DATE

21 October 2024

TIME

13:30 – 17:00

DURATION

Three and a half hours including a short break

LOCATION

London

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This half-day satellite workshop will take place alongside the Biometrics Institute Congress. It will explore risks that face recognition technology poses and considerations for mitigation.

For the past 20 years, the Biometrics Institute has provided guidance and education on biometrics helping its members to deliver on our mission of promoting the responsible and ethical use of biometrics. The Biometrics Institute Three Laws of Biometrics stresses that policy must come first, followed by process and then technology – which should be guided by policy and process: Know your algorithm, biometric system, data quality and operating environment and mitigate vulnerabilities, limitations and risks.

Workshop participants may find the following Biometrics Institute resources useful:

• Good Practice Framework
• Three Laws of Biometrics

The workshop will address risks across all components of a face recognition system and across all stages of the deployment lifecycle. It will examine risks to users, system owners, developers and other stakeholders. Citing studies from NIST and elsewhere, the workshop will address questions such as:

• What are common risks and approaches to their mitigation
• How we define and build trust in face recognition technologies
• Why and where independent testing is vital
• Why low error rates are important but not sufficient
• Why anti-spoofing countermeasures are essential

WORKSHOP PRESENTERS

Patrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology responsible for biometric standards and testing. He leads the IREX, FRTE, FATE and FIVE evaluations of iris and face recognition technologies that support biometrics in national scale identity management. He co-chairs NIST’s International Face Performance Conference on measurement, metrics and certification. Patrick has received U. S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals on three occasions, for work on biometrics in border control, for contributions to the PIV credential, and for work defining and quantifying demographic effects in biometrics.  Patrick assists a number of US Government agencies on research, development and evaluation. Since 2018 he serves as chair of the SC37 committee on Biometrics and is editor of five ISO standards there. He received the IEC 1906 Award in 2009 and the ANSI Lohse IT Medal in 2013. 

Mei Ngan is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA. Her research focus includes evaluation of face recognition and tattoo recognition technologies.  She is currently involved in a number of key face biometrics testing activities at NIST, which include running the Face Analysis Technology Evaluation (FATE) MORPH project to evaluate face morphing detection algorithms and the Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) FIVE project to evaluate face recognition in video capabilities.  Mei has authored and co-authored multiple technical publications, including the accuracy of face recognition with face masks, performance of passive presentation attack detection algorithms, and performance of facial age and gender estimation algorithms.  Mei was awarded the United States Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award in 2020 and was a recipient of the 2020 Women in Biometrics Award, a globally-recognized award honouring innovative women in the biometrics field.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

End-users, integrators, application developers and others interested in biometrics and digital identity

REGISTRATION FEES

Members: GBP 350 (+ VAT@20%)
Non-members: GBP 500 (+ VAT@20%)

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTIFICATION

The Biometrics Institute provides training and course material as a tool to help you conduct due diligence. While the Institute has used reasonable care to ensure the accuracy of the material and course, due to the content and variable inputs during and after the process of implementing biometrics, the Institute cannot be held accountable for outcomes or compliance. The material and course have been prepared for informational purposes only and are not intended to provide legal or compliance advice. You should consult your legal advisor should you require advice on the legal or compliance aspects of the material or course.