AutoBorder takes part in two events of the Darmstadt Biometrics Week 2026: the EABxCERIS event on 15 September, where the project joins the Interactive Project Showcase, and the EAB Research Projects Conference on 16–17 September, where Eleftheria Katsoura (CERTH/ITI) presents the project's approach to in-vehicle biometric identification.
Darmstadt Biometrics Week gathers three events over four days at Fraunhofer IGD, convened by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), an AutoBorder consortium partner. It opens on Monday 14 September with the workshop of the German Biometrics Working Group of TeleTrusT, held in cooperation with EAB. AutoBorder does not contribute to this session, which is held mainly in German and focuses on deployed applications, standardisation and regulatory perspectives in Germany.
EABxCERIS — Biometrics Under Pressure: Reliable Identity in Complex Operational Environments
Tuesday 15 September
The second EABxCERIS edition, organised by EAB with the European Commission under the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security. It widens the scope of the first edition beyond border management to include the fight against crime and terrorism and disaster resilient societies. The programme opens with reality-check interventions on shared challenges across the three domains, followed by the Interactive Project Showcase and four parallel deep-dive sessions (biometrics in degraded environments, speed versus accuracy versus legal constraints, multisource and multimodal identity, and human factors and trust) each producing a shortlist of challenges, R&I needs and recommendations for future programmes. The day closes with a demo session.
AutoBorder will be presented during the the Interactive Project Showcase at 14:00. The session format is short and dynamic: the problem a project addresses, the operational context it works in, and the lessons of its early phases. AutoBorder presents the throughput problem at maritime and land borders, where traffic arrives unannounced and current transaction times run to tens of minutes per vehicle; the operational conditions at the crossing points involved in the project; and what the requirements phase surfaced about designing identification for a cabin environment that is neither attended nor supervised.
Attendance is free of charge, registration required.
EAB Research Projects Conference 2026
Wednesday 16 – Thursday 17 September
The thirteenth EAB-RPC, organised by EAB with the Joint Research Centre and the support of DG HOME and Fraunhofer IGD. It is the largest European forum on EU-funded research in biometrics and identity management. This edition brings together Horizon Europe and national research projects with featured speakers from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, eu-LISA and the Canada Border Services Agency, and a panel on standards development roadmaps in EU-funded projects.
Eleftheria Katsoura (CERTH/ITI) will present AutoBorder in an intervetion called “Inside the Cabin: AutoBorder's Approach to In-Vehicle Biometric Identification at Maritime and Land Borders”, on Thursday 17 September at 13:50, in a project session shared with other Horizon Europe funded project such as PopEye, PRIVIDEMA and SafeTravellers.
The presentation introduces what makes AutoBorder's setting distinctive for a research audience, sets out where the project stands after its first year of requirements, architecture and data collection work, and puts its open problems to the room. It closes on the wider cluster of EU projects working towards stopless border crossing, opening the discussion for strengthening synergies.
Practical information
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Fraunhoferstraße 5, 64283 Darmstadt.
A single registration covers the week. Programmes: EABxCERIS · EAB Research Projects Conference 2026