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Martigny Biometrics Workshop

Date: 2025-05-19 - 2025-05-20 Location: Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland (in-person only)

Organizer: The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) in collaboration with the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) and Idiap Research Institute


Fees are non-refundable as from 7 days before the start of the event.


The event is fully booked!

The European Association for Biometrics (EAB), the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) and Idiap Research Institute are organising a 2-day biometrics workshop, hosted in Martigny Switzerland on May 19-20 2025, on the topics of Presentation/Morphing/Deepfake Attack Detection, Template Security, Foundation Models for Biometrics and Biometrics under the AI Act. This workshop is a third edition of the workshop on Presentation Attack Detection also previously hosted at the Idiap Research Institute in 2020 and 2023.

The workshop will be co-located with the CITeR Spring 2025 Program Review.

GOLD Sponsors of this event:

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SILVER Sponsors of this event:

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We thank our media partner:
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Entrance fees: normal: 360,00 € / EAB members: 240,00 € / CITeR Faculty/Student: 240,00 € / Speaker: 90,00 €

Monday, 19th May 2025

Beginning of the Workshop
08:00

Registration

08:30 Sébastien Marcel, Stephanie Schuckers, and Marta Gomez-Barrero

Welcome Speech

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Idiap | UNC | EAB
Keynote: Foundation Models for Biometrics
08:45 Arun Ross

Leveraging Foundation Models for Biometric Tasks

Michigan State University
Talks: Foundation Models for Biometrics
09:30 Tahar Chettaou, Fadi Boutros and Naser Damer

Foundation Models for Face Recognition with Restricted Data

Fraunhofer IGD
09:50 Hatef Otroshi

HyperFace: Generating Synthetic Face Recognition Datasets by Exploring Face Embedding Hypersphere

Idiap
10:10 Christophe Remillet

Premier Onboarding: Face Authentication, PAD and Identity Documents

OneVisage
10:20

Communication Break

10:40 Srijan Das

Improved Reasoning in AI Models for Deepfake Detection

University of North Carolina Charlotte
11:00 Oonagh Sarah

How Foundation Models Elevate Facial Liveness Detection

Facia
11:10 Anjith George

Bridging the Realism Gap in Synthetic Data Face Recognition via Foundation Models

Idiap
11:30 Alain Komaty

ChatGPT for Face Presentation Attack Detection in Zero and Few-Shot in-Context Learning

Idiap
11:50

Lunch Break

Keynote: Presentation/Morphing/Deepfakes Attack Detection
13:10 Meike Ramon

Natural and Synthetic Face Recognition Research: Fundamental and Societal Benefits

Bern University of Applied Sciences
Talks: Presentation/Morphing/Deepfakes Attack Detection
13:55 Roberto Wolfer

20 Years on the Hunt for Fakes: A Brief Overview of the Development of terms, techniques, Standardisation and Certifications of Present Attack Detection Systems

Dermalog Jenetric
14:05 Michał Budnik

Evaluating the Unseen: Benchmarking New Approaches to Passive Liveness

IDENTT
14:15 Gian Luca Marcialis

Advancing Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection: Insights from sAIfer Lab Research and LivDet

University of Cagliari
14:35 Thorsten Hau

APCER Vs. BPCER: Dealing with High Rates of Type 2 Errors

Fidentity
14:45 Stephanie Schuckers

An Analysis of Error Type in a Large Scale Study of Commercial Remote Identity Verification Technologies

University of North Carolina Charlotte
15:05 Fantin Girard

Mobile ID : How User-Centric Experience Shape Applied Research ?

Idemia
15:15 Terry Riopka and Jens Peter Hube

Liveness: A Score Mapping Methodology for Usability and Thresholding

Aware
15:25

Communication Break

15:40 Juan Tapia

A Comprehensive Overview of PAD on ID Cards

H-DA
16:00 Michael Born

What’s Real, What’s Fake? Challenges and Opportunities of Identity Verification in Times of Generative AI

PXL Vision
16:10 Jérémie Pappo

PAD et Morphing: IN Groupe's Use Cases et Expertise

INgroupe
16:30 Javier Barrachina

Anti-Fraud Solutions for Air Travel: From KYC to KYP

Facephi
16:40 Pavel Korshunov

The Idiap Fantasy ID Document Dataset

Idiap
17:00 Seda Taptik

Deepfake Detection at Scale: The Advantage of SaaS

BioID
17:10 Nick Gaubitch

Pindrop Pulse: Liveness Detection for the Call-Centre

Pindrop
17:20 Kevin Carta

Injection Attacks: A major Threat Against Remote Identity Verification

CLR lab
17:30 Julian White

PAD/IAD Certification

Ingenium
Evening Reception
18:00

Networking, Poster, and Demo Session

Tuesday, 20th May 2025

Keynote: Template Security
09:00 Vedrana Krivokuca Hahn

Handbook of Biometric Template Protection: Motivation, Methods and Metrics

Idiap
Talks: Template Security
09:45 Norman Poh

Biometric Secure Module

TrustStamp
10:05 Orr Dunkelman

Efficient End-to-End Reconstruction Attacks Are Feasible Against Score-Releasing FHE-Protected Biometric Systems

Haifa
10:25 Giuseppe Stragapede

Face and Fingerprint Biometric Template Protection for Edge Devices in Humanitarian Action

Simprints
10:35

Communication Break

10:55 Marta Gomez-Barrero

Evaluation of Biometric Template Protection

University of the Bundeswehr Munich
11:15 Vedrana Krivokuca Hahn

PRiMEAiD: Privacy-pReserving bioMetric idEntification for humAnitarian aid Distribution

Idiap
11:25 Lennig Pedron

Trust Valley Switzerland

Tech4Trust
11:35 Vishnu Boddeti

A Roadmap for Next Generation Biometric Template Protection

Michigan State University
Keynote: Biometrics Under the AI Act
13:15 Catherine Jasserand

AI Act and Biometrics: Quo Vadis ?

University of Groningen
Talks: Biometrics Under the AI Act
14:00 Isabelle Landreau

How IDEMIA Can Serve Privacy Protection and Human Oversight in Biometric Devices?

Idemia
14:20 Hatef Otroshi

Unveiling Synthetic Faces: How Synthetic Datasets Can Expose Real Identities

Idiap
14:40 Thibaut Deleruyelle

Biometric on the Move: H.E. CarMen Project

ISEN
14:50 Claude Bazou

The Horizon Europe Project CERTAIN and its Interest in the Field of Biometrics

Idemia
15:00

Communication Break

15:20 Abdullah Elbi

Tracing Biometrics Between the Lines: First Guidelines on Prohibited AI practices under the EU AI Act

KU Leuven
15:40 Paco Zamora

Safer Stadiums, Stronger Communities: The River Plate Case for Responsible Biometrics

Veridas
15:50 Ajay Amlani

Aware Views on AI Regulation

Aware
Round Table Discussion
16:00

The AI Act and Reflection on Governance, Literacy, and Operationalisation

- Abdullah Elbi

- Isabelle Landreau

- Paco Zamora

- Ajay Amlani

Moderated by: Catherine Jasserand

End of the Workshop
17:00

Concluding Remarks