BEAT
Mar 1, 2012
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BEAT (Biometrics Evaluation and Testing) was a European FP7 project focused on creating an open and reproducible framework for the evaluation of biometric technologies.
The project addressed three complementary goals: transparent benchmarking of biometric systems, vulnerability analysis, and support for standardized evaluation procedures. It contributed to reproducible research practices in biometrics and helped establish evaluation workflows that were both rigorous and operationally relevant.
This project also supported the broader vision of open platforms and tools for the community, connecting research, benchmarking, and technology assessment.
Authors
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.