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EAB Awards: Hall of Fame

The history of the European Research and Industry Award: The first European Biometrics Research Award was announced in 2006. The EAB is continuing this tradition.

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Research Award Industry Award Max Snijder Award
2024 Peter Rot (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
ASPECD: Adaptable Soft-Biometric Privacy–Enhancement Using Centroid Decoding for Face Verification

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(+ Best Presentation Award)
Amina Bassit (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Fast and Accurate Biometric Search under Encryption

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Pedro David Carneiro Neto (University of Porto, Portugal)
PIC-Score: Probabilistic Interpretable Comparison Score for Optimal Matching Confidence

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2023 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
Measuring Linkability of Protected Biometric Templates using Maximal Leakage

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(+ Best Presentation Award)
Blaž Meden (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Face Deidentification with Generative Neural Networks

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(+ Best Presentation Award)
Victoria Mingote Bueno (University Of Zaragoza, Spain)
Representation and Metric Learning Advances for Deep Neural Network Face and Speaker Biometric Systems

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2022 Bernhard Prommegger (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria)
Finger Rotation Estimation and Correction in Finger Vein Biometrics

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Fadi Boutros (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
Efficient and High Performing Biometrics: Towards Enabling Recognition in Embedded Domains

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(+ Best Presentation Award)
João Ribeiro Pinto (University of Porto, Portugal)
Advancing ECG Biometrics to the Deep Learning Era: Towards a Complete End-to-End Solution

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2021 Rıdvan Salih Kuzu (Roma Tre University, Italy)
On-the-fly Vascular Multibiometrics

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Pawel Drozdowski (Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Efficient privacy-preserving biometric identification in large-scale multibiometric systems

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Žiga Emeršič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
COM-Ear: Constellation-Based Deep Ear Recognition

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(+ Best Presentation Award)
2020 Gabriel Emile Hine (Roma Tre University, Italy)
A Zero-leakage and indistinguishable Auxiliary data representation for Biometric Cryptosystems

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Philipp Terhörst (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
Mitigating Soft-Biometric Driven Bias and Privacy Concerns in Face Recognition Systems

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(+ Best Presentation Award)
Andreas Nautsch (Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany)
Security and Privacy in Voice Biometrics and Beyond

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2019 Tiago de Freitas Pereira (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
Learning How To Recognize Faces in Heterogeneous Environments

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Patrick Schuch (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Learning Neighbourhoods for Fingerprint Indexing

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Klemen Grm (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Face hallucination using cascaded super-resolution and identity priors

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2018 Ester Gonzalez Sosa (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Face and Body Biometrics in the Wild: Visible and Beyond

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Rig Das (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy)
Deep Learning for Face and Vein Biometrics: A Case Study

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Ruben Tolosana (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Incorporating Touch Biometrics to Mobile Password

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2017 Nanang Susyanto (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
A Non-standard Method on Biometric Score Level Fusion via Parametric Copula

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Zhenhua Feng (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Dynamic Attention-controlled Cascaded Shape Regression for Robust Facial Landmark Detection in the Wild

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2016 Mateusz Trokielewicz (Biometrics Laboratory, Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK), Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Iris Recognition Reliability in the Context of Template Aging, Ocular Disorders, and Death

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Chiara Galdi (EURECOM, France)
Combining iris and sensor recognition on mobile phones

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2015 Daria La Rocca (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy)
Learning repeatable biometric traits from EEG data

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Marta Gomez-Barrero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Fully Unlinkable and Irreversible Template Protection Based on Bloom Filters

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2014 Laurent El Shafey (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
Scalable Probabilistic Models: Applied to Face Identification in the Wild

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Marcos Martinez Diaz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Graphical Password-based User Authentication with Free-form Doodles

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2013 Finnian Kelly (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Eigenageing Compensation for Speaker Verification

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Peter Wild (University of Salzburg, Austria)
On Enhancing Accuracy and Performance of Iris Biometric Systems in Surveillance

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2012 Christian Rathgeb (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Towards enhancing security and accuracy of iris recognition systems

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Anindya Roy (Idiap, Switzerland)
A fast parts-based approach to speaker verification using boosted slice classifiers

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2010 Xuebing Zhou (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)
Template Protection – Security and Privacy Assessment

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Budhaditya Goswami (University of Surrey, UK)
Speaker Authentication using Video Based Lip Information

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2009 Emile Kelkboom (University of Twente/Phillips Research, The Netherlands)
Relating the Analytical Template Protection System Performance with the Theoretical Maximum Key Size under Gaussian Assumption

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Haiyun Xu (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Complex Spectral Minutiae Representation For Fingerprint Recognition

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2008 Savvas Argyropoulos (AUT, Greece)
Secure biometric authentication using distributed source coding

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Hazim Kemal Ekenel (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
A Robust Face Recognition Algorithm for Real-World Biometric Identification

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Ileana Buhan (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Spontaneous Secure Pairing using Biometrics

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2007 Krzysztof Kryszczuk (EPFL, Switzerland)
Improving biometrics verification with class-independent quality information

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Hervé Bredin (GET-ENST, France)
Making Talking-Face Authentication Robust to Deliberate Imposture

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2006 Albert Ali Salah (Bogaziçi University, Turkey)
2D-3D Facial Feature Localization with Mixtures of Factor Analyzers

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Julian Fierrez-Aguilar (University of Madrid, Spain)
Incorporating Biometric Quality in User-Dependent Multimodal Biometric Authentication

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