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UNHCR & EAB Hybrid Workshop

Date: 2026-07-17 (13:00-16:30) Location: Copenhagen (Denmark)/Online

Organizer: United Nations Refugee Agency and European Association for Biometrics

Please note that only ISO SC37 participants will be able to participate in person in Copenhagen. Online participation will be made available for non-SC37 participants.

Attendance is free of charge but registration is required.
All meeting times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).


Registration

This hybrid workshop will present relevant biometric applications, which are operated by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The presentations will be given at UNHCR premises in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biometric technology that is crucial for the operation of such applications will be presented as well as testing programs that can support the selection of algorithms and system. The workshop will also showcase, how international standardisation can provide a positive impact for the evolution and maintainability of biometric systems.

Agenda

13:00 Christoph Busch

Welcome

 Hochschule Darmstadt
13:10 Sam Jefferies

UNHCR and Biometric Applications (Iris, Fingerprint, Face)

 UNHCR
13:40 Patrick Grother

NIST FRTE and FATE Testing

 NIST
14:10 Christoph Busch

Face Image Quality Assessment with OFIQ

 Hochschule Darmstadt
14:40

Coffee break
15:00 Sam Jefferies

Experience with OFIQ in Operational Scenarios

 UNHCR
15:30 Jakob Sochor

ISO/IEC 59794-5 Face image encoding in 1KB barcode

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