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Biometrics refers to the automatic recognition of individuals based on their physiological and/or behavioral characteristics.
The Biometrics Security and Privacy (BSP) group at Idiap focuses on three main areas of research:
- Biometric recognition: We investigate and develop new biometrics based recognition algorithms, notably for face, voice, and vein biometric modalities.
- Presentation attack detection: We look for new and better ways of detecting presentation attacks on face, voice, and vein biometric recognition systems.
- Biometric template protection: We research effective methods of preserving both the security of biometric recognition systems and the privacy of their users by protecting the biometric models ("templates") that are employed by the system for recognition purposes.
The BSP group prioritizes reproducibility in research. This is important for ensuring that our work can be both verified and built upon by the wider research community. To enable reproducibility, we mainly make use of our Python-based signal-processing and machine-learning toolbox, Bob, which we make freely available for academic purposes. The group also develops and maintains the BEAT platform -- a MLaaS platform compliant with Swiss and European data-security norms.
The group participates in several large-scale biometrics projects at Swiss (SNSF), European (H2020) or world-wide levels but also conducts projects directly with companies.
The BSP group provides also expertise to the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing, which, among other things, carries out tests and evaluations on commercial products related to biometrics.
Group News
Idiap hosted a Biometrics Week. This one of a kind event gathered several hundreds of people from various backgrounds ranging from academia to industry. Organizers included the European Association for Biometrics and the US based Center for Identification Technology Research.
This paper is a joint work between Tiago de Freitas Pereira from the Biometrics Security & Privacy group at Idiap Research Institute and Manuel Günther and his team at University of Zurich.
Idiap's Biometrics Security & Privacy group asserts its expertise and leadership in the specialized press with three papers published in the same issue of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
Institute’s researchers in biometrics developed tools for more efficient and more reliable facial recognition techniques in the automotive industry. They made available their results open source.
Group Job Openings
Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.
Current Group Members
The group is led by Sébastien Marcel.
MARCEL, Sébastien
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
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BHATTACHARJEE, Sushil (Kumar)
(Research Associate)
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KOMATY, Alain
(Research Associate)
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GEORGE, Anjith
(Research Associate)
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KOTWAL, Ketan
(Research Associate)
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KRIVOKUĆA HAHN, Vedrana
(Research Associate)
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KORSHUNOV, Pavel
(Research Associate)
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MOHAMMADI, Amir
(Research Associate)
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VIDIT, Vidit
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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JIMÉNEZ DEL TORO, Oscar (Alfonso)
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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ECABERT, Christophe
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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LUÉVANO GARCÍA, Luis Santiago
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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OTROSHI SHAHREZA, Hatef
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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COLBOIS, Laurent
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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RAHIMI NOSHANAGH, Parsa
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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ULUCAN, Ibrahim
(Research Assistant)
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NEUGBER, Samuel
(R&D / Research Assistant)
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POLAC, Magdalena
(R&D / Research Assistant)
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COSTA BARBOSA, Lucas
(Research Intern)
PANNATIER, Yvan
(Research Intern)
Alumni
Please note that this list is not exhaustive.
- AEBERHARD, Niels
- ALVARENGA CARDOSO, Lucas (Alexandre)
- ATANASOAEI, Constantin-Cosmin
- BALA SUBBURAMAN, Venkatesh
- BENDALE, Abhijit
- BOURLARD, Maxime
- BROS, Victor
- BRUNINI, Gabriele
- CAJEUX, Nils
- CHINGOVSKA, Ivana
- DE FREITAS PEREIRA, Tiago
- DE REZENDE ROCHA, Anderson
- DIEFENBAUGH, Jaden
- EGLITIS, Teodors
- EL KHOURY, Elie
- EL SHAFEY, Laurent
- ERDOGMUS, Nesli
- FORMAZ, Marine
- GALBALLY, Javier
- GÜNTHER, Manuel
- HALSTEAD, Michael (Allan)
- HEUSCH, Guillaume
- HUANG, Junduan
- IBSEN, Mathias
- JOHANSSON, Niklas
- JUST, Agnès
- KEOMANY, Jean
- MÄÄTTÄ, Jukka
- MANDASARI, Miranti
- MCCOOL, Christopher
- MCLAREN, Mitchell
- MEHTA, Rakesh
- MILLIUS, Josselin
- MORAIS, Antonio
- MOSTAANI, Zohreh
- NGUYEN, Huy (Hong)
- NIKISINS, Olegs
- ORRÙ, Giulia
- ÖZBULAK, Gokhan
- PETTINATO, Michela
- RABELLO DOS ANJOS, André
- RAZEGHI, Behrooz
- ROY, Anindya
- SANCHEZ RIERA, Jordi
- SARFJOO, Saeed (Seyyed)
- SARKAR, Eklavya
- SCHMIDLI, Dominic
- SELLIAH, Janani
- STEL, Lucas
- THURRE, Veronique
- TOME, Pedro
- UNNERVIK, Alex
- VANONI, Matthias
- VAUCHER, Karine
- WALLACE, Roy (Geoffrey)
- WEBER, Benno
- ZHANG, Xinyi
Active Research Grants
- CARMEN - CarMen
- FACTCHECK - FactCheck - Collaborative Fact Checking of Digital Media
- META-SPOOF - Trustworthy AR-VR Biometric Authentication
- PRIMEAID - PRiMEAiD: Privacy-pReserving bioMetric idEntification for humAnitarian aid Distribution
- SAFER - reSponsible fAir FacE Recognition (SAFER)
- SENTINEL-UK - Securing Age Estimation and Digital IDs against Presentation and Injection Threats
Past Research Grants
- ALLIES - Autonomous Lifelong learnIng intelLigent Systems
- ATAP - ATAP - Continuous Authentication Program
- BBC_BOB - Adapting bespoke speaker identification models to be used in IDIAP's 'Bob.Spear' speaker recognition software
- BBFOR2 - Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics
- BEAT - Biometrics Evaluation and Testing
- BIOWAVE - BIOWAVE pre-product, a BIOmetric Watch Activated by VEins
- CANDY - ContActless finger veiN recognition and presentation attack Detection on-the-flY
- COHFACE - COntactless Heartbeat detection for trustworthy FACE Biometrics
- CONTEXT - Context-based modelling for object detection
- CSSB - Centre Suisse en Sécurité Biométrique
- EMMA1 - Expression Mimics Marker Analysis
- FARGO - Convenient and Secure 3D Face Recognition based on RGB-D Cameras
- FEDARS - Feature Extraction from Deep learning Architectures for face Recognition Systems
- GOOGLE_MOBILE - Mobile Face and Voice Anti Spoofing
- GRAIL-1 - Generative Range and Altitude Identity Learning
- GRAIL-2 - Generative Range and Altitude Identity Learning
- HARDENING - HARDENING: Heterogeneous face recognition for unified identity management
- HFACE - Heterogeneous Face Recognition
- LAB_FIDO - Création d'un laboratoire de test biométrique agréé
- LOBI - Low Complexity Binary Features for Robust-to-Noise Speaker Recognition
- MARGIN - MARGIN: Multi-modal federated age verification
- MOBIO - Mobile Biometry
- NATAI - The Nature of Artificial Intelligence
- ODESSA - Online Diarization Enhanced by recent Speaker identification and Sequential learning Approaches
- SOTERIA - uSer-friendly digiTal sEcured peRsonal data and prIvacy plAtform
- SWAN - Secure Access Control over Wide Area Network
- TABULARASA - Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks
- TESLA - An Adaptive Trust-based e-assesment System for Learning
- TRESPASS-ETN - TRaining in Secure and PrivAcy-preserving biometricS
- VERIFAKE - Vulnerability assessment and detection of Deepfake videos