biometrics II:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Sonia Garcia-Salicetti ()
“Hallucinating Irises” – Dealing with Partial & Occluded Iris Regions
Authors:  Taihei Munemoto (Carnegie Mellon University) , Yung-hui Li (Carnegie Mellon University) , Marios Savvides (Carnegie Mellon University)

Detection of iris texture distortions by analyzing iris code matching results
Authors:  Sarah Ring (University of Notre Dame) , Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)

Adapting Starburst for Elliptical Iris Segmentation
Authors:  Wayne Ryan (Clemson University) , Damon Woodard (Clemson University) , Andrew Duchowski (Clemson University) , Stan Birchfield (Clemson University)

17:30 - 20:00
 
BTAS 2008 Welcome Reception:
Location: Tidewater Room
Session Chair(s):
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
07:30 - 08:25
 
Registration 30/9:
Location:
Session Chair(s):
08:25 - 09:25
 
Gait and Face:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Venu Govindaraju (SUNY - Buffalo)
Front-view Gait Recognition
Authors:  Michela Goffredo (ECS, University of Southampton) , John Carter (University of Southampton) , Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Recognition of Low-Resolution Faces Using Multiple Still Images and Multiple Cameras
Authors:  Pablo Hennings Yeomans (Carnegie Mellon University) , Simon Baker (Microsoft Research) , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University)

A Novel Appearance Model and Adaptive Condensation Algorithm for Human Face Tracking
Authors:  Yui Man Lui (Colorado State University ) , Ross Beveridge (Colorado State University) , Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University)

09:25 - 10:05
 
Poster Highlights - Finger, Palm, Signature and More: Two-minute highlights of each of twenty poster papers.
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)
Fingerprint Anti-Spoofing Using Ridgelet Transform
Authors:  Shankar Nikam (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-India) , Suneeta Agarwal (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-211004, India)

Fingerprint Biometrics via Low-cost Sensors and Webcams
Authors:  Fabio Scotti (University of Milan) , Vincenzo Piuri (University of Milan)

An Analysis of Minutia Neighborhood Probabilities
Authors:  Rein-Lien Hsu (L1 Identity Solutions Inc.) , Brian Martin (L1)

Gradient based Textural Characterization of Fingerprints
Authors:  Gaurav Aggarwal (University of Maryland) , Nalini Ratha (IBM Research) , Tsai-Yang Jea (IBM) , Ruud Bolle (IBM Research)

Exploring Ridge Curvature for Fingerprint Indexing
Authors:  Soma Biswas (University of Maryland) , Nalini Ratha (IBM Research) , Gaurav Aggarwal (University of Maryland) , Jonathan Connell (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

Quality Induced Fingerprint Identification using Extended Feature Set
Authors:  MAYANK VATSA (WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY) , Richa Singh (West Virginia University) , Afzel Noore (West Virginia University) , Sanjay Singh (Institute of Technology-BHU )

Fingerprint Matching Using Correlation and Thin-Plate Spline Deformation Model
Authors:  Jiang Li (SUNY-UB) , Sergey Tulyakov (University at Buffalo) , Zhi Zhang (SUNY-Buffalo) , Venu Govindaraju (SUNY - Buffalo)

Grip-Pattern Verification for Smart Gun Based on Maximum-Pairwise Comparison and Mean-Template Comparison
Authors:  Xiaoxin Shang (University of Twente) , Xiaoxin Shang () , Raymond Veldhuis (University of Twente)

Palmprint Identification Using Contourlet Transform
Authors:  M Asif Butt (College of Signals, NUST Pakistan) , Hassan Masood (College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST, Pakistan) , Mustafa Mumtaz (College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST , Pakistan) , Atif Mansoor (College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST, Pakistan) , Shoab Khan (College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, NUST, Pakistan)

Three Dimensional Palmprint Recognition using Structured Light Imaging
Authors:  David Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) , Guangming Lu (Shenzhen Graduate school, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China ) , Wei Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) , Lei ZHANG () , Nan LUO ()

A Fusion-based Approach to Enhancing Multi-modal Biometric Recognition System Failure Prediction and Overall Performance
Authors:  Walter Scheirer (University of Colorado) , Terrance Boult (University of Colorado)

Estimation of Missing Values in Multimodal Biometric Fusion
Authors:  Omolara Fatukasi (University of Surrey / CVSSP) , Josef Kittler (University of Surrey) , Norman Poh (University of Surrey / CVSSP)

ECG to Individual Identification
Authors:  Yogendra Narain Singh (Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow) , Phalguni Gupta (IIT Kanpur)

Multibiometric Template Security Using Fuzzy Vault
Authors:  Karthik Nandakumar (Inst. for Infocomm Research) , Anil Jain (Michigan State University)

The Use of Semantic Human Description as a Soft Biometric
Authors:  Sina Samangooei (University of Southampton) , Baofeng Guo (University of Southampton) , Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Analyzing the impact of non-biometric information on multiclassifier processing for signature recognition applications
Authors:  Márjory Abreu (University of kent) , Michael Fairhurst (University of Kent)

A Novel Personal Entropy Measure confronted with Online Signature Verification Systems’ Performance
Authors:  Nesma HOUMANI (TELECOM & Management SudParis) , Sonia Garcia-Salicetti (TELECOM & Management SudParis) , Bernadette DORIZZI (Institut TELECOM)

Globally Linear Embedding of Biometric Acores: An Empirical Study
Authors:  Sudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida) , Pranab Mohanty (University of South Florida)

Enrolled Template Specific Decisions and Combinations in Verification Systems
Authors:  Sergey Tulyakov (University at Buffalo) , Jiang Li (SUNY-UB) , Venu Govindaraju (SUNY - Buffalo)

Pseudo-Signatures as a Biometric
Authors:  Jin Chen (Lehigh University) , Daniel Lopresti () , Lucas Ballard () , Fabian Monrose ()

10:05 - 10:45
 
Coffee and Poster Session B:
Location: Regency E Foyer
Session Chair(s):
10:45 - 11:45
 
3D Face and Gait:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Sudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida)
3D Face Recognition using Point Cloud Kernel Correlation
Authors:  Thomas Fabry (K.U.Leuven) , Dirk Vandermeulen () , Paul Suetens ()

Quantitative Assessment of the Accuracy of 3D Face Shape Reconstruction
Authors:  Hassan Amin () , Duncan Gillies ()

The University of Southampton Multi-Biometric Tunnel and introducing a novel 3D gait dataset
Authors:  Richard Seely (Univesity of Southampton) , Sina Samangooei (University of Southampton) , John Carter (University of Southampton) , Mark Nixon (University of Southampton) , Lee Middleton (University of Southampton)

11:45 - 12:45
 
Crime and Biometrics Panel:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)
The BCOE and the Future of Biometrics at the FBI
Authors:  Richard Vorderbruegge ()

Using 3D pose alignment tools in forensic applications of Face Recognition
Authors:  Ambika Suman (NPIA)

Forensic Identification of People from Images and Video
Authors:  Nicole Spaun (FBI)

12:45 - 14:00
 
Lunch 30/9:
Location: On your own
Session Chair(s):
14:00 - 15:00
 
Invited Talk: Pawan Sinha, "Face Recognition By Humans":
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)
15:00 - 15:30
 
Tea and Poster Session B:
Location: Regency E Foyer
Session Chair(s):
15:30 - 16:30
 
Fingerprint, Face and Ear:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Marios Savvides (CMU)
Robust 2D Ear Registration and Recognition Based on SIFT Point Matching
Authors:  John Bustard (University of Southampton) , Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Generating Registration-free Cancelable Fingerprint Templates
Authors:  Sharat Chikkerur (MIT) , Nalini Ratha (IBM Research) , Jonathan Connell (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) , Ruud Bolle (IBM Research)

Pose-tolerant Non-frontal Face Recognition using EBGM
Authors:  Kin-Wang Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) , Jiansheng Chen (CUHK CSE) , Yiu-Sang Moon (CUHK CSE)

18:00 - 21:00
 
Conference Banquet - Speaker David T. Skelton, "Science for People Who Are Bad at Math: Socio-Legal Implications for the Developing Field of Biometrics":
Location: Regency F Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
07:30 - 08:25
 
Registration 1/10:
Location:
Session Chair(s):
08:30 - 09:30
 
Panel Session: Privacy and Biometrics - Why and How:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Emile Kelkboom (Philips Research) , Patrizio Campisi (University "Roma Tre") , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University) , Yagiz Sutcu (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
09:30 - 10:30
 
Invited Talk: Mike King (iArpa), "Exploring the Science of Biometrics Under Relaxed Constraints":
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s): Nalini Ratha (IBM Research)
10:30 - 10:50
 
Coffee:
Location: Regency E Foyer
Session Chair(s):
10:50 - 12:30
 
Best Papers From BTAS 2008:
Location: Regency E Ballroom
Session Chair(s):
Class Distance Weighted Locality Preserving Projection for Automatic Age Estimation
Authors:  Kazuya Ueki (NEC Soft, Ltd.) , Masakazu Miya () , Tetsuji Ogawa () , Tetsunori Kobayashi ()

3D Facial Gestures in Biometrics: from Feasibility Study to Application
Authors:  Lanthao Benedikt (Cardiff University) , David Marshall (Cardiff University) , Paul Rosin (Cardiff University) , Darren Cosker (University of Bath)

Cancelable Biometrics for HMM-based Signature Recognition
Authors:  Emanuele Maiorana (University "Roma Tre") , Patrizio Campisi (University "Roma Tre") , Javier Ortega-Garcia (UAM Madrid) , Alessandro Neri (University "Roma Tre")

Extended Depth of Field Iris Recognition with Correlation Filters
Authors:  Vishnu Naresh Boddeti (Carnegie Mellon University) , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University)

Human and Computer Evaluations of Face Sketches with Implications for Forensic Investigations
Authors:  Yong Zhang (Youngstown State university) , John Sullins (Youngstown State University) , Christine McCullough (Youngstown State University) , Christine Ross (Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation)

12:30 - 17:00
 
Conference Closes:
Location:
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