James Ferryman, Author at EINSTEIN

Join a Free Workshop on Digitising Identity on 24th June

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11th June 202611th June 2026

On behalf of EINSTEIN, a Horizon Europe-funded project, you are invited to participate in an online workshop on June 24th on the development of solutions for identity and document fraud…Read More >

Algorithms That Explain Themselves: The Case for Explainable Biometric AI

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10th June 20269th June 2026

Imagine a border officer is presented with a screen showing that the face recognition system has flagged a passport photograph as a possible morphing attack. The system’s confidence score reads 0.73. The threshold is 0.5. The algorithm says: reject. …

Setting the Standard: How International Biometric Standards Shape Border Security

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3rd June 20269th June 2026

Behind every passport chip, every eGate, and every border biometric system lies an invisible architecture of international standards. Without them, a German eGate could not read a Japanese passport, a British border system could not verify a Kenyan b…

Man vs Machine: Can Border Guards Detect a Morphed Passport?

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27th May 2026

Ask most people whether a trained border guard should be able to spot a forged passport, and they would probably say yes. Passport examiners receive specialist training. They know what to look for. They have years of experience. The research says oth…

The Morphing Attack: How Two Faces Become One — and What We Can Do About It

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20th May 202613th May 2026

Every passport embodies a fundamental security principle: one person, one document. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) calls this the unique link — the machine-verifiable biometric feature that binds a travel document to its legitim…

Why Your Passport Photo Matters More Than You Think: The Hidden World of Face Image Quality

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13th May 202613th May 2026

When you submit a photo for a passport application, a driving licence, or an online identity check, you probably assume that as long as it looks like you and meets the basic format requirements, it will do the job. You would be partially right. But t…

EINSTEIN co-organising EAB workshop on face morphing

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11th May 202611th May 2026

On May 26th and 27th EINSTEIN partner University of Bologna with the European Association of Biometricd are organising the online Face Morphing Workshop. he growing deployment of facial recognition systems…Read More >

Spotting the Impostor: The Science of Presentation Attack Detection

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6th May 2026

Biometric systems — face recognition at a border gate, fingerprint verification at a bank, iris scanning at an eGate — are increasingly embedded in everyday life. And wherever a biometric system stands guard, someone will try to fool it. Presentation…

EINSTEIN to present at Biometric Workshop of the Norweigian Police

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5th May 2026

On May 20th 2026 the EINSTEIN project will be presented at a specialist law enforcement event bringing together forensic experts from Norwegian and Swedish police, Oslo University Hospital, and NTNU….Read More >

EINSTEIN joins LEA Projects Cluster

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31st March 202631st March 2026

EINSTEIN has formally joined the LEA Projects Cluster. The LEA Projects Cluster, led by Privanova, brings together more than 50 EU-funded security research and innovation projects to strengthen Europe’s collective…Read More >