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EAB-RPC 2021 – EAB Research Projects Conference 2021

Date: 2021-09-13 (2021-09-15) - 14:45 (16:00) Location: This will be a virtual event.

Organizer: The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) in cooperation with the Joint Research Center (DG-JRC) of the European Commission, and Fraunhofer IGD.

Fees are non-refundable as from 7 days before the start of the event.
Registered participants will receive dial-in credentials the evening before the event via email.

Note: If you are not yet an EAB-member, please consider to register for membership first (starting from 95,00 € per year). You then can register for the EAB-RPC as an EAB-member for only 240,00 € instead of 360,00 €, which means an overall saving of 25,00 €!



The 8th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference will take place as virtual conference from 13 to 15 September 2021. 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 2021 will be co-located with the EAB Biometrics Research, Industry and Max-Snijder-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 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.

DIAMOND sponsors of this event:

Logo of IN GroupeLogo of secunet Security Networks

We thank our partners:

Logo of the European CommissionLogo of Fraunhofer IGD

We thank our media partner:

Logo of Biometric Update

Entrance fees: normal: 360,00 € / EAB members: 240,00 € / Speakers: 120,00 € / Students (BSc, MSc, PhD): 120,00 € / Sponsors, Panelists: 0,00 €

Monday, 13 September 2021

Opening
14:45 Alexander Nouak

Conference Opening

 European Association for Biometrics
14:50 Dinusha Frings

Introduction to the European Association for Biometrics and the Research Projects Conference

 European Association for Biometrics
Session: Keynote – Chair: Javier Galbally
15:00 Matthias Oel

A European perspective on internal security, external border management and the preservation of the Schengen area

 EC - DG HOME
15:30

Communication break
Session on-going projects I: iMARS – Chair: Alexander Nouak
15:40 Claude Bauzou

iMARS: overview of the project

 IDEMIA
15:50 Juan Eduardo Tapia Farias

iMARS: Relevant feature selection and visualization for single-MAD

 Hochschule Darmstadt
16:10 Frøy Løvåsdal

iMARS: Morphing Attack Detection Capabilities of Human Examiners

 National Police Directorate, Norway
16:40

Communication break
Session finished projects I: TELEFI – Chair: Christoph Busch
17:00 Andra Sirgmets

TELEFI: A wrap-up of the TELEFI project: conclusions and lessons learned

 Estonian Forensic Science Institute
17:30

End of Day 1

Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Session on-going projects II: RESPECT – Chair: Javier Galbally
09:00 Massimiliano Todisco

RESPECT: Presentation Attack Detection for Voice Biometrics: When Audio Meets Image - Part I

 EURECOM
09:20 Marta Gomez-Barrero

RESPECT: Presentation Attack Detection for Voice Biometrics: When Audio Meets Image - Part II

 Hochschule Ansbach
09:40 Antitza Dantcheva

RESPECT: Video Generation and Detection

 INRIA
10:00

Communication break
Session on-going projects III: H-Unique – Chair: Fernando Alonso
10:30 Bryan M. Williams

H-Unique: Examining anatomical variability in the human hand

 Lancaster University
10:45 Ritesh Vyas

H-Unique: Person identification by holistic multi-unit knuckle crease matching

 Lancaster University
11:00 Zheheng Jiang

H-Unique: Vein pattern mapping from photographs

 Lancaster University
11:15 Dylan Gauld

H-Unique: 3D visualisation techniques for reconstructing high-fidelity 3D hand models

 Dundee University
11:30

Communication break
Session on-going projects IV: D4FLY, METICOS, FOLDOUT – Chair: Alexander Nouak
11:50 Armin Reuter

D4FLY: Biometrics for on-the-move identity verification

 VERIDOS
12:10 Peter Eisert

D4FLY: Face morphing and PAD for enhanced biometric systems in D4FLY

 Fraunhofer HHI
12:30 Pantelis Velanas
Mpampis Chatzimallis

METICOS: A Platform for monitoring and prediction of social impact and acceptability of Modern border control technology

 Research-EUC
VILABS
12:50 Andreas Kriechbaum-Zabini
Georg Melzer

FOLDOUT: Through-foliage detection of illegal cross-border activities

 AIT
EUTEMA
13:20

Lunch Break
Session ITNs I: PriMa, RHUMBO – Chair: Javier Galbally
14:30 Giuseppe Stragapede

PRIMA: Biometrics in Human-Computer Interaction

 Universidad Autónoma Madrid
14:46 Paula Delgado-Santos

PRIMA: Privacy-preserving Data Transformation of Sensitive Attributes

 University of Kent
14:58 Jan Czarnocki

PRIMA: Biometric Data Protection, Personal Autonomy, and Purpose Limitation Principle

 KU Leuven
15:10 Prof. Mariano Alcañiz

RHUMBO: Presentation

Universitat Politécnica de Valencia
15:30

Communication break
Session ITNs II: TReSPAsS – Chair: Anas Husseis
16:00 Mathias Ibsen

TReSPAsS: Face Manipulation in Biometric Systems

 Hochschule Darmstadt
16:15 Margaret Warthon

TReSPAsS: On the interplay between data protection law and the Proposal of Regulation on Artificial Intelligence: What is new for biometric data processing and ADM?

 University of Groningen
16:30 Alex Unnervik

TReSPAsS: An introduction to backdoor attacks in DCNNs and their application to Face Recognition

 Idiap Research Institute
16:45 Pietro Melzi

TReSPAsS: Privacy Enhancement in Biometrics

 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
17:00

End of Day 2

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Session new projects I: CyberSec4Europe, mGov4EU, VIZTA, CC-DRIVER – Chair: Javier Galbally
09:00 Kai Rannenberg

CyberSec4Europe: Aiming to safeguard European values through excellence in cybersecurity

 Goethe University Frankfurt
09:20 Rachelle Sellung

mGov4EU: Mobile Cross-Border Government Services for Europe

 Fraunhofer IAO
09:40 Claude Bauzou

VIZTA: Embedded 3D face recognition in the stacked layer of a ToF sensor

 IDEMIA
10:00 David Wright

CC-DRIVER and LEA cluster

 Trilateral Research
10:20

Communication break
Session new projects II: ITFLOWS, DARLENE, eBORDER – Chair: Fernando Alonso
10:40 Georgios Stavropoulos

ITFLOWS: Initial EuMigraTool presentation

 Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
11:00 Nikolaos Dimitriou

DARLENE: A new Law Enforcement Ecosystem based on Deep Learning and Augmented Reality

 Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
11:20 Rami Qahwaji

eBORDER: Opportunities, Challenges and Developments

 University of Bradford
11:40

Communication break
Session SMEs I: Zwipe, YooniK, SMOWL – Chair: Alexander Nouak
12:00 Robert Mueller

ZWIPE: Technology platform for biometric payment cards

ZWIPE
12:20 Pedro Torres

YooniK: Face Authentication on Any Device

 YooniK
12:40 Manuel Fraile
Alex Vea

SMOWL: Image analysis applied in online learning

 Smowltech
13:00

Lunch Break
Session Sponsors II: secunet Security Networks – Chair: Dinusha Frings
14:00 Christian Rathgeb

Biometric research at secunet

 secunet Security Networks AG
Round Table
14:30 Farzin Deravi
Marta Gomez-Barrero

Facilitating Free Travel in the Schengen Area Using Biometric Technologies

  • Els Kindt (KU Leuven)
  • Ekaterina Komleva (Vision-Box)
  • Gian Luca Marcialis (University of Cagliari)
  • Uwe Seidel (Bundeskriminalamt)
  • Emmanuel Wang (IDEMIA)
 University of Kent
Hochschule Ansbach
Closing
16:00 Javier Galbally
Alexander Nouak

Conference Closing

 JRC
EAB
16:05

End of Conference