Scientific Program (Preliminary)

Thursday August 13, 2009

09:00 – 09:45 Registration and coffee

09:45 – 10:00 Opening

10:00 - 11:00 Keynote talk

• The contribution of forensic science to crime intelligence: are we on the right path?
  
  Olivier Ribaux, Lausanne University, Switzerland

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 Session: Speech and Linguistics

• Statistical Evaluation of Biometric Evidence in Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition
  Andrzej Drygajlo

• Forensic Authorship Attribution Using Compression Distances to Prototypes
  Maarten Lambers and Cor J. Veenman

12:15 - 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 - 14:15 Session: Printers

• Estimation of Inkjet Printer Spur Gear Teeth Number from Pitch Data String of Limited Length
  Yoshinori Akao, Atsushi Yamamoto, and Yoshiyasu Higashikawa

• Detecting the spur marks of ink-jet printed documents using a multiband scanner in NIR mode and image restoration
  Takeshi Furukawa

14:15 - 15:15 Session: Fingerprints

• A Computational Discriminability Analysis on Twin Fingerprints
  Yu Liu and Sargur N. Srihari

• Probability of Random Correspondence for Fingerprints
  Chang Su and Sargur N. Srihari

15:15 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:30 Session: Visualization

• A new computational methodology for the construction of forensic, facial composites
  Christopher Solomon, Stuart Gibson and Matthew Maylin

• Geovisualization Approaches for Spatio-Temporal Crime Scene Analysis – Towards 4D Crime Mapping
  Markus Wolff and Hartmut Asche

16:30 - 17:30 Panel discussion

19:00 Conference dinner

Friday August 14, 2009

9:30 - 10:30 Invited talk

• The development of national DNA databases in Europe and interpretation challenges
  
  Peter Gill, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:15 Session: Multimedia

• Multimedia Forensics is not Computer Forensics
  Rainer Bohme, Felix C. Freiling, Thomas Gloe and Matthias Kirchner

• Using Sensor Noise to Identify Low Resolution Compressed Videos from YouTube
  Wiger van Houten and Zeno Geradts

• Using the ENF criterion for determining the time of recording of short digital audio recordings
  Maarten Huijbregtse and Zeno Geradts

12:15 - 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 - 14:45 Session: Handwriting

• A Machine Learning Approach to Off-line Signature Verification using Bayesian Inference
  Danjun Pu, Gregory R. Ball and Sargur N. Srihari

• Computer-Assisted Handwriting Analysis: Interaction with Legal Issues in U. S. Courts
  Kenneth A. Manning and Sargur N. Srihari

• Analysis of Authentic Signatures and Forgeries
  Katrin Franke

14:45 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:00 Session: Documents

• Automatic Line Orientation Measurement for Questioned Document Examination
  Joost van Beusekom, Faisal Shafait and Thomas M. Breuel

• Color Deconvolution and Support Vector Machines
  Charles E.H. Berger and Cor J. Veenman

16:00-16:15 Closing