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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 labs

Although 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 biometrics

Over 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 launches

The 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 2024

Idiap 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 prompts

Fatigued 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 model

EdgeFace, 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 toolkit

Deepfake 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 data

Facial 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 transparency

Three 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 efficiency

The 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 integration

A 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: research

The 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 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 dataset

A 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 generalization

A 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 data

A 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 deepfakes

Swiss 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: researchers

A 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 AI

Generative AI services are emerging that can potentially be used to thwart online facial age estimation systems, just as those…

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