Consortium
TENSOR brings together industrial partners with undisputed innovation capacity. A carefully handpicked group of academic, research and end-user organisations are actively contributing to the TENSOR vision.
Netcompany-Intrasoft
Netcompany-Intrasoft (previously known as INTRASOFT International) was founded in 1996 by Intracom Holdings and remained a member of it until October 2021. As of November 2021, Netcompany-Intrasoft became a member of the Netcompany Group, a Denmark-located IT company founded in 2000. Netcompany-Intrasoft is a leading European IT Solutions and Services Group with strong international presence and expertise, offering innovative and added-value solutions of the highest quality to a wide range of international and national public and private organizations. Netcompany-Intrasoft employs more than 2,800 highly skilled professionals, representing over 50 different nationalities and mastering more than 30 languages. With headquarters in Luxembourg, Netcompany-Intrasoft operates through its operational branches, subsidiaries and offices in 13 countries. More than 500 organizations in over 70 countries worldwide have chosen the company’s services and solutions to fulfill their business needs.
As the coordinating entity of the TENSOR project, the Netcompany-Intrasoft will ensure the effective communication and coordination among the project participants, managing the project’s resources, timelines, and deliverables, in line with the EU regulations. Additionally, having undertaken the role of the system integrator, Netcompany-Intrasoft will be responsible for efficiently combining the various TENSOR technologies under a unified platform. Finally, Netcompany-Intrasoft will lead the design and development of a Decision Support System (DSS) to provide privacy-enhanced and security-related recommendations for forensic institutes and law enforcement agencies.
WEBSITE: https://www.netcompany-intrasoft.com/
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/netcompany-intrasoft-sa/mycompany/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NetCo_Intra
Phonexia
Phonexia is specialized in speech technologies and machine learning associated with data mining from speech recording and voice biometrics. As provider of these technologies, Phonexia offers a wide technology portfolio covering speaker/gender/language identification, speech transcription, keyword spotting and associated commercial research and development. The company gained expertise in speaker recognition deployments in national security and national defense sector and voice forensic applications.
In the TENSOR project, Phonexia is responsible for voice biometrics set of technologies. Our experts will share 10+ years of experience in speech technologies integration and deployment, and 15+ years of experience in speech technologies research.
WEBSITE: https://www.phonexia.com
LINKEDIN: https://linkedin.com/company/phonexia
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/phonexia
Idemia
IDEMIA Identity & Security Germany AG (IDMG) is a 100% subsidiary of the globally operating IDEMIA corporation. Within the IDEMIA group, IDMG provides biometric technologies, products, and solutions that protect and secure personal identities and assets. At the location of Bochum, IDMG develops core technologies for live video screening and surveillance applications as well as a platform for forensic mass video data analytics. IDMG has strong expertise in the fields of biometrics and especially in 2D face recognition. The 2D face recognition technology developed at IDMG, belongs to the best performing ones, and in case of fairness according to NIST to the best performing de-biased solution worldwide.
In TENSOR, IDMG develops improved solutions for the re-identification of persons within and across videos. Re-identification is based here on the integral appearance of an individual as well as on dedicated extracted features like the gender or estimated age. The results will be coupled with the existing video analysis platform “Augmented Vision”, developed by IDMG, which is brought in as background into TENSOR.
WEBSITE: www.idemia.com
T3K.AI
T3K.AI brings artificial intelligence to digital forensics, developing unique AI solutions for automated analysis of mass data, to help simplify and speed up digital forensic investigations.
With a fingerprinting technology that only utilizes a standard smartphone camera, we also set out to make identification and identity verification smarter and easier.
LEAP, our Law Enforcement Analytical Platform, which provides high-speed, automated analytical analysis and reporting of forensic images of mobile devices such as smartphones, as well as of other seized digital data, saves considerable time and resources in critical situations and improves investigative quality.
Our second analytic solution CORE can be integrated with existing Forensic and eDiscovery toolkits, as well as into Cloud or other hosting platforms, or even internal corporation networks, where it scans and flags illicit contents, with unmatched throughput rates and accuracy.
Our BioCapture technology simplifies the identification of persons through biometric features and makes them accessible in-field, independent of hardware other than the user’s phone. For the purpose of the on-site identification, we enable LEAs to quickly and easily capture fingerprints with smartphone cameras in support of automated comparison with the central police systems (national and international databases).
WEBSITE: https://www.t3k.ai/
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/t3k-forensics/
Fujitsu
Fujitsu’s purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through
innovation. As the digital transformation partner of choice for customers in over 100 countries, our 124,000 employees work to resolve some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Our range of services and solutions draw on five key technologies: Computing, Networks, AI, Data & Security, and Converging Technologies, which we bring together to deliver sustainability transformation.
As a TENSOR partner Fujitsu has responsibilities in the Security-and-Privacy-by-Design Architecture, behavioral biometric technologies (e.g. gait detection) and the project’s standardization activities.
WEBSITE: www.fujitsu.com
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fujitsu/mycompany/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Fujitsu_Global?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Eticas
Eticas Tech is a pioneering organization whose mission is to protect people and the environment in technology processes, while also ensuring that all people have the right to benefit from technological advances without fear of discrimination or unfair treatment. We work to translate the principles that guide our societies (fairness, transparency, or non-discrimination) into technical specifications, and to strike a balance between evolving social values, technical possibilities and legal frameworks.We are global pioneers in auditing algorithms with social impact and have also worked on the data and privacy implications of other technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP), facial recognition or biometrics. In our work we seek to impact on the market incentives that shape technology development by developing ethics governance and oversight mechanisms for already developed technologies, develop and implement privacy and ethics by design solutions and processes and audit algorithms and other related AI systems to tackle bias, discrimination and negative impacts on vulnerable groups. We also support governments and institutions in developing ethical and responsible artificial intelligence tools and systems that use personal and sensitive data. Our approach is practical and accountable, and we are a trusted partner to pioneers who seek to innovate responsibly and ethically. We have worked for the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, OECD, and different branches of the UN.
WEBSITE: https://eticas.tech/
SquareDev
Squaredev is a Belgium-based SME focusing on AI systems and research. Our purpose is to use technology to improve peoples’ lives. We research artificial intelligence and build systems that provide actionable and explainable intelligence. Squaredev’s services can be applied in several domains such as e-health, financial, IoT and cybersecurity. Leveraging our expertise in Big Data Analytics, Graph Technologies and Machine Learning we empower our products with cutting-edge technology for guaranteed results and reliable decision making.
SQD will develop a library of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) tools to help security professionals understand the context and factors that influence AI results and suggestions, improving privacy and trust. Knowledge graphs will be utilized and evaluated with machine learning (ML) to improve decision-making and suggestion interpretability, which will be visualized on user interfaces built during the TENSOR project.
WEBSITE: https://squaredev.io/
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/squaredev/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thesquaredev
Quadible
Quadible is a cybersecurity scaleup with entities in Greece and in the UK, that helps organisations mitigate fraud, improve customer satisfaction and reduce cost through a unique continuous behavioural authentication. It is an AI-platform that continuously authenticate users, without the need for any user input, by learning their behavioural patterns. With much higher security and increased privacy, Quadible helps organisations tackle identity and financial fraud, account sharing and account takeover, and in the meantime creates a much better user experience as users do not have to do anything to authenticate.
QBE’s role is to provide a mechanism for identifying people involved in a crime scene based on their behavioural elements such as the way they use their devices, biometrics and others.
WEBSITE: https://www.quadible.co.uk
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quadible-ltd
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/quadible
Zitis
The Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS), established in 2017 by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, pools technical expertise in the cyber domain in order to support German security authorities as a service provider. ZITiS is part of the Cyber Security Strategy for Germany and actively engages in research and development focusing on solutions, methods, tools, and comprehensive strategies for improving domestic security. The agency’s tasks are based on the requirements of the security authorities and include the areas of digital forensics, lawful interception, cryptanalysis, and big data as well as technical aspects of fighting crime, countering threats, and countering espionage. In this context, ZITiS acts in both an advisory and a supporting capacity and is in constant dialogue with security authorities.
In TENSOR, ZITiS is responsible for planning three pilots while defining the scenarios for the demonstration and validation of the project services as well as the overall platform. Furthermore, ZITiS contributes to the definition of user needs and requirements, use case scenarios and KPIs regarding the TENSOR framework.
WEBSITE: https://www.zitis.bund.de/
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zitis/
Ianus Consulting
Delft University of Technology
Delft University of Technology (DUT) is one of the largest public technological universities in the Netherlands and has 5000 employees and 25,000 students. It is consistently ranked as the top university in the Netherlands, and it is among the top 20 in Engineering and Technology worldwide. The Cybersecurity Group conducts research and development into various topics, ranging from cryptography to data analytics, focusing on the innovation of cybersecurity technologies. We aim to make the digital world safer by furthering state-of-the-art computer science theories, algorithms, and implementations. We develop solutions that contribute to the very latest technology in the fields of computer security and artificial intelligence.
In relation to the project DUT contributes expertise in the field of computational privacy, including applied cryptography in cybersecurity and engineering. In privacy, we have developed advanced methods for encryption and data recovery with application in biometric data sharing.
WEBSITE: https://www.tudelft.nl/
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tudelft/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tudelft?lang=nl
Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas
The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), is a leading Research Centre in Greece and in the EU. It combines its unique research facilities and highly qualified research personnel, to transform scientific knowledge into innovative technological applications, aiming to strengthen the national economy and respond to the needs of society at national and international levels.
CERTH’s role as a Technical Coordinator of the TENSOR Horizon Europe Project, is to direct and manage the strategic project development, by applying best practices and well-established management methodologies, ensuring efficiency for the implementation of the technological innovations. Moreover, CERTH aspires through TENSOR to further conduct applied research with biometric authentication technologies and create the first European Biometric Dataspace, to allow practitioners and researchers in the field collaborate across borders and domains.
WEBSITE: www.certh.gr
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/certh/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/certhellas
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
The Institute of Computer Science (ICS) is one of the ten institutes of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), a major national research centre partly funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation of the Hellenic Ministry of Development and Investments. The mission of FORTH-ICS is to perform high quality basic and applied research, to promote education and training, and to contribute to the development of the Information Society, at a regional, national, and European level. Since its establishment in 1983, FORTH-ICS has had a long history and recognized tradition in conducting basic and applied research, and playing a leading role, in Greece and internationally, in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory of FORTH-ICS, founded in 1988 is an internationally recognized center of excellence that conducts pioneering basic and applied research in the design and development of interactive technologies, and more recently in Human-Centered Design of Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) technologies.
In the Tensor project, FORTH-ICS is responsible for delivering the “Large-scale Biometric Data Indexing” component, which is crucial for enabling efficient indexing and searching of biometric data at scale during the project’s pilot demonstration and validation activities.
WEBSITE: https://www.ics.forth.gr
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icsforth/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ICS_FORTH
General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Republic of Moldova
The General Police Inspectorate (GPI) is the administrative authority subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which ensures, in accordance with the law, the implementation of state policies in the field of maintaining, ensuring and restoring public order and security, protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the individuals and community, investigation and discovery of crimes and contraventions, administration of justice, providing assistance to the population and local, public, administration authorities.
Website: https://politia.md/
Ministry of Justice - Portuguese Criminal Police
Polícia Judiciária (PJ) Portuguese Criminal Police is the Portuguese higher criminal police body, hierarchically organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Justice. PJ’s mission consists on assisting the judicial and prosecuting authorities with investigations, by developing and promoting preventive, detection and investigative actions. As a criminal investigation police force, PJ has reserved competence for the investigation of serious and organized crime in general. Over the past few years PJ has accumulated experience by participating in several R&D projects under programs funded at European level (FP7, H2020, HEU) and at national level (PT2020). PJ participation in TENSOR arises from an end-user perspective for the technologies developed within the scope of the project, whether in the initial phase by expressing operational needs, providing functional and technical requirements and pointing out application cases for project tools. In the next phase, PJ has an important role by leading the pilot on biometric data protection and secure exchange in a cross-border scenario in which the deployment, evaluation and improvement of the TENSOR framework will take place in a collaboration exercise involving the remaining LEAs and technical partners within the consortium.
WEBSITE: https://www.policiajudiciaria.pt/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/PJudiciaria
Police of the Czech Republic
The Police of the Czech Republic is an armed security force established to serve the public. The objective of the Police of the Czech Republic is to protect the security of people, property and public order, to prevent criminal offences, to meet tasks stipulated by the Code of Criminal Procedure, and to carry out other duties pertaining to internal order and security vested in the Police of the Czech Republic by laws, legal regulations of the European Communities and international agreements which are part of the legal framework of the Czech Republic. PCR participation in TENSOR lies in leading the pilot on evidence collection through intelligence derived from correlated physiological and behavioural biometrics based on CCTV footage notably from the point of view of forensic science laboratories.
WEBSITE: https://www.policie.cz
Ministry of the Interior of Finland
The Ministry of the Interior of Finland is responsible for internal security and migration and forms part of the Government. The Ministry’s key tasks include law drafting as well as strategic planning and steering within its branch of government. The National Police Board, the Finnish Border Guard, the Finnish Immigration Service, the Emergency Response Centre Agency, the Emergency Services Academy Finland, the Crisis Management Centre Finland, and the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service operate under the Ministry of the Interior.
The Ministry of the Interior employs research and development staff and officials responsible for oversight of legality in the Ministry’s branch of government. The Ministry’s three key duties are: Preparing legislation concerning the police, rescue services, emergency response centre operations, border control, maritime search and rescue, and migration; Managing the performance of agencies and institutions in the Ministry’s branch of government; Dealing with international and EU affairs that fall within its remit. In TENSOR project, the Finnish Ministry of the Interior provides end-user (LEA) needs and insights to the project and is responsible for the pilot that concentrates on how to use biometric data in criminal investigations of mobile devices.
WEBSITE: The Ministry for internal security – Ministry of the Interior (intermin.fi)
LINKEDIN: Sisäministeriö – Inrikesministeriet – Ministry of the Interior, Finland | LinkedIn
TWITTER: Sisäministeriö (@Sisaministerio) / X (twitter.com)
Ubitech Limited
UBITECH is a software house and research institute with more than 150 employees specializing in 9 thematic areas and application domains, including networking, data management, and AI-based capabilities. The company’s involvement in various standardization activities such as TCG, ISO, and DIF demonstrates its commitment to staying up-to-date with industry standards and best practices. UBITECH’s involvement in the TENSOR project is crucial as our expertise in vulnerability analysis, trusted computing technologies, security and crypto enablers for privacy-preserving data sharing over policy-compliant blockchain infrastructures are highly relevant to the project. Our experience in these areas allows us to identify potential security risks, advance security research, and ensure the security and privacy of sensitive data in the development of the TENSOR project.
In terms of vulnerability analysis and exploitation of smartphones, UBITECH has a proven track record of successfully identifying access control mechanisms and potential attack vectors. By analyzing the various ways in which smartphones can be compromised, we can help to develop more secure and resilient solutions for the TENSOR project. Our expertise in trusted computing technologies, including trusted execution environments (TEEs) and trusted platform modules (TPMs), further enables us to investigate potential ways in which compromised hosts can target information leakage from trusted components. It is our dedication to stay at the forefront of digital security and develop cutting-edge technologies that can help protect against emerging threats is critical in today’s increasingly connected and complex digital landscape.
WEBSITE: https://ubitech.eu/
LINKEDIN: https://gr.linkedin.com/company/ubitech
Thridium Limited
Thridium (THR) helps businesses unveil and satisfy demand for digital transformation by providing consulting and development services that foster competitiveness and success. We get into the shoes of our customers to understand their business goals, their industry and their competition and design an innovative solution to meet their challenges. We provide cost-effective solutions to our customers within stipulated timelines without compromising on quality.
Thridium is focusing its activities on the design and development of the Blockchain mechanism that will act as the basis for distributed procedures for biometric data management, sharing and storage, leading the Distributed Biometrics Data Sharing Platform. In addition, Thridium is responsible for orchestrating the dissemination and communication activities of the project.
WEBSITE: http://www.thridium.com
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thridium
TWITTER: @thridium
Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research
The Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC) is a multidisciplinary, security-focused research centre at Sheffield Hallam University. We collaborate with research, government, industry and security stakeholders to address contemporary security challenges at the local, national and international levels. We are a diverse team of researchers, technology specialists and security experts focused on delivering tangible solutions for law enforcement and other security stakeholders. This combination makes CENTRIC uniquely placed to offer innovative applied research, professional expertise and training in the modern security environment. CENTRIC brings a wealth of experience in EU security projects and in TENSOR is specifically supporting the development of the user requirements and contributing to the implementation of the pilots and their validation.
WEBSITE: https://research.shu.ac.uk/centric/
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/centricresearch
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/centricresearch
