05 May 2020
"Morphing" is a process by which photographs of two individuals can be merged in order to create a new image that can, potentially, be used by either of those individuals to pass through biometric control checkpoints.
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"The International Conference on Biometrics for Borders 2019 brought together experts and stakeholders from a variety of institutions from different disciplines, covering legislators, border management authorities, academia, NGOs and Industry Associations, and from different geographies including the EU (both Commission and Member States), the United States and Australia. Despite their diversity they all shared an interest in the application of biometric technologies and solutions at borders.
The main purpose of the conference was to facilitate knowledge transfer and dialogue among the various stakeholders, as well as to summarise the key opportunities and challenges that biometric solutions at the border face both now and in the near future. As an example of a challenge the conference also looked in more detail into the threat to security potentially posed by morphing and discussed the latest updates on the status of potential morphing attack detection solutions."
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