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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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In this talk, Pr. Dr. Meike Ramon will present the findings of her team's recent work on human deepfake detection and facial identity processing of natural and synthetic faces. She will conclude with an outlook of the Applied Face Cognition Lab's future directions using deepfakes generated using state-of-the-art open-source generative models and artistic content developed by creative professionals.

Note: Exceptionally, this Lunch Talk's recording and presentation will not be published for EAB members due to the research presented, which includes copyrighted content.

Curriculum vitæ

Meike Ramon is a Professor of Applied Data Science at the Business School of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, a Board Member of the Association for Independent Research, a Local Node Leader of the Swiss Reproducibility Network, and an Expert Panel Member for Innosuisse, the Swiss Federal Innovation Agency. As a Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA (Promoting Women in Academia) Fellow, she founded the Applied Face Cognition Lab, previously directing it at the University of Lausanne and Fribourg. Her PhD is from the Université catholique de Louvain, with a postdoctoral stint at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on face recognition, studying its neurofunctional basis and societal implications, from face-blindness to identifying Super-Recognizers. She collaborates with various international police agencies, including the Berlin Police since 2017, with whom she developed the Berlin Test for Super-Recognizer Identification (beSure®), the only existing bespoke tool for identifying so-called Super-Recognizers involving authentic police material.

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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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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.

International and non-unitary cooperation in the scientific sector is the foundation of dynamically developing areas of research and the creation of valuable results. Hence, the main goal of the CSCC workshops is to create an international space for the exchange of the latest experiences and research results in the field of computer security and cybersecurity for young scientists. These research areas are developing very dynamically and have a significant impact on the world around us, which is transforming into digital form in many domains.

Experienced scientists will also participate in the workshop, sharing their knowledge and tools, as well as identifying challenges for the future in this area of science. It is assumed that thanks to the meeting of active scientists from different academic centers, long-term scientific cooperation will be bond or project consortia will be established. The result will be high-class publications and jointly submitted research or implementation projects.

The International Standard ISO/IEC 29794-5 Biometric sample quality - Part 5: Face image data was recently finalized. It was published along with this new standard the source code of the Open-Source Face Image Quality (OFIQ) software library, which is the reference implementation of this standard.

The standard defines a unified quality score for a face image and numerous, quality components, which provide accurate information such as the correctness of the pose or the sharpness of the face image (and many others).

This virtual meeting will provide an overview of the functionality provided with OFIQ and will give users an opportunity to raise questions and provide feedback.

The 12^th 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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All members of EAB are invited to join us for our annual General Assembly.

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

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The EAB in collaboration with Research institute CODE and Idiap is organising a second workshop on Biometric Template Protection!

Cognisant of the privacy risks for data subjects interacting with biometric systems, researchers in academia and industry have devised a variety of biometric template protection schemes based on one-way functions. Unlike traditional asymmetric encryption, one-way functions allow biometric recognition to happen in the encrypted domain. Thus, they protect the confidentiality and integrity of biometric templates end to end, that is, during transmission, processing, and storage.

The proliferation of voice deepfakes and adversarial attacks presents an increasing challenge to the security and reliability of voice-based authentication and communication systems. While deepfake technology enables the generation of highly realistic synthetic speech, adversarial attacks exploit vulnerabilities in machine learning models to manipulate or evade detection systems. Both threats pose significant risks to biometric security and the overall trustworthiness of AI-driven applications.

This workshop will feature presentations by experts to explore recent advancements in detecting and mitigating both voice deepfakes and adversarial attacks. Discussions will focus on deep learning-based countermeasures, adversarial robustness techniques, generalisation across unseen attacks, and the evolving nature of attack strategies.

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

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