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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
New research explores AI manipulation attacks on face biometric systems
A 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… |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Biometric templates can be inverted for attacks, but also protected with hashingA 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… |
