DRDC-funded
Projects and publications supported by the DRDC Center for Security Science
See also: List of DRDC publications by author.
Automated Behaviour Screening Technology (AVATAR technology)
CSSP-2015-TI-2158, 2015-2017. Status: Finished
Lead: CBSA (PI: Dmitry Gorodnichy).
Partners: University of Arizona, San Diego State University, Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)
Dmitry Gorodnichy, Design and Evaluation of Biometric-enabled Interview Assisting Traveller Screening Technology, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Security Science, Ottawa ON (CAN); Report Number: DRDC-RDDC-2018-C223 — Publication Date: 01 Oct 2018. 20 pages.
Short version (20 pages): http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc331/p808530_A1b.pdf .
ART in ABC: Risk analysis of face and iris biometrics in border/access control applications
CSSP-2013-CP-1020, 2013-2015. Status: Finished
Lead: CBSA (PI: Dmitry Gorodnichy).
Partners: University of Calgary, Frontex
Dmitry Gorodnichy, Analysis of Risks and Trends in Automated Border Control: Executive Summary, 30 pages, DRDC-RDDC-2016-C143D.
Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc229/p803869_A1b.pdf
Dmitry Gorodnichy, Analysis of Risks and Trends in Automated Border Control: Final Report, 150 pages, Report DRDC-RDDC-2016-C324.
Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc256/p804885_A1b.pdf
Dmitry Gorodnichy, "Automated Border Control: from trusted traveller systems to e-border". Global Conference on the Future of Border Checks 2015, Frontex, Warsaw, 17-18 June 2015. Panel "Staying Ahead of the Future Through Research" . Online: http://btn.frontex.europa.eu/events/global-conference-future-border-checks-2015
D. Gorodnichy, S.N. Yanushkevich, V.P. and Shmerko, “Automated Border Control: Problem Formalization”, IEEE Symposium Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management (CIBIM), 2014., Orlando, December 2014. Also published as Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2015-C057. Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc199/p801324_A1b.pdf
D.Gorodnichy, V. Shmerko, S. Yanushkevich, "Automated Border Control systems as part of e-border crossing process". Proc. of NIST International Biometrics Performance Conference, IBPC 2014, April 1-4, 2014, Gaithersburg, MD. Online at www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ibpc2014 presentations.cfm, Also published as Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2015-C056. Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc199/p801327_A1b.pdf
Accelerated Evidence Search
CSSP-2013-CD-1063), 2013-2014. Status: Finished
Lead: CBSA (PI: David Bissessar).
J. Bergeron, D.Bissessar,. “Accelerated Evidence Search”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C166 http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc159/p800470_A1b.pdf
Architecture and Assessment: Privacy Preserving Biometrically Secured Electronic Documents
CSSP-2013-CD-1064, 2013-2014. Status: Finished
Lead: CBSA (PI: David Bissessar).
PROVE-IT (FRiV): Real-time Face Recognition Technologies for Video-surveillance Applications
PSTP03-401BIOM), 2011-2013. Status: Finished
Lead: CBSA (PI: Dmitry Gorodnichy).
Partners: ETS, uOttawa, RCMP, UK HomeOffice, FBI, NIST
E. Granger, P. Radtke, and D. Gorodnichy, “Survey of academic research and prototypes for face recognition in video ”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C246.
Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc167/p800522.pdf
D. Gorodnichy, E.Granger, and P. Radtke, “Survey of commercial technologies for face recognition in video ”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C245. Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc159/p800510_A1b.pdf
E. Granger and D. Gorodnichy, “Evaluation methodology for face recognition technology in video surveillance applications”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C249. Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc167/p800519_A1b.pdf
E. Granger, D. Gorodnichy, E. Choy,W. Khreich, P. Radtke, J.-P. Bergeron, and D. Bissessar, “Results from evaluation of three commercial off-the-shelf face recognition systems on Chokepoint dataset”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C247.
Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc167/p800520_A1b.pdf
E. Neves, S. Matwin, D. Gorodnichy, and E. Granger, “Evaluation of different features for face recognition in video”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C250.
Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc159/p800512_A1b.pdf
D. Gorodnichy, E. Granger, S. Matwin, and E. Neves, “3D face generation tool Candide for better face matching in surveillance video”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C168. Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc157/p800401_A1b.pdf
S. Matwin, D. Gorodnichy, and E. Granger, “Using smooth ROC method for evaluation and decision making in biometric systems”, Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C169.
Online: http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc157/p800406_A1b.pdf
Dmitry Gorodnichy et al. “PROVE-IT(FRiV): framework and results”. Proceedings of NIST International Biometrics Performance Conference (IBPC 2014), Gaithersburg, MD, April 1-4, 2014. Online at http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ibpc2014.cfm.
Dmitry Gorodnichy and Eric Granger, “Evaluation of Face Recognition for Video Surveillance”. Proceedings of NIST International Biometric Performance Conference (IBPC 2012), Gaithersburg, March 5-9, 2012.
Online at http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ibpc2012.cfm.
PROVE-IT(VA): Video Analytics for Border and Transportation Security: Indoor and Outdoor Environments
PSTP03-402BTS), 2011-2013.
Lead: CBSA (PI: Dmitry Gorodnichy).
Partners: uOttawa, CRIM, RCMP, UK HomeOffice, FBI, NIST
D. Gorodnichy, J. Bergeron, D.Bissessar, E. Choy, J. Sciandra, “Video Analytics technology: the foundations, market analysis and demonstrations", Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C251. http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc167/p801081_A1b.pdf
D. Macrini, D. Gorodnichy, R. Laganiere, “Video analytics evaluation: survey of datasets, performance metrics and approaches ", Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C248. Online at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/rddc-drdc/D68-3-C248-2014-eng.pdf , http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc198/p800521_A1b.pdf
M. Lalonde, M. Derenne, L. Gagnon, D. Gorodnichy, “The Current State and TRL Assessment of Unattended and Left-Behind Object Detection Technology", Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C292. Online at http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc161/p800738_A1b.pdf
D. Macrini, V. Khoshaein, G. Moradian, C. Whitten, D.O. Gorodnichy, R. Laganiere, “The Current State and TRL Assessment of People Tracking Technology for Video Surveillance applications", Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C293. http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc161/p800731_A1b.pdf
D. Bissessar, E. Choy, D. Gorodnichy, T. Mungham, “Face Recognition and Event Detection in Video: An Overview of PROVE-IT Projects” , Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C167, http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc157/p800402_A1b.pdf
D. Bissessar, E. Choy, D. Gorodnichy, T. Mungham, “Face Recognition and Event Detection in Video: An Overview of PROVE-IT Projects” , Technical Report DRDC-RDDC-2014-C167, http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc157/p800402_A1b.pdf
Dmitry Gorodnichy and Eric Granger, “Evaluation of Face Recognition for Video Surveillance”. Proceedings of NIST International Biometric Performance Conference (IBPC 2012), Gaithersburg, March 5-9, 2012. Online at http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ibpc2012.cfm.
Biometric Data Safeguarding Technologies: Analysis and Best Practices
PSTP 02-351-BIOM, 2009-2010
Lead: CBSA (PI: David Bissessar).
Partners: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, International Biometrics Group
David Bissessar, Dmitry Gorodnichy, Alex Stoianov and Michael Thieme. Assessment of Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Biometrics, Electronic Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (CISDA 2012), Ottawa, 2012
C-BET: Comprehensive Biometrics Evaluation Toolkit
TI09-291, 2009-2011.
Lead: CBSA (PI: Dmitry Gorodnichy).
https://partners.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/css/Portfolios/Biometrics/CBET
(available to DRDC partners)
Biometric Border Security Evaluation Framework
PSTP08-0110BIOM, 2008-2009,
in partnership with International Biometrics Group.
Comprehensive Evaluation of Stand-Off Biometrics Techniques for Enhanced Surveillance during Major Events
PSTP08-0109BIOM, 2008-2009,
In partnership with RCMP and International Biometrics Group.
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Elan Dubrofsky, Richard Hoshino, Wael Khreich, Eric Granger, Robert Sabourin. "Exploring the upper bound performance limit of iris biometrics using score calibration and fusion ", Proceedings of IEEE SSCI Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management (CIBIM), April 2011, Paris
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy. Multi-order biometric score analysis framework and its application to designing and evaluating biometric systems for access and border control. Proceedings of IEEE SSCI Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management (CIBIM), April 2011, Paris
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Michael Thieme, Dave Bissessar, Jessica Chung, Elan Dubrofsky, Jonathon Lee "C-BET evaluation of voice biometrics . Proceedings of SPIE Defence, Security & Sensing Conference, Special Track on Biometric Technology for Human Identification VIII (DS108), Orlando, April 25-29, 2011.
D.O. Gorodnichy, R. Hoshino. Score Calibration for Optimal Biometric Identification. In Proceedings of the NIST International Biometric Performance Conference (IBPC 2010), NIST Gaithersburg, March 2-4, 2010. [This Talk and paper are also available online from NIST website]
D.O. Gorodnichy, R. Hoshino. Score Calibration for Optimal Biometric Identification, Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2010), 31 May – 2 June, Ottawa, 2010. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy. Multi-order analysis framework for comprehensive biometric performance evaluation , In Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Defense, Security, and Sensing. DS108: Biometric Technology for Human Identification track. Orlando, 5 - 9 April 2010.
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, " Evolution and evaluation of biometric systems ", Special Track on Applied Computational Intelligence in Biometrics, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (CISDA'09'), 8-10 July, 2009.
VT4NS: Video Technology for National Security, Gov't of Canada inter-departmental initiative
2007-2014.
Lead / Chair: Dmitry Gorodnichy, CBSA
https://partners.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/css/Portfolios/Biometrics/VT4NS (available to DRDC partners)
David Bissessar and Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Integrating LPR with CCTV systems: problems and solutions , Proceedings of SPIE 2011 Conference on Defense, Security, and Sensing, Orlando, April 21-26, 2011
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy and Elan Dubrofsky. VAP/VAT: video analytics platform and test bed for testing and deploying video analytics . Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Defense, Security, and Sensing, DS226: Visual Analytics for Homeland Defense and Security track. 5 - 9 April 2010, Orlando
Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Tony Mungham, Automated video surveillance: challenges and solutions. ACE Surveillance (Annotated Critical Evidence) case study NATO SET-125 Symposium "Sensor and Technology for Defence against Terrorism", Mainheim, April 2008.