European Biometrics Research Award 2014 to Laurent El-Shafey
On 10 September 2014 the jury of the 8th European Biometrics Research and Industry Award has selected the three laureates of the 2014 edition of this prestigious competition.
The winner of the European Biometrics Research Award is Laurent El-Shafey from the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland) for his thesis “Scalable Probabilistic Models: Applied to Face Identification in the Wild”.
Patrizio Campisi, Chairman of the award and full professor at the
Department of Applied Electronics at the Università degli Studi "Roma
TRE" (Rome, Italy) says about the 2014 edition: “It is great to see so
such high level presentations and excellent motivations by the three
finalists. This benefits the dynamics and quality of biometrics research
in Europe”.
More information about the finalists presentations and papers is available on the EAB website: