Upcoming Events

The Norwegian Biometrics Forum (NBF) is an open platform dedicated to regular exchange of information and experience related to the field of Biometrics. The target of the group is the interdisciplinary discussion between research, technology developers, data privacy experts, governmental agencies and operators of Biometric Systems. In the regular meetings new applications, latest research results and products are presented.

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The objective of this conference is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities on Biometric Engineering and Applications. ICBEA 2018 provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experience face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

IWBF is an international forum devoted specifically to facilitate synergies in research and development in the areas of multimedia forensics, forensic biometrics and forensic science. IWBF provides the meeting place for those concerned with the usage of multimedia analysis in forensic applications and biometric recognition systems, attracting participants from industry, research, academia and end-users.

What are the most up-to-date core biometric technologies developed in the field? What is the potential impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention? How can biometrics cope with mobile applications? What are the most relevant issues in biometric standardization? What can we learn from human perception? What does it involve to integrate a biometric recognition system?

This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003. In this 14^th edition, the courses will mainly focus on new and emerging issues:

1. How Biometrics will cope with the demand for mobile applications;
2. How to exploit new biometric technologies in forensic and security applications;
3. Standardization, evaluation and assessment of biometric and forensic applications.
4. Biometric and Forensic identification and advanced research: What is next?

The courses will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains.

The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry.

An advanced feature of this summer school will be some practical sessions to better understand, "hands on", the real potential of today's biometric technologies.

Recognized worldwide as the pre-eminent conference for professionals involved in secure ID credentials and government-identity solutions, the three-day SDW conference brings you innovations, insight, analysis and debate.

EAB members will have a special member rate will be £899 (full rate £1,250) providing a rebate of £351.This provides full facilities at the 3-day conference, including conference materials, catering, post-event conference proceedings and access to the exhibition. EAB Members can access this rate by going to www.sdwexpo.com/delegate-booking.com and then scroll down the page until they reach their booking rate which is the “Association Members” rate. There is no need to input a code. You can just go ahead and book. This rate will remain firm for EAB members right up to the show taking place.

SDW is a world-leading event providing a global showcase for next-generation human identity solutions, focusing on intrinsic document security and on the new cutting-edge secure infrastructure required to produce and use advanced documents in live situations.

The EAB and SDW have engaged into a marketing agreement, that provides special rates for EAB members.

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EAB is launching the twelfth European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research in Europe.

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Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miss-use incidents we do observe a significant fraud in e-commerce and thus growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applications in areas like border control, national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale applications such as the European Union SmartBorder Concept, the Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and also reliability, interoperability, scalability and usability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.

Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexing methods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally, quality of captured biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover, mobile biometrics is an emerging area and biometrics based smartphones can support deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.

However, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The relevant techniques in the area of presentation attack detection (liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement biometric systems, in order to improve fake resistance, prevent potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft etc.

The BIOSIG 2018 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications.