National Institute of

Standards and Technology

INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC 

PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE

Evaluation and Performance of Biometric Technologies

April 1-3, 2014

Call for Papers

NIST, NPL and Fraunhofer IGD invite talks for the IBPC conference on performance and testing of biometric systems. The forum will 

bring together evaluators, users, 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 goal is not to give specific testing results unless the test methods are novel or the results are fundamental to future 

decisions. The conference specifically invites talks on automated border control (ABC), video-based recognition, security, and 

emerging biometric uses. The conference aims to advance and expand the use of biometrics by targeting operationally relevant 

themes, giving emphasis to design, procurement, and what performance data operators require from test and evaluation activities. 

Topic area I: Test methods:

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

Recognition in video: archival and streaming, multiple persons, cameras 

Product vs. component tests, certification, interoperability 

Use of biometrics in early life: Effects of age and ageing 

Beyond the DET: Novel tests and performance metrics 

Efficient testing, re-usable testing, frameworks 

Statistical methods for efficiency, for prediction 

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

Desirable, undesirable sample properties, and quality estimation 

Performance of sensors and capture devices 

Untested, unspoken aspects of performance: what matters, what does 

not, what's in the noise? 

Testing and standardization gaps; testing in academia 

Usability and accessibility testing for biometrics 

Topic area II: Operational aspects 

Certification: When is it viable, needed and cost effective 

How to drive error rates lower: Measurement for control + mitigation 

Quality of samples and databases. Evaluation / roles of Quality 

Designing tests as integral parts of operational systems; cloud tests 

Total system performance and tradeoffs: Accuracy, speed, security, 

reliability, usability, interoperability, scalability, assurance, stability 

How to specify performance in a procurement document 

Technology vs. scenario vs. operational vs. other tests 

Realizing multimodal benefits: fusion beyond simple OR 

Data and its ground-truth: operational vs. laboratory vs. synthetic 

Topics area III: Security and privacy aspects 

Security: risks, priors, costs, fallbacks, evaluation of multifactor auth. 

Resilience under active attacks (vulnerability, spoofing) 

Defeat of systems (detection of evasion) 

Feasibility of common criteria testing of biometric components 

Privacy enhancing technology, de-identification 

Remote authentication: Challenges, assurance, testing 

Template protection and biometric pseudo-identifiers 

Retrospectives, lessons learned, long term perspective, critical appraisal 

of other programs, events, specifications. 

Program Committee: 

Patrick Grother, Elham Tabassi, NIST, US 

Tony Mansfield, NPL, UK 

Christoph Busch, Fraunhofer IGD, DE 

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 system 

evaluation, procurement, deployment, 

maintenance, design, configuration, integration, 

standardization, research and development.

Important dates:

Jan 11 2014 Submission of 1-5 page abstract 

Feb 01 2014 Notification of acceptance 

Mar 23, 2014 Submission of slides + papers 

Mar 23, 2014 Online registration closes 

Mar 31 2014 Satellite Workshops I: 

a. Vulnerability assessment

b. TBA

Apr 01 2014 IBPC 2014 Conference 

Apr 03 2014 

Apr 04 2014 Satellite Workshops II: TBA

Logistics: 

When: April 1-3, 2014 

Where: Green Auditorium (cap. 250)

NIST Gaithersburg, MD, USA 

Internet: Wireless 

Hotel: Gaithersburg area hotels, TBA 

Fee: $US 175 (estimate) via registration 

Contact the organizers: 

Email: ibpc2014 AT nist DOT gov