François Chung, Ph.D.

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EAB Research Projects Conference 2022

EAB Research Projects Conference 2022

EAB Conference, Germany (2022). The 9th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference (EAB-RPC 2022), which is organised by the European Association on Biometrics (EAB), is currently the largest event on research funded by the European Union (EU) in the area of biometrics and identity management. Over the previous editions, EAB-RPC has become the main forum in Europe where attendees can promote research carried out in biometrics.

Day 1

Main topics:

  • Border management and internal security in EU;
  • Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services (eIDAS) app;
  • European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) app;
  • Document and biometric identity verification;
  • Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) technologies.

Day 2

Main topics:

  • PAD framework for facial and voice data;
  • Recognising Covid-19 through biometrics;
  • Generative models for video generation;
  • Biometric usage in smart border control technologies;
  • Predicting and monitoring technology acceptance;
  • Workload reduction in biometric identification;
  • Use and regulation of new biometric data;
  • Spoofing-aware speaker verification;
  • Predicting and managing migration flows.

Day 3

Main topics:

  • Analyzing ID experts in morphing attack detection;
  • Morphing attack potential;
  • Morphing applied to face templates;
  • Including biometrics into blockchain.

References

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Trends debate: technology and privacy

Trends debate: technology and privacy

Fujitsu project @Brussels, Belgium (2020). In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the development of contact tracing applications to help track and stop the spread of the coronavirus, Trends organized an online debate around technology and privacy entitled: “Does saying yes to technology mean saying no to ethics and privacy?”. The debate has been published as an article in Trends, which is a Flemish financial-economic magazine presenting analyses of current economic, political and social news.

Participants in this debate, who are experts in technology, ethics, privacy or legislation, are representing the following organizations:

  • Atos;
  • Everest Law;
  • Fujitsu;
  • Icapps;
  • Ministry of Privacy;
  • Nutanix;
  • Privaco;
  • SiriusLegal;
  • Universiteit Gent.

The main topics of discussion around this debate are as follows:

  • Should a contact tracing application be considered as a Pandora's box whose consequences cannot be estimated?
  • Is GDPR sufficient as a security mechanism? Or do we need to develop a clearer framework to regulate the potential misuse of technology?
  • To what extent does fragmentation, at political, geographic or economic level, hinder the efficiency of contact tracing applications requiring a global reach to be efficient?
  • Who decides what can be allowed with the possibilities offered by the technology? And how can we enforce that?
  • What is the correct mechanism to determine when a technology is needed? And when can a market be considered as ready?

As a Digital Business Analyst representing Fujitsu for this debate, I shared Fujitsu’s vision and values regarding technology and privacy in the context of the global Covid-19 pandemic, with topics such as working from home (technologies and benefits), extending the legal framework, including GDPR, to regulate Artificial Intelligence and building a human centric future with ethical technology. The debate has been published as an article in Trends on 13th August 2020.

References

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Covid-19: epidemiology and contact tracing

Covid-19: epidemiology and contact tracing

Coursera training, MOOC (2020). These 2 online courses from Johns Hopkins University (US) have been attended in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic. The first explains how to identify and measure outbreaks like the Covid-19 epidemic, and how to understand the epidemiology of these infections. The second is about the science of SARS-CoV-2, including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of Covid-19, and why contact tracing can be an effective public health intervention.

Fighting Covid-19 with epidemiology

Main topics:

  • How do we identify and measure outbreaks like Covid-19?
  • How do we investigate and control outbreaks?

Covid-19 contact tracing

Main topics:

  • Basics of Covid-19;
  • Basics of contact tracing for Covid-19;
  • Steps to investigate cases and trace their contacts;
  • Ethics of contact tracing and technological tools;
  • Skills for effective communication.

References

Training

COVID-19 Contact Tracing (course certificate)

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