On February 13, 2026, Lukás Pleva successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled „Evaluation of multi-modal biometric authentication in multi-party computation“.
Valentina Fohr successfully defended her Masters thesis
On January 22, 2026, Valentina Fohr successfully defended her MSc thesis entitled „Security and Performance Evaluation of Biometric Fusion in
EAB-Award 2025 for Mathias Ibsen
End of September the European Association for Biometrics organised the nineteenth European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research, and Industry Awards. https://eab.org/award/cfp.html
Maximilian Russo successfully defended his Bachelor thesis
On September 24, 2025, Maximilian Russo successfully defended his BSc thesis entitled „Multi-Instanz-Ansatz zur Dimensionalitätsreduktion DNN-extrahierter Fingerabdrucksmerkmale“. Abstract: Ongoing digitalization
Best Poster Awards for da/sec
The da/sec group has been honoured with the prestigious Best Poster Award in the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)
Visit by Arun Ross from Michigan State University
On August 19, Arun Ross from Michigan State University visited the da/sec research team in Darmstadt. Arun’s visit included a
da/sec paper one of the most Downloaded IEEE-TIFS
‚Congratulations! Your work ‚Synthetic ID Card Image Generation for Improving Presentation Attack Detection‘ has been identified as being one of the
Hans Heje successfully defended his Master thesis
On June 30, 2025, Hans Heje successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled „Vision Language Models for Presentation Attack Detection„. Abstract:
Preis für die Beste HAW Promotion für Mathias Ibsen
Dr. rer. nat. Mathias Ibsen erhielt für seine Promotion am Promotionszentrum für Angewandte Informatik an der Hochschule Darmstadt ebenfalls den
New Open Access Publication: MCLFIQ
MCLFIQ: Fingerprint Image Quality, the first quality assessment algorithm for mobile contactless fingerprint samples. To this end, we re- trained