National Institute of

Standards and Technology

INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC 

PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE

Evaluation and Performance of Biometric Technologies

March 5-9, 2012

PROGRAM

NIST, NPL and Fraunhofer IGD are happy to announce the agenda for the IBPC 2012 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 aims to detail developments in how systems are being tested, certified, 

upgraded and improved rather than to snapshot specific testing results. The conference specifically 

includes talks on Automated Border Control, a rapidly growing application of front-end and back-end 

biometric technology today, and emerging biometric uses. The talks will target operationally relevant

and desirable themes, and will give emphasis to design, procurement, and what operators require from 

test and evaluation activities. The conference aims to advance future use of biometrics by sifting 

salient points from the accumulated experience of the last decade, to identify novel evaluation 

methodologies and recent trends in testing, and to determine what is most operationally relevant in 

the context of the contemporary and emerging marketplaces. 

Program Committee:

Patrick Grother, Elham Tabassi, NIST, US

Tony Mansfield, NPL, UK

Christoph Busch, Fraunhofer IGD, DE

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.

Satellite Workshop I, March 5 Main Conference, March 6-8 Satellite Workshop II, March 9 Satellite Workshop III, March 9

Technical update on the second 

generation NIST Fingerprint Image 

Quality Algorithm

IBPC 2012 Conference Artefact, Liveness, Suspicious 

Presentation Detection

Voice Biometrics Data Standardization 

for Law Enforcement, Military and 

Homeland Security

Portrait Room, NIST Green Auditorium, NIST Portrait Room, NIST Heritage Room

13:00 – 18:00 09:00 – 12:00 09:00 – 16:30

Registration https://www.fbcinc.com/nist_IPBC/atreg1.aspx Registration Deadline: March 1, but 

attendees who are not U. S. Citizens 

or Permanent Residents must 

register on or before February 26

Hotels + Logistics http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ibpc_logistics.cfm

Maps + Directions http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/index.cfm

IBPC 2012 Homepage http://biometrics.nist.gov/ibpc2012
IBPC 2012 - Tuesday March 6 IBPC 2012 - Wednesday March 7 IBPC 2012 - Thursday March 8

0800 Continental Breakfast 0800 Continental Breakfast 0800 Continental Breakfast

0830 Introduction, overview, goals, logistics 0830 Review of day 1, polls, question and answer 0830 Review of day 2, polls, question and answer

0840 NIST Welcome, ITL Laboratory 0845 Jim Wayman, San Jose State University, Keynote on 

Testing Trajectories

0845 Rick Lazarick, CSC, Patricia Wolfhope, DHS S&T, 

Initiatives Toward Re-usable testing

Government

0850 Nick Megna, Federal Bureau of Investigation, CJIS 

Division, NGI Program Initiatives

Government

0925 Will Graves, DHS US-VISIT, Update on IDENT and USVISIT Activities

Mobile

0910 Eric Kukula, Noblis, Towards a Mobile Biometric Test 

Framework

0925 Bill Casey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Biometrics 

Center of Excellence, BCOE Program Overview

0945 Srikanth Nadhamuni, UIDAI, Very Large Scale 

Multimodal Testing Methods + Results for India's UID System

0935 Raul Sanchez-Reillo, Uni. Carlos III, Migrating Biometrics 

to Mobile Scenarios: Performance and Usability Evaluation

0950 Raj Mashruwala, Scenario Testing of Mobile Fingerprint 

Verification System

1020 Mark Branchflower, INTERPOL, The INTERPOL Gateway 

and Forensic Developments for 2012

1000 George W. Quinn, NIST, Plans for the IREX IV Activity 

Supporting Iris Identification

1015 Craig Watson, NIST, FPVTE 2012, Plans for NIST’s 

Upcoming 1:N Fingerprint Evaluation

1035 Patrick Grother, NIST, FRVT 2012, Plans for NIST’s 

Upcoming Face Recognition Evaluation

1005 Elham Tabassi, NIST, NFIQ 1  NFIQ 2: An update

1017 Break 1037 Break 1025 Break

Face + Automated Border Contorl

1045 Fares Rahmun, BVA, National Preparations Towards the 

Operation of the European Visa Information System (VIS)

1105 PANEL, Tests to Support Commercial Adoption. Tests + 

Standards Enable Fair Competition. Tests of Privacy Enhancing 

Technologies. Tests for Certification.

Terry Hartmann, Unisys Cathy Tilton, Daon

Raj Mashruwala Steve Elliott, Purdue Univ.

Jonas Anderson, A&A Marine Vision AB

1055 Narishige Abe, Fujitsu, Evaluation of Minutiae 

Reproducibility for Seasonal Variation, AND Performance 

Evaluation for Touch- and Sweep-type Sensor Verification

1110 Markus Nuppeney, BSI, Automated Border Control based 

on ICAO compliant eMRTDs

1120 Christoph Busch, Hochschule Darmstadt, Conformance 

to Standardized Minutia Detection Requirements

1135 Stéphane Gentric, Morpho, Border control: From 

Technical to Operational Evaluation

Standards

1145 Fernando Podio, NIST, Performance Without 

Conformance? Value of Level 1, 2, 3, conformance.

1200 Mark Burge, Mitre, Impact of Demographics on Face 

Recognition

Biometric Security

1205 Axel Munde, BSI, Biometrics and Security Evaluations 1200 The ISO/IEC 19795 Biometric Performance Testing and 

Reporting standard - See panel below

1225 Lunch 1230 Lunch 1225 Lunch

1350 Biometric WG, the IC Passport Committee of Japan, 

Study Report on Facial Biometrics for Japanese ePassports

1400 Tony Mansfield, NPL, Evaluating Attack Resistance 

Levels of Biometric Systems

1335 Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tokyo Institute of technology 

A novel framework for evaluation of ID photo quality

1415 Michael Thieme, IBG, Sanitized Online Collection and 

Identity Analysis Library (SOCIAL)

1425 Xuebing Zhou, CASED, A Generalized Framework for 

Privacy/Security Assessment of Biometric Template Protection

1400 Giot Romain, ENSICAEN, Performance Evaluation of 

Biometric Template Update

1445 Jonathon Phillips, NIST, The Next Face Challenge: 

Achieving Robust Human Level Performance

1450 Christopher Rosenberger, ENSICAEN, How to Evaluate 

Transformation-Based Cancelable Biometric Systems?

1425 Stephen Elliott, Purdue University, Evolution of the 

Human Biometric Sensor Interaction

1510 Brad Ulery, Noblis, Accuracy and Reliability of Forensic 

Latent Fingerprint Decisions

1515 Elaine Newton, NIST, Editor ISO/IEC 30107, AntiSpoofing and Liveness Detection Techniques

One-to-many identification

1450 Stephen Wood, NIST, Operational Ground-Truth: 

Determination, Limits and Analytic Implications

1555 Break 1525 Break 1515 Break

Iris + Multimodal

1620 Jim Jasinski, Cogent, Multimodal Testing and 

Multimodal Device Evaluation

Biometric Security

1555 Stephanie Schuckers, Clarkson University,

Biometric Liveness Detection: Framework and Metrics

1545 Michael Schuckers, St. Lawrence University, Scaling of 

Biometric False Match Rates Using Extreme Value Theory

1645 James Cambier, Cross Match Technologies, Certification 

of Iris Capture Devices

1620 Ted Dunstone, Biometrics Institute, Biometric 

Vulnerability Assessments, An Update

1610 Brian DeCann and Arun Ross, WVU, Modeling an 

Anonymous Identification System

1710 Dan Potter, Scitor, Towards an Iris Device Qualification 

Test

1645 Belen Fernandez, University Carlos III, Common Criteria 

and Biometric Performance Testing

1635 Eric Granger, University of Quebec, Dmitry Gorodnichy, 

CBSA, Evaluation of Face Recognition for Video Surveillance

1735 Adam Czajka, NASK PL, Iris Recognition Reliability: 

Authenticity Assessment + Influence of Illuminant Wavelength

1710 Patrick Schuch, Dermalog, On Testing of Liveness 

Detection Feature Extractors for Fingerprint Live Scanners

1700 Patrick Grother, NIST, Evaluation of 1:N Recognition 

Algorithms: IREX III and MBE 2010 Methods + Analysis

1800 Adjourn to reception 1735 Adjourn 1725 Adjourn until 2014... See satellite sessions next page

The ISO/IEC 19795 multipart standard –

Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting

1203 Part 2: Michael Thieme,

Technology + scenario testing

1209 Part 4: Patrick Grother,

Interoperability tests

1215 Part 6: Tony Mansfield,

Operational testing

1220 Other SC37 WG5 standards 

Raul Sanchez-Reillo, ISO/IEC 29156, 

29197, 29198, and Patrick Grother

ISO/IEC 29120

1200 Part 1: Tony Mansfield, Principles and 

framework

1206 Part 3: Eric Kukula, Modality 

specific aspects

1212 Part 5: Rick Lazarick, Graded 

PACS tests

1218 Part 7: Patrick Grother, Oncard Comparison
Satellite Session 1 Satellite Session II Satellite Session III

Location: Portrait Room, NIST

Time: 13:00 - 18:00, Monday March 5

Location: Portrait Room, NIST

Time: 09:00 - 12:00, Friday March 9, 2012

Location: Heritage Room, NIST

Time: 09:00 – 16:30, Friday March 9

Satellite Workshop: NIST Fingerprint Image Quality – 2nd 

Generation

Satellite Workshop: Artefact, Liveness, Suspicious Presentation 

Detection

Satellite Workshop: Voice Biometrics Data Interchange 

Standardization for Law Enforcement, Military & Homeland Security 

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/development_nfiq_2.cfm http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53227 http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ansi_standard.cfm

Admission: There is no fee to attend these workshops. All workshops attendees should email the respective chair at least one week in advance, so that he or she can arrange access to the NIST 

campus. Registration Deadline: March 1, but non U. S. Citizens or Permanent Residents must register on or before February 26.

Overview: This workshop, which follows the IBPC 2010 

session on NFIQ strategy, will present current technical 

work toward a revised algorithm. Goals are to inform users 

and to identify future direction.

Overview: This workshop is one of the first open sessions to 

address issues concerning biometric vulnerability. The focus 

will be on the concepts, terms, standards, and evaluation 

aspects.

Overview: The focus of the workshop is transmission of voice data 

and associated metadata for forensic analysis. This workshop will not 

deal with voice biometrics for applications such as access control or 

with features or models extracted from voice data. 

Chair: Elham DOT Tabassi AT nist DOT gov Chair: Elaine DOT Newton AT nist DOT gov Chairs: Brad DOT Wing AT nist DOT gov

Mark DOT Przybocki AT nist DOT gov

Hirotaka DOT Nakasone AT ic DOT fbi DOT gov 

Moderator: Elham Tabassi, NFIQ Architect Moderator: Elaine Newton, NIST, Editor ISO/IEC 30107 Moderator: Brad Wing, ANSI/NIST ITL Editor

Speakers:

1300 Elham Tabassi, NIST, NFIQ 2.0 project overview

1320 Oliver Bausinger, BSI, Motivation and use cases for 

NFIQ 2.0

1335 Michael Schwaiger, Secunet, Framework, 

architecture, modularization

1355 Christoph Busch, Fraunhofer IGD, Technical overview 

of features

1405 Martin Olsen, CASED, Candidate features, 

computation and visualization

1515 Intermezzo

1545 Johannes Merkle, Secunet, Quality feature evaluation, 

preliminary results

1615 Timo Ruhland, BKA, AFIS quality requirements and 

implementations

1630 Soweon Yoon and Anil Jain, MSU, Inclusion of 

mutilated fingerprint detection in NFIQ 2.0?

1650 Elham Tabassi, NIST, NFIQ 2.0 developments for the 

next year

1715 Discussion round on way forward

Speakers:

1. Elaine Newton, NIST, Editor of ISO/IEC 30107: Overview of 

the Current Draft International Standard 30107 on 

Artefact and Liveness Detection

2. Rick Lazarick, CSC, Co-editor of ISO/IEC 30107: Spoofs, 

Subversion & Suspicion: Terms and Concepts

3. Stephanie Schuckers, Clarkson University, and Arun Ross, 

West Virginia University, Error rate metrics proposed for 

detection of suspicious presentations to biometric 

authentication systems.

4. Ralph Breithaupt, BSI, Need and perspectives to realize 

liveness detection

5. Axel Munde, BSI, How can artifact detection complement 

common criteria and other security assessments of 

authentication systems

Details:

The ANSI/NIST-ITL standard “Data Format for the Interchange of 

Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information” has formed a 

committee to develop a new record type for voice data. There also 

has been as series of workshops on Investigatory Voice Biometrics 

over the past 2 years, hosted a joint US-Government Committee.

After an initial presentations by NIST to describe the processes 

involved in modifying the ANSI/NIST-ITL standard, the format of the 

workshop will be guided, open discussion of the requirements for 

useful transmission of voice data for forensic analysis. The US 

Government committee will present a ‘strawman’ record that will be 

used by the ANSI/NIST-ITL Committee as a starting point -- beginning 

with this workshop. Topics covered: actual transmission of the audio 

samples as well as associated metadata: analog and digital recording 

characteristics (including types of equipment); speaker and content 

characteristics (language, type of vocalization, situation - such as a 

911 call); redaction and snipping; environmental factors; geographic 

location; segmentation; diarization; quality; codecs and much more. 

This workshop will be followed by meetings of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 

Voice Committee to refine the record content prior to submission for 

voting upon for inclusion in the NIST-ITL standard.