Event program

Thursday, 5/29/2014 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Leut I, Hotel Admiral, Opatija 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Invited speech  A. K. Jain (Michigan State University, USA) Biometric Recognition: Some Challenges in Forensics  10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Session I: Face and Speaker De-Identification  10:30 – 10:50 Face De-identification with Perfect Privacy Protection Lily Meng, Zongji Sun (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom)   10:50 – 11:10  De-Identifying Facial Images Using Singular Value Decomposition Panteleimon Chriskos, Olga Zoidi, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)   11:10 – 11:30 An Approach to the De-Identification of Faces in Different Poses Branko Samarzija, Slobodan Ribaric (Faculty of EE and Computing, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia)   11:30 – 11:50 Retaining Expressions on De-identified Faces Lily Meng , Zongji Sun, Aladdin Ariyaeeinia (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom), Ken L. Bennett (Astrium Ltd., Stevenage, United Kingdom)   11:50 – 12:10 Reversible De-Identification for Lossless Image Compression using Reversible Watermarking Reuben Farrugia (University of Malta, Msida, Malta)   12:10 – 12:30 Online speaker de-identification using voice transformation Miran Pobar, Ivo Ipšić (Sveučilište u Rijeci, Rijeka, Croatia)   12:30 – 12:50 Privacy-Preserving Speaker Verification using Secure Binary Embeddings José Portêlo (INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal, ) Bhiksha Raj (Language Technologies Institute - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States), Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal)   Thursday, 5/29/2014 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Leut I, Hotel Admiral, Opatija 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Invited speech  K. Garkov (eu-LISA, Estonia) Biometrics and the Future the Large-scale IT systems   4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Session II: Social and Legal Aspects of Surveillance and De-identification, De-identification of soft- and non-biometric identifiers  16:00 –16:20  Legal Aspects of CCTV Data De-Identification Oleksandr Pastukhov (University of Malta, Msida, Malta)   16:20 – 16:40  Social Costs of Surveillance and the Case of Biometrics Marija Krlic (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom)   16:40 – 17:00 Removing Gender Signature from Fingerprints Luca Lugini, Emanuela Marasco, Bojan Cukic, Jeremy Dawson (West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States)   17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break 17:30 – 17:50  An Experimental Tattoo De-identification System for Privacy Protection in Still Images Darijan Marcetic, Slobodan Ribaric (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia), Vitomir Struc, Nikola Pavesic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Ljubljana, Slovenia)   17:50 – 18:10 Person De-identification in Activity Videos Marina Ivašić-Kos (Department of Informatics, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia) Alexandros Iosifidis, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas (Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)   18:10 – 18:30 De-identification in Natural Language Processing Veronika Vincze, Richárd Farkas (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary)   18:30 – 18:50 Evaluation of different feature sets for gait recognition using skeletal data from Kinect Bojan Dikovski, Gjorgji Madjarov, Dejan Gjorgjevikj (Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia)   Friday, 5/30/2014 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Leut I, Hotel Admiral, Opatija 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Session III: Biometric based verification or identification  9:00 – 9:20 A novel approach used for measuring fingerprint orientation of arch fingerprint Guoqiang Li, Christoph Busch, Bian Yang (Gjøvik University College, Gjøvik, Norway)   9:20 – 9:40 Systematic Evaluation Methodology for Fingerprint-Image Quality Assessment Techniques Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl, Michael Pober, Andreas Uhl (Univ. of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria)    9:40 – 10:00 Preventing converted speech spoofing attacks in speaker verification Joana Correia, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal)   10:00 – 10:20 Non-Linguistic Vocal Event Detection Using Online Random Forest Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, Zheng-Hua Tan, Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark)   10:20 – 10:40 A Study of Acoustic Features for the Classification of Depressed Speech Paula Lopez-Otero, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Carmen Garcia-Mateo (Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain)   10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:20  SIFT vs. FREAK: Assessing the Usefulness of Two Keypoint Descriptors for 3D Face Recognition  Janez Križaj ,Vitomir Štruc, Simon Dobrišek (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Darijan Marčetić, Slobodan Ribarić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia)   11:20 – 11:40 Impact of Severe Signal Degradation on Ear Recognition Performance Anika Pflug, Johannes Wagner, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch (Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany)   11:40 – 12:00 RGB Ratios Based Skin Detection Samir Omanovic, Emir Buza, Ingmar Besic (Elektrotehnički fakultet u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)   12:00 – 12:20  Exploting Periocular and RGB Information in Fake Iris Detection Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Josef Bigun (Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden)

Croatian Society MIPRO, IEEE Croatia Section, University of Zagreb, University of Rijeka in cooperation with COST Action IC1206 „De-identification for Privacy Protection in Multimedia Content“ and COST Action IC1106 „Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age“ organize this Special Session. The Session seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in Biometrics, Forensics, and Privacy De-identification in Multimedia Content. 

Slobodan Ribarić (Croatia), Massimo Tistarelli (Italy)

Jean-François Bonastre, France
Bojan Cukic, USA
Patrizio Campisi, Italy
Joe Cannataci, Malta
Paulo Lobato Correia, Portugal
Jana Dittmann, Germany
Andrzej Drygajlo, Switzerland
Ivo Ipšić, Croatia
Carmen Garcia Mateo, Spain
Lily Meng, UK
Emilo Mordini, Italy
Ioannis Pitas, Greece
Bhiksha Raj, USA
Daniel Ramos, Spain
Tieniu Tan, China
Zheng-Hua Tan, Denmark
Isabel Trancoso, Portugal
Marcos Faundez Zanuy, Spain

Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA
Krum Garkov, eu-LISA, Estonia

• Face, fingerprint, hand geometry, palmprint and ear biometrics
• Behavioural biometrics
• Soft-biometrics
• Multi-biometrics
• Novel biometrics
• Biometric systems and applications
• Biometric evidence for forensic evaluation and investigation
• Audiovisual biometrics for forensics examination
• Soft biometrics for forensics examination
• Forensic behavioural biometrics
• Biometric analysis of crime scene traces and their forensic interpretation
• Ethical and societal implications of emerging forensics biometrics
• De-identification methods for biometric identifiers in multimedia documents
• De-identification methods for soft- and non-biometric identifiers
• Applications and added value of de-identified data
• Reversible de-identification
• Ethical, societal and legal aspects of de-identification and reversible de-identification

Official language is English.

Slobodan Ribarić
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Unska 3
HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Phone: +385 1 612 99 52
Fax: +385 1 612 96 53
E-mail: slobodan.ribaric@fer.hr

Opatija – the cradle of European and Croatian tourism, a favourite destination of the aristocracy, film and music stars, artists, writers and visitors from all over the world, who come here every year to enjoy the charm of this Adriatic town – this year celebrates its 170th anniversary as a tourist resort.

This is a tradition that provides certain obligations, but is also a guarantee of quality. The reputation of a top destination that stretches back seventeen decades is today reflected in the wide range of facilities and services on offer that all together make Opatija an attractive destination for all seasons.

Opatija owes its unique image to its ideal location on the spot where the wooded slopes of Mount Učka descend all the way down to the coast, providing perfect shade along the thirteen-kilometre-long Lungomare seafront promenade. Just as the Opatija area is a meeting point of the sea and the mountain, its visual impression is a blend of different styles, as this is a melting pot where magnificent Central European elegance, playful Mediterranean charm and the historically-rich medieval architecture of the small towns in the hinterland come together. 

In addition to the architecture that leaves a strong impression on every visitor, especially when the town is viewed from the sea, and its lush parks and gardens that have been Opatija's trademarks since its beginnings as a tourist resort, Opatija also has hotels and restaurants whose quality ranks alongside that of any other European destination. Opatija's gastronomic offer is based on a Mediterranean cuisine rich in fresh fish and seafood and locally grown seasonal ingredients, while the traditional recipes of this region reveal a wealth of flavours and can be sampled in the area's numerous taverns. 

Opatija entered the European stage in the mid-19th century as a health resort for the European nobility, and health tourism has remained one of the main segments of the town's tourism offer right up to the present day. However, top medical experts and a wide range of spa & wellness services are just one of the reasons for visiting this town located at the top of Kvarner Bay. Also known as "the town of festivals", Opatija boasts a number of events throughout the year. The theatrical performances and concerts that take place at the magnificent Open Air Theatre are particularly impressive.

For more details please look at www.opatija.hr/ and www.opatija-tourism.hr/.