Programme Co-Chairs Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Dr. Noel O'Connor Dublin City University, Ireland Technical Program Committee Prof. David Bull University of Bristol, UK Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Prof. Moncef Gabbouj Tampere University of Technology, Finland Dr. Werner Haas Joanneum Research, Austria Dr. Siegfried Handschuh University of Karlsruhe, Germany Prof. Stefanos Kollias National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Dr. Geoff Morrison British Telecom, UK Prof. Jens Ohm University of Aachen, Germany Dr. Alan Pearmain Queen Mary, University of London, UK Prof. Fernando Pereira IST, Portugal Dr. Stefan Rueger Imperial College London Prof. Thomas Sikora Technical University Berlin, Germany Prof. Alan Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland Prof. Fred Stentiford University College London Prof. Michael Strintzis Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece Dr. Serge Travert Thomson, France Dr. Emanuele Trucco Heriot-Watt University, UK Dr. Simon Waddington Motorola Labs, UK Dr. Li-Qun Xu British Telecom, UK