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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

 

Aware white paper examines the state of biometric liveness

The 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 accreditation

The 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 detection

Researchers 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 system

EPFL’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 projects

Idiap Research Institute is working on two major biometric security projects for the U.S. government. Through its Swiss Center for…

Feb 2, 2017

Biometrics and Privacy online training program launching in Europe

Swiss Distance Learning University in association with the Swiss Centre for Biometric Research and Testing from the IDIAP Institute, is…

May 24, 2016

The Idiap Research Institute details biometric research projects

Over the past few years, the Idiap Research Institute has actively participated in several national and international research projects in…

Mar 23, 2016

European Association for Biometrics and IDIAP hosting workshop on new research consortium

Next month, the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and IDIAP will host a workshop in Amsterdam on the European Cooperative…

Mar 6, 2016

The BEAT platform goes Open Source

The Idiap Research Institute has developed what they call the “ultimate Biometric Testing platform” in the context of its BEAT…

Nov 6, 2015

Using biometrics to fight identity theft

A new research project called Secure Access Control Over Wide Area Network (SWAN), funded by The Research Council of Norway,…

Mar 30, 2015

Idiap releases new biometric databases for palm-vein identification and anti-spoofing

The Idiap research institute and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland jointly released new datasets for the…

Mar 13, 2015

Idiap Research Institute to host tutorials on spoofing, BEAT platform

The Idiap Research Institute announced it is hosting a tutorial on spoofing and anti-spoofing during the International Conference on Biometrics,…

Feb 16, 2015

Idiap develops mobile finger-vein sensor prototype

The Idiap Research Institute announced it has developed a new mobile finger-vein sensor prototype for portable or embedded biometrics applications….

Sep 15, 2014

EAB announces winners of 2014 European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards

European Association for Biometrics announced the three winners of its European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards 2014 awards Now in…

Sep 4, 2014

Idiap engineers developing vein reading biometric wristwatch

Engineers from the Idiap Research Institute are currently developing a new vein reading biometric watch called BioWatch, enabling users to…

Sep 2, 2014

Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing to host kick-off workshop

Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing announced it is hosting a Kick-Off Workshop on November 12-13 in Martigny, Switzerland….

Apr 11, 2014

Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing launches

The Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing has just launched in Martigny, Switzerland. Led by the IDIAP Research Institute, the…

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