On Dec 26, We have a dinner party to celebrate the New Year's day . On Dec 6, our weekly group meeting was held in the newly opened coffee house. Liang Wang and Huazhong Ning presented their recent works. In Oct, Prof. John Duagman a well-known scholar in pattern recognition from the University of Cambridge gave a talk of "How to Recognize Iris" at NLPR. In Oct, Huazhong Ning attended ICMI'02 in Pit USA and orally presented his work on human motion analysis. The Intelligent Recognition & Digital Security Group is committed to conduct quality research on theoretical and practical aspects of computational vision and visual pattern recognition. Its keen interest is on projects that not only involve challenging scientific problems,but also have far-reaching significance on societal and practical issues. Major current research directions include visual surveillance and monitoring of dynamic scenes (for the automatic detection, recognition and tracking of specific targets, actions and events), human identity recognition and verification based on multiple biometric features (such as face, voice,gait,fingerprint,iris,handwriting, etc.),and digital multimedia watermarking(for copyright protection and authentication of digital multimedia data as well as many other applications). The Group is currently undertaking a number of research projects funded by the Chinese National Key Basic Research Program (the 973 Program), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (the 863 Program), the Chinese Academy of Sciences and various international cooperation programs. The Group currently includes one professor, 2 asscociate professors, 14 PhD students, 12 master students and a number of undergraduate project students