Worshop: Speech Forensic in Indonesia - Past, Present, and Future

On 10 December 2015, a workshop on Speech Forensic in Indonesia - Past, Present, and Future, has been held. There were 3 main speakers on this workshop. The first speaker is from Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), a corruption eradication commission in Indonesia. The first speaker shared some practical cases in which speaker recognition used in the investigation of corruption cases in Indonesia. The second speaker is affiliated with digital forensic laboratory from POLRI, the Indonesian Police Institution. The last speaker is myself, where I shared the current advancement in speaker recognition for forensics. 

Workshop on Forensic Speaker Recognition

The topic of today's workshop is "forensic speaker recognition". In this workshop, I presented about the basic knowledge in forensic speaker recognition and the recognition in practice, esp. based on my experience in Indonesia. The participants are the member of Indonesian National Institution for Cryptography, or known as LSN (Lembaga Sandi Negara) in Bahasa.

Last BBfor2 workshop and project meeting

In this summer, we had our last project meeting for the BBfor2 project. Besides the meeting, we also had workshop on "Practical applications of forensic biometrics" and "Entrepreneurial skills". The workshop on forensic biometrics applications has content more towards image based biometrics such as face recognition. The entrepreneurial skills workshop was presented in two major topics. The topics are about project management and how to start a new high-tech company. Both workshops are well-designed in this last workshop to help us, the fellows, preparing ourselves for the future after we finished our project within the BBfor2 framework.

This last meeting turned me a bit sad because of various reasons. I've learned so many things through this network. I've tasted lots of new experiences. I've met so many new friends through this meeting. The feeling of won't be able to see them regularly (we have meeting twice a year) are quite overwhelming. But life must go on, we have to keep moving forward and the project  has to end at some point.

Anyway, we're gonna meet again on the BBfor2 conference this autumn. So, there is no need to be too sad :)

BBfor2 Winter Meeting in Enschede, 2013

Gala dinner at the BBfor2 winter meeting in January, 2013.

Without even noticing, we've arrived at the last year of our BBfor2 project. One by one, fellows are leaving this project as their contract end. Though, the networking won't stop here. This winter, we have a meeting in Enschede, the Netherlands. We also have an interesting workshop on "Bayesian Network". The challenge on this workshop is to apply the Bayesian network in our work-case which can be tricky. 

Winter Workshop on Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics

Posing with all fellows and supervisors in the BBfor2 project.

Even though the workshop was only lasting for 1 day, we had a lot of interesting talks in the session. Ranging from automatic face recognition system for forensic biometrics, until Bayesian interpretation of forensic evidence and likelihood ratio calibration. Besides all those interesting talks, the venue itself was amazing. The workshop was taken place in Martigny, Switzerland, where we can see Mount-Blanc outside the window. 

BBfor2 Winter Workshop: Forensic Aspects of Biometrics, An Introduction to Criminalistics

Posing with the fellows and supervisors from the BBfor2 project in front of Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague. 

Personally, this is my first time meeting with fellows from other sites inside the BBfor2 network. It was an exciting experience and a starting point for networking and friendship among fellows. In this meeting the fellows had opportunities to learn more about forensic aspects of biometrics. Taken place at the Netherlands Forensic Institute as one of the leader institutions on forensic science, we even had a chance to solve a typical criminal cases by playing detective role in finding evidences and traces from an artificial crime scene.