General Chair’s Remarks

Welcome to The IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems – BTAS ’08BTAS started last year as a new conference series, and the inaugural meeting was highly successful. BTAS has alreadybeen recognized as the single conference that (a) is devoted to biometrics research in general, and (b) presents thehighest-quality papers to emerge from a rigorous reviewing process. It is a conference where experts in biometricsfrom government, industry and academia can meet for an honest, technically-focused and hype-free discussion withouta strong media influence. Like BTAS ’07, BTAS ’08 is held under the sponsorship of the IEEE Systems, Man &Cybernetics Society. However, the Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence of the IEEEComputer Society is also a technical co-sponsor of BTAS ’08; we appreciate the new co-sponsoring role of IEEE-CS.Professor Mark Nixon joined the conference organizing team for BTAS ’08, serving as Program Co-chair. Professor VenuGovindaraju and Dr. Nalini Ratha served again as Program Co-chairs, and Professor Patrick Flynn served as PublicationsChair.

As was the case last year, BTAS ’08 strives to take a “big tent” approach to the allowed range of topics. We want to bringissues of theory, applications and systems into one meeting for broad discussion of the inter-related concerns. Thisshould be evident in the broad range of topics in this year’s conference. There are papers dealing with the biometricmodalities of fingerprint, speaker, palm print, face, gait, iris, ear and various multi-biometric combinations. There aretheory papers, algorithms papers, user interface papers and papers related to privacy concerns. Our invited speakersemphasize the areas of human face recognition, multi-modal biometrics, government programs in biometrics and socialimpact/privacy concerns related to biometrics. Panel discussions touch on the uses of biometrics in law enforcementand the development of practical approaches to “privacy and biometrics” – a field that seems destined to grow in interestand importance.

This year’s conference builds on last year’s success. Even though there are many biometrics conferences on the calendarthis year, submissions to BTAS were up 10 percent from last year, to almost 120 submitted papers. We want to thank allof the authors who submitted their work for consideration by the BTAS reviewers. We hope that authors will find BTASto be a very “author-friendly” conference in that their submissions are treated fairly and respectfully, and decisionsmade in a reasonably short amount of time. We have adopted an informal policy that no submission is rejected on thebasis of a single “outlier” negative review, unless the program chairs can confirm the substance and importance ofspecific points in the reviewers recommendation. We also want to thank the BTAS reviewers for the generally excellentwork that they put into evaluation of the submissions. We tried to avoid overloading individual program committeemembers with reviews and solicited additional expert reviewers as needed. In the end, every submission received at leasttwo reviews, some received as many as four reviews, and the Program Chairs discussed the papers that ended up “onthe bubble.” There still were, as always, some difficult decisions.

As was done last year, a selection of papers that received the overall best review ratings have been placed together inthe last session of the conference. This set of papers samples the breadth of topics in biometrics, including effects ofaging on face recognition, 3D face, signature recognition, cancelable biometrics, iris and face recognition from sketches.

We want to thank Honeywell for their generous sponsorship of the Student Paper Prize. The winner(s) of this awardwill be announced at the conference banquet. We want to thank Motorola Corporation and Progency Systems as wellfor being corporate supporters of BTAS ’08.

We sincerely hope that authors and attendees will find BTAS ’08 to be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Lookfor BTAS ’09 again this time next year in the D.C. area.

Kevin W. BowyerGeneral Chair for BTAS ’08

Conference Session Details

Monday, September 29, 2008

07:30 - 08:35 RegistrationLocation: Regency E Foyer

08:35 - 08:45 BTAS ’08 Opening RemarksLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)

08:45 - 09:25 Advances in Iris Biometrics ILocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Natalia Schmid (West Virginia University)

Stand-off Iris Recognition SystemFrederick Wheeler (GE Global Research), A.G. Amitha Perera (Kitware, Inc.), Gil Abramovich(GE Global Research), Bing Yu (GE Global Research) and Peter Tu (GE Global Research)

The Importance of Small Pupils: A Study of How Pupil Dilation Affects Iris BiometricsKaren Hollingsworth (University of Notre Dame), Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)and Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

09:25 - 10:05 Poster Highlights — Iris, 3D Face and 2D FaceLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Accelerating Iris Template Matching Using Commodity Video Graphics AdaptersRandy Broussard (U.S. Naval Academy), Ryan Rakvic (U.S. Naval Academy) and Robert Ives(U.S. Naval Academy)

An Automatic Algorithm for Evaluating the Precision of Iris SegmentationJinyu Zuo (West Virginia University) and Natalia Schmid (West Virginia University)

On the Effects of Time Variability in Iris RecognitionPedro Tome-Gonzalez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Fernando Alonso-Fernandez(Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) and Javier Ortega-Garcia (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

Median Filter-based Iris Encoding TechniqueJinyu Zuo (West Virginia University), Nalini Ratha (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)and Jonathan Connell (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

All Iris Filters Are Not Created EqualKaren Hollingsworth (University of Notre Dame), Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)and Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Binary Biometrics: An Analytic Framework to Estimate the Bit Error Probability underGaussian AssumptionEmile Kelkboom (Philips Research), Gary Garcia (Philips Research), Tom Kevenaar (PhilipsResearch), Raymond Veldhuis (University of Twente) and Willem Jonker (Philips Research)

Recognizing Faces in 3D Images Even in Presence of OcclusionsAlessandro Colombo (University of Milano Bicocca), Claudio Cusano (University of MilanoBicocca) and Raimondo Schettini (University of Milano Bicocca)

Increased Resolution 3D Face Modeling and Recognition from Multiple Low ResolutionStructure from Motion ModelsChris Boehnen (University of Notre Dame) and Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Synthesizing Realistic Expressions in 3D Face Data SetsJacey-Lynn Minoi (Imperial College, London), Hassan Amin (Imperial College, London), CarlosThomaz (FEI, Sao Paolo) and Duncan Gillies (Imperial College, London)

Three Dimensional Face Recognition Using Iso-geodesic and Iso-depth CurvesSina Jahanbin (University of Texas at Austin), Hyohoon Choi (Samsung Electro-Mechanics, R&DInstitute), Yang Liu (University of Texas at Austin) and Alan Bovik (University of Texas at Austin)

A 3D Face Recognition System for Expression and Occlusion InvarianceBerk Gokberk (Boğaziçi University), Nese Alyuz (Boğaziçi University) and Lale Akarun (BoğaziçiUniversity)

3D Facial Landmark Localization by Matching Simple DescriptorsMarcelo Romero-Huertas (The University of York) and Nick Pears (The University of York)

3D Facial Landmarking under Expression, Pose and Occlusion VariationsHamdi Dibeklioglu (Boğaziçi University), Albert Salah (CWI) and Lale Akarun (BoğaziçiUniversity)

Fusing Frequency, Spatial and Color Features for Face RecognitionZhiming Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Chengjun Liu (New Jersey Instituteof Technology)

Multi-factor Approach to Improving Recognition Performance in SurveillanceQuality VideoDeborah Thomas (University of Notre Dame), Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame) andPatrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Impostures of Talking Face Systems Using Automatic Face AnimationFlorian Verdet (University of Fribourg) and Jean Hennebert (University of Fribourg)

Learning Face Appearance under Different Lighting ConditionsBrendan Moore (University of Central Florida), Marshall Tappen (University of Central Florida)and Hassan Foroosh (University of Central Florida)

Illumination and Expression Invariant Face Recognition: Toward Sample Quality-basedAdaptive FusionHarin Sellahewa (The University of Buckingham) and Sabah Jassim (The University ofBuckingham)

A Non-generative Approach for Face Recognition across AgingSoma Biswas (University of Maryland, College Park), Gaurav Aggarwal (University of Maryland,College Park), Narayanan Ramanathan (University of Maryland, College Park) and RamaChellappa (University of Maryland, College Park)

False Matches and Non-independence of Face Recognition ScoresGeorge Quinn (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and Patrick Grother (NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology)

Profile Face Detection: A Subset Multi-biometric ApproachJames Gentile (University of Notre Dame), Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)and Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

10:05 - 10:45 Coffee and Poster Session ALocation: Regency E Foyer

10:45 - 11:45 Advances in 3D FaceLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Trina Russ (Digital Signal Corp)

Automatic Registration of Vertex Correspondences for 3D Facial Expression AnalysisMatthew Rosato (Binghamton University), Xiaochen Chen (Binghamton University) andLijun Yin (Binghamton University)

A Novel Genetic Algorithm for 3D Facial Landmark LocalizationTsz-Ho Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Yiu-Sang Moon (The Chinese Universityof Hong Kong)

Expression-compensated 3D Face Recognition with Geodesically Aligned Bilinear ModelsIordanis Mpiperis (CERTH/ITI and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Sotiris Malassiotis(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Michael Strintzis (CERTH/ITI and Aristotle Universityof Thessaloniki)

11:45 - 12:30 Biometrics Datasets and EvaluationsLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Massimo Tistarelli (Universita di Sassari)

The Iris Challenge Evaluation 2005Jonathon Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Kevin Bowyer (University ofNotre Dame), Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame), Xiaomei Liu (University of Notre Dame)and Todd Scruggs (SAIC)

The IV2 Multimodal Biometric Database (Including Iris, 2D, 3D, Stereoscopic and TalkingFace Data) and the IV2-2007 Evaluation CampaignDijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz (Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis), Sylvie Lelandais (IUT,Universite Evry), Joseph Colineau (THALES Research and Technology), Liming Chen (LIRIS),Bernadette Dorizzi (Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis), Emine Krichen (Institut TELECOM,T&M SudParis), Mohamed Anouar-Mellakh (Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis), Anis Chaari(IUT Evry), Souhila Guerfi (IUT Evry), Mohsen Ardabilian (LIRIS) and Johan D’Hose (THALESResearch and Technology), Boulbaba Benamor (Telecom-Lille1)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch— On your own

14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk: Professor Josef Kittler, “Multi-biometrics for Identity Authentication”Location: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

15:00 - 16:00 2D FaceLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Ross Beveridge (Colorado State University)

Usability Testing of Face Image Capture for U.S. Ports of EntryMary Theofanos (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Brian Stanton (NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology), Charles Sheppard (National Institute of Standardsand Technology) and Ross Micheals (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Real-time Facial Features Tracking by Discrete Gabor Jets and Mean ShiftJacek Naruniec (Warsaw University of Technology)

An Optimized Illumination Normalization Method for Face RecognitionJukka Holappa (University of Oulu), Timo Ahonen (University of Oulu) and Matti Pietikäinen(University of Oulu)

16:00 - 16:30 Tea and Poster Session A (cont.)Location: Regency E Foyer

16:30 - 17:30 Advances in Iris Biometrics IILocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Sonia Garcia-Salicetti (Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis)

“Hallucinating Irises” – Dealing with Partial & Occluded Iris RegionsTaihei Munemoto (Carnegie Mellon University), Yung-hui Li (Carnegie Mellon University)and Marios Savvides (Carnegie Mellon University)

Detection of Iris Texture Distortions by Analyzing Iris Code Matching ResultsSarah Ring (University of Notre Dame) and Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)

Adapting Starburst for Elliptical Iris SegmentationWayne Ryan (Clemson University), Damon Woodard (Clemson University), Andrew Duchowski(Clemson University) and Stan Birchfield (Clemson University)

17:30 - 20:00 BTAS ’08 Welcome ReceptionLocation: Tidewater Room

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

07:30 - 08:25 RegistrationLocation: Regency E Foyer

08:25 - 09:25 Gait and FaceLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Venu Govindaraju (SUNY - Buffalo)

Front-view Gait RecognitionMichela Goffredo (ECS, University of Southampton), John Carter (University of Southampton)and Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Recognition of Low-resolution Faces Using Multiple Still Images and Multiple CamerasPablo Hennings Yeomans (Carnegie Mellon University), Simon Baker (Microsoft Research)and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University)

A Novel Appearance Model and Adaptive Condensation Algorithm for HumanFace TrackingYui Man Lui (Colorado State University), Ross Beveridge (Colorado State University)and Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University)

09:25 - 10:05 Poster Highlights — Finger, Palm, Signature and MoreLocation: Regency E FoyerSession Chair: Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame)

Fingerprint Anti-spoofing Using Ridgelet TransformShankar Nikam (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India) andSuneeta Agarwal (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India)

Fingerprint Biometrics via Low-cost Sensors and WebcamsFabio Scotti (University of Milan) and Vincenzo Piuri (University of Milan)

An Analysis of Minutia Neighborhood ProbabilitiesRein-Lien Hsu (L1 Identity Solutions Inc.) and Brian Martin (L1 Identity Solutions Inc.)

Gradient-based Textural Characterization of FingerprintsGaurav Aggarwal (University of Maryland), Nalini Ratha (IBM Thomas J. Watson ResearchCenter), Tsai-Yang Jea (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) and Ruud Bolle (IBMThomas J. Watson Research Center)

Exploring Ridge Curvature for Fingerprint IndexingSoma Biswas (University of Maryland), Nalini Ratha (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center),Gaurav Aggarwal (University of Maryland) and Jonathan Connell (IBM Thomas J. WatsonResearch Center)

Quality-induced Fingerprint Identification Using Extended Feature SetMayank Vatsa (West Virginia University), Richa Singh (West Virginia University), Afzel Noore(West Virginia University) and Sanjay Singh (Institute of Technology-BHU)

Fingerprint Matching Using Correlation and Thin-plate Spline Deformation ModelJiang Li (SUNY-Buffalo), Sergey Tulyakov (SUNY-Buffalo), Zhi Zhang (SUNY-Buffalo)and Venu Govindaraju (SUNY-Buffalo)

Grip-pattern Verification for Smart Gun-based on Maximum-Pairwise Comparisonand Mean-Template ComparisonXiaoxin Shang (University of Twente) and Raymond Veldhuis (University of Twente)

Palmprint Identification Using Contourlet TransformM. Asif Butt (College of Signals, NUST, Pakistan), Hassan Masood (College of AeronauticalEngineering, NUST, Pakistan), Mustafa Mumtaz (College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST,Pakistan), Atif Mansoor (College of Aeronautical Engineering, NUST, Pakistan) and ShoabKhan (College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, NUST, Pakistan)

Three Dimensional Palmprint Recognition Using Structured Light ImagingDavid Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Guangming Lu (Harbin Institute ofTechnology, Shenzhen, China), Wei Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Lei Zhang (HongKong Polytechnic University) and Nan Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

A Fusion-based Approach to Enhancing Multi-modal Biometric Recognition System FailurePrediction and Overall PerformanceWalter Scheirer (University of Colorado and Securics, Inc.) and Terrance Boult (Universityof Colorado and Securics, Inc.)

Estimation of Missing Values in Multimodal Biometric FusionOmolara Fatukasi (University of Surrey/CVSSP), Josef Kittler (University of Surrey) and NormanPoh (University of Surrey/CVSSP)

ECG to Individual IdentificationYogendra Narain Singh (Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow) and Phalguni Gupta(Indian University of Technology Kanpur, India)

Multibiometric Template Security Using Fuzzy VaultKarthik Nandakumar (Institute for Infocomm Research) and Anil Jain (Michigan State University)

The Use of Semantic Human Description as a Soft BiometricSina Samangooei (University of Southampton), Baofeng Guo (University of Southampton)and Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Analyzing the Impact of Non-biometric Information on Multiclassifier Processing forSignature Recognition ApplicationsMárjory Abreu (University of Kent) and Michael Fairhurst (University of Kent)

A Novel Personal Entropy Measure Confronted with Online Signature Verification Systems’PerformanceNesma Houmani (Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis), Sonia Garcia-Salicetti (InstitutTELECOM, T&M SudParis) and Bernadette Dorizzi (Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis)

Globally Linear Embedding of Biometric Acores: An Empirical StudySudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida) and Pranab Mohanty (University of South Florida)

Enrolled Template Specific Decisions and Combinations in Verification SystemsSergey Tulyakov (SUNY - Buffalo), Jiang Li (SUNY - Buffalo) and Venu Govindaraju (SUNY -Buffalo)

Pseudo-signatures as a BiometricJin Chen (Lehigh University), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University), Lucas Ballard (Johns HopkinsUniversity) and Fabian Monrose (Johns Hopkins University)

10:05 - 10:45 Coffee and Poster Session BLocation: Regency E Foyer

10:45 - 11:45 3D Face and GaitLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Sudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida)

3D Face Recognition Using Point Cloud Kernel CorrelationThomas Fabry (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Dirk Vandermeulen (Katholieke UniversiteitLeuven) and Paul Suetens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Quantitative Assessment of the Accuracy of 3D Face Shape ReconstructionHassan Amin (Imperial College, London) and Duncan Gillies (Imperial College, London)

The University of Southampton Multi-biometric Tunnel and Introducing a Novel3D Gait DatasetRichard Seely (University of Southampton), Sina Samangooei (University of Southampton),John Carter (University of Southampton), Mark Nixon (University of Southampton) andLee Middleton (University of Southampton)

11:45 - 12:45 Crime and Biometrics PanelLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

The BCOE and the Future of Biometrics at the FBIRichard Vorderbruegge (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Using 3D Pose Alignment Tools in Forensic Applications of Face RecognitionAmbika Suman (National Policing Improvement Agency, NPIA)

Forensic Identification of People from Images and VideoNicole Spaun (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch — On your own

14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk: Pawan Sinha, “Face Recognition by Humans”Location: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)

15:00 - 15:30 Tea and Poster Session BLocation: Regency E Foyer

15:30 - 16:30 Fingerprint, Face and EarLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Marios Savvides (Carnegie Mellon University)

Robust 2D Ear Registration and Recognition Based on SIFT Point MatchingJohn Bustard (University of Southampton) and Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Generating Registration-free Cancelable Fingerprint TemplatesSharat Chikkerur (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nalini Ratha (IBM T.J. WatsonResearch Center), Jonathan Connell (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Ruud Bolle(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Pose-tolerant Non-frontal Face Recognition Using EBGMKin-Wang Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jiansheng Chen (The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong) and Yiu-Sang Moon (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

18:00 - 21:00 Conference Banquet — Speaker David T. Skelton, “Science for People who AreBad at Math: Socio-legal Implications for the Developing Field of Biometrics”Location: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)

Honeywell Student Paper Award Presentation

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

08:30 - 09:30 Panel Session — Privacy and Biometrics: Why and HowLocation: Regency E BallroomSession Chair(s): Emile Kelkboom (Philips Research), Patrizio Campisi (University "Roma Tre"),Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University) and Yagiz Sutcu (Polytechnic Instituteof NYU)

09:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Michael King (IARPA), “Exploring the Science of Biometrics underRelaxed Constraints”Location: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Nalini Ratha (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

10:30 - 10:50 CoffeeLocation: Regency E Foyer

10:50 - 12:30 Best Papers from BTAS ’08Location: Regency E BallroomSession Chair: Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame)

Class Distance Weighted Locality Preserving Projection for Automatic Age EstimationKazuya Ueki (NEC Soft, Ltd.), Masakazu Miya (Waseda University), Tetsuji Ogawa(Waseda University) and Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda University)

3D Facial Gestures in Biometrics: From Feasibility Study to ApplicationLanthao Benedikt (Cardiff University), David Marshall (Cardiff University), Paul Rosin(Cardiff University) and Darren Cosker (University of Bath)

Cancelable Biometrics for HMM-based Signature RecognitionEmanuele Maiorana (University “Roma Tre”), Patrizio Campisi (University “Roma Tre”),Javier Ortega-Garcia (UAM Madrid) and Alessandro Neri (University “Roma Tre”)

Extended Depth of Field Iris Recognition with Correlation FiltersVishnu Naresh Boddeti (Carnegie Mellon University) and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula(Carnegie Mellon University)

Human and Computer Evaluations of Face Sketches with Implications forForensic InvestigationsYong Zhang (Youngstown State University), John Sullins (Youngstown State University),Christine McCullough (Youngstown State University) and Christine Ross (Ohio Bureauof Criminal Identification and Investigation)

12:30 Conference Closes

George Bebis, University of Nevada – Reno, U.S.A.

Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University, U.S.A.

Bernadette Dorizzi, Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis, France

Bir Bhanu, U.C. – Riverside, U.S.A.

Josef Bigun, Halmstad University, Sweden

Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, U.S.A.

Michal Choras, UTA, Poland

Xu Dong, NTU Singapore

Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University, U.S.A.

Michael Fairhurst, University of Kent, U.K.

Julian Fierrez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Institut TELECOM, T&M SudParis, France

Phalguni Gupta, IIT-Kanpur, India

Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston, U.S.A.

Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, U.K.

Mark Koch, Sandia National Labs, U.S.A.

Chengjun Liu, NJIT, U.S.A.

Brian Martin, L-1 Identity Solutions, U.S.A.

Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

James R. Matey, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S.A.

Jiri Navratil, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.

Nick Orlans, Mitre Corp, U.S.A.

Javier Ortega-Garcia, University Autonoma Madrid, Spain

Margot Peet, Mitre Corporation, U.S.A.

P. Jonathon Phillips, NIST, U.S.A.

Fabio Roli, University of Cagliari, Italy

Arun Ross, West Virginia University, U.S.A.

Trina Russ, Digital Signal Corp., U.S.A.

Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.

Sudeep Sarkar, University South Florida, U.S.A.

Natalia Schmid, West Virginia University, U.S.A.

Michael Schuckers, St. Lawrence University, U.S.A.

Nicole Spaun, FBI, U.S.A.

Raymond Veldhuis, University of Twente, Netherlands

James Wayman, San Jose State University, U.S.A.

Harry Wechsler, George Mason University, U.S.A.

Fred Wheeler, GE Research, U.S.A.

David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic

BTAS ’08 Organizing Committee

General Chair

Kevin W. BowyerUniversity of Notre Dame, U.S.A.

Program Co-chairs

Publications Chair

Patrick J. Flynn, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.

Nalini RathaIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.

Program Committee

Venu GovindarajuSUNY- Buffalo, U.S.A.

Mark NixonUniversity of Southampton, U.K.