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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SMILE Action on July 3rd had a successful second-year annual review at the head offices of the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency in Brussels, Belgium! The coordinator of SMILE Action, Dr Dimitrios Tzovaras and representatives from all the partners of the consortium, presented the technical and not only progress of […]
As SMILE Action approaches its third year and the commencement of the pilots, the sixth plenary meeting of SMILE Action took place on May 14-16 at the Fraunhofer FOKUS premises in Berlin, Germany.
On April 10th 2019, the SMILE Action has commenced the test pilot deployment at Border policing Department, National University of Public services, Budapest, Hungary. In this first deployment, the SMILE Action technical partners and end-users will have the opportunity to run a basic scenario which includes user enrolment and travel […]