EAB-RPC 2025 – EAB Research Projects Conference 2025

Conference Opening

From Morphing to Post-quantum Cryptography: Innovations and Challenges in Identity (document?) Ecosystem

A review of Germany’s live enrolment for passports, morphing attack detection, ICAO NTWG updates, biometric standards, 2D barcodes, quantum risks, and future Digital Travel Credentials.

Innovation Management and the future Frontex Innovation and Technology Centre

An introduction to two ongoing and interlinked initiatives in Frontex: the European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) Innovation Management System (IMS) and the Frontex Innovation and Technology Centre (FIT).

Leveraging Soft Biometrics for Identification – Age Estimation in the TENSOR Project

The TENSOR project addresses the complexity and interoperability issues that have limited practical adoption of biometric technologies in policing and forensics. The session will showcase one of the project's use cases: how IDEMIA’s age estimation technology can improve the accuracy of the suspect identification process

Leveraging Behavioural Biometrics for Identification – Gait Recognition in the TENSOR Project

The TENSOR project addresses the complexity and interoperability issues that have limited practical adoption of biometric technologies in policing and forensics. The session will showcase one of the project's use cases: how Fsas Technologies' gait recognition technology analyses individual's walking patterns to support identification in challenging visual conditions.

ODYSSEUS

The ODYSSEUS project showcases innovative solutions to streamline border crossings while safeguarding security and fundamental rights. This presentation will describe the role of behavioural biometrics in enhancing identity verification and strengthening the security in border management.

EINSTEIN: Advancing European Identity and Border Security Through Interoperable Applications

A presentation of the progress of EINSTEIN's six interoperable applications for enhanced identity verification and fraud detection at European borders, from the living labs to the field trials.

From Cradle to Cloud: The NCI-ABIS Approach to Newborn and Child Identity Security

NCI-ABIS develops a smartphone-based biometric system using palm, foot, and earlobe recognition to securely identify newborns and children up to 2 years old for scalable, low-cost and legally compliant birth registration.

PRIVIDEMA: Privacy-Preserving Biometric Authentication for Secure Digital Identity

The Horizon Europe project PRIVIDEMA advances privacy-preserving technologies through open-source tools and capacity building, enhanced homomorphic encryption with hardware acceleration, European identity wallet prototype, and privacy preserving cyber threat data processing system.

FF4ALL: Detection of Deep Fake Media and Life-Long Media Authentication

FF4ALL develops methods to detect and attribute AI-generated media, combining passive analysis of deepfake artifacts with active protection at content creation.

Couch-to-Destination Journeys Insights: Current State and Evolution of the Seamless Traveler Experience

Findings from the Biometric Digital Identity Travel and Hospitality Prism Report will illuminate the complex and shifting ecosystem that is enabling seamless guest journeys with an emphasis on the couch-to-destination journey evolving from a complex web a user must navigate, to a biometric powered, uninterrupted, personal straight line.

Recap Day 1

EU-funded Research and Innovation in Civil Security

This presentation will provide an overview of the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation of the European Commission (currently, Horizon Europe) and highlight some examples of opportunities for funding research on biometrics under Pillars 1, 2, and 3.

IAMI Identity Attributes Matrix Initiative

IAMI Identity Attributes Matrix Initiative aims to revolutionize entity identification and resolution in security and law enforcement using an advanced AI-powered system. It addresses challenges like noisy environments and large data analysis, enabling EU agencies to improve investigations, collaboration, and counter-terrorism efforts through a new identity-attributes framework and shared intelligence repository

ATHENE – Advanced Embedded Biometrics

Advanced Embedded Biometrics (EB) develops efficient, privacy-friendly deep learning models for biometric applications on resource-constrained devices through advanced model compression and domain-specific architectures. The project focuses on creating data-efficient training methods and synthetic data generation to enable robust biometric systems in embedded environments.

Age Verification Case

It will be several years before EUDI Wallets are implemented and then widely adopted. At this time, there is a need for an effective and trustworthy solution for age verification. It should ensure user trust, not require the installation of dedicated, provide a certain level of reliability, and not require verification each time the resource is accessed.

Toward Morph Detection in Operations

As morph detection capability has advanced in lab tests, the issue of how they can best be deployed in operations becomes relevant. The talk will cover the NIST Interagency Report 8584 guidance on what can be done after a morph detector triggers.

Concluding Remarks