Asia Biometircs Forum 2006

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Automatic authentication of person identity is becoming an essential part of the modern world, for security and convenience in our life, work and the society. As an emerging technology for person authentication in both physical and virtual spaces, biometrics has received unprecedented attention from academia, industry, government and public. Asian countries and regions, with the largest population in the world and great capacity in research and development, will be playing a key role in biometric industry and applications. Although there exist nation wide biometrics organizations in Asian countries, a regional consortium is needed to facilitate exchanges between these national bodies. We therefore propose to establish Asian Biometrics Consortium (ABC), instead of Asian Biometrics Forum (ABF, which is a workshop rather than a formal organization), with the following objectives:

³       To providing a regional forum from different disciplines, including research, engineering, manufacturing, and vendors to exchange ideas, identify problems, evaluate system performance, explore new research directions, and initiate possible collaborative research and future system developments.

³       To work jointly on biometrics standards and promote global interoperability of biometric products in different countries and regions. ABC will represent Asian countries’ interest in standard making.

³       To assist Asian governments in making policies on biometrics, such as biometrics deployment in public sector, law establishment, and privacy protection, etc.

³       To educate public and promote the use of biometrics. 

³       To hold annual ABC conferences to discuss Asian biometrics affairs, in Asian countries in turn.

2 1^st ABC Conference

The first ABC conference is expected to be held on October 30-31 in Beijing, China. In this first meeting, organization issues of ABC, including structure, activities and other affairs, will be discussed. Technical advances will be reported. Please send to Dr. Zhenan Sun (e-mail: znsun@nlpr.ia.ac.cn) for comments and suggestions.

Organizer: Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CBSR@CASIA)

              

General chairman

Tieniu Tan (Professor, CBSR@CASIA)  Email: tnt@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

Program chairman

Stan Z. Li (Professor, CBSR@CASIA)  Email: szli@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

Local arrangement chairman

Zhenan Sun (Assistant Prof., CBSR@CASIA) Email: znsun@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

3. Sponsors (TBD)

4. Schedule ( October 30-31 )

³       Opening ceremony (Government representatives)

³       Presentation (Technical methods, Industry solution, etc.)

³       Exhibition of biometrics system (Research prototype, Biometric products)

³       Panel discussion (organization, membership, research, industry, standards, etc.)

³       Banquet

5. Venue 

Academic Hall, Automation Building, No. 95 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China

6. Registration fee

USD 200 for each participant, including 2-day conference coffee break, consortium materials, presentation slides, banquet ticket, lunch ticket, etc.

7. Participants (potential, totally around 100)

Country/Region	Number	Academia	Industry	Government/Organization
China	40	CAS, Tsinghua, PKU, Zhejiang Univ., Fudan, PolyU, etc.	ZKSoftware, Hongda, PKU-HT, Hisign, Yincheng, HanWang, Miaxis, ingerpass, AuthenMetric, Pattek, Dorcon	The Ministry of Public Security, The Ministry of Information Industry, Central Administration of Civil Aviation of China, Chinese Olympic Committee
Japan	10	Waseda Univ., Tohoku University, etc.	NEC, Panasonic, FUJITSU, Omron, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, SANYO, NTT	Biometrics Security Consortium
Korea	10	Yonsei, Korea Univ., SangMyung Univ. , Myongji Univ, Inha Univ., Dongseo Univ.	Samsung, LG	Korea Biometrics Association
Singapore	5	Institute for Infocomm Research, Univ. of Singapore, Nanyang Technological Univ.		National Biometrics Standardization Working Group
Taiwan	3	Taiwan Univ.,	LinPo, LTT
India	3	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	BioEnable, Mantra Technologies
Malaysia	2	Multimedia Univ.,
Thailand	1	Kasetsart University