Renée Ong-de Jong joined the legal department of the National Office for Identity Data, a specialised agency of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, in 2003.
In 2012, she moved to the Ministry’s Research & Development department, where she became an Advisor on Travel Documents and is responsible for the physical features of these documents.
Renée is actively involved in ICAO’s Implementation and Capacity Building Working Group and leads its Information & Communications sub-working group. Since 2020 she participates as Workpackage leader in the EU research project image Manipulation Attack Resolving Solutions ‘iMARS’.
This presentation provides an update. The main goal of iMARS is to develop tools to detect manipulated face images, in particular morphed face images in the identity document life cycle and verify the authenticity of identity documents, as well as ensuring that European passports including morphed or otherwise manipulated images can no longer be issued within the European Union.