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European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is the leading voice for digital ID and biometrics in Europe. We are a non-profit, nonpartisan association. The EAB’s mission is to tackle the complex challenges facing ID in Europe, ranging from migration to privacy rights. Our role is to promote the responsible use and adoption of modern digital identity systems that enhance people’s lives and drive economic growth.
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) Biometrics News
Nuance shares voice biometrics fraud prevention successes in EAB talk
Voice biometrics avoid some of the common challenges around authentication for financial institutions, and have resulted in huge savings through…
| May 13, 2022 | Biometrics providers, executive awarded for innovation, business development excellenceBiometrics and digital ID solution providers Veridas, RealNetworks and Ping Identity, have each received awards from different institutions for meeting… |
| May 10, 2022 | Biometrics use cases, ethics to be examined in webinars from Oosto, Simprints, EAB, FIDO AllianceA variety of new webinars focusing on different applications of and issues around biometric technologies have been announced by Oosto,… |
| May 5, 2022 | Face biometrics accuracy over time boosted by adaptive reference gallery: EAB webinarAdaptive face biometric systems have offered a way to improve the performance over time of systems that might otherwise suffer… |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Calls issued for NIST face biometrics conference and European Biometrics Awards participationThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a conference to bring expert speakers to discuss the performance… |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Autoencoder approach to vein biometrics development shows promise in EAB presentationUnsupervised learning approaches to vein recognition algorithms are approaching the state of the art, and could soon reach it, according… |
| Apr 7, 2022 | IDloop researcher pitches advantages of structured light for 3D contactless biometricsCapture methods for fingerprint biometrics are continuing to evolve, and 3D contactless fingerprints images measured with structured light is showing… |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Researcher shows progress on explainability in biometric PAD systemsExplaining the decisions of artificial intelligence systems like those used in biometric presentation attack detection is a complicated matter, and… |
| Feb 25, 2022 | BioID shares encouraging research on deepfakes and biometric liveness detection with EABDeepfake images and videos pose a significant threat to biometric systems used for remote identity verification, and existing liveness technologies… |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Disease detection from fingerprints improving despite limited biometric dataFingerprint biometrics can reveal a good deal more about an individual than who they are, as attendees of a presentation… |
| Dec 17, 2021 | Know your dataset and be creative: biometric PAD tips offered in EAB talkSpoofs and presentation attacks are a threat to any biometric modality, but there are some common approaches to developing algorithms… |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Integrated Biometrics expert to discuss presentation attack detection in EAB lunch talkPresentation attack detection technology and how it is tested is the subject of the next virtual lunch talk from the… |
| Nov 19, 2021 | Assessments for image quality in face biometrics improving, new standard TBDAlgorithms for assessing the quality of facial images used in biometric matching are increasingly effective, but a modern standard that… |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Public surveillance biometrics in Europe could be crushed between the EDPS and AI ActThe European Association for Biometrics (EAB) held an ‘Artificial Intelligence Act Workshop’ to inform members about the impact the proposed… |
| Nov 11, 2021 | EAB, ACM, FIDO Alliance line up biometrics, digital ID eventsThe European Association for Biometrics (EAB), FIDO Alliance and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Security, Audit… |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Biometrics providers unready for AI Act requirements risk market exclusion: EAB lunch talkThe impact of Europe’s new artificial intelligence regulation on vendors and users of biometrics could be quite severe, and even… |
| Oct 22, 2021 | EAB talk probes balance between border biometrics benefits and rights risksAchieving a balance between the benefits of biometrics in border processes and the risk that they may cause harm to… |
| Oct 7, 2021 | EAB expert sees long-term benefit to biometric border control in birth certificate standardsThe effectiveness of biometric identity verification systems at European borders would improve over the long term if birth certificates were… |
| Oct 6, 2021 | Promise of knowledge distillation for debiasing biometric PAD discussed in EAB eventThe innovative technique for training machine learning models known as ‘knowledge distillation’ is showing promise for mitigating bias in biometric… |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Multi-spectral face biometrics, emotion recognition and deepfakes discussed at EAB seminarThe state of the art in several areas related to face biometrics and computer vision were explored in the latest… |
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) Industry Insights
‘Biometrics in Banking’ seminar recap
This is a guest post by Max Snijder, secretary general of the European Association for Biometrics (EAB). On 24 October…
