CERTAIN

Jan 1, 2025 · 1 min read
project

CERTAIN focuses on the ethical and regulatory transparency of AI systems, with the goal of helping organizations assess and improve compliance in a practical and technically grounded way.

The project delivers guidelines and tools to support regulatory compliance, assess data quality, measure bias in datasets, and protect privacy. It aligns closely with broader work on trustworthy biometrics and responsible AI by combining technical evaluation with legal, ethical, and operational considerations.

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Prof. Sébastien Marcel
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Prof. Sébastien Marcel (he)
Senior Research Scientist
Prof Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow) is a senior research scientist at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland), he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes) and template protection. He is also Professor at the University de Lausanne (UNIL) at the School of Criminal Justice. He is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics at Idiap, which conducts certifications of biometric products. He was Associate Editor and Guest Editor of IEEE journals (TBIOM, SPL, TIFS and SPM). He is also the lead Editor of the Springer Handbook of Biometrics Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1, 2 and 3). Since June 2025 he is a member of the Idiap Direction ad interim.