INTERNATIONAL FACE PERFORMANCE 

CONFERENCE

Supporting Performance of Face Recognition

November 27-29, 2018

FINAL PROGRAM

NIST, NPL and the EAB are happy to announce the agenda for the IFPC 2018 conference on 

performance of face recognition which is focused on all technical factors affecting the deployment and 

use of high performance face recognition applications, including applications, standards, advanced and 

rapid capture, quality assessment, age and ageing effects, demographic effects, datasets, their 

preparation, training and tuning, presentation attack detection, non-cooperative uses, accuracy 

measurement, and performance tests.

Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, the 

conference aims to assemble a set of speakers from across the globe involved in face recognition 

development, procurement, deployment and operations. The overarching goal is to bring greater 

maturity to face recognition by improving performance, transparency, and trustworthiness. The 

organizers welcome proposals for technical or policy presentations focused on any technical factors, 

problems, and mitigations that influence face recognition operations and applications.

Organizers:

Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Jonathon Phillips, NIST, US

Tony Mansfield, NPL, UK

Christoph Busch, EAB, DE

Speakers:

Research and development staff, system analysts, users, 

evaluators, planners, writers of technical specifications, 

standards developers and adopters.

Target audience:

Professionals concerned with face recognition procurement, 

deployment, maintenance, design, configuration, integration, 

standardization, research and development.

Main Conference

IFPC 2018 Conference

Red Auditorium, NIST

November 27, 28, 29

IFPC Conference Links: Homepage Registration Directions

Face Recognition @ NIST Face Homepage FRVT 2018 Face Morph Detection

Face Forensics [PDF] FRVT Ongoing FRPC 2017 [PDF]
IFPC 2018 - Tuesday Nov 27 IFPC 2018 - Wednesday Nov 28 IFPC 2018 - Thursday Nov 29

0800 Arrive + Registration: 08:30 Welcome + Logistics 0800 Arrive + Registration 08:30: Start + Review Day 1 0800 Arrive + Registration 08:30: Start + Review Day 2

Government and Borders

01 0840 Arun Vemury, DHS Science + Technology Directorate:

Welcome + DHS context

19 0835 Lars Ericson, IARPA: Overview of the Odin program on 

presentation attack detection

Passports

38 0840 Amir Arien, Biometrics Registration Authority, Israel:

The Israeli National Biometric Project

02 0850 Dan Tanciar, US Customs and Border Protection: CBP 

use of Facial Recognition in Development of a Biometric 

Entry/Exit System

Security

20 0855 Ralph Breithaupt, BSI: Presentation Attack Detection 

& Morphing: New developments in biometric security 

testing and certification

39 0905 Delia McGarry and Stephen Melsom, U.S. Department 

of State: Image manipulation detection and effects of 

perspective distortion on face identification

03 0915 Oliver Bausinger, BSI, Smart Borders: EES, ETIAS and 

Interoperability - towards a unified identity management for 

Third Country Nationals

21 0920 Rasa Karbauskaite, Frontex: Morphing and other 

related vulnerabilities for border control

40 0930 Shashi Samprathi, Australian Passport Office DFAT:

Update on uses of face recognition

22 0940 Max Dermann, Bank of New Zealand: Evaluation of 

04 0940 Anna Stratmann, BSI: Biometric processes of the Entry face PAD solutions - a bank's journey

Exit System

41 0955 Andreas Wolf, Bundesdruckerei: ICAO’s technical 

report on portrait quality

Morphing

23 1005 Gert Jan de Nijs, Dutch Vehicle Authority: Creating a 

process to prevent photo fraud

1005 Break 1030 Break 1020 Break

05 1035 Markus Nuppeney, BSI: Automated Border Control 

(EasyPASS): Monitoring the system performance

24 1055 Fons Knopjes, Passports Netherlands: SOTAMD: A 

European state of the art morph detection program

Privacy

42 1050 Mickey Cohen, Shanit: Privacy, Security and facial deidentification aspects

06 1100 James L. Wayman, John P. Bowes and Joshua 

Abraham, 2018 for Department of Home Affairs, Australia, 

SmartGate(TM) Update

25 1120 Kari Kanto, The National Police Board of Finland: 

Morph detection experiments with large data sets

43 1110 Arun Ross, Michigan State University: Semi 

Adversarial Networks for Face De-identification

07 1150 John Howard, SAIC: Evaluation of rapid face capture 

devices

26 1145 Christoph Busch, HDA/NTNU: Morphing attack 

detection overview

Testing, Standards, Benchmarks

44 1135 Stephane Gentric, Idemia: TBA

Fast Cap08 1215 Ilan Arnon, Face4Systems: Face recognition on-themove: Case Studies

27 1210 Marta Gomez-Barrero, Hochschule Darmstadt:

Vulnerability Evaluation of Presentation + Morphing Attacks

45 1200 Thorsten Thies, Cognitec: Effects of wrong ID labels

09 1340 Geoff Whitaker, DSTL UK: ISO 30137 video 

surveillance and OSAC ASTM update E3115

28 1230 Mei Ngan, NIST: FRVT Face Morph Detection 

Evaluation

46 1225 Brendan Klare, Rank One Computing: Emerging 

applications in commercial face recognition

1240 Lunch 1245 Lunch 1240 Lunch

FR in Police

10 1405 Mark Branchflower, Interpol: Face recognition in 

Transnational Crime

Human Aspects

29 1400 Jonathon Phillips, NIST: Recognition Accuracy of 

Forensic Examiners, Super-recognizers, and Algorithms

47 1340 Christoph Busch, Hochschule Darmstadt: Measures for 

benchmarking indexing algorithms

11 30 1420 Richard Vorder Bruegge, FBI: Improving the Process: 

What could help forensic examiners make better decisions?

48 1405 Michael Thieme, Novetta: Impact of Non-Facial 

Regions on FR Performance

12 31 1445 Eilidh Noyes, University of Huddersfield: What is a 

super-recognizer?

49 1430 Tony Mansfield, NPL: ISO/IEC 30137-2 Biometric video 

surveillance - testing and reporting

1430 Break (cafeteria closes at 1500) 1510 Break (cafeteria closes at 1500) 1450 Break (cafeteria closes at 1500)

Demographics

13 1500 John Campbell, Bion Biometrics: ISO/IEC 22116 

Differential impacts of demographics in biometric systems

32 1540 Carina Hahn: NIST: Issues on measuring facial forensic 

apprenticeship

50 1520 Marek Rejman-Greene, IdentityForServices: Design 

and management of reliable services using face recognition

14 1520 Yevgeniy Sirotin, SAIC: Estimating relative skin 

reflectance and measuring its effect on recognition.

33 1605 David White, UNSW-Sydney: Incorporating human 

perceptual expertise in face identification systems

51 1540 Chris Malec, DSTO: Australian government FR 

algorithm performance testing

15 1545 Mike King, Florida Institute of Technology:

Demographic effects in face recognition

34 1630 Carlos Castillo, Uni. of Maryland: DCNNs for 

unconstrained face recognition

52 1605 Matt Pruitt, NEC: Getting the Best Facial Image in an 

Uncontrolled Environment: The Effect of User Experience on 

Facial Quality and Match Scores

16 1610 Clare Garvie, Center on Privacy & Technology

Georgetown Uni.: Consequences of differential impacts

35 1655 Alice O’Toole, UT Dallas: Understanding face 

representations in deep convolutional neural networks: Face 

Space Theory evolves

53 1630 Nathan Kalka + Brianna Maze, Noblis: Curating largescale face recognition benchmark test sets

17 1635 Patrick Grother, NIST: Demographic dependencies in 

contemporary face recognition algorithms

36 1720 Neal Gieselman, Aware Inc.: Tools for human face 

comparison

54 1700 Patrick Grother, NIST: FRVT 2018 and the errors that 

remain in FR systems: Future Image Quality Standardization

18 1700 Panel on Demographics: John Campbell, Clare Garvie, 

Patrick Grother, Mike King, Yevgeniy Sirotin

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Talks: 16. Dress code: Business casual, face masks Talks: 18 Social Event 6PM: Dogfish Ale House opposite NIST Talks: 17 Adjourn: Until 2020