Major Bob release

This release brings many changes and some packages have been completely re-written.

Android accredits Idiap's biometrics center

To face the increasing use of biometrics systems, Android set up its own certification standard. The biometrics center of Idiap became accredited to deliver ...

Sanitary and cyber precautions, a key challenge for hospitals

With one million Swiss francs budget and supported by the Innosuisse agency, the CANDY project will develop and patent a contact-less scanner allowing to ...

A biometrics workshop on presentation attack detection

The European Association for Biometrics organized its workshop at Idiap. European researchers and representatives from various companies gathered to discuss ...

The European Biometrics Research Award goes to Tiago de Freitas Pereira, PostDoc researcher at Idiap

In the face recognition research field, new challenges are going harder as the field limits are expanding. Tiago de Freitas Pereira award from the European ...

Idiap becomes the world’s third biometrics certification center

The reference in authentication standards, the FIDO Alliance has confirmed the accreditation of Idiap’s Biometrics Center as only the third member of a what ...

Research on silicone face mask attacks rewarded by the IAPR Best Paper Award

The prestigious International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) bestowed it Best Paper Award during its International Workshop on Biometrics and ...

DARPA is funding new tech that can identify manipulated videos and “deepfackes”

Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA has awarded three contracts to the nonprofit research group SRI International. Within the framework of ...

Identification at a low price thanks to finger vein patterns

Developped by the start-up Global ID, Idiap and HES-SO Valais, a new biometric identification system will soon be available at a good price. This technology ...

Idiap spin-off KeyLemon acquired by ams

On Monday Feb 6th, ams, a worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, announced the acquisition of KeyLemon for an undisclosed amount [1].