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Testing & Evaluation

Overview

Biometrics Vulnerability Assessment Service (BVAS)

Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition

Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC)

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT)

Information Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC)

Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006

IREX I - Performance of Iris Recognition Algorithms on Standard Images 

Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC)

Multiple-Biometric Evaluation (MBE) 2010: Report on the Evaluation of 2D Still-Image Face Recognition Algorithms (June 2010)

ASIO Security Product Testing

Assessment of IT security products (AISEP)

Financial Services Technology Consortium Project: Better Mutual Authentication

Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)

Projects

The Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT) European Commission funded Project

The Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT) project funded by the European Commission nder the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) starts this month and is coordinated at the Idiap research institute. As the Principal Investigator of this project, Dr Sébastien Marcel  http://www.idiap.ch/~marcel ) will be the Project Coordinator. The Biometrics Institute participates on the Advisory Committee. About BEAT: The goal of BEAT is to propose a framework of standard operational evaluations for biometric technologies. This will be achieved by (1) developing an online and open platform to transparently and independently evaluate biometric systems against validated benchmarks, (2) designing protocols and tools for vulnerability analysis, and (3) developing standardization documents for Common Criteria evaluations. Additionally, legal aspects will be considered to address the issues of both privacy data protection and Intellectual Property and so ensure that the BEAT framework can be used by the research community and companies. There will be three outcomes of this project. The first is that the reliability of biometric systems will be measurable and thus should lead to a meaningful increase in performance. The second is that technology transfer from research to companies will be much easier as there will be an interoperable framework. Finally, decision-makers and authorities will be informed about the progress that is made in biometrics as the results will have an impact on standards. Given these outcomes we expect that BEAT will significantly contribute to the development of a European Identification Certification System. Project website: http://www.beat-eu.org/