Border control is one of the primary tasks of the Federal Police. Being able to identify persons and determine a unique match between them and their documents is an important part of this task. Biometrics can be a useful tool to help us carry out this task in the future. 1 Security architecture in Europe The security architecture in Europe, which is characterised by shared external borders for ...

Areas V1 and V2 of the visual cortex have traditionally been conceived as stages of local feature representations. We investigated whether neural responses carry information about how local features belong to objects. Single-cell activity was recorded in areas V1, V2, and V4 of awake behaving monkeys. Displays were used in which the same local feature (contrast edge or line) could be presented ...