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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
Practical problems in biometric fairness, coming ISO standard explored in EAB webinar
New 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… |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Idiap expanding its ‘Deepfake detection and attribution’ research teamThe Idiap Research Institute has posted an announcement on their site looking for qualified candidates for a Ph.D. position researching… |
| Sep 8, 2020 | Competition results show iris biometric liveness detection a work in progressThe 2020 edition of the Iris Liveness Detection competition (LivDet-Iris) has been held, with significant increases in difficulty resulting in… |
| Apr 6, 2020 | Global ID and Idiap Research Institute to develop contactless vein biometric scanner for hospitalsA new project to develop a contactless scanner for biometric hand vein identification has been launched by Global ID and… |
| Feb 17, 2020 | Biometrics experts discuss voice and face potential, presentation attacks at Israeli Winter SchoolThe Identity and Biometric Applications Unit of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate partnered with the University of Haifa to hold a… |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Facial recognition systems can be vulnerable to deep morphing, researchers saySome 95 percent of deepfakes are accepted by biometric facial recognition systems, found a study conducted by Pavel Korshunov and… |
| Sep 26, 2019 | EAB awards three researchers for contributions to fingerprint and facial biometricsUniversity of Ljubljana researcher Dr. Klemen Grm has won the first EAB Max Snijder Award for his research on processing… |
| Sep 23, 2019 | Aware white paper examines the state of biometric livenessThe importance of liveness detection in mobile onboarding and a range of other use cases is clearly seen in the… |
| May 21, 2019 | Idiap Biometrics Center receives FIDO Alliance accreditationThe Idiap Biometrics Center at the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland has been accredited for certification in biometrics by the… |
| May 18, 2017 | Idiap study explores impact of score fusion on voice biometrics, presentation attack detectionResearchers at Idiap Research Institute Biometrics Group in Switzerland have conducted an extensive study of eight presentation attack detection (PAD… |
| Apr 6, 2017 | EPFL, Global ID developing 3D finger vein recognition systemEPFL’s Security and Cryptography Laboratory has partnered with startup Global ID to develop an encryption technique for processing biometric data… |
| Apr 6, 2017 | Swiss research institute involved in U.S. gov’t biometric projectsIdiap Research Institute is working on two major biometric security projects for the U.S. government. Through its Swiss Center for… |
