On Thursday, January 23rd, Ms Katalin Pokornyi, a FRONTEX Senior Liaison Officer to Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia, accompanied by Mr Georgios Stavropoulos from CERTH and Dr Zoltan Székely from Hungarian National Police visited SMILE’s pilot installations in Nădlac, Romania. Nădlac has for many years been the main entry point […]
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Q: What has been achieved during the last period, and what is left for the final months of the project? A: “Over the past months, the SMILE backend and the various applications have been refined and debugged. We focused our efforts on making the applications as user-friendly as possible, in […]
Dr Mohamed Abomhara from NTNU participated and deliver a talk titled “How to do it right: A framework for biometrics supported border control” at e-democracy 2019 conference, that took place in Athens, Greece on December 12, 2019. During this event, we presented various ethical, social and legal challenges arising due […]
To better meet the needs of end-users, we have adapted the pilots’ scenarios accordingly. The framework described below provides the structure and context in which the evaluation of our innovative solution will be carried out. In our tests, three categories of users are participating taking into consideration the strictest privacy […]
On October 30, 2019, Lénárd Zsákai, Executive Police Officer at Hungarian National Police, presented SMILE concept and approach and how biometric traits can be used to facilitate the crossing of land borders.Biometrics Institute Congress -organised by the Biometrics Institute- is a must-attend event by providing a meeting place for biometrics […]
Going through the last nine months of the Action’s lifespan, the seventh plenary meeting of SMILE project took place on October 8-10 at the NTNU’s (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) premises in Gjøvik, Norway.
Researchers from CERTH presented work done in the context of the SMILE action regarding biometrics identification titled “Iris authentication utilizing co-occurrence matrices and textile features”. The presentation took place in the context of the 2nd International Workshop on Research & Innovation for Secure Societies – RISS 2019 on October 10, […]
Mr Georgios Stavropoulos from CERTH presented SMILE at the 6th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference that took place at the premises of Fraunhofer in Darmstadt, Germany on September 17 2019. Mr Stavropoulos presented SMILE Action during a session dedicated to on-going projects, and he provided insights into the […]
On September 10, 2019, CERTH’s researchers presented the work carried out in the SMILE Action context concerning a novel design of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition on low power devices in a special poster session.The 30th British Machine Vision Conference took place in Cardiff, UK and is […]
Dr Mohamed Abomhara from NTNU presented SMILE H2020 Action at IFIP summer school on privacy and identity management on August 19, 2019, in Brugg/Windisch, Switzerland. The focus of the presentation was on the border control and use of biometrics. More specifically, Dr Abomhara focused on the reasons why the right […]