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Preliminary Program,
Thursday August 7th, 2008

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome

09:15 – 10:30 Session: Challenges and Trends I

• Computational Forensics: An Overview
  Katrin Franke and Sagur N. Srihari
  Norwegian Information Security Laboratory, Norway and
  University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
  
  
• Invited Talk
  Zeno Geradts, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Session: Scanner, Printer and Prints

• Survey of Scanner and Printer Forensics at Purdue University
  Nitin Khanna, Aravind K. Mikkilineni, George T.-C. Chiu, Jan P. Allebach, and Edward J. Delp
  Purdue University, USA
  
  
• Evaluation of Graylevel-Features for Printing Technique Classification in High-Throughput Systems
  Christian Schulze, Marco Schreyer, Armin Stahl, and Thomas M. Breuel
  German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  
  
• Document Signatures Using Intrinsic Features for Counterfeit Detection
  Joost van Beusekom, Faisal Shafait, and Thomas M. Breuel
  German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  
  

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 Session: Human Identification

• Automatic Feature Extraction from 3D Range Images of Skulls
  Lucia Ballerini, Marcello Calisti, Oscar Cordon, Sergio Damas, and Jose Santamaria
  European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
  
  
• 3D Processing and Visualization of Scanned Forensic Data
  Alexander Ehlert and Dirk Bartz
  University of Leipzig and University of Tόbingen, Germany
  
  
• Person Identification Based on Barefoot 3D Sole Shape
  Michael Hild
  Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
  
  

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 Session: Shoeprints

• Computerized Matching of Shoeprints Based on Sole Pattern
  Rui Xiao and Pengfei Shi
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  
  
• Shoeprint Extraction from Latent Images using CRF
  Veshnu Ramakrishnan, Manavender Malgireddy, and Sargur N. Srihari
  University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
  
  

16:30 – 17:30 Panel discussion:

• Computational Forensics: New demands in forensic sciences

17:30 – 17:45 Closing

Preliminary Program,
Friday August 8th, 2008

09:00 – 09:30 Session: Challenges and Trends II

• Computational Methods for Determining Individuality
  Sargur N. Srihari and Chang Su
  University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
  
  

09:30 – 10:30 Session: Speech Analysis

• Similarity Visualization for the Grouping of Forensic Speech Recordings
  Klara A. Weiand, Jos S. Bouten, and Cor J. Veenman
  Netherlands Forensic Institute and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  
• Handwritten Signature and Speech: Preliminary Experiments on Multiple Source and Classifiers for Personal Identity Verification
  Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, and Mario Refice1
  University of Bari, Italy
  
  

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Session: Linguistics

• Finding Identity Group "Fingerprints" in Documents
  Lashon B. Booker
  The MITRE Corporation, USA
  
  
• Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis
  Danny Hughes, Paul Rayson, James Walkerdine, Kevin Lee, Phil Greenwood, Awais Rashid, Corinne May-Chahal, and Margaret Brennan
  Lancaster University, UK and Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, UK
  
  
• An Intelligent System for Semantic Information Retrieval from Textual Web Documents
  Karthik Mukundan, Marikkannan Mariappan, and Kannan Arputharaj
  Anna University, Chennai, India
  
  

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 Session: Decision Making and Search

• Support of Interviewing Techniques in Physical Access-control Systems
  Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, Oleg Boulanov, Adrian Stoica, and Vlad P. Shmerko University of Calgary, Canada and NASA, Pasadena, USA
  
  
• Application of q-gram Distance in Digital Forensic Search
  Slobodan Petrovic and Sverre Bakke
  Norwegian Information Security Laboratory, Norway
  
  
• Invariant Discretization for Individuality Representation for Handwritten Authorship
  Azah Kamilah Muda, Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, and Maslina Darus
  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
  
  

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 Session: Signatures and Handwriting

• Off-line Signature Verification using Bayesian Approach
  Sargur N. Srihari, Kamal Kuzhinjedathu, Harish Srinivasan, Chen Huang, and Danjun Pu
  University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
  
  
• Stroke-morphology Analysis using Super-imposed Writing Movements
  Katrin Franke
  Norwegian Information Security Laboratory, Norway
  
  

16:30 – 16:45 Closing