The BioSecure Network of Excellence (http://www.biosecure.info) is pleased to announce:

BMEC 2007: the BioSecure Multimodal Evaluation Campaign

Multimodality (joint use of several modalities) is often presented as a way to :

• improve the performance of the monomodal systems, specially in case of degraded acquisition conditions
• improve resistance to forgeries
• limit the failure to enroll

The objectives of the present evaluation campaign are to test on two pre-defined scenarios the validity of such assessments.

The data that will be used for this evaluation correspond to 3 different datasets : DS1 (talking face recorded through the internet), DS2 (laboratory data base with face, iris, speech, fingerprint and hand modalities), DS3 (acquisition on a PDA in mobile, indoor/outdoor conditions of talking faces, fingerprint and signatures).

Two different scenarios have been identified:

An "access control" scenario on DS2 data : still face, fingerprint, iris, hand.

A "mobile" scenario on degraded data from DS3 . talking faces, face video sequences, signature, fingerprint.

Both scenarios will include multimodal evaluation on scores fusion. Those experiments will be open to every participant.  Otherwise, monomodal experiments in the mobile scenario are only open to Biosecure members due to restriction in distributed raw data outside the NoE.

For each evaluation, a development dataset will be made available to the registered participants. The evaluations will be conducted at the organizers' facilities (GET-INT, UNIFRI and USURREY) using the submitted executable files on a sequestered database, with the same caracteristics as those of the development databases.

Please check our Web site (http://www.amidconference.org) for the final conference program, as well as complete accommodation and registration information, including reduced registrations for academics, standards bodies and public agencies.

Given the importance and the impact that Ambient Intelligence (AmI) can represent in the society, all challenges related to AmI are receiving an increasing interest from the research community. At the same time for AmI technologies to become a reality we need a strong industrial support. Industry has also shown an important interest in AmI. Finally, government agencies, standards bodies, and decision makers are also a key element in this road to the materialization of the AmI vision. The AmI.d conference has been created to bring together all these stakeholders and to promote and disseminate the advances in technologies related or supporting the AmI vision. We deeply believe that the exchange of ideas and the interaction between the different points of view will be mutually beneficial for all stakeholders.
Furthermore, we believe that the realization of the AmI vision will not be possible without such interaction. Consequently, AmI.d has the objective of providing the means for such interaction to happen, as well as to disseminate and promote awareness of newcomers to the AmI team.

The focus of this first edition of AmI.d has been on the enabling technologies for AmI. In particular, we believe that the development of new software engineering and security engineering practices especially adapted to the new challenges introduced by AmI ecosystems is a key factor for the real-world development of the AmI concept. However, AmI.d also addresses all other aspects and faces of AmI, as shown by its very interesting and wide-ranging program.

In order to suit the needs and interests of the different communities, AmI.d has been structured into two different tracks:
- On the one hand, the "scientific track" was devoted to both
theoretical and applied research, covers the most leading-edge
research and contains contributions that have been formally
reviewed and selected by an outstanding International Program
Committee.
- On the other hand an "open track" was devoted to cover the
industrial aspects, along with other aspects (social, economic,
standardization and regulation, etc.).

The AmI.d progam was complemented by interesting activities, such as the AmI Labs tour, live demos and information booths and featured top-level keynote speakers and an interesting panel debate.

Held in Sophia Antipolis (France) from September the 20th to September the 22nd 2006, the first edition of the AmI.d conference will tackle the latest research challenges within AmI ecosystems, present AmI applications as well as security solutions.

The AmI.d conference features an outstanding programme committee, co-chaired by Professor Antonio Maña (University of Malaga) and Dr.Volkmar Lotz (SAP). Professor Javier Lopez (University of
Malaga) serves as General Chair and Mr Richard Bricaire (Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia) is the Organization Chair.

Authors coming from renowned universities and industry research centres have contributed to draw a comprehensive state-of-the-art in AmI applications and security research. Among others, the AmI.d attendees will find in-depth analysis of the following topics:

. AmI in smart homes
. Distributed coordination
. Resource optimization
. Security
. Software engineering techniques applied to AmI . Design of context-aware ambient services . Context-aware Trust

We welcome you to attend the conference and herewith announce that the registration is available online via the STM conference management. Looking forward to meeting you in Sophia Antipolis at AmI.d'06.

With kind regards,
Laurence Gissinger on behalf of the AmI.d'06 Executive Committee

Laurence Gissinger
STM
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Mobile: +33 (0) 6 07 44 10 70
Fax: +33 (1) 70 07 05 05

Presentations at THE FIRST BIOSECURE INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE
Introductory Address - B.Dorizzi
B.Dorizzi ,
B. Gokberk ,
F. Deravi ,
M. Tistarelli
M. Tistarelli-Video