Upcoming Events

The blockchain technology has matured over the last years and created significant attention. However for many applications and specifically those involving biometrics it is not yet clear, what the benefit of blockchains over server-based solutions is. This event is for all who are interested in technologies, policies, and applications related to protecting the biometric data. The event in 2019 focuses on the topic "Blockchain and Biometrics".

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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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 to detect impersonation attacks and disguise? What can we learn from human perception? What is a biometric recognition system?

This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003. In this 16^th edition, the courses will mainly focus on new and emerging issues:

1. How Biometrics can deal with emerging applications;
2. How to exploit new biometric technologies in forensic and security applications;
3. Standardization, evaluation and assessment of biometric and forensic applications;
4. Biometrics, Forensic identification and deep learning: 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.

The objective of the 2019 3^rd International Conference on Biometric Engineering and Applications (ICBEA 2019) 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.

This conference 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. It is welcomed that original papers with topics related to Biometric Engineering and Applications submit to be presented in ICBEA 2019.

Workshop of the Biometrics Working Group of TeleTrusT, the IT Security Association in Germany

Biometrics and Identity Management are key research topics that are currently investigated in a number of EU-projects running under the Horizon 2020 programme.

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All members of EAB are invited to join us for our annual General Assembly.

EAB is launching the thirteeth 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 2019 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications.

Workshop of the Biometrics Working Group of TeleTrusT, the IT Security Association in Germany