Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics

Welcome

• About the EAB and the Forensic Biometrics Working Group: goals and objectives
• introduction to the agenda

Align the biometric and the forensic community

• Introduction Forensic Biometrics Working Group
• Definitions and forensic applications
• Forensic modalities (Fingerprint, face recognition, speaker recognition)

Forensic applications in the UK

General presentation of the forensic applications in UK

European cooperation: status of implementation of Prüm

Presentation of the advance and issues related to interoperability of the Fingerprint and DNA modalities

Expert assisted biometric systems

Presentation of the draft document "Expert assisted biometric systems" of the ISO SC37 working group

Forensic speaker recognition in the US: requirements and legal acceptance

• Forensic speaker recognition in the U.S in general
• Requirements for forensic evidence (Daubert and admissibility hearing)
• Martin – Zimmerman case – analysis of the admissibility of the audio evidence (discussion of some of the legal and logical arguments against presenting likelihood ratios to juries)

Combining expert and automatic methods for forensic speaker recognition

Presentation of the results of the BKA in the combination of the expert and automatic methods for forensic speaker recognition, from the casework, validation and research point of view

Research topics in forensic face recognition

Forensic applications particularities

Topics:

• interoperability
• data privacy and open data policy
• scalability/performance/validation
• main priorities

Conclusion

The aim is to use the result of the workshop and panel discussion to write and publish a white paper to set up a roadmap for the foundation of the EAB Special Interest Group of Forensic Biometrics, with the speakers as authors and having a larger panel from the EAB and from the ISO/IEC SC37 group endorsing it.