Biometric Technologies: Enhancing Security and Privacy

This lecture delves into the collaboration between a startup company, Global ID, and EPFL's research center to develop biometric technologies based on finger vein recognition. The instructor explains the projects BioID and Bioloaker, focusing on reinventing biometric passports and enhancing access control using biometric recognition. The lecture covers the technical aspects of finger vein biometrics, including the scanning process, image extraction, and matching algorithms. Additionally, it explores the development of cryptographic protocols for protecting biometric data and discusses future research directions, such as decentralized architectures and encrypted biometric data.