Ongoing Projects Title: Biometrics and Behavior for Unbiased and Trustworthy AI with Applications Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: PID2021-127641OB-I00 Funding: ca. 273 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid and Univ. Politecnica de Madrid Period: January 2022 - December 2024 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales Objectives:
- Develop new methods for measuring and combating biases in multimodal AI frameworks: 1) bias-preventing AI solutions that can be generalized to the most popular data-driven learning architectures; 2) algorithms for generating balanced and unbiased datasets; 3) extend the bias analysis studies towards explainable AI (XAI).
- Develop new methods for improving the trust in multimodal AI systems by integrating the developments related to Objective 1 (around biases and XAI) with two other developments in secure and privacy-preserving AI: 1) privacy-preserving and secure AI in network computing (including Distributed Ledger Technologies and Federated Learning); and 2) attacks to networked AI systems and countermeasures.
- Develop core technologies (enhanced multimodal biometrics) in four case studies: 1) Labor Market; 2) Education; 3) Health; and 4) Media Analysis.
- Technical cooperation with Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects and social/human experts to generate new knowledge on the behavior of people in the contexts portraited in BBforTAI where AI and humans coexist and interact.
- I. Serna, A. Morales, J. Fierrez and N. Obradovich, "Sensitive Loss: Improving Accuracy and Fairness of Face Representations with Discrimination-Aware Deep Learning", Artificial Intelligence, April 2022. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset] [Tech]
- 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]
- I. Serna, D. DeAlcala, A. Morales, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "IFBiD: Inference-Free Bias Detection", in AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety (SafeAI), CEUR, vol. 3087, Vancouver, Canada, February 2022. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset] [Code]
 Title: Inteligencia Artificial para la Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas a través de una Nutrición Personalizada Type: CAM Synergy Program Code: Y2020/TCS6654 Funding: ca. 310 Keuros UAM (620 Keuros in total) Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid and IMDEA-Food Institute Period: July 2021 - June 2024 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-García (UAM technical lead: Aythami Morales) Objectives:
- AI4Food will develop a series of enabling technologies to process, analyze and exploit a large number of biometric signals indicative of individual habits, phenotypic and molecular data.
- AI4Food will integrate all this information and develop new machine learning algorithms to generate a paradigm shift in the field of nutritional counselling.
- AI4Food technology will allow a more objective and effective assessment of the individual nutritional status, helping experts to propose changes towards healthier eating habits from general solutions to personalized solutions that are more effective and sustained over time for the prevention of chronic diseases.
- AI4Food will also advance knowledge on three questions using these new technologies: 1) WHICH are the sensor dependent and sensor independent biomarkers that work best for nutritional modelling of human behavior and habits? 2) WHEN, that is, under what circumstances (e.g., user habits, signal quality, context, phenotypic and molecular data), and 3) HOW can we best leverage those signals and context information to improve nutritional recommendations.
 Title: Training in Secure and Privacy-preserving Biometrics Type: H2020 Marie Curie Initial Training Network Code: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019-860813 Funding: ca. 502 KeurosParticipants: UAM, Univ. Applied Sciences H-DA (Germany), Univ. Groningen (Netherlands), IDIAP (Switzerland), Chalmers Univ. (Sweden), Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium) Period: January 2020 – December 2023 Principal investigator(s): Massimiliano Todisco ( Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales for UAM) Objectives:
- To combat rising security challenges, the global market for biometric technologies is growing at a fast pace. It includes all processes used to recognise, authenticate and identify persons based on biological and/or behavioural characteristics.
- The EU-funded TReSPAsS-ETN project will deliver a new type of security protection (through generalised presentation attack detection (PAD) technologies) and privacy preservation (through computationally feasible encryption solutions).
- The TReSPAsS-ETN Marie Sklodowska-Curie early training network will couple specific technical and transferable skills training including entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, management and communications with secondments to industry.
- 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]
- L. F. Gomez, A. Morales, J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, R. Daza and J. Fierrez, "Improving Parkinson Detection using Dynamic Features
from Evoked Expressions in Video", in IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRw), June 2021, pp. 1562-1570. [PDF] [DOI]
- O. Delgado-Mohatar, R. Tolosana, J. Fierrez and A. Morales, "Blockchain in the Internet of Things: Architectures and Implementation", in IEEE Conf. on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), Madrid, Spain, July 2020. [PDF] [DOI]
 Title: Privacy Matters Type: H2020 Marie Curie Initial Training Network Code: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019-860315 Funding: ca. 485 KeurosParticipants: UAM, Univ. of Kent (UK), NTNU (Norway), NR (Norway), Julius-Max Univ. (Germany), Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium) Period: January 2020 – December 2023 Principal investigator(s): Raymond Veldhuis (Ruben Vera-Rodriguez and Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
- To train 14 creative, entrepreneurial, and innovative researchers as privacy protection experts.
- To contribute to a full understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of privacy protection in a digitalised society.
- To contribute to the development of solutions that address this important societal challenge.
- A. Hassanpour, A. E. Daryani, M. Mirmahdi, K. Raja, B. Yang, C. Busch and J. Fierrez, "E2F-GAN: Eyes-to-Face Inpainting via Edge-Aware Coarse-to-Fine GANs", IEEE Access, March 2022. [PDF] [DOI] [Dataset] [Code]
- A. Hassanpour, M. Moradikia, B. Yang, A. Abdelhadi, C. Busch and J. Fierrez, "Differential Privacy Preservation in Robust Continual Learning", IEEE Access, February 2022. [PDF] [DOI]
- M. Ghafourian, J. Fierrez, R. Vera-Rodriguez, I. Serna and A. Morales, "OTB-morph: One-Time Biometrics via Morphing applied to Face Templates", in IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVw), Waikoloa, HI, USA, January 2022. [PDF] [DOI]
 Title: Identifying Digital Endpoints to Assess Fatigue, Sleep and Activities in Daily Living in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases Type: H2020 Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI2) - Research and Innovation Action (RIA) Code: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2018-15-two-stage-853981 Funding: ca. 40 Meuros in total ( ca. 200 Keuros for UAM) Participants: UAM + 44 more: Janssen, Takeda, Lilly, Pfizer, Sanofi, ECRIN, Cambridge Cognition, Asociación de Parkinson Madrid, Imperial College London, etc. Period: November 2019 - April 2025 Principal investigator(s): Fai Ng from Newcastle Univ., UK ( Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
- Fatigue and sleep disturbances are two common and disabling symptoms that affect patients with neurodegenerative disorders (NDD) and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). These symptoms are major predictors of poor quality of life and increased healthcare cost. Current questionnaire-based approaches to measure these symptoms have key limitations preventing them from being used as reliable endpoints in clinical trials to evaluate the effect of therapies.
- IDEA-FAST aims to address these issues by identifying novel digital endpoints for fatigue and sleep disturbances that will provide more objective, sensitive and reliable measures of the severity and impact of these symptoms in ecological settings. Such digital endpoints will not only help to gain insight into the underpinning mechanisms of fatigue and sleep disturbances, but will also vastly improve the efficiency of clinical trials, ultimately reducing the time and cost to bring new therapies to patients.
- To identify these digital endpoints, we will follow the recommendations of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI). We will identify the characteristics that fatigue and sleep disturbances will have impact, then select the digital measures (endpoints) to quantify them, followed by choosing the appropriate digital device/technology accordingly. We will then perform a pilot study to prioritise a few of these candidate digital endpoints for validation. We will test the performance of these digital endpoints in two NDD and four IMID in a large longitudinal study during which extensive relevant clinical data will be collected. If these digital endpoints were validated, we will seek support from EMA/FDA for their qualification. Patient users’ perspective, ethical, data privacy, legal and other regulatory issues will be taken into consideration in all aspects of our proposal.
- The resultant digital biobank from the longitudinal study will become an invaluable resource for future exploitation.
- L. F. Gomez, A. Morales, J. R. Orozco-Arroyave, R. Daza and J. Fierrez, "Improving Parkinson Detection using Dynamic Features
from Evoked Expressions in Video", in IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRw), June 2021, pp. 1562-1570. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, J. Fierrez, A. Morales and D. Diaz, "A Comparative Evaluation of Heart Rate Estimation Methods using Face Videos", in IEEE Intl. Workshop on Medical Computing (MediComp), 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]
Finished ProjectsTitle: Spanish Network of Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Human Analysis and Robotic Perception Type: Spanish National R&D Program, Research Network Code: RED2018-102511-T Funding: 10 Keuros (Full project) Participants: 8 Spanish universities, including Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2020 - December 2021 Principal investigator(s): Filiberto Pla ( Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
- To foster collaboration between Spanish research groups working in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
- A. Peña, I. Serna, A. Morales, J. Fierrez and A. Lapedriza, "Facial Expressions as a Vulnerability in Face Recognition", in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 2021, pp. 2988-2992. [PDF] [DOI]
Title: Biometrics and Behavior for Context-Aware and Secure Human-Computer Interaction Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: RTI2018-101248-B-I00 Funding: ca. 243 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2019 - December 2021 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales Objectives:
- Generating a better understanding about the nature of biometrics in terms of distinctiveness, permanence, and relation to stress levels and emotions. New methods for analyzing and modelling complex yet structured relations on heterogeneous data will be developed in BIBECA.
- Design of robust algorithms in terms of biometric representation and matching from uncooperative users in unconstrained and varying scenarios. BIBECA will contribute in this topic to: innovative adaptive fusion schemes, and public databases with heterogeneous continuous biometrics, in realistic mobile and desktop setups.
- Experimental exploration and technology development towards new biometrics applications: mobile authentication and ubiquitous biometrics.
- Understand and improve the usability of biometric systems.
- Understand and improve the security in biometric systems. BIBECA will track the advances in security against attacks and privacy preservation in biometric systems, and will adapt and investigate those advances for the kind of human interaction signals to be explored during the project implementation.
- 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. 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]
- J. Hernandez-Ortega, J. Fierrez, A. Morales and D. Diaz, "A Comparative Evaluation of Heart Rate Estimation Methods using Face Videos", in IEEE Intl. Workshop on Medical Computing (MediComp), Madrid, Spain, July 2020. [PDF] [DOI]
 Title: Multi-modal Imaging of Forensic Science Evidence - Tools for Forensic Science Type: COST Action, Intergovermental Framework for European Cooperation in the Field of Technical and Scientific Research Code: COST CA16101 Funding: ca. 400 Keuros (Full project) Participants: 27 EU Countries Period: March 2017 - September 2021 Principal investigator(s): Simona Francese and Massimo Tistarelli Objectives:
- To promote innovative, multi-informative, operationally deployable and commercially exploitable imaging solutions/technology to analyse forensic evidence.
- Forensic evidence includes, but not limited to, fingermarks, hair, paint, biofluids, digital evidence, fibers, documents and living individuals.
- Imaging technologies include optical, mass spectrometric, spectroscopic, chemical, physical and digital forensic techniques complemented by expertise in IT solutions and computational modelling.
- J. Fierrez, A. Morales, R. Vera-Rodriguez and D. Camacho, "Multiple Classifiers in Biometrics. Part 2: Trends and Challenges", Information Fusion, Vol. 44, pp. 103-112, November 2018. [PDF] [DOI]
Title: Cognitive Biometric Authentication: Human Interaction for Identification Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: TEC2015-70627-R Funding: ca. 280 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2016 - December 2018 Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia Objectives:
- Proposal and development of novel cognitive authentication schemes based on behavioral biometrics from heterogeneous data sets originating from human-machine interaction.
- Improving the state of the art in continuous authentication systems making use of biometrics.
- Proposal and development of novel user-dependent information fusion schemes, adaptive over time, and making use of context information.
- J. Fierrez, A. Morales, R. Vera-Rodriguez and D. Camacho, "Multiple Classifiers in Biometrics. Part 2: Trends and Challenges", Information Fusion, Vol. 44, pp. 103-112, November 2018. [PDF]
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- J. Hernandez-Ortega, A. Morales, J. Fierrez and A. Acien, "Detecting Age Groups Using Touch Interaction Based on Neuromotor Characteristics", IET Electronics Letters, pp. 1-2, September 2017. [PDF] [DOI]
- A. Morales, J. Fierrez, R. Tolosana, J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Galbally, M. Gomez-Barrero, A. Anjos and S. Marcel, "Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition", IEEE Access, Vol. 4, pp. 7736-7746, November 2016. [PDF] [DOI]
Title: Spanish Network for TeraHertz Technologies Type: Spanish National R&D Program, Consolider Network Code: TEC2015-68766-REDC Funding: ca. 52 Keuros (Full project) Participants: 14 Spanish universities, including Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: December 2015 - November 2017 Principal investigator(s): Jordi Romeu ( Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
- To extend the research activities conducted during TERASANSE.
- E. Gonzalez-Sosa, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez and V. M. Patel, "Exploring Body Shape from mmW Images for Person Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 12, n. 9, pp. 2078-2089, September 2017. [PDF]
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Title: Evaluation of Performance and Countermeasures against Attacks and Threats on Biometrics Systems Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: TEC2012-34881 Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2013 - December 2015 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia Selected publications: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, Vol. 23, n. 2, pp. 710-724, February 2014. [PDF] [DOI]
M. Gomez-Barrero, J. Galbally and J. Fierrez, "Efficient Software Attack to Multimodal Biometric Systems and its Application to Face and Iris Fusion", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 36, pp. 243-253, January 2014. [PDF] [DOI]  Title: Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age Type: COST Action, Intergovermental Framework for European Cooperation in the Field of Technical and Scientific Research Code: COST IC1106 Funding: ca. 400 Keuros (Full project) Participants: 29 EU Countries Period: March 2012 - March 2016 Principal investigator(s): Massimo Tistarelli (Spanish representative: Julian Fierrez) Objectives:
- Biometrics and Forensic Science have an enormous potential jointly to attack a number of longstanding and emerging challenges. Nonetheless their communities – to
their mutual detriment - have often operated in relative isolation.
- This Action will stimulate an innovative and timely cooperation between the Biometrics and the Forensic Science communities. The goal is the imaginative integration of their skills and activities to develop novel solutions in the fight against crime.
- 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]
- A. Drygajlo, J. Fierrez, C. Li, P. Lobato, R. Farrugia and J. Vella, Proc. of 2014 International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, March 2014. [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]
 Title: Biometrics Evaluation and Testing Type: FP7-SECURITY, CP-FP: Small or Medium-scale Focused Research Project Code: SEC-2011.5.1-1-284989 Funding: ca. 3.5 Meuros ( ca. 530 Keuros for UAM) Participants: 10 EU Institutions, including Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: March 2012 - February 2016 Principal investigator(s): Sebastien Marcel ( Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
- Identity management using Biometrics is deployed in a growing number of applications ranging from identification platforms (e.g. biometric passports) to access control systems for border checks or banking transactions. Unfortunately, the reliability of these technologies remains difficult to compare. There are no european-wide standards for evaluating their accuracy, their robustness to attacks or their privacy preservation strength.
- BEAT will fill this gap by building an online and open platform to transparently evaluate biometric systems, designing protocols and tools for vulnerability analysis and developing standardization documents for Common Criteria evaluations. The planned impact is three-fold: the reliability of biometric systems becomes standardized and comparable, potentially leading to a meaningful increase in their performance; technology transfer from research to companies becomes easier with the use of an interoperable framework; authorities and decision-makers become more informed about the progress made in biometrics as results impact standards.
- M. Gomez-Barrero, J. Galbally, A. Morales and J. Fierrez, "Privacy-Preserving Comparison of Variable-Length Data with Application to Biometric Template Protection", IEEE Access, Vol. 5, pp. 8606-8619, June 2017. [PDF] [DOI]
- A. Morales, J. Fierrez, R. Tolosana, J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Galbally, M. Gomez-Barrero, A. Anjos and S. Marcel, "Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition", IEEE Access, Vol. 4, pp. 7736-7746, November 2016. [PDF]
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- M. Gomez-Barrero, C. Rathgeb, J. Galbally, C. Busch and J. Fierrez, "Unlinkable and Irreversible Biometric Template Protection Based on Bloom Filters", Information Sciences, Vol. 370-371, pp. 18-32, November 2016. [PDF]
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- M. Gomez-Barrero, J. Galbally and J. Fierrez, "Efficient Software Attack to Multimodal Biometric Systems and its Application to Face and Iris Fusion", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 36, pp. 243-253, January 2014. [PDF] [DOI]
 Title: Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks Type: FP7-ICT, CP: Collaborative Project Code: FP7-ICT-257289 Funding: ca. 4 Meuros ( ca. 369 Keuros for UAM) Participants: 12 EU Institutions, including Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: November 2010 - March 2014 Principal investigator(s): Sebastien Marcel ( Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
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To study direct (spoofing) attacks to trusted biometric systems. This is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently because it has recently been shown that conventional biometric techniques, such as fingerprints and face, are vulnerable to direct (spoof) attacks. Direct attacks are performed by falsifying the biometric trait and then presenting this falsified information to the biometric system. One example is to fool a fingerprint system by copying the fingerprint of another person and creating an artificial or gummy finger which can then be presented to the biometric system to falsely gain access.
- To develop a set of best practices and standards to examine this problem.
- To propose countermeasures such as combining biometric information from multiple sources.
- To examine novel biometrics that may be inherently robust to direct attacks.
- S. Marcel, M. Nixon, J. Fierrez and N. Evans, Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing, 2018 (to appear).
- 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]
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- 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, Vol. 23, n. 2, pp. 710-724, February 2014. [PDF]
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 Title: Concepts and Technologies for the Development of Services Type: Madrid Regional R&D Program Code: S2009/TIC-1485 Funding: ca. 200 Keuros for UAM Participants: Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Univ. de Alcala, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2010 - December 2013 Principal investigator(s): Jose R. Casar (Javier Ortega-Garcia for UAM) Selected publications:
- M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez and J. Galbally, "The DooDB Graphical Password Database: Data Analysis and Benchmark Results", IEEE Access, Vol. 1, pp. 596-605, September 2013. [PDF]
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- R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. S. Mason, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Comparative Analysis and Fusion of Spatio-Temporal Information for Footstep Recognition", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 35, pp. 823-834, April 2013. [PDF]
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- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Quality Measures in Biometric Systems", IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 10, n. 9, pp. 52-62, December 2012. [PDF]
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 Title: Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics Type: FP7-PEOPLE, ITN: Marie Curie Initial Training Network Code: ITN-2008-238803 Funding: ca. 3.2 Meuros ( ca. 415 Keuros for UAM) Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Stichting Katholieke Unversiteit Nijmegen, Politecnico di Torino, Universiteit Twente, IDIAP, University of York, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hogskolan i Halmstad, NFI Period: January 2010 - December 2013 Principal investigator(s): David van Leeuwen ( Julian Fierrez for UAM) Objectives:
- To provide a training infrastructure that will educate Early Stage Researchers in the core biometric technologies of speaker, face and fingerprint recognition, as well as the forensic aspects of these technologies.
- According to modern interpretation of evidence in court, biometric evidence must be presented as likelihood ratios. The calibration of likelihood ratios of individual behavioural and physical biometrics and of combinations of biometric modalities, including measures of the quality of the traces, is a unifying topic in all research projects in this Network.
- The training of ESRs will be realized as individual PhD projects at various research labs, including a forensic institute. Apart from training at their host institute and secondments with other network partners, the ESRs will receive training in dedicated Summer Schools on Biometric Signal Processing, Bayesian Techniques in Forensic Applications and Legal Issues in Forensic Applications.
- The Network combines 8 European Universities and a leading Forensic Institute; it is augmented by a biometric industrial and a research institute, where secondments of the ESRs will take place.
- 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]
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- 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]
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Title: Critical Aspects of Last-Generation Biometric Recognition: Quality, Vulnerability, Privacy and Biometrics on the Move Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: TEC2009-11186 Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2010 - December 2012 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia Selected publications:P. Tome, J. Fierrez, R. Vera-Rodriguez and M. Nixon, "Soft Biometrics and their Application in Person Recognition at a Distance", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 9, n. 3, pp. 464-475, March 2014. [PDF]
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F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Quality Measures in Biometric Systems", IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 10, n. 9, pp. 52-62, December 2012. [PDF]
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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]  Title: TeraHertz Technology for Electromagnetic Sensing Applications Type: Spanish National R&D Program, Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Code: CSD2008-00068 Funding: ca. 3.5 Meuros (ca. 146 Keuros for UAM) Participants: 16 Spanish universities, including Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: October 2008 - September 2013 Principal investigator(s): Lluis Jofre (Javier Ortega-Garcia for UAM) Objectives:
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To advance the knowledge on the interaction between the matter and electromagnetic waves in the Terahertz band.
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To define new system architectures and devices able to solve the existing technological gaps in the different spectral bands of the Terahertz region.
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To define and build a terahertz networked laboratory infrastructure at national level able to support the development of the different devices and subsystems.
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To structure and coordinate a joint public-private research effort at national level to improve the joint presence and projection at international levels, particularly at EU level, to optimize the benefits of the advancement on the electromagnetic sensing field.
- E. Gonzalez-Sosa, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez, M. Moreno-Moreno and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Feature Exploration for Biometric Recognition using Millimetre Wave Body Images", EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Vol. 30, December 2015. [PDF] [DOI]
- M. Barba, A. Garcia-Pino, E. Gonzalez-Sosa, J. Gutierrez, J. Montero-de-Paz, J. Parron, J. Romeu, P. d. Paco, J. Encinar, L. E. Garcia-Muñoz, B. Gonzalez-Valdes, E. Nova, R. Vera-Rodriguez, K. Zeljami, A. Badolato, J. Besada, T. Fernandez, J. Fierrez, et al., "TERASENSE: THz Device Technology Laboratory. Final Summary", in XXIX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI, Valencia, Spain, September 2014. [PDF]
- M. Moreno-Moreno, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Biometrics Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Imaging
Technologies and Applications", in Proceedings of BioID-Multicomm 2009, Springer LNCS-5707, pp. 154-161, September 2009. [PDF]
Title: Multidisciplinary Advanced Research in User-Centric Wireless Network Enabling Technologies Type: Madrid Regional R&D Program Code: S-0505/TIC/000255 Funding: ca. 156 Keuros for UAM Participants: 10 Spanish universities, including Univ. Autonoma de Madrid Period: January 2007 - December 2010 Principal investigator(s): Jose R. Casar (Javier Ortega-Garcia for UAM) Objectives:
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This programme aims at advancing the key elements in frontier communications and location technologies, data processing and multisensory fusion and the paradigms for intelligent/adaptative management, that will make feasible the development of advanced applications for ambient intelligence.
- J. Galbally, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, et al., "BiosecurID: a Multimodal Biometric Database", in Proc. MADRINET Workshop, pp. 68-76, Salamanca, Spain, November 2007. [PDF]
- M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez, J. Galbally, F. Alonso-Fernandez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Signature Verification on Handheld Devices", in Proc. MADRINET Workshop, pp. 87-95, Salamanca, Spain, November 2007. [PDF]
 Title: Biometrics Revisited for Security, Confidence and Dependability Type: FP6-PEOPLE, MOIF: Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship (Postdoc) Code: MOIF-CT-2006-040903 Funding: ca. 245 KeurosParticipants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Michigan State University Period: April 2007 – March 2010 Principal investigator(s): Julian FierrezObjectives:
- To track the state-of-the-art on established biometrics traits.
- To advance the state-of-the-art on: i) user-friendly and well-accepted traits; and ii) multi-biometrics and biometric quality.
- To track and further develop application-oriented issues of importance for security, dependability and confidence using biometrics: i) technology and operational benchmarking; ii) usability, acceptability, and interaction with biometric interfaces; iii) standardization, certification, and legislation; iv) biometric cryptosystems; v) countermeasures to attacks on biometrics; vi) system issues such as database indexation, interoperability and secure networking; and vii) case studies including two system prototypes (smartcard-based biometric ID and remote authentication using a handheld device).
- J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Fusion, User-Specific", Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, pp. 778-782, 2015. [DOI]
- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez and J. Bigun, "Quality Measures in Biometric Systems", Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, pp. 1287-1297, 2015. [DOI]
- 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]
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 Title: Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards Type: COST Action, Intergovermental Framework for European Cooperation in the Field of Technical and Scientific Research Code: COST 2101 Funding: ca. 400 Keuros (Full project) Participants: 20 EU Countries Period: July 2006 - December 2010 Principal investigator(s): Andrzej Drygajlo (Spanish representative: Javier Ortega-Garcia) Objectives:
- To investigate novel technologies for unsupervised multimodal biometric authentication systems using a new generation of biometrics-enabled identity documents and smart cards, while exploring the added-value of these technologies for large-scale applications with respect to European requirements in relation to the storage, transmission, and protection of personal data.
- M. Gomez-Barrero, J. Galbally, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Hill-Climbing Attack Based on the Uphill Simplex Algorithm and its Application to Signature Verification", in Proc. COST 2101 Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management, Springer LNCS-6583, pp. 83-94, Brandenburg, Germany, March 2011. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, A. Esposito, A. Drygajlo and M. Faundez-Zanuy, Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication, September 2009. [DOI]
- V. Ruiz-Albacete, P. Tome-Gonzalez, F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Galbally, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Direct Attacks using Fake Images in Iris Verification", in Proc. COST 2101 Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management, Springer LNCS-5372, pp. 181-190, Roskilde, Denmark, May 2008. [PDF]
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Title: Transparent Modalities in Multibiometric Systems for Low Vulnerability and High User-Convenience Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: TEC2006-13141-C03-03 Participants: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid and Esc. Univ. Politec. Mataro Period: December 2006 – December 2009 Principal investigator(s): Miguel Angel Ferrer Ballester (Javier Ortega-Garcia for UAM) Objectives:
- The use of biometric recognition systems has yielded significant progress in the last years. However, considerable advances on both system precision and cost reduction of sensors, have not produced an increase in user confidence, mainly due to lack of reliability in real operational environments, and also due to privacy and vulnerability concerns. In order to alleviate the problems generated by the adoption of biometric systems, which are in any case highly valuable for industrials, this project proposes innovative multimodal schemes operating in realistic environments.
- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez, D. Ramos and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "Quality-Based Conditional Processing in Multi-Biometrics: Application to Sensor Interoperability", IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A, Vol. 40, n. 6, pp. 1168-1179, 2010. [PDF]
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- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, H. Fronthaler, K. Kollreider and J. Bigun, "A Comparative Study of Fingerprint Image-Quality Estimation Methods", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 2, n. 4, pp. 734-743, December 2007. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, D. Ramos and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "HMM-based On-line Signature Verification: Feature Extraction and Signature Modeling", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 28, n. 16, pp. 2325-2334, December 2007. [PDF] [DOI]
 Title: Biometrics for Secure Authentication Type: FP6-IST, NOE: Network of Excellence Code: IST-2002-507634 Funding: ca. 3 Meuros (ca. 140 Keuros for UPM) Participants: 29 European institutions, including Univ. Politecnica de Madrid Period: June 2004 – September 2007 Principal investigator(s): Bernadette Dorizzi (Javier Ortega-Garcia for UPM) Objectives:
- To strengthen and to integrate multidisciplinary research efforts in order to investigate biometrics-based identity authentication methods, for the purpose of meeting the trust and security requirements in our progressing digital information society.
- The previous goal will be attained with various integrating efforts: i) generating a common evaluation framework (including databases, reference systems and assessment protocols), ii) participating to standardisation efforts, and iii) identifying and addressing the technical challenges linked to practical applications.
- J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Fierrez, et al., "The Multi-Scenario Multi-Environment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 32, n. 6, pp. 1097-1111, June 2010. [PDF]
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- N. Poh, T. Bourlai, J. Kittler, L. Allano, F. Alonso-Fernandez, O. Ambekar, J. Baker, B. Dorizzi, O. Fatukasi, J. Fierrez, H. Ganster, J. Ortega-Garcia, D. Maurer, A. A. Salah, T. Scheidat and C. Vielhauer, "Benchmarking Quality-dependent and Cost-sensitive Score-level Multimodal Biometric Fusion Algorithms", IEEE Trans on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 4, n. 4, pp. 849-866, 2009. [PDF]
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- S. Garcia-Salicetti, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, et al., "Biosecure reference systems for on-line signature verification: A study of complementarity", Annals of Telecommunications, Special Issue on Multimodal Biometrics, Vol. 62, n. 1-2, January-February 2007. [PDF]
Title: Multimodal Security with Biometric Authentication based on Multiple Classifiers Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: TIC2003-08382-C05 Participants: Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Esc. Univ. Politecnica de Mataro, Univ. de Valladolid, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Univ. de Zaragoza Period: December 2003 - December 2006 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia Selected publications:
- J. Fierrez, J. Galbally, et al., "BiosecurID: A Multimodal Biometric Database", Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. 13, n. 2, pp. 235-246, May 2010. [PDF]
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- 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. 2-3, pp. 192-209, April-July 2006. [PDF] [DOI]
- J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez and J. Bigun, "Discriminative Multimodal Biometric Authentication Based on Quality Measures", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 38, n. 5, pp. 777-779, May 2005. [PDF] [DOI]
 Title: Biometrics and Security Type: FP6-IST, IP: Integrated Project Code: IST-2002-001766 Funding: ca. 5.5 Meuros (ca. 180 Keuros for UPM) Participants: 29 European institutions, including Univ. Politecnica de Madrid Period: December 2003 - November 2005 Principal investigator(s): Orestes Sanchez-Benavente (Javier Ortega-Garcia for UPM) Objectives:
- BioSec will provide improved performance to: novel 3D face and hand method, noise-cancellation based voice verification method, as well as with emphasis on multimodal biometrics, including face-voice and iris-finger combinations used together with advanced classification methodology.
- Fake-resistive methods will be developed for high security fingerprint and iris verification. Token-based solutions are developed for enhanced privacy in sensitive applications.
- BioSec consortium observes and actively contributes to the development of biometric standards.
- The aim is in disseminating project results to general public, scientific community, business and public bodies in the field. Coherent methods for performance evaluation will be developed and applied in the project. This includes also acquisition and deployment of sufficient test material in the form of databases, latter to be made available for the research community.
- The usability and attitude issues will be an integral part of planning biometric use-cases. Scenarios will focus on the cases of remote access and physical access control.
- J. Fierrez, J. Ortega-Garcia, D. Torre-Toledano and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "BioSec Baseline Corpus: A Multimodal Biometric Database", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 40, n. 4, pp. 1389-1392, April 2007. [PDF]
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- M. Faundez-Zanuy, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "Multimodal Biometric Databases: An Overview", IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol. 21, n. 8, pp. 29-37, August 2006. [PDF] [DOI]
Title: Biometrics-Based Recognition of People over the Internet Type: COST Action, Intergovermental Framework for European Cooperation in the Field of Technical and Scientific Research Code: COST 275 Participants: 14 Countries involved Period: May 2001 - June 2005 Principal investigator(s): Aladdin Ariyaeeinia (Javier Ortega-Garcia for Spain) Selected publications:
- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez-Aguilar and J. Ortega-Garcia, "A Review of Schemes for Fingerprint Image Quality Computation", in Proc. 3rd COST-275 Workshop on Biometrics on the Internet, Hertfordshire, UK, October 2005. [PDF]
- J. Richiardi, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia and A. Drygajlo, "On-line Signature Verification Resilience to Packet Loss in IP Networks", in Proc. 2nd COST-275 Workshop on Biometrics on the Internet, pp. 11-16, Vigo, Spain, March 2004. [PDF]
Title: Identification Applications using Multimodal Biometrics Type: Spanish National R&D Program Code: TIC2000-1669-C04 Participants: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro, Universidad del Pais Vasco and Universidad de Valladolid Period: December 2000 - December 2003 Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia Selected publications:
- J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, et al., "MCYT Baseline Corpus: A Bimodal Biometric Database", IEE Proceedings Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Biometrics on the Internet, Vol. 150, n. 6, pp. 395-401, December 2003. [PDF]
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