Activities

• PI of ATHENE in Darmstadt
• Member of the NGBS research area in ATHENE
• Co-Chair of the da/sec group in Darmstadt
• Member of the computer science faculty at h_da
• Member of the IIK department at NTNU within the NordicFiveTech
• Head of the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory
• Convener of the working group on Biometric Data Interchange Formats in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37
• Founder of the BIOSIG conference of the GI
• Chair of the TeleTrusT Biometrics working group

For further details on my activities please visit this page.

News and Events

• My most recent news are on Linkedin (short) or in the EAB news (more details)
• My virtual BBB office
• My virtual Zoom office
• The German Biometrics Working Group Meeting is on December 12, 2024
• The ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 WG3 Meeting is on January 13-16, 2025
• The The NIST IFPC Conference is on April 01-03, 2025
• The IWBF Workshop is on April 24-25, 2025
• The EAB-RPC is on September 22-24, 2025
• The EAB-award is on September 24, 2025
• The BIOSIG Conference is on September 24-26, 2025
• The NIST FATE Specific Image Defect Detection (SIDD) report is available
• GitHub hosts the OFIQ 1.0 reference implementation of ISO/IEC 29794-5 face image quality
• The 3rd Face Image Quality Workshop was on November 7-9, 2023
• GitHub hosts the NFIQ 2.2 reference implementation of ISO/IEC 29794-4 finger image quality
• The Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection is Open Access available
• The Handbook of Vascular Biometrics is Open Access available
• The Biometric Presentation Attack Detection Standard (framework) is freely available
• The Harmonized Biometrics Vocabulary is available online