1. BioSecure : A Network of Excellence on Biometric identity authentication B. Dorizzi, GET-INT, France G. Chollet, GET-ENST, Paris

2. BioSecure : Objectives  Federate the teams involved in the biometric field  Proposal for a NoE with the following objectives :  Identify and meet the scientific and technical challenges in the Biometric field  Explore non technological aspects of biometrics such as security v.s. privacy, acceptability, reliability, impact on society and ethical aspects

3. Some specific Objectives : zReference algorithms for most of the Biometric modalities zEvaluation protocols on publically available databases  Fusion of modalities  4 weeks residential workshop in sept. 2005

4. General approach foreseen  Collaborative research program  Creation of a European development and evaluation platform for the Technological Research  Creation of a European Certification Center and usage observatory  Support technology : integration on smart-card, PDA etc…  Citizen awareness

5.  Need and Relevance  Commercial products still present some defects : Performance, Variability, User Acceptance, Sensor Variability  European efforts are disseminated  Europe has usage and legislation particularities, cultural diversity  Network yInitiator : GET, 25 partners of COST 275, 12 other academic partners, 20 Industrial and end user partners : ST-Microelectronics, France Telecom, Bouygues Telecom, Gemplus, OPSIS, ELRA/ELDA, ORGA, etc…

6. Integration –Contribution to standardization : Databases and Evaluation –Federation of most of the 4th and 5th PCRD actions in biometrics –Subnetworks organization / e-communication Links with : – IP: IRISEP (Iris-based verification) initiated by TRT-France, – Personal Trust Device”, coordinated by IMEC and Gemplus/France, – MOSES, coordinated by INFORMA/Italy, – ICAF “Identity Contol with Automatic Face Recognition”, coordinated by ZN vision, Germany

7. 4th and 5th PCRD actions in Biometrics COST 275 IST projects co-initiated by members of this consortium: zM2VTS (ACTS, 1995-1998) Multimodal Verification for Telesurveillance and Security Applications zBANCA (IST-1999-n°1159) - Biometric Access Control for Networked and e- Commerce Applications zVIRSBS: Visual Intelligent Recognition for Secure Banking Services Some partners are (or were) also involved in other EC projects : MUHCI (RTN, 2000-2003) Multimodal Human Computer Interaction, EAGLES, CAVE, PICASSO, ECVision ( IST Project 35454), SAFE : Secure Access Front End (TRIAL Start-Up -2000-2002), MTM (speaker verification), BIOTEST

8. Partners zMain academic actors in the field zMust satisfy excellence criteria : publications, PhD, etc… zInvolved in different aspects of biometrics zWith experience in evaluation campaigns zQuestion : Place of the Industrials, of the small companies...

9. Structuration of the network : Topics zAcademic research in such modalities as: xspeech xface xsignature xfingerprint xiris xhand shape etc.. zMultimodality : data fusion

10. Topics (2) zNon technical questions : legal, market, privacy zSupport technologies zCommercial applications

11. Further Steps zGeneral Assembly on july 2nd, 2004 zConstitution of a « steering committee » zConstitution of a « technical board » with all the coordinators of the Workpackages zConstitution of a Forum of Industrial Partners zClustering with other projects (in particular BioSec, eCrypt, FIDIS, SecurePhone,…) z …