Panel: How do we fight next-generation Deepfakes? - à CimArk
Speakers
Senior Member of the Research Staff • Idiap Research Institute
Prof Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Senior member) is a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland), he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes) and template protection. He is also Professor at the University de Lausanne (UNIL) at the School of Criminal Justice and lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received his Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in France (2000) at CNET, the research center of France Telecom (now Orange Labs). He is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing, which conducts certifications of biometric products. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics and Identity Science. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security Special Issue on “Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures”, and Co-editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on “Biometric Security and Privacy”. He is also the lead Editor of the Springer Handbook of Biometrics Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1, 2 and 3).
CEO & Co-founder • Brightside
Andrey studied Electronics & Computer Science at QMUL, London, and holds a Masters Degree in Big Data Science. As the Co-founder & CEO of BRIGHTSIDE (a company within the Trust Valley ecosystem), he is dedicated to helping businesses and their employees combat fraud and social engineering, which has become increasingly problematic with the rise of generative AI. Andrey's passion for understanding how AI and humans can coexist in balance drives his work and fuels his commitment to addressing the challenges posed by the evolving technological landscape.