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Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing
The Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing offers unmatched opportunities for collaboration and cooperation between industry and academia in Europe and worldwide, in the domain of biometric security. As part of Idiap Research Institute, the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing is a center established to advance biometric security technologies, mainly by facilitating collaboration between industry and academia.
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Synthetic identity blends real and fake data to enable fraud, demanding new protections
Faces are everywhere, stored and displayed in the millions on social media platforms. Generative AI technologies have enabled the large-scale…
| Mar 7, 2025 | Tailored biometric systems tests lay the foundation for trust: biometrics labsAlthough language varies across regions, most regulations on biometric technology necessitate that it be robust, accurate, reliable, highly effective, or… |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Idiap Institute releases report on applying foundation models in biometricsOver the past few years, the world has been witnessing the power of foundation models, machine learning models trained on… |
| Feb 7, 2025 | European AI compliance project CERTAIN launchesThe pan-European project to create AI compliance tools CERTAIN has kicked off its work, with the goal of making European… |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Idiap highlights biometrics research, open-source contributions for 2024Idiap Research Institute has released its 2024 Scientific Report. Its research covers a wide range of digitally relevant topics, several… |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Drowsy drivers to get AI-assisted safety promptsFatigued drivers are one of the most common hazards on the road, but sleepy-heads on commercial wheels are to get… |
| Nov 26, 2024 | EdgeFace hits leaderboards with lightweight hybrid face recognition modelEdgeFace, a lightweight face recognition model optimized for mobile or edge device applications, is now state-of-the-art for all benchmarks on… |
| Nov 20, 2024 | DefAI Project aims to give age assurance its own dedicated deepfake detection toolkitDeepfake detection, not so long ago guarding a niche corner of the internet, has erupted into a veritable battle royal,… |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Digi2Real dataset applies ‘realism enhancement’ to synthetic face dataFacial recognition systems have an endless appetite for training data. But using real people’s faces without their consent raises ethical… |
| Nov 8, 2024 | NeurIPS 2024: New research tackles biometric security, bias and model transparencyThree of the papers selected for presentation at Safe Generative AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2024, held in Vancouver, Canada tackle… |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Idiap leads project on biometric template protection for aid distribution efficiencyThe Biometrics Security and Privacy (BSP) group within the Idiap Research Institute will run a research project on the development… |
| Oct 17, 2024 | PopEye to strengthen EU border biometrics with gait recognition integrationA European Union consortium has launched a pilot project to study how biometrics can be captured from on-the-move subjects to… |
| Oct 8, 2024 | ChatGPT can recognize ‘facial identities,’ perform age estimation: researchThe large language model (LLM) ChatGPT “recognizes facial identities and differentiates between two facial images with considerable accuracy,” according to… |
| Sep 12, 2024 | New research explores AI manipulation attacks on face biometric systemsA pair of new research papers address sophisticated fraud attempts on biometric systems using AI, in one case to carry… |
| Aug 6, 2024 | CANDY project mints sweet vein biometric datasetA team of researchers has used a new contactless biometric sensor platform for vascular and surface biometrics, such as both… |
| Jul 23, 2024 | IDnow and Idiap researchers create biometric PAD dataset for better generalizationA new dataset for conducting research on facial recognition presentation attack detection (PAD) has been developed by a team of… |
| May 21, 2024 | Researchers navigate facial recognition algorithm training with synthetic dataA new paper authored by a team from the Biometrics Security and Privacy group at the Idiap Research Institute explores… |
| Mar 12, 2024 | PXL Vision to collaborate with Idiap for research project to fight deepfakesSwiss digital identity provider PXL Vision is collaborating with the Idiap Research Institute in a project to develop deepfake detection…. |
| Feb 4, 2024 | Measuring liveness across datasets helps defend complex real-world attacks: researchersA new research paper evaluates liveness detection models for biometric samples, focusing on performance in cross-database scenarios. Titled “Cross-Database Liveness… |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Privately, ACCS, Idiap and AVPA join forces to protect age estimation from generative AIGenerative AI services are emerging that can potentially be used to thwart online facial age estimation systems, just as those… |
