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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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Idiap researchers propose biometric fairness metrics to decouple bias from accuracy
Several 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… |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Biometrics providers FaceTec and ImageWare announce appointments, Idiap hiring researchersThe Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland is looking to fill several senior researcher positions for cross-disciplinary projects, having grown and… |
| Jan 29, 2021 | Uniphore to address issues in biometrics with WEF community and new partnershipsUniphore has joined the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Innovators Community and announced a pair of partnerships to contribute to… |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Biometric PAD standards in competition against spoof attacks, not each other: Stephanie SchuckersPresentation attack detection (PAD) technology is increasingly important in biometric systems, and increasingly implemented. The technology seems to remain the… |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Idiap researchers propose metric for measuring biometrics fairnessA pair of researchers from the Idiap Research Institute have developed a metric to use in assessing the fairness of biometric… |
| Dec 3, 2020 | Biometrics-based platform in the works in Ireland to help track organized crime suspectsThe police service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Ireland national police service (Garda) are partnering to develop a forensic… |
| Dec 1, 2020 | New Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing edition coming, researchers call for contributionsIdiap Research Institute Senior Researcher Sebastien Marcel has called for contributions to be included in the 3rd Edition of the… |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Idiap receives accreditation to grant biometrics certificates for AndroidIdiap’s Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing has received accreditation to conduct the evaluation required by Android for biometric… |
