Conference on Video and Image Analysis in the fight against child sexual abuse

Hannover, 16-17 September 2014
Organised by the European Commission and the Ministry of Interior of Lower Saxony (Germany)

Maritim Airport Hotel Hannover

Draft Agenda
(5September2014)

DAY 1 / 16 September 2014
Time / Duration / Topic / Speakers
Plenary session I
8:30 / 60 min / Registration by participants
9:30 / 10 min / Opening address by Boris Pistorius, Minister of Interior, Niedersachsen
9:40 / 10 min / Opening address by a representative of the European Commission
9:50 / 10 min / Introduction to the conference
- background and purpose of the conference
- practical arrangements for the conference /
  • Chairman (10 min)

10:00 / 30 min / Overview of Child Sexual Exploitation Online – trends and threats
- different types of child sexual abuse
- trends and threats
- technological developments /
  • Speaker (15min)
    Bjørn-Erik Ludvigsen,
    National Criminal Investigation Service, Norway
  • Discussion (15 min)

DAY 1 / 16 September 2014
10:30 / 45 min / Detection, investigation and prosecution
- Technological challenges
- Technological needs for actors involved /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    KHK Hofmann, Bundeskriminalamt
    KHK Schillig, LKA Niedersachsen
    Germany
  • Discussion (30 min)

11:15 / 15 min / Coffee break
11:30 / 45 min / Victim identification and assistance
- Technological challenges
- Technological needs for actors involved /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Mads Nielsen
    Danish National Police
  • Discussion (30 min)

12:15 / 45 min / Reducing the availability of child pornography
- Technological challenges
- Technological needs for actors involved /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    John Carr
    European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online
  • Discussion (30 min)

13:00 / 60 min / Lunch break
DAY 1 / 16 September 2014
Breakout session I – Thematic seminars
block 1 – Victim identification / Breakout room 1
14:00 / 25 min / Interpol database ICSE: update on the upgrade /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Bjørn-Erik Ludvigsen,
    National Criminal Investigation Service, Norway
  • Discussion (10 min)

14:25 / 25 min / Europol Victim Identification Function /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Cathal Delanay, Miguel Castellano
    Europol
  • Discussion (10 min)

14:50 / 25 min / IMPALA /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Jan Willem Klerkx
    EUVISION, Netherlands
  • Discussion (10 min)

15:15 / 30 min / Coffee break
15:45 / 25 min / Videntifier /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Herwig Lejsek
    Videntifier Technologies, Iceland
  • Discussion (10 min)

16:10 / 25 min / LACE /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Antoine Normand
    Bluebear LES, Canada
  • Discussion (10 min)

16:35 / 25 min / Innovation in forensic anatomical identification – Combating the sexual exploitation of children. /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Sue Black
    University of Dundee, UK
  • Discussion (10 min)

17:00 / 25 min / AVICAO - Authors and Victims Identification of Child Abuse Online /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Laurent Beslay
    Riccardo Satta
    European Commission – Joint Research Centre
  • Discussion (10 min)

17:25 / End of day 1
Dinner hosted by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Interior
DAY 1 / 16 September 2014
Breakout session I – Thematic seminars
block 2 – Image and video management / Breakout room 2
14:00 / 25 min / Project VIC /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Richard Brown
    International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, USA
  • Discussion (10 min)

14:25 / 25 min / Overview of tools at the Dutch Forensic Institute /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Zeno Geradts
    Netherlands Forensic Institute
  • Discussion (10 min)

14:50 / 25 min / Uranos /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Frank Puschin, Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen, Germany
  • Discussion (10 min)

15:15 / 30 min / Coffee break
15:45 / 25 min / VizX2 /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Jos Flury, Peter Paul Lucker
    ZiuZ Forensics, Netherlands
  • Discussion (10 min)

16:10 / 25 min / ASASEC – Advisory System Against Sexual Exploitation of Children /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Antonio Sepúlveda
    National Institute of Communication Technology, Spain
  • Discussion (10 min)

16:35 / 25 mins / INDECT/INACT /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Mikołaj Leszczuk
    AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
  • Discussion (10 min)

17:00 / 25 min / Structural video analysis and fingerprint and semantic image search /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Joachim Giesekus, Ralf Schäfer
    Fraunhofer HHI
    Germany
  • Discussion (10 min)

17:25 / End of day 1
Dinner hosted by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Interior
DAY 1 / 16 September 2014
Breakout session I – Thematic seminars
block 3 – Network analysis, behaviour assessment, prevention, other functionalities / Breakout room 3
14:00 / 25 min / Fighting International Internet Paedophilia (FIIP) Project /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Matthew Long
    Kent Police, UK
  • Discussion (10 min)

14:25 / 25 min / CAPS-Child Abuse Prevention System /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Thorsten Nowak, Ministry of Interior of Lower Saxony, , Germany
  • Discussion (10 min)

14:50 / 25 min / Web-IQ /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Matthijs Homminga
    Web-IQ, Netherlands
  • Discussion (10 min)

15:15 / 30 min / Coffee break
15:45 / 25 min / Netclean Proactive /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Johann Hofmann
    Netclean, Sweden
  • Discussion (10 min)

16:10 / 25 min / iCOP: Identifying and Catching Originators in P2P Networks /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Christian Schulze
    Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
  • Discussion (10 min)

16:35 / 25 min / ILLBuster (Buster of illegal contents spread by malicious computer networks) /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Fabio Roli
    University of Cagliari, Italy
  • Discussion (10 min)

17:00 / NIFTy- Novel Image/Photo forensic tools for fighting against child pornography /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Jeff Yan
    Newcastle University, UK
  • Discussion (10 min)

17:25 / End of day 1
Dinner hosted by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Interior
DAY 2 / 17 September 2014
Breakout session II – Demonstrations at stands
Different projects will set up stands to show live demos (to the extent possible) and provide more detailed information. Participants interested in knowing more about them can tour the stands at defined times and attend presentations or watch demonstrations.
9:30 / 90 min / 1st round of presentations at project stands
Stand #1 / NIFTy- Novel Image/Photo forensic tools for fighting against child pornography / Jeff Yan
Newcastle University, UK
Stand #2 / Videntifier / Herwig Lejsek
Videntifier Technologies, Iceland
Stand #3 / INDECT/INACT / Mikołaj Leszczuk
AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Stand #4 / CAPS-Child Abuse Prevention System / Thorsten Nowak,
Ministry of Interior of Lower Saxony, Germany
Stand #5 / Uranos / Frank Puschin,
Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen, Germany
Stand #6 / Project VIC / Richard Brown
International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, USA
Stand #7 / AVICAO - Authors and Victims Identification of Child Abuse Online / Laurent Beslay
Riccardo Satta
European Commission – Joint Research Centre
Stand #8 / Overview of tools at the Dutch Forensic Institute / Zeno Geradts
Netherlands Forensic Institute
Stand #9 / VizX2 / Jos Flury, Peter Paul Lucker
ZiuZ Forensics, Netherlands
Stand #10
11:00 / 30 min / Coffee break / technical break
11:30 / 90 min / 2nd round of presentations at project stands
Stand #1 / iCOP: Identifying and Catching Originators in P2P Networks / Christian Schulze
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
Stand #2 / ILLBuster (Buster of illegal contents spread by malicious computer networks) / Fabio Roli
University of Cagliari, Italy
Stand #3 / LACE / Antoine Normand
Bluebear LES, Canada
Stand #4 / Fighting International Internet Paedophilia (FIIP) Project / Matthew Long
Kent Police, UK
Stand #5 / Structural video analysis and fingerprint and semantic image search / Joachim Giesekus
Ralf Schäfer
Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Stand #6 / Netclean / Johann Hofmann,
Netclean, Sweden
Stand #7 / Web-IQ / Matthijs Homminga
Web-IQ, Netherlands
Stand #8 / ASASEC – Advisory System Against Sexual Exploitation of Children / Antonio Sepúlveda
National Institute of Communication Technology, Spain
Stand #9
Stand #10
13:00 / 1hour / Lunch break
DAY 2 / 17 September 2014
Plenary session II
14:00 / 30 min / The present: overview of thematic seminars and demonstrations at stands
  • Chairman (15 min)
  • Discussion (15 min)

14:30 / 45 min / The future: what else is needed, what else is possible
- Technological challenges
- Technological needs for actors involved
- possible technological developments of tools /
  • Speaker (15 min)
    Dr Joachim Giesekus, Fraunhofer Institut, Germany
  • Discussion (30 min)

15:15 / 15 min / Coffee break
15:30 / 45 min / Next steps: how to ensure dissemination, cross-fertilisation and improvement of operations
- partnerships
- repositories of tools
- licences /
  • Chairman (15 min)
  • Discussion (30 min)

16:15 / 15 min / Concluding remarks
  • Chairman (15 mins)

16:30 / End of the conference