Ongoing projects
Title: Mobile User Monitoring from Heterogeneous Biometric Data
Type: Competitive Research Grant, BBVA Foundation
Funding entity: 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.
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The study of novel continuous trustworthy metrics developed specifically for mobile scenarios.
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The study of new combination methods to exploit the discriminative ability of patterns from multiple sources of information.
Title: Advanced Analytics
Type: Technical Support Contract with Accenture
Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid
Period: January 2017 - December 2018
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia
Objectives:
- Technical support in advanced analytics including text, image, and video inputs.
- E. Gonzalez-Sosa, R. Vera-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Exploring Facial Regions in Unconstrained Scenarios: Experience on ICB-RW", IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2018 (to appear).
Title: Characterization of Neuro-Degenerative Disorders with new Biomarkers
Type: Competitive Research Grant (UAM-CEAL), Banco Santander
Code: CEAL-AL/2017-13
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).
Title: Cognitive Analytics for Biometric Signature Authentication in Banking Scenarios
Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank
Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid
Period: October 2016 - September 2021
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia
Objectives:
- 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.
- 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]
Finished projects
Title: “BIOTRACE_100: High-Performance Biometric Signature Authentication System for Banking Applications
Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank
Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid
Period: April 2015 – June 2016
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Julian Fierrez
Objectives:
- Transfer of signature biometrics technology, including the development of an SDK to be integrated in Ceca systems.
- 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]
Title: e-BioSign: Improvement of Signature Comparison Technology
Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank
Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid
Period: April 2014 - May 2015
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Julian Fierrez
Objectives:
- 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.
- 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]
Title: Face Recognition at a Distance with Application to Forensics
Type: Face Recognition at a Distance with Application to Forensics
Funding entity: DGGC
Participants: 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.
- 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]
Title: Signature Biometrics for Smartphones
Type: R&D Contract with Sigma Technologies S.L. (now Sigma Technologies Global), Neotec program from CDTI
Participants: 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.
- 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]
Title: Catedra UAM-Telefonica
Type: R&D Contract with Telefonica International
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.
- 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]
Title: Biografo 2.0: Automatic Writer Recognition
Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, Direccion General de la Guardia Civil
Participants: 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.
- 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]
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
Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid
Period: January 2009 - December 201
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.
- 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]
Title: Technical Support for Common Criteria Developments
Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of Defense, National Cryptographic Center
Funding entity: ca. 75 Keuros
Participants: 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.
- 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]
Title: Proyecto para la Identificación, Reconocimiento y Autentificación Multifactor I+D
Type: R&D Project
Funding entity: Mina software, S.L.
Participants: ATVS, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Period: April 2007 - October 2008
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Julian Fierrez
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 entity: ca. 35 Keuros
Participants: 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.
- 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]
Title: Development and Optimization of Software and Hardware for the Surround Imager
Type: R&D Project
Funding entity: TBS Holding AG
Participants: ATVS, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Period: December 2005 - May 2006
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Javier Garrido
Title: Vulnerabilidad de Sistemas de Seguridad Basados en Sensores de Huella Dactilar
Type: R&D Project
Funding entity: Spanish Ministry of Defense
Participants: ATVS, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Period: November 2005 - December 2005
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Selected publications:
- J. Galbally-Herrero, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. D. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Ortega-Garcia and M. Tapiador, "On the vulnerability of fingerprint verification systems to fake fingerprint attacks", in Proc. IEEE Intl. Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology, ICCST, pp. 130-136, Lexington, USA, October 2006.
- M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Ortega-Garcia and J. A. Siguenza, "Hill-climbing and brute-force attacks on biometric systems: A case study in Match-on-Card fingerprint verification", in Proc. IEEE Intl. Carnahan Conf. on Security Technology, ICCST, pp. 151-159, Lexington, USA, October 2006.
Title: Speaker and Language Recognition
Type: R&D Contract with the Spanish Ministry of Defense
Funding entity: 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]
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Title: Sistema Automático de Reconocimiento On-Line de Firma Manuscrita para Entornos Tablet PC
Type: R&D Project
Funding entity: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)
Participants: ATVS, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Period: October 2004 - March 2005
Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia and Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Selected publications:
- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Sensor interoperability and fusion in signature verification: A case study using Tablet PC", in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Biometric Recognition Systems, IWBRS, Springer LNCS-3781, pp. 180-187, Beijing, China, October 2005.
- F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, F. del-Valle and J. Ortega-Garcia, "On-line signature verification using Tablet PC", in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA, Special Session on Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics, pp. 245-250, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2005.
Title: Signature Biometrics on Tablet PC
Type: R&D Contract with BBVA bank
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.
- 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]
Title: Optimización de Aplicaciones On-Line de Verificación y Desarrollo de Técnicas de Normalización
Type: R&D Project
Funding entity: Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Participants: ATVS, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid
Period: April 2002 - December 2002
Principal investigator(s): Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Javier Ortega-Garcia
Selected publications:
- D. Garcia-Romero, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J. Fierrez-Aguilar and J. Ortega-Garcia, "U-NORM likelihood normalization for speaker recognition systems based on Personal Identification Number (PIN)", in Proc. 4th IAPR Intl. Conf. on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Springer LNCS-2688, pp. 208-213, Guilford, UK, June 2003.
- D. Simon-Zorita, J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Fierrez-Aguilar and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "Image quality and position variability assessment in minutiae-based fingerprint verification", IEE Proceedings Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Biometrics on the Internet, Vol. 150, n. 6, pp. 402-408, December 2003.
- J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Martin-Rello and J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, "Complete signal modeling and score normalization for function-based dynamic signature verification", in Proc. 4th IAPR Intl. Conf. on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA, Springer LNCS-2688, pp. 658-667, Guilford, UK, June 2003.
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