Authors of Keynote Papers: Masatsugu Ichino

Biometric technology allows automatic identification or verification of an individual based on the person´s physiological or behavioral characteristics. Recently, one of the research topics has been focused on Soft Biometrics. Soft biometrics has possibility to make the security technology considering the privacy and improve the service quality by providing the service appropriate to each person. Soft biometrics is defined as characteristics that provide some information about the individual, but they lack high distinctiveness and performance to sufficiently differentiate any two individuals. We will introduce a summary of soft biometrics. And we will also introduce the application of soft biometrics and our work. Finally we will discuss the relation between soft biometrics and kansei engineering.