Past Events

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

The Biometric Summit London 2019 on Wednesday 20 November follows on from the Summit in New York in Spring 2019 building on the success of the Biometric Summit London 2018. New for this Summit are further sessions and engagement on biometrics for digital identity verification, electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC), retail and IoT deployment.

Hosted by Rise London, the key themes of the event will be biometric technology and digital identity with the aim of bringing together speakers and delegates for a thought leading and educational event through enlightening talks, panels and workshops.

With up to 120 senior leaders from a range of sectors such as finance (including the FinTech community), retail, government, manufacturing, technology and telecoms, this power-packed summit provides plenty of opportunity for networking with peers and making new contacts. This is an outstanding opportunity to learn from experts and end-users, bringing together investors and buyers interested in discovering the latest innovation in biometrics and digital identity.

Biometric technology and digital identity specialists will be on hand with expert knowledge and case studies to share the latest innovation in these areas. This will enable you to deepen your understanding and help you make decisions on the best strategy to deploy biometric technology in your organisation. With industry attendees representing a mix of companies at various stages of development from private start-ups through to established, listed companies, there will also be advice, business acceleration and investment opportunities to explore.

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.

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.

EAB is launching the thirteenth 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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All members of EAB are invited to join us for our annual General Assembly.

The 6^th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference will take place at the premises of Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt, Germany from 16 to 18 September 2019. The conference is organized by the European Association on Biometrics (EAB) in cooperation with the Joint Research Center (DG JRC) of the European Commission, through its Cyber and Digital Citizens’ security Unit. The EAB-RPC 2019 will be co-located with the EAB Biometrics Research and Industry Awards and the IEEE BIOSIG Conference, later that same week.

The conference is currently the largest event on research funded by the European Union in the area of Biometrics and Identity Management. Over the previous four successful editions, EAB-RPC has become the main forum in Europe where attendees can simultaneously: promote research carried out in biometrics, forge new links and networks, and identify the appropriate partners for possible future project applications. Last year’s edition welcomed over 100 participants from academia, industry and public institutions.

This year’s edition will include the participation of numerous EU-funded research projects, such as: RHUMBO, TReSPAsS (ITN), PriMa, PROTECT, BODEGA, LIGHT^est, SMILE, FOLDOUT, TRESSPASS (project), SWAN, PYCSEL, Stellar i-ris, QUARDCARD, SpeechXRays, SOTAMD, AMBER, H-Unique, PERSONA, D4FLY, RESPECT. Researchers from all over Europe will present the advances achieved in these projects, provide updates on how results from finished projects are being currently used to improve biometric technology and eventually give an insight into the future of biometric research.

In addition to the research community the conference will offer a more holistic and comprehensive perspective of the status of biometric and identity management technology in Europe with the participation of the following stakeholders:

• End-users, represented by FRONTEX (border control), ENFSI (forensics)
• Policy makers, represented by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
• Managers of large IT-systems, represented by the European Agency eu-LISA in charge of deploying and running European systems such as SIS-II or Eurodac
• Industrial partners are also welcome to join in order to give their point of view and present the challenges that they face in the development of real-world solutions

The conference will foster discussion among participants and will include a round-table where all the above communities of practice will put forward their ideas and needs, present the challenges that they face in their daily work and propose solutions.

As such, in addition to provide the latest updates on biometric research carried out in Europe, one of the main objectives of the conference is to bring together all stakeholders to try to find common approaches and strategies to give a coordinated response to the key needs identified by the Union in order to efficiently protect the freedom and security of EU citizens. All the projects in the conference are, in fact, engaged in one of the objectives driving the Union’s policy development in order to reach a more secure society (EC COM/2011/809 final – 2011/0401 (COD)):

• Fight against crime and terrorism
• Strengthen security through border management
• Provide cyber security
• Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
• Ensure privacy and freedom including the Internet and enhance the societal dimension of security
• Enhance standardization and interoperability of systems

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

DIN, the German Institute for Standardization, gladly invites SC 37 to hold its Working Group meetings 2019. One topic to be discussed in Working Group 3 are the comments on the Draft International Standards (DIS):

• ISO/IEC DIS 39794-4 Finger image data (comments due on 2019-05-15)
• ISO/IEC DIS 39794-5 Face image data (comments due on 2019-06-18)

These two standards will soon be promoted to Final Draft International Standard (FDIS), which will be a decision to be taken at the Darmstadt meeting.

Further during the July meeting Working Group 5 will discuss the progress on the revision of ISO/IEC CD 19795-1 (comments due on 2019-05-04). The CD draft standard can be downloaded.

IDENTITY WEEK comprises three world-class events – Digital:ID , Planet Biometrics and SDW – all focused on the concept of identity.

This world-class event aims to help create a more secure world, where trusted identity solutions enable governments and commercial organisations to provide citizens, employees, customers and consumers with a multitude of services, entitlements and opportunities to transact in a seamless, yet secure manner.

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.

The Swedish Biometrics Forum (SBF) is a new open platform dedicated to regular exchange of information and experience related to the field of Biometrics and Security. 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.

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 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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This Day of research event is aimed to bring together researchers from the biometric, blockchain, security and data analytics field. It's organized by the University of Belgrade, Serbia and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, with an idea to provide joint platform for exchange of ongoing researches in the field. It's an open event and everyone interested in above-mentioned topics is welcome to come to Belgrade, Serbia on 15 April 2019, just send an email to the organizer Miroslav Minović.

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".

EAB members will receive a 20% discount on the registration fee.

The developments within identity management are going very fast; you have to deal with a diversity of stakeholders, innovative applications, new standards and constantly changing legislation and regulations. How do you stay in the ever-changing world of digital identity? This year the program sector is transcending so that you can learn from use cases from other sectors.

Around 350 delegates will be participating in the 26^th annual conference, which takes place under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior. The topics will include digital payment, blockchain, digital Europe, connected living, the digital economy and digital citizens.

The session on the evaluation of biometric systems will give insight into the testing of a voice recognition system for a German bank and will introduce to the FIDO Alliance and its newly released Biometric Certification Program.