Idiap, EC Joint Research Centre to experiment on BEAT platform. | Planet Biometrics News

"A license agreement has been signed between the Idiap Research Institute and the EC’s Joint Research Center to experiment on the BEAT platform. The BEAT platform is a European computing e-infrastructure for Open Science proposing a solution for open access, scientific information sharing and re-use including data and source code while protecting privacy and confidentiality. It allows easy online access to experimentation and testing in computational science. The platform also provides an attestation mechanism for reports such as scientific papers, technical documents or certifications. The platform can be used for biometric testing and performance characterization of biometric systems. The Idiap Research Institute, based in Martigny (Valais/Switzerland), is a non-profit foundation that conducts basic research and development in the area of multimedia information management. Meanwhile the EC’s Joint Research Center is the European Commission's in-house science service. Sébastien Marcel the coordinator of the BEAT project at Idiap: “We are excited by this first licence agreement and to have such an institution like JRC to test and possibly deploy our BEAT platform on their data”.