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AIT organizes international Border Control Conference

Aug 25
1st international workshop on Identification and Surveillance for Border Control (ISBC 2015)

ISBC 2015 is the 1st international workshop on Identification and Surveillance for Border Control and Co-organized by AIT. IT will take place at Karlsruhe (Germany) on August 25th, under the umbrella of the AVSS2015 conference.

This workshop proposes to bring together a wide range of researchers, industry, and practitioners of biometric and/or monitoring/surveillance technologies in ABC to share innovative ideas and solutions in biometrics and surveillance for ABC.

Andreas Opitz experts at the AIT Digital Safety & Security Department, will lecture about "Evaluation of Face Recognition Technologies for Identity Verification in an eGate based on Operational Data of an Airport", elaborate in Co-operation with AIT expert Andreas Kriechbaum.

The focus of the workshop is four-fold:

  • on exploring the development, application and evaluation of (prior and) current applied biometrics (including face, fingerprint, iris) as well as the potential application of emerging innovative biometrics (e.g. finger vein, palm prints, ocular biometrics), stand-off, on-the-move and contactless modes for ABC;
  • on exploring the development, application and potential of innovatve monitoring/surveillance for ABC;
  • towards harmonisation and standardisation of biometric and monitoring/ surveillance technologies for ABC;
  • consideration of the legal and ethical issues surrounding the adoption of biometrics and surveillance monitoring in ABC and other border control situations.

Date: 25 of August 2015

Venue: Karlsruhe, Germany