The Biometric ID Management Workshop ( BioID 2011 ) is the Third International Workshop organised by COST Action 2101 . COST Action 2101 is focused on “Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards (BIDS)”. The BioID 2011 will be held in the city of Brandenburg , Germany , very close to the well-connected capital region of Germany, Berlin . Venue for this workshop will be Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. The workshop will include keynote speeches by renowned scientists covering various aspects of the state of the art, and a number of oral sessions covering the contributed papers. Paper submissions will undergo peer review and accepted contributions will be published under Springer LNCS series. Extended versions of workshop paper submissions may be submitted to a Special Issue of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security, as planned by the COST 2101 action.

The BioID 2011 workshop is organized by a joint effort of the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (Department of Informatics and Media) and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Department of Informatics).

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The TURBINE project is developing a technology that aims to transform a description of fingerprints through crypto-biometrics techniques. The transformation result can only be re-generated by the person with the fingerprints and the result does not reveal any information about the original sample. Applying such outcomes on Identity Management schemes, TURBINE paves the way to mechanisms which combine the legitimate anonymity required by citizen and the trusted authentication expected by service providers.

Dreams & Reality is the meaning of this two-day-workshop which will be held on 17 and 18 January 2011 at the International Auditorium , in Brussels, Belgium. Both days will compare expectations with the current state-of-the-art.

• The first session of the workshop targets a scientific audience which is looking for a worldwide vision of on-going research on biometrics transformation for cryptographic, secure protocols dedicated to privacy enhancing, security assessment and accuracy evaluation. The dialogue with experts coming around the world will give a clear vision on current capacities and limits of crypto-biometrics.
• The second session of the workshop targets the biometrics stakeholders´ community. Identity Management for this 21st century must satisfied citizen´s requirements: the legitimate privacy protection and their smart identity recognition. Crypto-biometrics seems to offer a tool within the future Identity Management architecture. The session will aim to bring a clear vision of what the current techniques may bring in terms of security, accuracy and trust to citizen.

Dreams & Reality of crypto-biometrics for trusted Identity Management will definitively be clarified during these two days thanks to the contributions of world class specialists and the outcomes of the European project TURBINE.

Please, go through the different sections of the workshop for more detailed information on this two-day-event and for registering on-line.

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The main purpose of the workshop is to bring together people working in the areas of privacy and security in biometrics, to review current state of the art, and to identify key future research issues.

The contributors are asked to present the activity they carry out within the areas of interest of the workshop, either by presenting a review of their main contributions to the field or by presenting unpublished results of their research.

U npublished contributions presented at the workshop will be considered for publication in a Special Issue, to be announced during the workshop, of a major international Journal.

Key actions

1) Intention to participate: send the title of the contribution, authors, affiliations, and a short abstract (250 words) at your earliest convenience but not later than April 16, 2010 to campisi@uniroma3.it

2) Pre-registration and hotel booking by April 19,2010 (download and fill the form on the Workshop web site and email it to grouhana@lacajatours.com or fax it to +34 928 380 380)

3) Registration: pre-registrants will be contacted by the workshop secretary by e-mail to be instructed about the workshop registration fee payment (only for NON-COST 2101 members) and about hotel/local transportation payment.

Note: All the attendees, both COST 2010 and NON-COST 2101 members, should pre-register by April 19, 2010.

Details about the Santa Catalina Hotel, the workshop location, and the gala dinner location are provided here.

For any question about the logistics (hotel booking, registration modalities etc) please contact the Workshop secretary at the following e-mail address grouhana@lacajatours.com

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