Technology is more responsive to the security and privacy threats observed in the extensive use of surveillance technologies, biometric systems and profiling tools. Hence, this rapid development creates a need for an ethical integration on security technologies, their applications and their effect on fundamental rights and freedoms. To tackle these […]
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On February 4, 2020, Dr Alexandros Fragkos from Eulambia Advanced Technologies presented the work done on the photonic PUF device as part of SMILE Action at SPIE’s Photonics West 2020 in San Fransisco, CA USA. The primary goal of the presentation was to demonstrate the complete process from a conceptual […]
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 […]
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 biometrics 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 the […]
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 BMVC 2019 special poster session. The 30th British Machine Vision Conference took place in Cardiff, […]