National Institute of

Standards and Technology

INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC 

PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE 

Evaluation and Performance of Biometric Technologies 

May 3-5, 2016 

Call for Papers 

NIST,	NPL	and the European Association for	Biometrics invite	talks for the IBPC conference on performance and testing of biometric	

systems. The forum will bring together evaluators, users, and technology providers to discuss performance in applications that	

embed biometric functions or component. The conference is	focused on	quantitative, applied biometrics, aiming	to elicit

information	that	guides	policy,	design,	planning,	and	implementation	of	high	performance	biometric	systems,	particularly how

systems	are tested, certified, upgraded and improved.	 The conference specifically	invites	talks	on border control,	including	ABC, and

human	involvement, Entry-Exit, and overall security.	The conference aims to expand the use of biometrics by targeting operationally

relevant	themes, including design, procurement, and measurement.

Topic area I: Test design	and analysis

Design of experiments, efficient testing, sequential testing

Beyond	the DET: Novel tests and performance metrics

Statistical methods for	efficiency, for	prediction

Individual	specific	analysis,	mixed	effects

Longitudinal analysis,	Effects of age and ageing.

Biometrics in	infants, children, elderly

Face	recognition in video: multiple	persons, cameras,	non-cooperation

Desirable, undesirable algorithm properties – 1:1, 1:N and forensics

Identification	systems:	metrics, limits, scalability,	relation	to	1:1

Desirable, undesirable sample properties, and quality estimation

Product vs. component tests, certification,	interoperability

Performance	of sensors	and capture devices

Testing	and standardization gaps;	testing in	academia

Usability	and accessibility	testing for biometrics

Topic area	II:	Operational	aspects:	Border Control

Recent concepts of operations,	Entry	and	Exit

Recent test results

Expedited biometrics,	expedited	border	control

Biometrics with	non-habituated	populations

Expedited traveler programs

Air, sea, land	borders: Where are the bottlenecks

e-Passport solutions: When is it viable, needed and cost effective

Human performance:	Checking identity after automated 1:1	or 1:N

Role of simulation

Security, attacks,	tests, red teams

Topics area III: Mobile and remote authentication

Biometrics in	security context: Spoofing, deterrence, risks, priors,	

costs, fallbacks, evaluation of multifactor authentication

Resilience under active	attacks (vulnerability,	spoofing)

Feasibility of common criteria	testing of biometric components

Privacy enhancing technology, de-identification

Remote authentication: Challenges, assurance, testing

Retrospectives, lessons learned, long term perspective,	critical

appraisal of other programs, events, specifications.

Organizers:

Patrick Grother, Elham Tabassi, NIST

Tony Mansfield, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Christoph	Busch, European	Assoc. for Biometrics (EAB)

Intended	speakers:

Research and development staff, system analysts,

users, evaluators, planners, writers of technical

specifications, standards	developers	and adopters.

Target audience:

Professionals concerned with biometric systems

evaluation, procurement, deployment, maintenance,

design, configuration, integration, standardization,

research and development.

Important	dates:

Feb 08 2016 Submission of abstract <	1	page

Feb 15 2016 Notification of acceptance

Apr 20 2016 Online registration closes

Apr 27 2016 Submission of slides	+ papers

May 03 2016

May 05 2016

IBPC 2016 Conference

May 5-6 2016 Workshop: “Quantifying the	weight of

forensic evidence“

May 5,	2016 Seminar: “Non-cooperative face

recognition inc. video surveillance”

Logistics:

When: May 3-5,	2016

Where: Red Auditorium (cap. 400)

NIST Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Internet: Wireless

Hotel: Gaithersburg area hotels, TBA

Fee: $US	165 (estimate) via registration

Contact the	organizers:

Email: ibpc2016 AT nist DOT gov