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Deep Dive: AI Act & Biometrics

Date: 2025-01-21 (12:30-15:30 CET) Location: Microsoft Teams

Organizer: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
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Speakers: Abdullah Elbi, Catherine Jasserand, Irina Orssich, Lydia Belkadi
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A special edition of EAB Lunch Talks and the Council of Wisdom to kick off the new year!

The EAB Council of Wisdom (CoW) is the new Q&A format of the EAB, set up to answer any questions you may have regarding specific topics within biometrics topics. You questions, EAB senior members' answers! ...

For this legal CoW, we have invited Irina Orssich, Abdullah Elbi and many more, to answer your questions on the AI Act and biometrics.

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    Workshop on Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection

    Date: 2025-03-18 - 2025-03-19 Location: Online

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    The use of fingerprint recognition is increasing day by day. Not only are we required (in European countries) to capture our fingerprints in order to obtain a passport or (soon) be granted entry into the EU, but we use them on a daily basis for basic tasks such as unlocking our smartphones or confirming a bank transaction.

    In spite of the numerous benefits of utilising fingerprint recognition, some drawbacks come with this technology: one does not need to be a tech expert to carry out a presentation attack that may fool a system into believing you are someone else. Unattended capture devices need to have a Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) subsystem, to prevent such attacks.

    The workshop raises awareness about this issue and about the current efforts of the biometric community in order to minimise the impact of such attacks. We will thus present a definition of the problem and provide the audience with possible solutions and a look into the future steps.

    This workshop will feature presentations by experts from academic, industry, and governmental organisations and will facilitate interactions and discussions between the experts and the audience.

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    German TeleTrusT Biometrics Working Group

    Date: 2025-03-25 Location: Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Organizer: German TeleTrusT Biometrics Working Group in cooperation with the European Association of Biometrics

    Attendance is free of charge but registration is required.


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    Workshop of the Biometrics Working Group of TeleTrusT, the IT Security Association in Germany

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    The International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) 2025

    Date: 2025-04-01 - 2025-04-03 Location: This will be a virtual event

    Organizer: National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) and European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
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    The IFPC 2025, takes place in remote participation mode, from April 1 until 3, 2025. The IFPC focuses on all technical factors affecting the deployment and use of high performance face recognition applications, including applications, standards, quality assessment,human aspects, demographic aspects, demographic effects, age and ageing effects, presentation attack detection, morphing datasets, their preparation, training and tuning, non-cooperative uses, accuracy measurement, and performance tests.

    With support of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, the conference aims to assemble speakers from all over the world involved in face recognition development, procurement, deployment as well as operations. The main aim of the IFPC is to bring greater maturity to face recognition by improving performance, transparency and trustworthiness. Furthermore, during this event, speakers have the opportunity to present proposals for technical or policy presentations which address problems that might influence face recognition operations and applications. The IFPC focuses on improving relevant factors concerning face recognition, including performance, transparency and trustworthiness.

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    IWBF 2025 – 13th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics

    Date: 2025-04-24 - 2025-04-25 Location: Munich, Germany

    Organizer: Research Institute Cyber Defence (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) with BioML Lab and the European Association for Biometrics
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    IWBF is an international forum devoted to facilitating synergies in research and development among the areas of multimedia forensics, forensic biometrics, and forensic science. State-of-the-art research in areas such as biometrics, forensic science, surveillance, and multimedia forensics will be presented. The 9th edition of IWBF will be a meeting place for those concerned with the use of advanced biometric technologies in forensic applications, attracting participants from industry, research, academia, and end-users.

    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    • Biometrics
    • Attacks to biometric systems
    • Multimodal biometrics
    • Soft biometrics
    • Mobile biometrics
    • Biometric analysis of crime scenes
    • Multimedia forensics
    • Ethical and societal implications of biometrics and forensics
    • Forensic Science
    • Integrity verification
    • Anonymization & Data Privacy
    • Data de-identification
    • Surveillance
    • Mobile biometrics
    • Information Theoretic Security
    • Adversarial Signal Processing for biometrics and forensics
    • Case studies on the aforementioned topics

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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.


    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 by the Idiap Research Institute 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 previously hosted at the Idiap Research Institute in 2020 and 2023.

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

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    EAB-RPC 2025 – EAB Research Projects Conference 2025

    Date: 2025-09-22 (09:00 CET) - 2025-09-23 (18:00 CET) Location: Hybrid event (online and in-person) at Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhoferstraße 5, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

    Organizer: The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) with the contribution of the Joint Research Center (DG-JRC) and the support of DG HOME of the European Commission, Fraunhofer IGD and Halmstad University.

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


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    The 12th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference is organised by the European Association on Biometrics (EAB)

    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 70 participants from academia, industry and public institutions.

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    European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research, and Industry Awards 2025

    Date: 2025-09-24 (15:00-19:00 CET) Location: Hybrid event (online and in-person) at Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhoferstraße 5, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

    Organizer: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)

    Attendance is free of charge but registration is required.


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    EAB is launching the nineteenth European Biometric Max Snijder, Research, and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research in Europe.

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    Workshop on Voice Presentation Attack Detection

    Date: 2025-11-13 Location: Online

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    The workshop raises awareness about the issues of Voice Presentation Attack Detection and about the current efforts of the biometric community in order to minimise the impact of such attacks. We will thus present a definition of the problem and provide the audience with possible solutions and a look into the future steps.

    This workshop will feature presentations by experts from academic, industry, and governmental organisations and will facilitate interactions and discussions between the experts and the audience.

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