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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
Know your dataset and be creative: biometric PAD tips offered in EAB talk
Spoofs 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 talk, ISO/IEC 30107-3Presentation 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… |
Sep 10, 2021 | Trust Stamp CSO argues for biometric binding with fuzzy tokens in EAB talkTrust 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 travelThe 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 projectA 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 EnginesA 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 saysVoice 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 assessmentThe 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 countriesA 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” summitThe 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 technologiesThe 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 EABTouchless fingerprint biometrics have reached good levels of useability and user acceptance, but challenges relating to performance and interoperability with… |
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…