Idiap Biometrics group was awarded the 2015 IET Biometrics Premium Best Paper Award for the paper:

« My career at Idiap allowed me to establish a standard »

Since his arrival at Idiap 20 years ago, Sébastien Marcel is shaking up the research community in biometry. After several major projects and a long term hard ...

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 ...

A more secure biometric authentication system

Now EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory and the startup Global ID have developed an even more secure identification system that processes data more ...

An Open-Source Web-Based Open-Science Platform

The Idiap Research Institute published a paper in the International Conference on Machine Learning on a new Open-Science Web Platform.

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 ...

We are glad to announce the start this month of the Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT) project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh ...

On 02 October 2014, the submitted paper by L. El Shafey, E. Khoury, and S. Marcel : "Audio-visual gender recognition in uncontrolled environment using ...

Vein recognition is a biometric that has traditionally been seen as difficult to hack or spoof, as the biometric patterns created by the vein structure in a ...

Voice identification, facial recognition, fingerprint reading or heartbeat analysis: biometric identification methods will be used more and more this year on ...