Past Events

Biometrics in Banking and Payments is designed to provide executives responsible for lines of business, distribution, and IT in the banking, payment and insurance business with inspiration to improve their processes and business. Participants will be able to familiarize with biometric applications that can support their organizations by learning how biometrics can support in optimizing key aspects of the banking and payment processes: optimizing customer interaction, operational efficiency and fraud reduction and prevention. There will be a strong focus on sharing use cases based on successful implementations and how to adapt them in the respective countries of the participants.

The program of Biometrics in Banking and Payments will cover biometrics for banking and payments at three levels: the strategic, regulatory level (incl. European legislative and regulatory aspects), the major drivers and developments in modern banking and payment practices (e.g. mobile services, user convenience, cloud authentication) and state of the art in innovative implementations, products and solutions (e.g. use cases, life demonstrations, end-user demonstrations). Alongside the seminar there will be a Mini Expo, where companies will be demonstrating their products and solutions.

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.

This workshop will focus on privacy issues surrounding biometric technologies and applications helping to understand key concerns and trends, including:

• Impact of biometrics on privacy
• Privacy protection technologies
• Gaps in knowledge and practice

We will together reflect upon the many new threats and opportunities arising from the rapid increase in the channels of biometric data capture (e.g. sensors on mobile devices) and processing capabilities. The one day workshop will bring together various stakeholders from amongst end users, technology developers, researchers and legal experts to discuss the serious challenges that these developments present and explore together ways for addressing them.

Media partner for this event is BiometricUpdate.com

Biometrics in Banking and Payments is designed to provide executives responsible for lines of business, distribution, and IT in the banking, payment and insurance business with inspiration to improve their processes and business. Participants will be able to familiarize with biometric applications that can support their organizations by learning how biometrics can support in optimizing key aspects of the banking and payment processes: optimizing customer interaction, operational efficiency and fraud reduction and prevention. There will be a strong focus on sharing use cases based on successful implementations and how to adapt them in the respective countries of the participants.

The program of Biometrics in Banking and Payments will cover biometrics for banking and payments at three levels: the strategic, regulatory level (incl. European legislative and regulatory aspects), the major drivers and developments in modern banking and payment practices (e.g. mobile services, user convenience, cloud authentication) and state of the art in innovative implementations, products and solutions (e.g. use cases, life demonstrations, end-user demonstrations). Alongside the seminar there will be a Mini Expo, where companies will be demonstrating their products and solutions.

Biometrics in Banking and Payments is designed to provide executives responsible for lines of business, distribution, and IT in the banking, payment and insurance business with inspiration to improve their processes and business. Participants will be able to familiarize with biometric applications that can support their organizations by learning how biometrics can support in optimizing key aspects of the banking and payment processes: optimizing customer interaction, operational efficiency and fraud reduction and prevention. There will be a strong focus on sharing use cases based on successful implementations and how to adapt them in the respective countries of the participants.

The program of Biometrics in Banking and Payments will cover biometrics for banking and payments at three levels: the strategic, regulatory level (incl. European legislative and regulatory aspects), the major drivers and developments in modern banking and payment practices (e.g. mobile services, user convenience, cloud authentication) and state of the art in innovative implementations, products and solutions (e.g. use cases, life demonstrations, end-user demonstrations). Alongside the seminar there will be a Mini Expo, where companies will be demonstrating their products and solutions.

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In its 11^th edition, "World e-ID and Cybersecurity" invites e-ID and Cybersecurity experts to make the shift from traditional e-ID credential to digital identity services.

Beyond latest national and commercial e-ID schemes, the 2015 conference will highlight online security topics such as strong authentication, mobile ID, e-Government along with Cybersecurity regulations and critical infrastructures. Its high level insights, best practices and interactive panels will guide 400 attendees from public and private organizations toward successful e-ID and data protection implementations.

Within World Smart Week, the conference benefits from synergies of contents with three co-located conferences and a new innovation hub, the Smart Innovation Show. Altogether 1500 conference attendees and 1500 participants of the show are expected at this global must-attend event of contactless, e-ID, M2M/IoT and digital security industries.

Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miscues 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 Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and also reliability, interoperability, scalability, system reliability 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 smartphone 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 2015 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications.

EAB is launching the ninth European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards 2015. 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.

Attendance is free of charge, Registration is required

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Ethical and Privacy aspects of biometric technology are always in the limelight. Facial recognition, notably its online applications on dispersed database such as Facebook, is undoubtedly one of the critical technologies, whose ethical and privacy aspects are foremost. Technologies for online de-identification could play a pivotal role to solve, at least from a practical point of view, some controversies. Similarly, the issue of biometric evidence into a court continues being a highly debated issue, with significant societal implications and legal impact. Also ethical and privacy implications of mobile applications are still important, they are likely to become more and more important as mobile payment become a common payment method everywhere. Finally, ethical and privacy implications of large biometric database continue being an unsolved question, which demands further efforts from scientists, practitioners, legal experts, and policy makers.

As usual, also the 2015 edition of the Joint meeting of the ethical committee of the European Association of Biometrics, and ethical and privacy working parties of the COST ACTION IC1106 and COST ACTION IC1206 will focus on old problems and emerging issues, with the goal to establish top priorities in this area for the coming year. After a brief introduction from panelists, we aim to develop a free discussion among participants, in order to elicit new ideas, intercept trends, and ouline future scaenarios. The panel includes, Patrizio Campisi, Els Kindt, Emilio Mordini, Marko Sijan.

Biometrics and Identity Management are key research topics that are currently investigated in a number EU-projects running under the seventh Framework program and the new Horizon 2020. International research is dealing with innovative solutions for secure and privacy compliant biometrics and federated identity management.

The EAB and EU-projects in the field like FIDELITY, FastPass, BEAT, Future-ID, INGRESS, PIDaaS, ABC4EU are jointly organizing a Research Project Conference (EAB-RPC), to present research results and in order to discuss the benefit of this research for our European society.

This workshop proposes to bring together a wide range of researchers, industry, and practitioners of biometric and/or monitoring/surveillance technologies in ABC to share innovative ideas and solutions in biometrics and surveillance for ABC. The focus of the workshop is four-fold:

• on exploring the development, application and evaluation of (prior and) current applied biometrics (including face, fingerprint, iris) as well as the potential application of emerging innovative biometrics (e.g. finger vein, palm prints, ocular biometrics), stand-off, on-the-move and contactless modes for ABC
• on exploring the development, application and potential of innovatve monitoring/surveillance for ABC
• towards harmonisation and standardisation of biometric and monitoring/ surveillance technologies for ABC
• consideration of the legal and ethical issues surrounding the adoption of biometrics and surveillance monitoring in ABC and other border control situations

The International Conference on Information Fusion is a premier forum for interchange of the latest research in information fusion and discussion of its impacts on our society. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry, government, and academia to report on the latest scientific and technical advances. Authors are invited to submit papers describing advances and applications in information fusion.

This session will focus on the latest innovations and best practices in the emerging field of multi-biometric fusion. Biometrics builds an identity recognition decision based on the physical or behavioral characteristics of individuals. Multi-biometrics aims at outperforming the conventional biometric solutions by increasing accuracy, and robustness to intra-person variations and to noisy data. It also reduces the effect of the non-universality of biometric modalities and the vulnerability to spoof attacks. Fusion is performed to build a unified biometric decision based on the information collected from different biometric sources. This unified result must be constructed in a way that guarantees the best performance possible and take into account the efficiency of the solution.

The topic of this special session, Information Fusion in Multi-Biometrics, requires the development of innovative and diverse solutions. Those solutions must take into account the nature of biometric information sources as well as the level of fusion suitable for the application in hand. The fused information may include more general and non-biometric information such as the estimated age of the individual or the environment of the background.

This workshop intends to collect recent high quality international research results contributing to increase in reliability of biometric methods and systems. In particular, it should serve as a platform for exchanging the scientific ideas related to countermeasures against spoofing, immunity of biometrics to biological factors such as aging or health conditions, as well as methods mitigating imperfect interaction of humans with the machines.

The following topics are considered to be in line with the workshop, but are not limited to:

accuracy of physical and behavioral biometric modalities

(face, fingerprints, iris, vein, handwritten signatures, voice, emerging techniques such as use of electroencephalograms, analysis of gait, etc.)

security of biometrics

in particular techniques recognizing counterfeits (presentation attack detection – PAD) and protecting the biometric data (combining biometrics with steganography/watermarking or cryptography)

biological factors in biometrics

in particular influence of biometric data aging and conditions on the biometric performance

usability of biometrics

specifically related to interaction of humans with biometric systems (interfaces, psychological aspects of interaction)

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 12th 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 applications.
4. Biometric technologies 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.

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

At the heart of the event is our exhibition. With over 100 exhibitors already signed up to take part, and a visitorship from across the globe, SDW 2015 is the perfect meeting place for all attendees to exchange ideas and source solutions that meet their requirements.

Designed by the editors of the critically acclaimed Security Document World news and information portal, our conference programme is always packed with an international line-up of quality speakers who will deliver an imaginative programme on issues that are of real consequence.

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.

The future is mobile, and mobile devices have a range of possibilities for biometric sensors. The combination of these two technology trends may be the future of authentication solutions and the key to individuals' ubiquitous and seamless access to services and information. Join Norstella, EEMA and our international top level expert speakers to get a picture of both what is to come and what industry can deliver today. We aim at a highly interactive workshop format; join us in round table discussions on privacy issues and other implications.

The eID Interest Group of Norstella (the Norwegian foundation for eBusiness and Trade Procedures) runs regular workshops on eID‐related topics. The current workshop marks the start of a co‐operation with EEMA (the European Association for e‐Identity and Security) with the aim of establishing a Norwegian/Nordic regional interest group under the EEMA umbrella.

The International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) is organized by COST Action IC1106 – "Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age" and by IAPR TC4, the technical committee on Biometrics.

It is an international forum devoted specifically to the development of synergies between the biometrics and forensic science research areas.

IWBF provides the meeting place for those concerned with the usage of biometric recognition systems in forensic science applications, attracting participants from industry, research, academia and users.

Authors of the best papers accepted at the Workshop will be invited to submit an extended and enhanced revision of their paper to be considered for publication in the IET Biometrics Journal.

The increase in wide deployment of the biometric applications has also increased the vulnerability of biometric systems for various presentation attacks (or spoof attacks). The goal of presentation attacks is to gain access to the biometric system by presenting a biometric artefact, which serves as replicate of the legitimate subject.

The objective of NBLAW 2015 is to address all aspects of research issues that will eventually establish robust presentation attack detection in biometric systems. This includes the discussion and presentation on various challenges and solutions achieved on Presentation Attack Detection for various modalities including face, iris, fingerprint, and speech biometrics.

NBLAW 2015 Annual workshop on Presentation Attack Detection in Biometrics: solved and unsolved challenges.

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

Commercial and technical developments regarding biometrics are following up on each other in a rapid pace. Never has the uptake of biometrics for consumer services been so strong. The biggest drivers seem to be mobile applications and cloud based authentication solutions. This symposium will zoom into the various factors that shape these developments in Europe, such as user acceptance, state of the art research, privacy and data protection. Understanding these factors will open up the large opportunities that currently characterize this market.

With the continuous erosion of the borders between convenience and surveillance there is a need for analysis and debate on what our free society needs to keep the balance. State of the art research should not only be engaged in increasing the capturing and storing capabilities, but also on how to do this responsibly. In the ‘After Snowden Era’ there seems to be more awareness and need for products that protect privacy while offering convenience to the end users. A proper response by the research and development community will create new opportunities to capitalize on that.

The European context, which is unique for its diversity, interdependence, heritage and values, creates special requirements and opportunities for the development of biometric solutions and services to maximise the benefit for the citizens and to protect society from any possible adverse side effects.