Face Matters

Image beautification, changes made to make us look better, is a challenge for biometric recognition. Philipp Srock is a student at NTNU Gjøvik, researching beautification and how biometric models can handle it. In this episode Philipp and Brage discuss these challenges, and what it means for digital identification, border control and other parts of society.

In this episode, we dive a bit deeper into the use of biometrics. Together with two of Mobai's researchers, Hassan Askary and Tawsin Uddin Ahmed, Brage talks about deepfake detection, and something called inject attacks, which is various types of attacks against identity systems.One of the challenges is staying ahead of the bad guys, who try to outsmart the biometric systems.- This is an arms race, it's a cat and mouse chase. You make a better detector, they make a better generator. So we have to keep ahead. We have to keep evolving and countering new threats.

Bhanu Shrestha works with face morphing at NTNU Gjøvik. In this episode, Bhanu explains what face morphing is, how it is used for identity fraud and how we are working to combat is. Bhanu focuses at the interface between human cognition and artificial intelligence, and his research show some surprising results when it comes to humans detecting deepfakes. He also explains how the bad guys are using clever techniques to fool the detecting systems.

Marte Kjørven er professor på Universitetet i Oslo, og leder et prosjekt som forsker på hvordan jus og teknologi kan virke sammen for å avdekke og redusere sårbarheter knyttet til bruk og misbruk av systemer for elektronisk identitet.I denne episoden tar Marte opp en del kjente problemstillinger som oppstår når hverdagen vår digitaliseres, deler noen av prosjektets erfaringer med identitetsbasert svindel, og hva vi kan gjøre for å redusere konsekvensene for ofrene og for samfunnet.

Cecilie Fjellhøy was the victim of a fraudster, who stole £200 000 from her. Netflix told her story in the movie The Tinder Swindler. Today Cecilie is using her experience to help other fraud victims, and has co-founded the organization LoveSaid.In this episode Cecilie talks about her experiences, and discusses how to handle fraud cases in a better way.

Mr. Abdullah Elbi is a qualified lawyer, certified data protection officer and a legal researcher at KU Leuven, a university i Belgium. He is an expert on privacy matters, and has worked with The Norwegian Data Protection Authority on AI privacy.In this episode Mr. Elbi and Brage Strand from Mobai discusses how privacy regulations impact development of biometric solutions specifically, and AI in general.

Nikolai Astrup var Norges første digitaliseringsminister. I denne episoden prater vi med Nikolai om hvordan politikerne kan bidra til at det blir enklere for norske virksomheter å utnytte ny teknologi. Nikolai deler også noen tanker om hva han mener politikerne må fokusere på i fremtiden.

Teknologiekspert Torgeir Waterhouse er gjest i dagens episode. Han snakker med daglig leder i Mobai, Brage Strand, om hvordan norske virksomheter kan utnytte mulighetene ved kunstig intelligens.