🌍 About the Challenge

Participate in BioHack 3D and take on the challenge of designing AI-assisted authentication schemes for 3D-printed QR codes and melt-electrowritten fingerprints. Thanks to the stochastic nature of their fabrication, every print is physically unclonable, making them ideal for securing biochips and biomedical devices.

Your task:

• Work with datasets of fingerprints and QR codes provided by organizers
   
• Develop matching algorithms using minutiae point extraction, deep feature embeddings, and computer vision
   
• Propose robust authentication frameworks capable of resisting:
  counterfeiting, overbuilding, intellectual property theft and piracy, reverse engineering, and tampering

Have your solutions evaluated by a panel of experts in AI, 3D printing, and biochip cyber-physical systems’ security

💡 Why BioHack 3D Matters

Biochips (lab-on-a-chip devices) are vital for diagnostics, drug discovery, and point-of-care testing. But their supply chain is vulnerable to multiple threats. Developing unclonable authentication schemes ensures secure, tamper-proof, and trustworthy deployment of these critical technologies.

By competing in BioHACK3D at CSAW'25, you’ll get a chance to learn about novel 3D-printed QR codes and melt-electrowritten fingerprints for biochip and biomedical device authentication.

Work at the exciting intersection of AI, 3D printing, and cybersecurity using the provided dataset to build your own DL-based authentication schemes as well as traditional minutiae point–based matching algorithms.