Organizing committee

Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands

Linda C. Alewijnse, MSc
Vivian L. Blankers, BSc
Niels van Eijck, BSc
C. Elisa van den Heuvel, Ph.D. (Chair)

Gjøvik University College, Norway

Katrin Franke, Ph.D.

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Louis G. Vuurpijl, Ph.D.

Contact

Please contact the organizers and chair, Elisa van den Heuvel, if you have any questions or problems concerning the procedure.

Email: sigcomp09@arsforensica.org

Key personnel

C. Elisa van den Heuvel, Ph.D. (Chair)
Netherlands Forensic Institute
P.O. Box 24044
2490 AA The Hague
The Netherlands
T +31 70 888 6308
M +31 6 4142 9310

Katrin Franke, Ph.D.
Norwegian Information Security Laboratory
Gjøvik University College,
P.O. Box 191
N-2802 Gjøvik
Norway
T +47 61 135 254

Louis G. Vuurpijl, Ph.D.
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior
Radboud University Nijmegen
P.O. Box 9104
6500 HE Nijmegen
The Netherlands
T +31 24 361 5981

Short CV C. Elisa van den Heuvel

Elisa van den Heuvel started in 2005 as scientific forensic handwriting expert in training at Netherlands Forensic Institute. Her scientific background lies primarily in human motor control with special emphasis on handwriting/signature movement execution. In chronology, she received her M.Sc. from Radboud University of Nijmegen in 1996, and her Ph.D. at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) in 2000. During her PhD research she also worked at Motor Control Lab, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA as a visiting research scholar. In 2000, she started as postdoc at Biomechanics at VUA where she studied preclinical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Since 1997, Elisa van den Heuvel has published several scientific journal articles and peer-reviewed conference articles. She co-presented a Tutorial at ICDAR in 2007 on Computational Forensics. http://www.forensicinstitute.nl

Short CV Katrin Franke

Katrin Franke is associate professor at the Norwegian Information Security laboratory in Gjøvik, Norway. She obtained her Ph.D. degree at the Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2005, and her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. After graduation in 1994, Mrs. Franke began to conduct research at the Fraunhofer Society in Germany. She focused on digital image processing and pattern recognition. Until December 2006, she has worked as a scientific project manager in charge of founded research and industrial projects on document processing, signature analysis and custom-stamp analysis, applied in banking and in forensics. These projects have brought forth software modules and software systems, now operating in banks in Germany, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Jamaica as well as in forensic laboratories in Germany. In total, Mrs. Franke has published more that 60 scientific journal articles, peer-reviewed conference articles and edited books. She is a member of several international editorial boards, program committees, and initiated the International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF) in 2007. http://kyfranke.com

Short CV Louis Vuurpijl

Louis Vuurpijl received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1998 for research on neural networks and parallel processing. He has been involved in various forms of image processing and neural network-based image recognition such as the detection of ground-cover classes in satellite imagery. Louis Vuurpijl has been affiliated with the Donders Institute (former NICI) since 1995, conducting research on pen computing, image retrieval, online handwriting recognition, forensic document analysis, and multimodal interaction. He is an assistant professor and lectures on artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive science. Louis Vuurpijl is member of the board of the international Unipen Foundation and is involved in several national and European research projects. http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/~vuurpijl