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COST Mission:

COST Action 275: European Cooperation in the Field of Biometrics over the Internet Mauro Falcone ( COST275 vice chair ) Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. COST Mission:.

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COST Mission:

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  1. COST Action 275: European Cooperation in the Field of Biometrics over the InternetMauro Falcone( COST275 vice chair )Fondazione Ugo Bordoni

  2. COST Mission: Strengthen Europe in scientific and technical research for peaceful purposes through the support of cooperation and interaction between European Researchers

  3. What is COST ? • http://cost.cordis.lu/src/home.cfm

  4. What is COST ? • Intergovernmental co-operation • Activity started 1971(19 member countries) • 17 Scientific & Technical domains • Participation • 34 COST Member States + Israel (Co-operating Country) • The European Commission • International organisations and research establishments from non-COST countries • COST Actions • Concerted actions of nationally funded R&D • Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

  5. COST Characteristics • Concerted Actions / Networking • Co-ordination • Pan-European • “Non-competitive” (pre-normative; environmental and cross-border problems; public utility) • Financed nationally • Bottom-up / Flexibility • “A la carte” participation • “Integration” • Complementarity • Exploratory • Commissioninvolvement

  6. Advantages of COST • Creates lasting networks of scientists & researchers • Fosters S&T Co-operation across Europe • Promotes co-operation between Candidate Countries and the EU and facilitates their integration • Exploration of new areas of co-operative research endeavour

  7. Number of Actions per domain 2004Y Average cost per Action/Year 80k € Total budget 13M €

  8. COST Countries COST Member States The 25 EU Member States1 • EFTA Member StatesIcelandNorwaySwitzerlandCandidate CountriesBulgariaRomaniaTurkey Other CountriesSerbia and Montenegro2Croatia2FYR of Macedonia (FYROM)2 COST Co-operating StatesIsrael 1from 1 May 04 2Not Associated to FP

  9. COSTGovernance COST COST Ministerial Conference Ministerial Conference Secretariat. Secretariat. General General Committee of Senior Officials Committee of Senior Officials Secretariat of Secretariat of European European JAF JAF the Council the Council Commission Commission of the EU. of the EU. (partner) (observer) Ad Hoc Ad Hoc Technical Committees Technical Committees Groups Groups COST COST Telecommunications Information Office Office Telecommunications Information Agriculture, Biotechnology & Agriculture, Biotechnology & Social Sciences & Humanities Social Sciences & Humanities Forests & Forestry Products Forests & Forestry Products Science and Technology Urban Civil Engineering Urban Civil Engineering Science and Technology Scientific Scientific Medicine and Health Medicine and Health Materials & Physics Materials & Physics Nanotechnology Nanotechnology Food Sciences Food Sciences Environment Environment Biomaterials Biomaterials Meteorology Meteorology Chemistry Chemistry Transport Transport Secretariat Secretariat Actions Management Committees Actions Management Committees Working Groups Working Groups

  10. Committee of Senior Officials(CSO) 2 representatives per COST Country Responsible for: • the overall strategy and steering of COST • deciding on the launching of individual Actions • approving participation of institutes from non-COST countries • approving the prolongation/extension of Actions

  11. Technical Committees (TC) Up to 2 representatives per country Responsible for: • selection of new COST Actions (quality control) • monitoring of ongoing COST Actions • evaluation of completed COST Actions • dissemination and valorisation of COST activities • strategic developments in its domain • synergies

  12. Management Committee (MC) • Maximum of 2 representatives per signatory country • 1 representative per non-COST institution • Representatives of the European Commission (observer) • Observers from other organisations Responsible for : • supervising and co-ordinating implementation of the Action • ensuring scientific coordination at a national level

  13. Working Group (WG) • a small number of researchers working together per WG • MC members or other scientists from the signatory countries • Invited experts • Members from non-COST countries

  14. COST Actions: what is supported • Science management meetings (MC and WG) • Scientific workshops and seminars • Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) • Training Schools and Research Conferences • Evaluations and Studies • Dissemination

  15. Short Term Scientific Missions Aim: • promote exchange within an Action’s scientific objectives. How: • by allowing a scientist (especially a junior researcher) to go to a laboratory in another COST country to learn a new technique or to make measurements using instruments and/or methods not available in their own laboratory. Means: • Average contribution for a mission (between 5 days and 1 month) will not normally exceed EURO 2,000

  16. 1st Draft (2 months) Preparation (6 months-1 year) Dissemination (years) Implementation (4 years) Assessment Monitoring TC assesses proposals TC adopts draft MoU Evaluation time CSO approves draft MOU 5 countries sign MOU Action Life Cycle 1st MC Meeting

  17. Expected Results • Scientific importance. Thousands of papers in refereed journals and books. Doctorates. Recognition of COST scientific Community outside Europe. • Contribution to European competitiveness. Contributions to normative and standardisation bodies. SME’s originating from COST Actions. • Societal importance. Delicate issues arising from new technologies based high quality, independent advice. • Contribution to the ERA. COST precursor of research projects (including Networks of Excellence) in the FP’s. Complementarity with FP, and with others, including ESF.

  18. TIST: Telecommunications, Information Science and Technology • http://www.cordis.lu/cost/src/tisthome.htm TIST website TIST brochure 2002 (70pg)

  19. Biometric-based recognition of people over the internet COST 275 • Main objective:to investigate effective methods for the recognition of people over the Internet based primarily on voice and facial characteristics in order to facilitate, protect and promote financial and other services over this growing telecommunication medium. (23 November 1999)

  20. COST 275 STATUS cost tist action number: 275title: biometrics-based recognition of people over the internetproposal date: 23 November 1999starting date: 8 June 2001ending date: 7 June 2005participating countries: 14 chairperson: Aladdin Ariyaeeiniavice-chairperson: Mauro Falcone working group leaders:wg1 speaker recognition: Andrzej Drygajlowg2 image based recognition: Nikola Pavesicwg3 applications and data fusion: Josef Kittlerwg4 assessment: Jean-Francois BonastreMC meetings held: 7 workshops held: 2 next MC meeting: April 2005 – Wraclaw (PL) next workshop: October 2005 – Hatfield (UK)

  21. Motivation(1999) A growing number of services over the Internet require a means of identification of users. Identification can be used for: • financial services, e.g. banking • remote access to secure websites and confidential information, • launching computer applications, • prevention of unauthorised tampering with data, and • access to personal files, e.g. medical records or tax files.

  22. OBJECTIVES • In operational terms: • To improve knowledge of the issues and problems involved. • To study the current techniques for voice and face recognition and to evaluate their performance in the medium considered. • To investigate methods for the fusion of the considered biometric data. • To analyse the implementation problems and investigate effective solutions. • To identify the potential applications and analyse their requirements. • To develop standard methods and tools for the purpose of assessment.

  23. WORK & PROGRESS • Some projected activities: • Effects of speech/image compression • Problems due to packet loss • Effects of convolutional/additive noise • Analysis/comparison of unimodal/multimodal systems • Factors adversely affecting the accuracy of verification on the Internet • Methods for minimising the adverse effects • Provision of a database • Assessment tools and procedures

  24. WORK & PROGRESS • Technical Activities • Investigations into the existing methods for • speaker verification • face recognition • fingerprint recognition • others • Investigations into multimodal techniques • Investigations into implementation issues: • Data degradation resulting from transmission over IP. • Implementation by avoiding the direct transmission of biometric data over the Internet. • Server/client sites design analysis

  25. Scientific and Technical Cooperation • Project/Organisation Point of Contact • COST Actions 277 and 278 Gerard Chollet • XM2VTS (EU Project) Kieron Messer • BANCA(EU Project) Sebastien Marcel • MUHCI(EU Project) Ioannis Pitas • BIOMET (National Project, France) Sonia Salicetti • David Database(National Project, UK) John Mason • ELISA (European Speech Cons.) Ivan Chagnollean • SpLC (Int. Special Interest Gr.) John Mason • BIOSECURE (EU Project) Bernadette Dorizzi • SecurPhone (EU Project)Gerard Chollet • EBF (EU Biometric Forum) informal contacts: • Biometric Consortium J. Campbell • Nist M. Przybocki • ISCA (EuroSpeech) A. Drygailo • others in progress

  26. Outcomes • contributions to knowledge in all areas of investigation • reported in over 50 research papers and technical reports produced in the framework of the Action, and • numerous papers published independently by the members

  27. Outcomes • Degradation of the XM2VTS speech database • generating the effects of packet loss over the Internet • using simulations and real network conditions • degradation due to compact encoding of speech • two levels of packet loss (average and bad network conditions) applied to clean and encoded speech

  28. Outcomes • Software toolset (PicDeg ) for the degradation of image databases • Provision of a speaker recognition toolkit through ALIZE (to which COST 275 is a Scientific Sponsor) • Provision of speaker verification scores for use in multimodal biometrics experiments. • Development of a protocol for using a combination of European databases in multimodal biometrics investigations. • XM2VTS, MCYT, BANCA and BIOMET. • Contributions to the successful proposal for the Biosecure NoE.

  29. DISSEMINATION • Website • Papers, presentation, etc. • Promoting national and EU activities in the field • Supporting human mobility and short term mission • Workshop

  30. COST 275: browsing the site( http://www.fub.it/cost275 ) • V-BAR • About us • Contacts • Links • H-BAR • Home • Activities • Documents • Map

  31. DISSEMINATION • IEE PROCEEDINGS VISION, IMAGE ANDSIGNALPROCESSING Special Section on: BIOMETRICS ON THE INTERNET In association with the COST 275 Workshop held in Rome in Nov 2002 Guest Editor: Aladdin Ariyaeeinia (COST 275) Publication Date: December 2003

  32. DISSEMINATION • EURASIP JOURNAL ON APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING Special Issue on: Biometric Signal Processing Guest Editors: Herve Bourlard (COST 275), Ioannis Pitas (COST 275), Kenneth K.M. Lam (Hong Kong), Yue Wang (USA) Publication Date: 2004

  33. DISSEMINATION • Eurospeech’03 Special Session on Forensic Speaker Recognition Successfully proposed and run by: Andrzej Drygajlo, Leader, Working Group 1, COST 275 In association with: ENFSI and SpLC September 2003

  34. COST 275: 1° workshop( http://www.fub.it/cost275/workshop.2002.rome/ ) • Available on the web (for free!) • presentations • prooceedings • Contents • 5 invited talks • 19 contributions • More than 60 participants • Addressed topics: • Biometrics over the Internet, Face recognition, Fusion, Speaker Recognition, Multimodality & databases

  35. COST 275: 2° workshop( http://www.fub.it/cost275/workshop.2004.vigo/ ) • Available on the web (for free!) • presentations • prooceedings • Contents • 3 invited talks • 15 contributions • More than 60 participants • Addressed topics: • Applications, standards, Biometrics over the Internet, Face recognition, Fusion, Speaker Recognition, Multimodality & databases

  36. COST 275: 3° workshop( http://www.fub.it/cost275/uk2005/ ) DRAFT BROCHURE AVAILABLE

  37. COST 275: what’s next • COST 275 Action will close very soon with the 3rd Workshop in October this year. • The COST 275 had the opportunity to have 1 or 2 years extension, but the MC voted in order to close this Action, and set up the the activity for the proposition on a new COST Action. • We invite ALL EU COUNTRIES to contribute/participate.

  38. It’s a long way...... To create a collaborative framework of European researchers working in the field Monitor, promote and contribute to the research and technology progress Making the secure identification and the secure access a reality through Bio-Id

  39. C o n t a c t : Mauro Falcone f a l c o n e @ f u b . i t

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