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Martigny Biometrics Workshop

Date: 2025-05-19 - 2025-05-20 Location: 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.


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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.

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

Idiap | UNC | EAB
08:35 Marta Gomez-Barrero and Dinusha Frings

Event Introduction

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 Anjith George

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

Idiap
11:00 Daniyal Chughtai

How Foundation Models Elevate Facial Liveness Detection

Facia
11:10 Srijan Das

Improved Reasoning in AI Models for Deepfake Detection

University of North Carolina Charlotte
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 Wojciech Wodo

Liveness Testing Using 2D Cameras (Self/Smart-Phones) in Remote Identification Processes

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

PXLVision
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 Chris Allgrove

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 and Emmanuel Wang

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
14:30 Parsa Rahimi

Synthetic Augmentation of Responsible Datasets for Face Recognition

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

KULeuven
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

Round Table: TBC

End of the Workshop
17:00

Concluding Remarks

Next Event

Info letter

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