ANR-DFG 2018
French-German calls for joint projects in Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences

RESPECT

reliable, secure and privacy preserving multi-biometric person authentication

Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany)

The biometrics and internet security research group da/sec Hochschule Darmstadt was established in 2008, when the CASED center was founded. The focus of the group is on highly innovative and applied IT security research in the special fields of biometrics and digital forensics. The group is funded by various national and international projects (see http://www.christoph-busch.de/projects.html for an overview) and closely cooperating with the partners in theNational Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE https://www.athene-center.de/), which was established as follow-up of CRISP and CASED. In addition, the da/sec research lab is an active member in the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), and organizer of several international conferences on Biometrics such as the IEEE BIOSIG conference and the EAB-RPC conference. We also contribute to the international standardization in the field within the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37. Our biometric research is covering various physiological and behavioural biometrics including presentation attack detection and biometric template protection for the characteristics fingerprint, vein, iris, ear, 2D- and 3D-face, speaker and signature recognition. Furthermore we focus on privacy enhancing technologies such as biometric template protection and integration in physical and logical access control.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch

Principal investigator

Lázaro Janier González-Soler

Ph.D. student

Hochschule Ansbach (Germany)

The Hochschule Ansbach https://www.hs-ansbach.de/en/home/ is a young, modern Bavarian University for Applied Sciences with a focus on technology, business, and media. Within the broader IT-security and data privacy research fields, our contributions lie on secure and privacy-friendly biometric recognition. We are an active member in the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), and organise several international conferences on Biometrics such as the IEEE BIOSIG conference. We also contribute to the international standardization in the field within the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37. Our research work focuses on generalisable and explainable presentation attack detection and biometric template protection methods for various biometric characteristics (e.g., face, iris, fingerprint, handwritten signature, or speaker). As a University for Applied Sciences, the application dimension of the research plays a central role for us - we work towards integration of biometrics in physical and logical access control, and on the use of biometrics for forensic purposes.

Prof. Dr. Marta Gomez-Barrero

Principal investigator

EURECOM (France)

EURECOM is a private, graduate engineering school and research centre. Its mission is to provide graduate training and to undertake internationally leading research within its three principle domains of specialisation: Communications Systems; Digital Security and Data Science. The research within RESPECT will be conducted within the Audio Security and Privacy Research Group, part of the Biometrics and Digital Media Research Group in the Digital Security Department. The group’s research interests include: forensics; speaker recognition; face recognition; soft biometrics; surveillance; privacy, and digital signal processing. It maintains close relationships with industry (currently Intel Mobile Communications, NXP Software, STMicroelectronics and Orange) and has participated in several past and ongoing European collaborative projects in topics related to RESPECT and has played a pivotal role in the organisation of several competitive evaluations, the most recent of which, ASVspoof, aimed to advance the state of the art in spoofing countermeasures for automatic speaker verification. EURECOM’s most recent expertise relevant to this project includes the design of novel techniques to preserve privacy in biometric voice authentication systems, new spoofing countermeasures for speaker recognition, speaker diarization/indexing (recognition of multiple/ competing speakers), novel approaches to linguistic normalisation for speaker diarization, soft biometrics, surveillance, evasion and short-duration speaker recognition.

Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Todisco

Principal investigator

Dr. Madhu Kamble

Post-doc

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Evans

Co-Principal investigator

Inria (France)

Inria (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) is a French public sector scientific and technological institute operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry. INRIA’s missions are ”to undertake basic and applied research, to design experimental systems, to ensure technology and knowledge transfer, to organize international scientific exchanges, to carry out scientific assessments, and to contribute to standardization”. The research carried out at INRIA brings together experts from the fields of computer science and applied mathematics covering the following areas: Networks and Systems; Software Engineering and Symbolic Computing; Man-Machine Interaction; Image Processing, Data Management, Knowledge Systems, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Systems. The research within RESPECT will be conducted within the STARS (Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition Systems) research team, focused on the design of cognitive vision systems for Activity Recognition. More precisely, STARS is interested in the real-time semantic interpretation of dynamic scenes observed by video cameras and other sensors, studying long-term spatio-temporal activities performed by agents such as human beings, animals or vehicles in the physical world. The major issue in semantic interpretation of dynamic scenes is to bridge the gap between the subjective interpretation of data and the objective measures provided by sensors. To address this problem STARS develops new techniques in the field of cognitive vision and cognitive systems for physical object detection, activity understanding, activity learning, vision system design and evaluation. The expertise of STARS related to the project includes soft biometrics, cosmetics induced spoofing, behavioral analysis.

Dr. Antitza Dantcheva

Principal investigator

Dr. François Brémond

Head of the team

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