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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

EAB expert sees long-term benefit to biometric border control in birth certificate standards

Oct 7, 2021

The 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 event The 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 seminar The state of the art in several areas related to face biometrics and computer vision were explored in the latest…
Sep 10, 2021	Trust Stamp CSO argues for biometric binding with fuzzy tokens in EAB talk Trust Stamp Chief Science Officer Dr. Norman Poh presented a system for biometric binding which gains privacy benefits from asymmetric key…
Sep 7, 2021	EAB roundtable to discuss biometrics in the future of Schengen travel The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is holding its Research Projects Conference from 13 to 15 September, culminating in a…
Jul 27, 2021	Partnerships address EU border biometrics challenges with $216M deal, research project A consortium including Unisys has been selected to provide biometric authentication at EU borders, while the EAB has joined a…
Jul 22, 2021	Fall digital identity events announced by Goode Intelligence, Future Identity, EAB, Smart Engines A major new biometrics and digital ID event has been announced by Goode Intelligence, with free delegate registration and proposals…
Jul 9, 2021	Voice biometrics spoof detection catching up, EAB speaker says Voice biometric systems, counter-measures against attacks against them, and our understanding of how well those counter-measures work have come a…
Jun 29, 2021	EAB tackles future of fingerprint biometrics image quality assessment The tool used around the world to judge the quality of fingerprint images has been updated, giving it more flexibility…
Jun 16, 2021	EAB webinar looks at facial recognition for criminal investigations in EU countries A recent webinar by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) explored the role of facial recognition technologies in criminal investigations…
Jun 11, 2021	Biometrics expert speakers announced for FIDO Alliance’s “Focus on Europe” summit The FIDO Alliance has unveiled the speaker lineup for its upcoming Virtual Authenticate Summit: “Focus on Europe,” which includes speakers…
May 24, 2021	EAB advocates for biometric border posts to include privacy-enhancing technologies The non-profit European Association for Biometrics (EAB) has published a position paper this month highlighting the biometric technology that can…
May 20, 2021	Interoperability a challenge for touchless fingerprint biometrics, researcher tells EAB Touchless fingerprint biometrics have reached good levels of useability and user acceptance, but challenges relating to performance and interoperability with…
May 17, 2021	EAB sets June 6 deadline for Max Snijder biometrics awards applications The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) has pushed back the deadline for the ‘15th European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research, and…
May 5, 2021	Work remains on fingerprint biometric presentation attack detection despite promising stats Work on detecting presentation attacks against fingerprint biometric systems is continuing to advance, but even measuring the success of current…
May 4, 2021	EAB, NIST, eu-LISA workshop presents biometric image quality assessment tool updates A virtual event organized by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and partners to discuss the latest developments on fingerprint…
Apr 29, 2021	EAB and Biometrics Institute events share PAD, border insights The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) has published the lineup of panelists and speakers to participate at a two-day virtual…
Apr 20, 2021	Practical problems in biometric fairness, coming ISO standard explored in EAB webinar New wrinkles to the problem of biometric bias, the development of standards for assessing it, and strategies for assessing and…
Apr 16, 2021	EAB hosting events on banking biometrics in Europe and presentation attack detection Two upcoming events will focus on the role of biometrics in European banking and on the implications of fingerprint presentation…
Apr 1, 2021	NIST plans for further biometrics bias evaluation unveiled in EAB webinar Despite major gains in biometric matching accuracy in facial recognition systems across all demographic groups over the past several years,…