PopEye
Jan 1, 2024
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PopEye develops robust privacy-preserving biometric technologies for passenger identification and verification at EU external borders.
The project addresses operational constraints such as open-air conditions, night-time acquisition, time pressure, and large-scale throughput, while emphasizing privacy-preserving design. Its goal is to improve the accuracy, reliability, and usability of biometric recognition in demanding border-management scenarios.
PopEye represents a current strand of work where biometric performance, privacy, and deployment realism must all be addressed together.
Face and Gait Recognition From a Distance
Face Recognition
Gait Recognition
Border Management
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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.