Publications related to Border control

Improving the understanding of mobility in cross-border areas using a pooled travel survey

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Philippe Gerber

Understanding mobility behaviour in cross-border regions is a major challenge for transport policies and the wellbeing of people living near national borders. However, the available relevant information is often limited to a collection of unharmonized nati ...

Springer2024

Dispassionate Borders: Common Patterns of Belonging in European Cross-Border Regions

Alexis Gumy, Ander Audikana Arriola, Garance Clément

Cross-border regions are seen as specific spaces where both cosmopolitanism and nationalistic attitudes can spread. It is commonly argued that due to the physical proximity to a neighbouring country, the development of cross-border encounters and interacti ...

2023

La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens

Alexis Gumy

At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...

EPFL2023

City, State, Transnational Space

Garance Clément

This chapter takes stock of contemporary migration by breaking with a few myths and by distinguishing between interregional and international migration. It shows how new research paradigms have relativized the importance of the state as the preferred frame ...

ISTE Wiley2023

First-principles study of the gap in the spin excitation spectrum of the CrI3 honeycomb ferromagnet

Iurii Timrov

The nature of the gap observed at the zone border in the spin excitation spectrum of CrI3 quasitwo-dimensional single crystals is still controversial. We perform first-principles calculations based on time-dependent density functional perturbation theory, ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?

Sébastien Marcel, Eklavya Sarkar, Laurent Colbois

Morphing attacks are a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or access control ...

IEEE2022

More than a border effect. Ordinary politicization and struggles of belonging in a Swiss border municipality

Alexis Gumy, Garance Clément

Can living near a national border have an effect on the politicization of individuals? To answer this question, this article challenges the results put forward by some European Border Studies scholars granting the border a major role in the construction of ...

DE BOECK UNIV2021

Trustworthy Face Recognition: Improving Generalization of Deep Face Presentation Attack Detection

Amir Mohammadi

The extremely high recognition accuracy achieved by modern, convolutional neural network (CNN) based face recognition (FR) systems has contributed significantly to the adoption of such systems in a variety of applications, from mundane activities like unlo ...

EPFL2020

Crossing the border everyday: a rhythmic perspective

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

With the dynamics of employment growth in Luxembourg, more and more workers cross the border every day to get to their workplaces. This article proposes to study the daily lives of these cross-border workers by analysing their daily activity programmes bas ...

2019

Learning How To Recognize Faces In Heterogeneous Environments

Tiago De Freitas Pereira

Face recognition is a mature field in biometrics in which several systems have been proposed over the last three decades. Such systems are extremely reliable under controlled recording conditions and it has been deployed in the field in critical tasks, suc ...

EPFL2019

Measuring Functional Integration by Identifying the Trip Chains and the Profiles of Cross-Border Workers: Empirical Evidences from Luxembourg

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Philippe Gerber

The number of cross-border workers in Luxembourg has steadily increased over the last 30 years. In the collective imagination these cross-border workers come to the Grand Duchy just to work. This paper challenges this representation by measuring the functi ...

2018

Quantifying the Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union

Unemployment differentials are bigger in Europe than in the United States. Migration responds to unemployment differentials, though the response is smaller in Europe. Mundell (1961) argued that factor mobility is a precondition for a successful currency un ...

2018

Cross-Border Life in Europe: Daily Mobility in the Trinational Metropolis of Basel

Yann Francis Eric Dubois

In Europe about 2 million people work and live in two different countries. While at the European scale cross-border workers only account for a limited portion of the working-age population, in some regions cross-border work takes a huge importance. In thes ...

2017

Les frontières au quotidien? Modes de vie dans l'agglomération trinationale de Bâle

Yann Francis Eric Dubois

The gradual opening of borders, which occurred over the past few decades have dramatically altered their role and function. Although these evolutions were not uniform, they have enabled the development of cross-border regions, which are characterized by a ...

EPFL2017

Exploiting Long-Term Connectivity and Visual Motion in CRF-based Multi-Person Tracking

Jean-Marc Odobez, Alexandre Heili

We present a conditional random field approach to tracking-by-detection in which we model pairwise factors linking pairs of detections and their hidden labels, as well as higher order potentials defined in terms of label costs. To the contrary of previous ...

2014

Typologie des espaces-frontière à l'heure de la globalisation

Martin Schuler

The essay is a contribution to the theory of border effects, offering a synthetic view in the form of a typology. It thematizes the changing nature of the role of borders and their spatial impact: from contiguous territories of traditional boundaries to th ...

2013

On the Fairness of Large CSMA Networks

Patrick Thiran, Olivier Dousse, Mathilde Durvy

We characterize the fairness of decentralized medium access control protocols based on CSMA/CA, such as IEEE 802.11, in large multi-hop wireless networks. In particular, we show that the widely observed unfairness of the protocol in small network topologie ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009