Program at a glace

Day 1 - Research Achievements

8.30 – 9.00
Registration and Coffee

9.00 – 9.10
Welcome speech:
Raymond Veldhuis - University of Twente - Netherlands
Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM - France

9.10 – 10.00
Keynote speech: Tom Bäckström - Aalto University - Finland
Title: Conceptual Framework for Privacy in Voice Technology
Chair: Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM - France

10.00 – 10.45
SESSION A - Biometric Technologies - (Chair: Bilgesu Sumer - KU Leuven - Belgium)
This track aims to accelerate the adoption of cybersecurity solutions and enhance societal acceptance. Researchers from multiple disciplines will share insights, showcasing the real-world impact of their work in the domains of biometrics privacy quantification, balancing privacy with authentication performance, secure identity management and compliance, and strategies against presentation attacks and deepfakes.

ESR Presentations
1. Giuseppe Stragapede - Quantifying Privacy with Application to Mobile User Interaction
2. Paula Delgado de Santos - Mobile Device Background Sensors: Authentication vs Privacy
3. Ahmad Hassanpour - Modelling Private Identity Management Behaviours by Digital Footprints
4. Ahmed Fraz Baig - Identity provisioning in the cloud: Privacy, security, and user experience when authenticating to services
5. Wanying Ge - Explainable and Integrated Speaker Verification Anti-Spoofing

10.45 – 11.15
Coffee break

11.15 – 12.15
Poster Session

12.15 – 14.00
Lunch on-site

14.00 – 14.50
Keynote speech: Arun Ross - Michigan State University - USA
Title: Deepening Trust: Biometrics in a Deep Learning World
Chair: Raymond Veldhuis - University of Twente - Netherlands

14.50 – 15.50
SESSION B - Threat Mitigation - (Chair: Wanying Ge - EURECOM - France)
In this track, the findings presented will help mitigate the privacy concerns about biometric technologies. This track includes two research streams: The first one focuses on face recognition, soft biometrics, and biometric template protection. The second one concerns focusing on de-identification methods to prevent unwanted identification.

ESR Presentations
1. Zohra Rezgui - Biometric profiling
2. Rezwan Hasan - Biometric Identity Hiding, Obfuscation and De-identification
3. Mahdi Ghafoorian - Privacy Protection in Multimodal Biometrics with Application to e-Learning and e-Banking
4. Amina Bassit - Integration of biometric recognition and homomorphic encryption
5. Dailé Osorio-Roig - Privacy-preserving indexing of large-scale biometric databases
6. Oubaïda Chouchane - Techniques for GDPR-Compliant Voice Biometrics Applications
7. Hatef Otroshi - Biometric template protection of deep templates
8. Pietro Melzi - Quantifying privacy in mobile interaction
9. Liujun Yu - Distributed Privacy Preserving Biometric Authentication

15.50 – 16.50
Coffee Break & Poster session

16.50 – 17.30
Panel Session
Moderator: Patrizio Campisi - Roma Tre University - Italy
On stage:
- Naser Damer Fraunhofer IGD - Germany
- Paula Delgado de Santos - University of Kent - UK
- Marta Gomez-Barrero - Hochschule Ansbach - Germany
- Arun Ross - Michigan State University - USA
- Alexander Unnervik - Idiap - Switzerland

20:00
Social dinner at L'ESTEREL Plage Restaurant

Day 2 - Impacts and Policy making

8.30 – 9.00
Registration and Coffee

9.00 – 9.10
Welcome speech:
David Gesbert (Director) - EURECOM - France
Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM - France
Raymond Veldhuis - University of Twente - Netherlands

9.10 – 10.00
Keynote speech: Franck Dumortier - Cyber and Data Security Lab - Belgium
Title: The processing of facial images & the law
Chair: Chiara Galdi - EURECOM - France

10.00 – 10.45
SESSION C - Usability and Impact Assessment - (Chair: Monique Kalsi - University of Groningen - Netherlands)
In this track, the findings presented will help facilitate the deployment of cybersecurity solutions and increase societal acceptance. Multidisciplinary researchers will present the state of the art regarding privacy, security and vulnerabilities in their respective fields and cover the impact of their work on society.

ESR Presentations
1. Luyi Sun - Multi-party social contracts and privacy mechanisms  
2. Johrine Cronjé - Acceptance and usage of privacy protection solutions
3. Jinghuai Lin - Privacy protection effects on social communication
4. Mathias Ibsen - Detection of manipulated biometric images using machine learning methods and image forensics
5. Alexander Unnervik - Adversarial machine learning for combating the vulnerabilities of DNN-based biometric systems
6. Luis Felipe Gómez  - Enhancing security in multimodal biometrics: e-learning and e-banking
7. Feiyang Tang - Detecting privacy problems in software

10.45 – 11.15
Coffee break

11.15 – 12.15
Poster Session

12.15 – 14.00
Lunch on-site

14.00 – 14.50
Keynote speech: Nikolaos Ioannidis - Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Belgium
Title: Impact assessment for artificial intelligence under a fundamental rights lens
Chair: Lydia Belkadi - KU Leuven - Belgium

14.50 – 15.30
SESSION D  - Legal aspects - (Chair: Luyi Sun - NTNU - Norway)
This track addresses the regulatory landscape of biometric applications, including the legal challenges arising from security, legitimacy, transparency, concept building, risk assessment, and digital identity management systems.

ESR Presentations
1. Jan Czarnocki - Privacy and biometrics in health and activity tracking
2. Bilgesu Sumer - Legal digital identity: reconciling blockchains, biometrics and privacy
3. Margaret Warthon - Impacts of the GDPR on algorithms used for automated-decision making 
4. Monique Kalsi  - Combining the legal requirements of data protection by design and data protection by default with the technical development of next-generation biometric systems
5. Lydia Belkadi - Conceptual framework for use and regulation of new biometric data
6. César Augusto Fontanillo López - Catalogue of risks of biometric data use and assessment of protective technical measures

15.30 – 16.30
Coffee Break & Poster session

16.30 – 17.10
Panel Session
Moderator: Christoph Busch - Hochschule Darmstadt - Germany
On stage:
- Jan Czarnocki - KU Leuven - Belgium
- Franck Dumortier - Cyber and Data Security Lab - Belgium
- Nikolaos Ioannidis - Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Belgium
- César Augusto Fontanillo López - KU Leuven - Belgium
- Margaret Warthon - University of Groningen - Netherlands

17.10
Closing remarks:
Raymond Veldhuis - University of Twente - Netherlands
Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM - France

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PriMa has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 860315

TReSPAsS-ETN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 860813

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