Conference Session
New biometric technologies put to the test
Emerging biometrics: future directions in identification technology
James A. Loudermilk, Senior Level Technologist, Director’ Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA
Continuous behavioural bometrics for DARPA’s Active Authentication Initiative
Dr Neil Costigan, CTO, BehavioSec, Sweden
The future is now: fundamental rights and ethical implications of human odour-based biometrics for law enforcement and security purposes
Matteo E. Bonfanti and Andrew P. Rebera, Research Fellows, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy
Eye vein biometrics with off the shelf cell phones
Toby Rush, CEO & Founder, EyeVerify, USA
Where you look shows who you are: Using eye tracking behaviour for human identification
Dr. Pawel Kasprowski, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Emerging biometrics: future directions in identification technology
James A. Loudermilk, Senior Level Technologist, Director’ Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA
- Diverse and rich identification signatures scattered (DNA, scent, voice, images . . .)
- Government identification and attribution adopting advancing technology
- Investigative Biometrics advancing (tattoo image matching, remote electrocardiology, electroencephalography)
- Societies no longer just reacting but rather shaping technologies
Speaker biography
James Loudermilk is the Department of Justice representative on the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management, which he co-chairs. He also represents the FBI on the Identity Intelligence Board of Directors. He is a member of the FBI Biometric Steering Committee. With Dr. Lawrence Hornak he co-chaired the update of “The National Biometrics Challenge.” He entered on duty in July 1996 as the FBI’s first Senior Level employee, and was the executive responsible for design, development, installation, and transition to operations of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) representing a $640 million investment to revitalize FBI identification technology. Subsequently, he held a variety of executive positions in the Information Technology Branch including Chief Architect, Chief IT Strategist, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, and Assistant Director of the IT Operations Division. He returned to the Science and Technology Branch in February 2009. Before entering the civil service, he was in the private sector for over twenty years, holding various executive positions, in system engineering, software development, program management, and logistics. He was also a divisional CIO. Mr. Loudermilk holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mathematics and the Degree of Applied Scientist, in Communications Engineering.
Continuous behavioural bometrics for DARPA’s Active Authentication Initiative
Dr Neil Costigan, CTO, BehavioSec, Sweden
The current standard method for validating a user’s identity for authentication requires humans to do something that is inherently unnatural: create, remember, and manage long, complex passwords. Moreover, as long as the session remains active, typical systems incorporate no mechanisms to verify that the user originally authenticated is the user still in control of the keyboard.
DARPAs Active Authentication program seeks to address this by developing ways of validating the identity of the person that focus on the unique aspects of the individual through the use of software based biometrics. When you interact with technology you do so in a pattern, leaving behind a “cognitive fingerprint.”
DARPA is funding research via a four-year program into how such Active Authentication systems will look like. The talk will discuss the program, how research to date is progressing, and present preliminary findings with respect to large-scale tests.
Speaker biography
Dr Neil Costigan is CTO at BehavioSec, Lulea, Sweden. He has a background in entrepreneurial and technical leadership experience in seed-stage, venture-backed startups, and global technology corporations. He has over 10 years international experience of work and education in Ireland, Sweden, France, and the US.
He was previously VP R&D at smart card manufacturer Gemplus in France and co-founder/CTO at PKI specialists Celo Communications (Celo) in the USA and Sweden.
A software developer by trade, he has developed a number of commercial security applications and spoken extensively on cryptography & network security. He holds a PhD (2009) for his thesis on Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Modern Processor Architectures.
The future is now: fundamental rights and ethical implications of human odour-based biometrics for law enforcement and security purposes
Matteo E. Bonfanti and Andrew P. Rebera, Research Fellows, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy
Finger, vein, face, iris, retina, voice, gait, and several other behaviours are successfully used in biometrics to identify and recognise individuals. What about personal scent? Studies have shown that every individual has a characteristic odour (“bodily odour signature”, “odourprint”), usually transmitted through bodily fluids like sweat and urine, that provides information sufficient for identification and recognition. Such potential has been already exploited, by police and security services—though the “technology” they employ has traditionally been restricted to sniffer dogs: to our knowledge, no biometric systems have yet been used. But this does not mean it could not be done in the future. The deployment of such technology would be likely to occur if it proves to be reliable, secure and cost-effective. But furthermore, the technology must be respectful ethical principles and individuals’ fundamental rights. This presentation will tackle the latter issues. Starting from an overview of possible police and security applications of odour-based biometrics, it will discuss the policy and ethical implications implied by odour-based biometrics.
Speaker biographies
Dr. Andrew P. Rebera is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, based in Rome. His research focuses on ethical and societal issues in emerging technologies, including biometrics, identification management systems, and surveillance technologies. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including a recent paper in Review of Policy Research on mass-rollouts of biometrics (co-authored with Emilio Mordini). Andrew works on a variety of European Commission funded projects, including Tabula Rasa, an investigation into anti-spoofing measures in biometrics.
Dr. Matteo E. Bonfanti is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, where his research focuses mainly on ethical and fundamental rights issues in new and emerging technologies for security, the EU internal security normative framework and strategies, and other security-related issues (intelligence, intelligence-led policing and information warfare). At present Matteo follows two EC projects funded under FP7. SNIFFER concerns border security application of artificial sniffing devices; ETCETERA concerns the evaluation of critical and emerging technologies for the elaboration of a security research agenda in Europe. Before joining CSSC, Matteo was Research Fellow for the European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR) Project at the Central European University Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) in Budapest. In 2008 he served as research assistant at the office of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) in Brussels.
Eye vein biometrics with off the shelf cell phones
Toby Rush, CEO & Founder, EyeVerify, USA
Eye vein biometrics can use the common smart phone to capture an image of the blood vessels in the whites of the eye and then use pattern matching to achieve fingerprint level accuracy. Since nearly all smart phones have a camera suitable for this biometric, no extra hardware is required.
Historically, the needs of security professionals have been at odds with the usability that consumer’s demand. Eye Vein Biometrics provides high levels of security while making the user experience simple and convenient.
This presentation will explore the underpinning science and results achieved to date. We will also discuss market use cases and review results from early deployments.
Speaker biography
Toby Rush is an expert in mobile & wireless technologies with deep experience in software, imaging and sensors. Prior to founding EyeVerify, Toby Rush co-founded and was CEO of Rush Tracking Systems, an RFID solutions venture. He grew it from 2 to 75 people. He raised two rounds of funding and then was acquired by Pharos Capital, a Private Equity firm. While with Pharos Capitol, he acquired 2 companies to consolidate the "Smart Forklift" sensor and software space. Prior to Rush Tracking, he led the product development & QA teams for SAT Corp, a venture funded mobile software company. While with BSI Consulting, he started the mobile and wireless practice area, which eventually spun out into its own company called MobilEdge Solutions. Toby started his career with Accenture.
Where you look shows who you are: Using eye tracking behaviour for human identification
Dr. Pawel Kasprowski, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Eyes are commonly used for identification. Methods like iris or retina scanning are well established. However, biometric identification based on the eye movements has been so far used only in a few scientific publications. It was presented for the first time in 2003 during Biometrics conference in London (by the speaker himself). The poster achieved Best Poster on Technological Advancement Prize.
Recently eye movements’ biometrics gained popularity with several new research centers (especially in USA, Finland and Greece). However, the main obstacle for eye movements’ biometrics usage is still low popularity of eye trackers – devices registering eye movements. Moreover, existing eye trackers are relatively expensive. Because of those facts, to push technology forward, we decided to popularize eye movements’ biometrics by publishing datasets of eye movements’ registrations and organizing the competition which aims to find the correct identity of people (EMVIC). The results of the competition were very good with over 50 competitors and about 95% accuracy of identification. It shows that eye movements’ biometrics may be considered as encouraging new biometric technology.
The presentation will include:
- Introduction to eye movements’ physiology
- What’s interesting in eye movements
- Some usages of eye registering
- How can we provide identification experiment using eye tracker
- Recent development – results of The First Eye Movement Verification and Identification Competition (EMVIC)
Speaker biography
Dr Pawel Kasprowski specializes in databases and signal processing. He has experience in data mining systems and classification algorithms. His publications (together with Prof. Jozef Ober) about eye movement biometrics were the first research in this field. In 1999 he founded IT company which deals with application developing and software trainings. In 2008-2010 he was the Dean of Computer Science Department at Silesian Higher School of Computer Science. Since 2005 he is Assistant Professor at Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology.
Conference at a glance
29 October 2012
08.00 Delegate Coffee & Tea
09.30 Conference Opening
17.30 End of Day One
30 October 2012
08.00 Delegate Coffee & Tea
09.00 Conference Sessions
Exhibition Opens
17.00 End of Conference Day Two
17:15-19:00 Evening Drinks Reception
31 October 2012
08.00 Delegate Coffee & Tea
09.00 Conference Sessions
Exhibition Opens
16.00 Close of Conference and Exhibition
Delegate Refreshments
