KeynotesKeynote 1 (Biometrics)Speaker: Prof. Mark Nixon, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UKTitle: On gait and soft biometricsAbstract: We have been developing new approaches in gait biometrics, with prime advantage that gait can be used at a distance whereas other biometrics cannot. There is a rich selection of approaches and many advances have been made, as will be reviewed in this talk. Soft biometrics is an emerging area of interest in biometrics where we augment computer vision derived measures by human descriptions. Applied to gait biometrics, this again can be used where other biometric data is obscured or at too low resolution. The human descriptions are semantic and are a set of labels which are converted into numbers. Naturally, there are considerations of language and psychology when the labels are collected. After describing current progress in gait biometrics, this talk will describe how the soft biometrics labels are collected, and how they can be used to enhance recognizing people by the way they walk. As well as reinforcing biometrics, this approach might lead to a new procedure for collecting witness statements, and to the ability to retrieve subjects from video using witness statements.Bio: Dr. Nixon is a Professor in Computer Vision in the ISIS research group at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science. His research interests are in image processing and computer vision. He helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametric and non-parametric) which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis. He was an early worker in face recognition, later came to pioneer gait recognition, and more recently joined the pioneers of ear biometrics. He was the Principal Investigator with John Carter on the DARPA supported project Automatic Gait Recognition for Human ID at a Distance. Currently, he is on General Dynamics Defence Technology Centre's program on data fusion (biometrics, naturally). He is a member of the MoD/ARL (US) IBM-led Information Technology Alliance, in the sensors theme, and was labeled as a star Computer Scientist in a recent review. He co-chaired the IEEE 7th International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition FG2006 held at Southampton, UK in 2006. He was program chair at IEEE BTAS 2009 and at ICB 2009, and general chair for BTAS 2010, in addition to giving plenaries/ keynotes on gait biometrics at the IEEE Face and Gesture 2004, EUSIPCO 2004, ISVC 2006, and IEEE ISBAST 2008. His first book, Introductory Digital Design - a programmable approach, was published by MacMillan, UK, in July of 1995. With Tieniu Tan and Rama Chellappa, he wrote Human ID based on Gait which is part of the Springer Series on Biometrics, and was published late in 2005. His vision book, co-written with Dr. Alberto Aguado from the University of Surrey, entitled Feature Extraction and Image Processing is currently in its Second Edition, published by Academic Press/Elsevier in 2007.Keynote 5 (Hardware Security)Speaker: Prof. Danilo Gligoroski, NTNU, NorwayTitle: Ultra-efficient cryptography for the ultra-world beyond 2028Abstract: The world in 2028 is expected to be an "ultra-world"... we will have ultra-high-density digital devices, ultra-low-power, devices, ultra-Internet, etc. One natural question from cryptographic point of view is, "What can be 'ultra' in cryptography in 2028?". We are currently developing a whole portfolio of cryptographic algorithms that without losing the security levels, offer efficiency that is 2, 10, 100 or 1000 times better than the current cryptographic algorithms with the same level of security. Bio: Prof. Gligoroski is affiliated with the the Department of Telematics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research interests are Cryptography, Computer Security, Discrete algorithms and Information Theory and Coding. He made important contributions to the problems involving ultra fast public key algorithms, hash functions, fast symmetric cryptographic algorithms, stream ciphers, and provable security. In the talk I will address the industrial needs for "ultra-efficient" cryptographic primitives and I will describe several of the developed cryptographic algorithms that have the attribute "ultra". (http://www.item.ntnu.no/people/personalpages/fac/danilog/start)Keynote 3 (Secure Geolocalization)Speaker: Prof. Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandTitle: Geolocalization and privacy -- the state of the art and implications for the security and privacy of individualsAbstract: Human activity is above all a story of movements. The control and management of the movements and behaviors of individuals, combined with the circulation of objects and animals doted with technologies that allow geolocalization (e.g., RFID chips, Smartphones, GPSes, tablets, laptops, Internet devices), have become high-stakes issues for society. With geostrategic, economic, and societal impacts the technologies used for geolocalization and the various uses that are made of the data they yield are forcing us to re-examine the concept of digital privacy and to consider the most effective means of securing and protecting personal data. The purpose of this presentation is to explore stakes and challenges of secure geolocalization from several perspectives.Bio: Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie is a professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where she founded the Swiss cybersecurity advisory and research group, which deals with the socio-economic, managerial, legal, and technological dimensions of information and communication technology security. Alongside her academic responsibilities in Lausanne, she is currently serving as the president of the Social Commission of the University of Lausanne, and is also an invited professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva. She was a key researcher on the integrated European Research project SECOQC (Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography). She has authored around two hundred publications and more than twenty books on telecommunications and security issues. She is an active independent security adviser and an influential analyst on cybersecurity, cybercrime, and cyberconflicts related issues. She is a member of ITU - High Level Expert Group for Global Cybersecurity Agenda. She is a regular media commentator and provides executive advice on cybersecurity issues for public and private organizations. (www.hec.unil.ch/sgh)Keynote 2 (Biometrics)Speaker: Prof. Svetlana Yanushkevich, Biometric Technologies Laboratory, University of Calgary, CanadaTitle: Secure biometric system designAbstract: Biometric applications, which require storage, transmission, and processing of the unique personal identifiers, face the same problem as password-based authentication systems. Therefore, the protection measures should be instituted to safeguard the unique biometric identifiers from possible attacks. For mitigating or preventing the attacks, a biometric device or a system must be:1.tested at the design and prototyping phases of a life cycle, and2.periodically monitored for detecting features of potential attacks.The focus of this keynote is to introduce the biometric-based physical access system design styles, which allow for thwarting various attacks. These styles are called secure design styles. Building a model of attack to make predictions concerning the behavior of the system under study is the first step in designing a biometric system. In such models, effects of attacks are studied by monitoring symptoms of the attacks. For modeling of biometric tools before they are prototyped, other modeling techniques should be used, in particular, probabilistic modeling based on belief networks.Bio: Svetlana N. Yanushkevich received the M.S. (1989) and PhD (1992) in electrical and computer engineering from the State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus, and Habilitation degree (1999) in Technical Sciences from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary University, Canada, in 2001. Dr Yanushkevich is the founding director of the Biometric Technology Laboratory at University of Calgary. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan. She served as a general chair and co-chair for over 10 international conferences. Dr. Yanushkevich published of more than 200 technical papers, 15 patents, and 7 books, including the textbook "Introduction to Logic Design", and monographs, "Computer Arithmetics for Nanoelectronics", "Decision Diagram Technique for Micro and Nanoelectronic Design", and "Biometric Inverse Problems".Dr. Yanushkevich's research and teaching interests are in the areas of advanced logic design for VLSI and nanoelectronic structures, as well as biometric technologies, with focus on biometric system design, synthetic biometric data, and decision making in biometric applications. (http://ucalgary.ca/btlab)Invited Conference Banquet SpeakerSpeaker: Prof. Larry LeRoy Constantine, Departamento de Matemática e Engenharias, Universidade da Madeira, PortugalTitle: Fact, fiction, and the frontiers of industrial insecurityAbstract: In this keynote, designer, methodologist, and novelist Larry Constantine will draw on multiple perspectives to explore emerging scenarios of digital vulnerability. The potential for new forms of targeted and indiscriminate attacks in a variety of settings will be considered. Despite abundant superficial differences, there are commonalities in the core vulnerabilities and potential mechanisms of attack across systems as diverse as power networks, manufacturing plants, Internet-connected vehicles, and even office equipment. A taxonomy of terrorism techniques will be elaborated in relation to the contributing causes of increased insecurity in complex systems of all kinds. Novel directions in which to look for potential solutions in defensive and preventive technologies will be suggested.Bio: Larry Constantine, IDSA, is an award-winning designer and design methodologist specializing in safety-critical interaction design, including industrial control systems, medical informatics, and automotive applications. His work includes the groundbreaking Siemens STEP 7 Lite automation programming system. He is the author of nearly 200 articles and papers and 22 books, including the award-winning Software for Use (Addison-Wesley, 1999). Under his pen name, Lior Samson, he has four published novels, including the techno-thriller, Web Games (Gesher Press, 2010), about a cyber-terrorist attack on the United States. Constantine is a Fellow of the ACM and the 2009 recipient of the Stevens Award for his contributions to software development methods. He teaches interaction design at the University of Madeira, Portugal, where he is a professor and an Institute Fellow with the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute. (http://dme.uma.pt/pt/people/faculty/Larry.Constantine.html)Keynote 4 (Robotics and Autonomous Systems)Speaker: Prof. Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Technical University, PortugalTitle: Search and rescue robots: the civil protection teams of the futureAbstract: After an earthquake or the collapse of a built structure, and facing a scenario of large destruction, minimizing the response time to search and locate trapped survivors is crucial. The human intervention of urban search and rescue (USAR) teams, including USAR dogs, has to be done cautiously, so as to protect the rescue workers from danger due to further collapses. Debris may be so cluttered as to prevent close human access to the victims. Also, potential risk of further landslide requires the propping of the structures before human intervention. Rescue preparation operations may be time consuming, and a fast action to locate survivors, communicate with them, and provide light and/or water is a crucial factor for avoiding loss of life. Therefore, there is a clear need for search and rescue robots that can be released immediately after a disaster in which the conditions are too dangerous and too cluttered for people and dogs to begin searching for victims. Teams of such robots should desirably be heterogeneous (e.g., aerial robots to carry out airborne reconnaissance, powerful land robots to remove debris, small agile land robots to reach survivors buried under the debris), be able to perform with a given level of adjustable autonomy (since the presence of humans in the team to make crucial decisions will always be required), and be able to learn and simple to launch and natural for people to operate.In this talk, I will discuss some of the achievements in the area of USAR robots worldwide, and will then focus on R&D work that has been done over the past 10 years at the Institute for Systems and Robotics of the Instituto Superior Técnico, TU Lisbon, in collaboration with Portuguese companies and Civil Protection institutions, including a successful tracked wheel robot and aerial robots of different types (e.g., blimps, quadcopters, etc).Bio: Prof Lima is with the Instituto Superior Technico and also is a member of the Institute for Systems and Robotics -- a Portuguese research institute, where he is the coordinator of the Intelligent Systems group and a member of the Scientific Board. He a is a Trustee of the RoboCup Federation, and was the General Chair of RoboCup 2004, held in Lisbon. He currently serves as Vice-President of the Portuguese Robotics Society, of which he has been President and founding member (2006), Vice-Chair of the IEEE RAS Portugal Chapter (2005). Prof. Lima got his Ph.D. (1994) in Electrical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA. He was also awarded a 6-month Chair of Excellence Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain. He is the co-author of two books, regularly serves as member of international conferences program committees, is National Delegate to EU and ESA Space Robotics programs, and has coordinated national and international (ESA, EU) R&D projects, some of which focused on R&D for search and rescue robots, including a collaboration with Lisbon Fire department on developing a USAR robot, nicknamed RAPOSA (FOX in Portuguese). His research interests lie in the areas of discrete event models of robot plans, reinforcement learning and planning under uncertainty, with applications to networked robot systems, including search and rescue robots. (http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal/)
Keynotes
Keynote 1 (Biometrics)
Speaker: Prof. Mark Nixon, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Southampton, UK
Title: On gait and soft biometrics
Abstract: We have been developing new approaches in gait biometrics, with prime advantage that
gait can be used at a distance whereas other biometrics cannot. There is a rich selection of
approaches and many advances have been made, as will be reviewed in this talk. Soft biometrics
is an emerging area of interest in biometrics where we augment computer vision derived measures
by human descriptions. Applied to gait biometrics, this again can be used where other biometric
data is obscured or at too low resolution. The human descriptions are semantic and are a set of
labels which are converted into numbers. Naturally, there are considerations of language and
psychology when the labels are collected. After describing current progress in gait biometrics, this
talk will describe how the soft biometrics labels are collected, and how they can be used to enhance
recognizing people by the way they walk. As well as reinforcing biometrics, this approach might
lead to a new procedure for collecting witness statements, and to the ability to retrieve subjects
from video using witness statements.
Bio: Dr. Nixon is a Professor in Computer Vision in the ISIS research group at the Department of
Electronics and Computer Science. His research interests are in image processing and computer
vision. He helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both
parametric and non-parametric) which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait
recognition and in medical image analysis. He was an early worker in face recognition, later came
to pioneer gait recognition, and more recently joined the pioneers of ear biometrics. He was the
Principal Investigator with John Carter on the DARPA supported project Automatic Gait Recognition
for Human ID at a Distance. Currently, he is on General Dynamics Defence Technology Centre's
program on data fusion (biometrics, naturally). He is a member of the MoD/ARL (US) IBM-led
Information Technology Alliance, in the sensors theme, and was labeled as a star Computer
Scientist in a recent review.
He co-chaired the IEEE 7th International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition FG2006
held at Southampton, UK in 2006. He was program chair at IEEE BTAS 2009 and at ICB 2009, and
general chair for BTAS 2010, in addition to giving plenaries/ keynotes on gait biometrics at the IEEE
Face and Gesture 2004, EUSIPCO 2004, ISVC 2006, and IEEE ISBAST 2008. His first book,
Introductory Digital Design - a programmable approach, was published by MacMillan, UK, in July of
1995. With Tieniu Tan and Rama Chellappa, he wrote Human ID based on Gait which is part of the
Springer Series on Biometrics, and was published late in 2005. His vision book, co-written with Dr.
Alberto Aguado from the University of Surrey, entitled Feature Extraction and Image Processing is
currently in its Second Edition, published by Academic Press/Elsevier in 2007.
Keynote 5 (Hardware Security)
Speaker: Prof. Danilo Gligoroski, NTNU, Norway
Title: Ultra-efficient cryptography for the ultra-world beyond 2028
Abstract: The world in 2028 is expected to be an "ultra-world"... we will have ultra-high-density
digital devices, ultra-low-power, devices, ultra-Internet, etc. One natural question from cryptographic
point of view is, "What can be 'ultra' in cryptography in 2028?". We are currently developing a whole
portfolio of cryptographic algorithms that without losing the security levels, offer efficiency that is 2,
10, 100 or 1000 times better than the current cryptographic algorithms with the same level of
security.
Bio: Prof. Gligoroski is affiliated with the the Department of Telematics at the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research interests are Cryptography, Computer
Security, Discrete algorithms and Information Theory and Coding. He made important contributions
to the problems involving ultra fast public key algorithms, hash functions, fast symmetric
cryptographic algorithms, stream ciphers, and provable security. In the talk I will address the
industrial needs for "ultra-efficient" cryptographic primitives and I will describe several of the
developed cryptographic algorithms that have the attribute "ultra".
(http://www.item.ntnu.no/people/personalpages/fac/danilog/start)
Keynote 3 (Secure Geolocalization)
Speaker: Prof. Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: Geolocalization and privacy -- the state of the art and implications for the security and
privacy of individuals
Abstract: Human activity is above all a story of movements. The control and management of the
movements and behaviors of individuals, combined with the circulation of objects and animals
doted with technologies that allow geolocalization (e.g., RFID chips, Smartphones, GPSes, tablets,
laptops, Internet devices), have become high-stakes issues for society. With geostrategic,
economic, and societal impacts the technologies used for geolocalization and the various uses that
are made of the data they yield are forcing us to re-examine the concept of digital privacy and to
consider the most effective means of securing and protecting personal data. The purpose of this
presentation is to explore stakes and challenges of secure geolocalization from several
perspectives.
Bio: Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie is a professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the
University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where she founded the Swiss cybersecurity advisory and
research group, which deals with the socio-economic, managerial, legal, and technological
dimensions of information and communication technology security. Alongside her academic
responsibilities in Lausanne, she is currently serving as the president of the Social Commission of
the University of Lausanne, and is also an invited professor in the Department of Sociology of the
University of Geneva. She was a key researcher on the integrated European Research project
SECOQC (Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography). She has authored around
two hundred publications and more than twenty books on telecommunications and security issues.
She is an active independent security adviser and an influential analyst on cybersecurity,
cybercrime, and cyberconflicts related issues. She is a member of ITU - High Level Expert Group
for Global Cybersecurity Agenda. She is a regular media commentator and provides executive
advice on cybersecurity issues for public and private organizations. (www.hec.unil.ch/sgh)
Keynote 2 (Biometrics)
Speaker: Prof. Svetlana Yanushkevich, Biometric Technologies Laboratory, University of Calgary,
Canada
Title: Secure biometric system design
Abstract: Biometric applications, which require storage, transmission, and processing of the unique
personal identifiers, face the same problem as password-based authentication systems. Therefore,
the protection measures should be instituted to safeguard the unique biometric identifiers from
possible attacks. For mitigating or preventing the attacks, a biometric device or a system must be:
1.
tested at the design and prototyping phases of a life cycle, and
2.
periodically monitored for detecting features of potential attacks.
The focus of this keynote is to introduce the biometric-based physical access system design styles,
which allow for thwarting various attacks. These styles are called secure design styles. Building a
model of attack to make predictions concerning the behavior of the system under study is the first
step in designing a biometric system. In such models, effects of attacks are studied by monitoring
symptoms of the attacks. For modeling of biometric tools before they are prototyped, other
modeling techniques should be used, in particular, probabilistic modeling based on belief networks.
Bio: Svetlana N. Yanushkevich received the M.S. (1989) and PhD (1992) in electrical and computer
engineering from the State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus, and
Habilitation degree (1999) in Technical Sciences from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary University, Canada, in
2001. Dr Yanushkevich is the founding director of the Biometric Technology Laboratory at University
of Calgary. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of Institute of Electronics, Information
and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan. She served as a general chair and co-chair for over
10 international conferences. Dr. Yanushkevich published of more than 200 technical papers, 15
patents, and 7 books, including the textbook "Introduction to Logic Design", and monographs,
"Computer Arithmetics for Nanoelectronics", "Decision Diagram Technique for Micro and
Nanoelectronic Design", and "Biometric Inverse Problems".
Dr. Yanushkevich's research and teaching interests are in the areas of advanced logic design for
VLSI and nanoelectronic structures, as well as biometric technologies, with focus on biometric
system design, synthetic biometric data, and decision making in biometric applications.
(http://ucalgary.ca/btlab)
Invited Conference Banquet Speaker
Speaker: Prof. Larry LeRoy Constantine, Departamento de Matemática e Engenharias,
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Title: Fact, fiction, and the frontiers of industrial insecurity
Abstract: In this keynote, designer, methodologist, and novelist Larry Constantine will draw on
multiple perspectives to explore emerging scenarios of digital vulnerability. The potential for new
forms of targeted and indiscriminate attacks in a variety of settings will be considered. Despite
abundant superficial differences, there are commonalities in the core vulnerabilities and potential
mechanisms of attack across systems as diverse as power networks, manufacturing plants,
Internet-connected vehicles, and even office equipment. A taxonomy of terrorism techniques will be
elaborated in relation to the contributing causes of increased insecurity in complex systems of all
kinds. Novel directions in which to look for potential solutions in defensive and preventive
technologies will be suggested.
Bio: Larry Constantine, IDSA, is an award-winning designer and design methodologist specializing
in safety-critical interaction design, including industrial control systems, medical informatics, and
automotive applications. His work includes the groundbreaking Siemens STEP 7 Lite automation
programming system. He is the author of nearly 200 articles and papers and 22 books, including
the award-winning Software for Use (Addison-Wesley, 1999). Under his pen name, Lior Samson,
he has four published novels, including the techno-thriller, Web Games (Gesher Press, 2010), about
a cyber-terrorist attack on the United States. Constantine is a Fellow of the ACM and the 2009
recipient of the Stevens Award for his contributions to software development methods. He teaches
interaction design at the University of Madeira, Portugal, where he is a professor and an Institute
Fellow with the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.
(http://dme.uma.pt/pt/people/faculty/Larry.Constantine.html)
Keynote 4 (Robotics and Autonomous Systems)
Speaker: Prof. Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
Title: Search and rescue robots: the civil protection teams of the future
Abstract: After an earthquake or the collapse of a built structure, and facing a scenario of large
destruction, minimizing the response time to search and locate trapped survivors is crucial. The
human intervention of urban search and rescue (USAR) teams, including USAR dogs, has to be
done cautiously, so as to protect the rescue workers from danger due to further collapses. Debris
may be so cluttered as to prevent close human access to the victims. Also, potential risk of further
landslide requires the propping of the structures before human intervention. Rescue preparation
operations may be time consuming, and a fast action to locate survivors, communicate with them,
and provide light and/or water is a crucial factor for avoiding loss of life. Therefore, there is a clear
need for search and rescue robots that can be released immediately after a disaster in which the
conditions are too dangerous and too cluttered for people and dogs to begin searching for victims.
Teams of such robots should desirably be heterogeneous (e.g., aerial robots to carry out airborne
reconnaissance, powerful land robots to remove debris, small agile land robots to reach survivors
buried under the debris), be able to perform with a given level of adjustable autonomy (since the
presence of humans in the team to make crucial decisions will always be required), and be able to
learn and simple to launch and natural for people to operate.
In this talk, I will discuss some of the achievements in the area of USAR robots worldwide, and will
then focus on R&D work that has been done over the past 10 years at the Institute for Systems and
Robotics of the Instituto Superior Técnico, TU Lisbon, in collaboration with Portuguese companies
and Civil Protection institutions, including a successful tracked wheel robot and aerial robots of
different types (e.g., blimps, quadcopters, etc).
Bio: Prof Lima is with the Instituto Superior Technico and also is a member of the Institute for
Systems and Robotics -- a Portuguese research institute, where he is the coordinator of the
Intelligent Systems group and a member of the Scientific Board. He a is a Trustee of the RoboCup
Federation, and was the General Chair of RoboCup 2004, held in Lisbon. He currently serves as
Vice-President of the Portuguese Robotics Society, of which he has been President and founding
member (2006), Vice-Chair of the IEEE RAS Portugal Chapter (2005). Prof. Lima got his Ph.D.
(1994) in Electrical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA. He was also
awarded a 6-month Chair of Excellence Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain. He is the
co-author of two books, regularly serves as member of international conferences program
committees, is National Delegate to EU and ESA Space Robotics programs, and has coordinated
national and international (ESA, EU) R&D projects, some of which focused on R&D for search and
rescue robots, including a collaboration with Lisbon Fire department on developing a USAR robot,
nicknamed RAPOSA (FOX in Portuguese). His research interests lie in the areas of discrete event
models of robot plans, reinforcement learning and planning under uncertainty, with applications to
networked robot systems, including search and rescue robots. (http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal/)
