25.-27. September 2024

23nd International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2024), Darmstadt

Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miss-use incidents we do observe a significant fraud in e-commerce and thus growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applications in areas like border control, national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale applications such as the upcoming European Union Entry Exit System (EES), the Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and reliability, interoperability, scalability, and usability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.

Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexing methods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally, quality of captured biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover, mobile biometrics is now a well-established area and biometricsbased smartphones can support deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.

However, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The relevant techniques in presentation attack detection (liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement biometric systems, in order to improve robustness to (deep) fakes and prevent potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft, etc.

The BIOSIG 2024 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications. The conference is jointly organized by the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (NBL), National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE), the Research Institute for Cyber Defence (CODE) of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, IET Biometrics Journal, and the special interest group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

We invite stakeholders and technical experts to submit original research papers. Industrial contributions presenting lessons learnt from practical usage, case study, and recent results of prototypes, are also welcomed.

Further information can be found at https://biosig.de/

22.-24. October 2024

it-sa, Nürnberg

it-sa Expo&Congress is Europe's largest trade fair for IT security and one of the most important dialogue platforms for IT security solutions. The trade fair covers the entire range of products and services in the field of cybersecurity: hardware, software, training and consulting services as well as Security as a Service. Important topics at it-sa are cloud and mobile security, data and network security, the protection of critical infrastructures, and industrial Security.

26. November 2024

ATHENE DLS: Usable Verifiable Internet Voting Systems

ATHENE DLS: Usable Verifiable Internet Voting Systems

Melanie Volkamer, KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Free, secret, universal and equal elections are the core element of democracies. In many cases the default voting channel is the paper one (i.e. votes are cast on paper either in the polling station or at home and then send via postal service to some central place). However, due to the pandemic, more and more election management boards considered using remote electronic voting systems and several decided to actually offer an electronic voting channel. In particular, in Germany, often, so called black box voting systems are used while researchers have been proposing end-to-end verifiable voting schemes. In this talk, Melanie Volkamer will discuss risks of black box voting systems as well as challenges of end-to-end verifiable voting schemes. The focus will be voter behaviour related challenges and how these challenges can be addressed when taking a human centred approach.

rofessor Dr. Melanie Volkamer is the head of the research group "Security * Usability * Society" (SECUSO) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The research group has been part of the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Languages (AIFB) since 2018. Before, she researched at TU Darmstadt and Karlstad University.
Melanie Volkamer is a PI at the KASTEL Security Research Lab. Her research focuses on human aspects on various research questions in the context of human centred security and privacy. She did her PhD on the security evaluation of electronic voting system and was consulted by various national and international election management boards as well as by the OSCE and the Council of Europe.