On 15 September 2021 the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) awarded young researchers for their outstanding works in the area of biometrics. An international jury chose 3 candidates out of a broad range of submitted high-quality papers to present their significant contribution in front of the jury, the EAB members and the public audience in a virtual meeting.

The European Biometrics Research Award 2020 was granted to Rıdvan Salih Kuzu, for his PhD-thesis On-the-fly Vascular Multibiometrics, work done in Roma Tre University (Italy). Ridvan's work releases the constraint of fixed hand in touchless vein biometrics and enables walk-through-style biometrics. The thesis proves that low-cost sensors are sufficient for robust vein biometrics when multi-exposure images are exploited and customized deep neural network architectures are applied. Moreover, the Ph.D. work demonstrated that soft biometric traits like gender or age are reliable information to enhance the security of vein biometrics.

Since December 2020, Ridvan works as a Helmholtz AI Consultant and Postdoc in our lab.

Congratulations Ridvan!

More information: https://eab.org/award/reports/report2021.html