Ongoing Projects Title: Detecting Fraud in Facial Biometric Systems Type: R&D Contract with Veridas Funding: ca. 40 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: March 2022 - November 2022 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales Objectives:
- Research and Development of a software module able to detect presentation attacks to facial biometric systems (e.g., facial masks, printed faces, replay attacks) in accordance to NIST and ISO developments in this area.
Selected publications:
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, J. Fierrez, A. Morales and J. Galbally, "Introduction to Presentation Attack Detection in Face Biometrics and Recent Advances", in Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing, S. Marcel, J. Fierrez, N. Evans (Eds.), Springer, 2022. (3rd Ed., to appear) [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Galbally, S. Marcel and J. Fierrez, "Biometric Anti-spoofing Methods: A Survey in Face Recognition", IEEE Access, vol. 2, pp. 1530-1552, December 2014. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Galbally, S. Marcel and J. Fierrez, "Image Quality Assessment for Fake Biometric Detection: Application to Iris, Fingerprint and Face Recognition", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, February 2014. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset]
Web: https://veridas.com/ Finished Projects Title: Quality Measurement for Face Biometrics Type: R&D Contract with Veridas Funding: ca. 40 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: September 2020 - June 2021 Principal investigator(s): Julian FierrezObjectives:
- Research and Development of a software module able to measure facial biometric quality both as a single scalar measure that predicts the utility of the face input and as a vector or quality indicators in accordance to NIST developments in this area.
Selected publications:
- T. Schlett, C. Rathgeb, O. Henniger, J. Galbally, J. Fierrez and C. Busch, "Face Image Quality Assessment: A Literature Survey", ACM Computing Surveys, 2022. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, J. Fierrez, L. F. Gomez, A. Morales, J. L. Gonzalez-de-Suso and F. Zamora-Martinez, "FaceQvec: Vector Quality Assessment for Face Biometrics based on ISO Compliance", in IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVw), Waikoloa, HI, USA, January 2022. [PDF] [DOI] [Code] [Tech]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, J. Galbally, J. Fierrez, R. Haraksim and L. Beslay, "FaceQnet: Quality Assessment for Face Recognition based on Deep Learning", in Proc. IAPR Intl. Conf. on Biometrics, ICB, Crete, Greece, June 2019. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset]
Web: https://veridas.com/  Title: Biometrics and Behavior for Assessing Remote Education Type: R&D Commission funded by UAM Funding: ca. 30 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: October 2019 - December 2021 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales Objectives:
- Research and Development in biometrics for enabling remote assesment of e-learning sessions conducted in desktop computers with webcam, physical keyboard, and mouse.
Selected publications:
- R. Daza, D. DeAlcala, A. Morales, R. Tolosana, R. Cobos and J. Fierrez, "ALEBk: Feasibility Study of Attention Level Estimation via Blink Detection applied to e-Learning", in AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Education (AI4EDU), Vancouver, Canada, February 2022. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, R. Daza, A. Morales, Julian Fierrez and R. Tolosana, "Heart Rate Estimation from Face Videos for Student Assessment: Experiments on edBB", in IEEE Conf. on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), Madrid, Spain, July 2020. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, R. Daza, A. Morales, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "edBB: Biometrics and Behavior for Assessing Remote Education", in AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Education (AI4EDU), New York, USA, February 2020. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset]
 Title: Mobile User Monitoring from Heterogeneous Biometric Data Type: Competitive Research Grant, BBVA Foundation Funding: ca. 100 Keuros Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: September 2018 - August 2020 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- To explore new mobile continuous monitoring schemes based on the ensemble of heterogeneous data generated from the interaction between human and devices.
- The study of novel continuous trustworthy metrics developed specifically for mobile scenarios.
- The study of new combination methods to exploit the discriminative ability of patterns from multiple sources of information.
Selected publications:
- R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "BioTouchPass2: Touchscreen Password Biometrics Using Time-Aligned Recurrent Neural Networks", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp. 2616-2628, 2020. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset] [Tech]
- A. Morales, A. Acien, J. Fierrez, J. V. Monaco, R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Keystroke Biometrics in Response to Fake News Propagation in a Global Pandemic", in IEEE Intl. Workshop on Secure Digital Identity Management (SDIM), Madrid, Spain, July 2020. [PDF] [DOI]
- A. Acien, A. Morales, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez and O. Delgado, "Smartphone Sensors For Modeling Human-Computer Interaction: General Outlook And Research Datasets For User Authentication", in IEEE Intl. Workshop on Consumer Devices and Systems (CDS), Madrid, Spain, July 2020. [PDF] [DOI]
Web: https://www.fbbva.es/ayudas/ayudas-equipos-investigacion-cientifica-big-data-2017/ Title: Advanced Analytics Type: Technical Support Contract with Accenture Funding: ca. 80 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: February 2017 - January 2021 Principal investigator(s): Julian FierrezObjectives:
- Technical support in advanced analytics including text, image, and video inputs.
Selected publications:
- A. Peña, I. Serna, A. Morales and J. Fierrez, "Bias in Multimodal AI: Testbed for Fair Automatic Recruitment", in IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRw), Seattle, USA, June 2020. [PDF] [DOI]
- I. Serna, A. Morales, J. Fierrez, M. Cebrian, N. Obradovich and I. Rahwan, "Algorithmic Discrimination: Formulation and Exploration in Deep Learning-based Face Biometrics", in AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety (SafeAI), New York, USA, February 2020. [PDF] [DOI]
Web: https://www.accenture.com/  Title: Characterization of Neuro-Degenerative Disorders with new Biomarkers Type: Competitive Research Grant (UAM-CEAL), Banco Santander Code: CEAL-AL/2017-13 Funding: 12.5 Keuros Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: July 2017 - December 2018 Principal investigator(s): Aythami Morales Objectives:
- To study new biomarkers for monitoring neuro-degenerative disorders.
- To foster research collaborations between Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).
Selected publications:
- R. Castrillon, A. Acien, J. Orozco-Arroyave, A. Morales, J. Vargas, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia and A. Villegas, "Characterization of the Handwriting Skills as a Biomarker for Parkinson Disease", in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Lille, France, May 2019. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, J. Fierrez, E. Gonzalez-Sosa and A. Morales, "Continuous Presentation Attack Detection in Face Biometrics based on Heart Rate", X. Bai et al. (Eds.) in Video Analytics. Face and Facial Expression Recognition, LNCS, Springer, vol. 11264, April 2019. [PDF] [DOI]
Web: https://goo.gl/BCyF6y  Title: Cognitive Analytics for Biometric Signature Authentication in Banking Scenarios Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank Funding: ca. 40 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: October 2016 - September 2020 Principal investigator(s): Julian FierrezObjectives:
- Research and Development in biometrics for improving the security and the user experience in banking applications at bank branches, remotely using desktop computing, and in mobile scenarios using smartphones.
Selected publications:
- R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez and J. Fierrez, "BioTouchPass: Handwritten Passwords for Touchscreen Biometrics", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1532-1543, July 2020. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset] [Tech]
- R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, A. Morales and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Do You Need More Data? The DeepSignDB On-line Handwritten Signature Biometric Database", in IAPR Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Sydney, Australia, September 2019, pp. 1143-1148. [PDF] [DOI]
- R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, A. Morales and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Benchmarking Desktop and Mobile Handwriting across COTS Devices: the e-BioSign Biometric Database", PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. e0176792, May 2017. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset]
Web: https://www.eng.cecabank.es/  Title: e-BioSign: Improvement of Signature Comparison Technology Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank Funding: ca. 100 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: April 2014 - May 2016 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Transfer of signature biometrics technology, including the development of an SDK to be integrated in Ceca systems.
- Development of methods and tools to enable the forensic comparison of dynamic signatures, under the same principles followed by forensic experts when comparing signature images.
Selected publications:
- R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, A. Morales and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Benchmarking Desktop and Mobile Handwriting across COTS Devices: the e-BioSign Biometric Database", PLOS ONE, Vol. 5, n. 12, 2017. [PDF]
- R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Dynamic Signatures as Forensic Evidence: A New Expert Tool Including Population Statistics", Massimo Tistarelli and Christophe Champod (Eds.), Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science, Springer, pp. 329-349, 2017. [PDF]
- R. Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Ortega-Garcia and J. Fierrez, "Preprocessing and Feature Selection for Improved Sensor Interoperability in Online Biometric Signature Verification", IEEE Access, Vol. 3, pp. 478 - 489, May 2015. [PDF] [DOI]
Web: https://www.eng.cecabank.es/  Title: Face Recognition at a Distance with Application to Forensics Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, Direccion General de la Guardia Civil Funding: ca. 30 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2012 - December 2012 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Technical support and development of software tools for improving facial comparisons.
- Scientific evidence on the discriminant power of various facial regions.
- Error analysis when manually marking landmarks before facial comparisons.
Selected publications:
- P. Tome, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Facial Soft Biometric Features for Forensic Face Recognition", Forensic Science International, Vol. 257, pp. 171-284, December 2015. [PDF] [DOI]
- P. Tome, J. Fierrez, R. Vera-Rodriguez and D. Ramos, "Identification using Face Regions: Application and Assessment in Forensic Scenarios", Forensic Science International, n. 233, pp. 75-83, 2013. [PDF] [DOI]
- R. Vera-Rodriguez, P. Tome, J. Fierrez, N. Exposito and F. J. Vega, "Analysis of the Variability of Facial Landmarks in a Forensic Scenario", in Proc. International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, pp. 1-4, 2013. [PDF]
[DOI]
- P. Tome, L. Blazquez, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, N. Exposito and P. Leston, "Understanding the Discrimination Power of Facial Regions in Forensic Casework", in Proc. International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, 2013. [PDF]
[DOI]
Web: http://www.guardiacivil.es/en/ Title: Signature Biometrics for Smartphones Type: R&D Contract with Sigma Technologies S.L. (now Sigma Technologies Global), Neotec program from CDTI Funding: ca. 100 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: December 2011 - May 2012 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Development of an SDK for signature biometrics for desktop and mobile scenarios.
Selected publications:
- M. Martinez-Diaz and J. Fierrez, "Signature Databases and Evaluation", Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, pp. 1367-1375, 2015. [DOI]
- M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez and S. Hangai, "Signature Features", Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, pp. 1375-1382, 2015. [DOI]
- M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez and S. Hangai, "Signature Matching", Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, pp. 1382-1387, 2015. [DOI]
Web: https://www.sigma-ai.com/ Title: Catedra UAM-Telefonica Type: R&D Contract with Telefonica International Funding: ca. 100 Keuros Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2010 - December 2014 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- R&D in biometrics for secure authentication.
- Various dissemination actions at university level to promote science & technology with application to the areas of interest of Telefonica.
Selected publications:
- J. Siguenza, J. Fierrez, UAM Summer School: The New Digital Civilization in Rural Areas, Alcazar de San Juan, Spain, July 2010. [Program, which included the participation of Telefonica CEO]
Web: https://goo.gl/khGN5p  Title: Technical Support for Common Criteria Developments Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of Defense, National Cryptographic Center Funding: ca. 35 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2010 - December 2011 Principal investigator(s): Julian FierrezObjectives:
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Technical support for Common Criteria developments, including: i) development of guidelines and best practices for performance and security evaluation of biometric systems, and ii) performance and security evaluation of various biometric systems.
Selected publications:
- A. Hadid, N. Evans, S. Marcel and J. Fierrez, "Biometrics Systems under Spoofing Attack: An Evaluation Methodology and Lessons Learned", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Biometric Security and Privacy, Vol. 32, n. 5, pp. 20-30, September 2015. [PDF] [DOI]
- M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez, J. Galbally and J. Ortega-Garcia, "An evaluation of indirect attacks and countermeasures in fingerprint verification systems", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 32, pp. 1643-1651, September 2011. [PDF]
[DOI]
- J. Galbally, J. Fierrez, F. Alonso-Fernandez and M. Martinez-Diaz, "Evaluation of Direct Attacks to Fingerprint Verification Systems", Telecommunication Systems, Special Issue on Biometrics, Vol. 47, n. 3, pp. 243-254, January 2011. [PDF]
[DOI]
Web: https://www.ccn.cni.es/  Title: Biografo 2.0: Automatic Writer Recognition Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, Direccion General de la Guardia Civil Funding: ca. 60 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2009 - December 2011 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Development of a semi-automatic writer identification system: Biografo 2.0.
- Generation of a handwritten character database according to typical forensic scenarios to evaluate Biografo 2.0.
Selected publications:
- J. Galbally, S. Gonzalez-Dominguez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Biografo: An Integrated Tool for Forensic Writer Identification", in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Computational Forensics, Springer LNCS-8915, pp. 200-211, November 2015. [PDF]
[DOI]
- R. Fernandez-de-Sevilla, F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Forensic Writer Identification Using Allographic Features", in IAPR Proc. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, November 2010. [PDF]
Web: http://www.guardiacivil.es/en/  Title: Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems for Forensic Evidence Evaluation Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, Direccion General de la Guardia Civil Funding: ca. 100 Keuros Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2009 - December 2011 Principal investigator(s): Daniel Ramos and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Research in fingerprint and palmprint biometrics with application to forensics.
- Evaluation of the Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) currently in use by the DGGC.
- Development of guidelines and tools for better exploitation of AFIS results in forensic reports.
Selected publications:
- D. Ramos, R. P. Krish, J. Fierrez and D. Meuwly, "From Biometric Scores to Forensic Likelihood Ratios", Massimo Tistarelli and Christophe Champod (Eds.), Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science, Springer, pp. 305-327, 2017. [PDF]
[DOI]
- R. P. Krish, J. Fierrez, D. Ramos, J. Ortega-Garcia and J. Bigun, "Pre-Registration of Latent Fingerprints based on Orientation Field", IET Biometrics, Vol. 4, pp. 42-52, June 2015. [PDF]
[DOI]
- R. Wang, D. Ramos, R. Veldhuis, J. Fierrez, L. Spreeuwers and H. Xu, "Regional Fusion for High-Resolution Palmprint Recognition Using Spectral Minutiae Representation", IET Biometrics, Vol. 3, pp. 94-100, June 2014. [PDF] [DOI]
- M. Puertas, D. Ramos, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia and N. Exposito, "Towards a Better Understanding of the Performance of Latent Fingerprint Recognition in Realistic Forensic Conditions", in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010, pp. 1638 -1641, August 2010. [PDF] [DOI]
Web: http://www.guardiacivil.es/en/  Title: Technical Support for Common Criteria Developments Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of Defense, National Cryptographic Center Funding: ca. 75 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2008 - December 2009 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Technical support for Common Criteria developments, including: i) development of guidelines and best practices for performance and security evaluation of biometric systems, and ii) performance and security evaluation of various biometric systems.
Selected publications:
- A. Hadid, N. Evans, S. Marcel and J. Fierrez, "Biometrics Systems under Spoofing Attack: An Evaluation Methodology and Lessons Learned", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Biometric Security and Privacy, Vol. 32, n. 5, pp. 20-30, September 2015. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Galbally, R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, G. Gonzalez-de-Rivera, D. Maltoni, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia and D. Maio, "An Evaluation of Direct Attacks Using Fake Fingers Generated from ISO Templates", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 31, n. 8, pp. 725-732, June 2010. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Galbally, C. McCool, J. Fierrez, S. Marcel and J. Ortega-Garcia, "On the Vulnerability of Face Verification Systems to Hill-Climbing Attacks", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 43, n. 3, pp. 1027-1038, March 2010. [PDF] [DOI]
Web: https://www.ccn.cni.es/ Title: Mulfi-Factor Identification, Recognition, and Authentication (PIRAMID) Type: R&D Contract with Mina Software, S.L. (later on evolved to Eleven Paths, a part of the Telefonica group) Funding: ca. 35 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: April 2007 - October 2008 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Development of an SDK for information fusion.
Selected publications:
- J. Fierrez, A. Morales, R. Vera-Rodriguez and D. Camacho, "Multiple Classifiers in Biometrics. Part 1: Fundamentals and Review", Information Fusion, Vol. 44, pp. 57-64, November 2018. [PDF]
[DOI]
Web: https://www.elevenpaths.com/  Title: Speaker and Language Recognition Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of Defense Funding: ca. 400 Keuros Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2004 - December 2008 Principal investigator(s): Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Selected publications:
- A. Harriero, D. Ramos, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez and J. Fierrez, "Analysis of the Utility of Classical and Novel Speech Quality Measures for Speaker Verification", in Proceedings of International Conference on Biometrics, Springer LNCS-5558, pp. 434-442, June 2009. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. Ramos-Castro, D. Torre-Toledano, A. Montero-Asenjo, J. Gonzalez-Dominguez, I. Lopez-Moreno, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, D. Garcia-Romero and J. Ortega-Garcia, "On the use of high-level information for speaker recognition: the ATVS-UAM system at NIST SRE 2005", IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 22, n. 1, pp. 15 - 21, January 2007. [PDF]
- D. Ramos-Castro, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Speaker Verification using Speaker- and Test-dependent Fast Score Normalization", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 28, pp. 90-98, January 2007. [PDF]
- D. Garcia-Romero, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Using quality measures for multilevel speaker recognition", Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 20, n. 2, pp. 192-209, April-July 2006. [PDF]
[DOI]
Title: Signature Biometrics on Tablet PC Type: R&D Contract with BBVA bank Funding: ca. 60 Keuros Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: October 2004 - May 2005 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez Objectives:
- Development of a prototype for signature authentication (login) on Tablet PC.
Selected publications:
- J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "On-line Signature Verification", A. K. Jain, A. Ross and P.Flynn (Eds.), Handbook of Biometrics, Springer, pp. 189-209, 2008. [PDF]
[DOI]
- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "Secure Access System using Signature Verification over Tablet PC", IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 22, n. 4, pp. 3-8, April 2007. [PDF]
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