Over 80 participants from 30 countries recently attended the second International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) held at the University’s Valletta campus.

It included sessions on forensic fingerprint identification, biometric analysis of crime scene traces and their interpretation including palmprints, audio biometrics for forensic examination including speaker recognition and physical biometrics for forensic examination including iris recognition and gait.

Outstanding researchers of biometrics and forensics as well as practitioners and students took part.

It was organised by the European Co-operation in Science and Technology (Cost) action Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in collaboration with the Malta Council for Science and Technology, the University and the Malta police force.

The proceedings will be made available on IEEE Xplore.

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