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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.
Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing Biometrics News
Biometric templates can be inverted for attacks, but also protected with hashing
A pair of papers from the Idiap Research Institute’s Biometrics Security and Privacy Group show the potential vulnerability of biometric…
| Jul 13, 2023 | Global ID claims 2 patents for vein biometrics systems, ramps up production capacityBiometrics startup Global ID has been awarded a pair of patents for finger-vein authentication systems and methods for enterprise access… |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Some progress on protecting biometric templates, evaluating methodsAs biometric templates are more widely enrolled, stored and used, and the methods used to attack the privacy of people… |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Biometrics research community convenes in Switzerland to tackle top technical challengesBiometrics researchers have an array of ideas for technologies, metrics and architectures to address the most serious threats to biometric… |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Biometric anti-spoofing handbook updated with liveness competitions, legislative impactThe Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing has been updated, with the third edition published by Springer to provide comprehensive and authoritative… |
| Mar 1, 2023 | EU program creates criminal network investigation platform with Phonexia voice biometricsEuropean Union research project ‘ROXANNE’ has completed its development of a system that includes voice biometrics for law enforcement agencies… |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Program nearly set for biometrics workshop from EAB, CITeR and Idiap in AprilA joint biometrics workshop has been announced for later this year by the European Association for Biometrics and America’s Center… |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Idiap researchers propose biometric fairness metrics to decouple bias from accuracySeveral new measures for quantifying demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric identity verification systems are suggested in a paper which… |
| Aug 19, 2022 | Facial recognition getting better at handling modest angles and big smilesThe state of the art of facial recognition has improved over recent years to the point of handling certain kinds… |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Facial recognition algorithms need to be protected now against master face attacks – researchersBiometrics researchers say master face attacks pose “a severe security threat” for under-protected facial recognition algorithms. Four IEEE scientists studied… |
| May 10, 2022 | Scientists publish datasets and tools for detecting face morphed identity documentsA research paper published this month has tools to neutralize face morphing attacks, which use an altered biometric reference image… |
| May 3, 2022 | Mobai, authID.AI biometric PAD compliance confirmed with perfect scoresMobai and authID.AI have each received compliance confirmation for the ISO/IEC 30107-3 presentation attack detection (PAD) standard, demonstrating their effectiveness against… |
| Apr 6, 2022 | Idiap researchers delve into biometric bias, template protection and PAD for carsBiometrics experts at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland have contributed three papers to the latest issue of the identity-focused… |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Swiss team claims to make stripped-down biometric presentation attack detection for carsResearchers at a Swiss institute say they have created a highly reliable one-camera way to detect face presentation attacks in… |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Circular AI firing squad: Fighting AI bias with fake faces may pose real privacy risksThe problems with fake faces are so complex that some solutions just create more problems. Researchers in Switzerland, for example,… |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Paravision, Trust Stamp, Advance.AI add new talentA number of companies in the biometrics and digital ID space announce the appointment of new talent this week. Paravision… |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Swiss researchers hunt for contactless palm vein biometric scanners for hospitalsSwiss entrepreneurs and researchers have announced an effort to create a mobile contactless scanner that reads hand veins as a… |
| May 6, 2021 | Idiap researchers develop vein biometric template protection approach with biohashingA pair of methods for protecting vein biometrics templates from vulnerability to theft or leakage without degrading recognition performance have… |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Practical problems in biometric fairness, coming ISO standard explored in EAB webinarNew wrinkles to the problem of biometric bias, the development of standards for assessing it, and strategies for assessing and… |
| Mar 30, 2021 | New airport biometrics partnerships, tips, update and forecasts unveiledStakeholders are hoping that investments in contactless airport systems can revive the industry’s fortunes, and plans are being carried out… |
