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2006 Identifying Humans at a Distance Workshop
August 1 - August 3, 2006

The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
McLean, VA 22102-7508

MITRE will be hosting a workshop sponsored by USSOCOM focused on "Identifying Humans at a Distance". The goal of this workshop is to recommend technology investments for USSOCOM to consider as they develop a roadmap that will advance today’s capabilities and bring them to the point were they will meet operational requirements. Please note that attendance at this hands-on workshop is by invitation only.

This workshop will be held on 1 - 3 August 2006 at the MITRE facilities in McLean, Virginia. The first day of the workshop (1 August) will be held at the unclassified level, while the remaining two days will be held at the TS/SCI level.

The unclassified session will be broken out into the following four topic areas, with each session having two 30 minute presentations:

1. Promising Biometric Features and Associated Sensing Modalities.
2. Information Exploitation for Identifying Humans at a Distance.
3. The Data Quality/Environmental Variability Problem.
4. Potential Multi-Modal, Netted Sensing Solutions to Variability.

Following all of the unclassified presentations, there will be breakout sessions aligned with the four topic areas where participants will work together to put together a technology investment roadmap for the topic areas.

The workshop will provide a forum for both developers and users of human identification technologies to share, exchange, and disseminate information. The workshop will cover the latest advances in R&D, commercial products and discuss the applications and challenges associated with their use.