Julian Fierrez, PhD
 

ATVS - Biometric Recognition Group, B-203

C/ Francisco Tomas y Valiente, 11

Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

28049 Madrid SPAIN

Tel: +34 914973363, Fax: +34 914972235

Selected publications

(You can download these papers after publication at ATVS web page)

• Bayesian hill-climbing attack and its application to signature verification, to appear in Proc. ICB 2007.

• Biometric hashing based on genetic selection and its application to on-line signatures, to appear in Proc. ICB 2007.

• A review of fingerprint image quality estimation methods, to appear in IEEE Trans. IFS 2007.

• On-line signature verification, to appear in Handbook of Biometrics 2007.

• BioSec baseline corpus: A multimodal biometric database, Pattern Recognition, 2007.

• On the vulnerability of fingerprint verification systems to fake fingerprint attacks, Proc. ICCST 2006.

• Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification, Proc. ICB 2006.

• Bayesian adaptation for user-dependent multimodal biometric authentication, Pattern Recognition 2005.

• Discriminative multimodal biometric authentication based on quality measures, Pattern Recognition 2005.

• An on-line signature verification system based on fusion of local and global information, Proc. AVBPA 2005.

• An off-line signature verification system based on fusion of local and global information, Proc. BIOAW 2004.

• MCYT baseline corpus: A bimodal biometric database, IEE Proc. VISP 2003.

News

• 2007-06-07: Award AERFAI to the Best PhD Thesis on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.

• 2007-05-31: Award COIT - Fundación France Telecom España to the Best PhD Thesis on Multimedia Convergence.

• 2007-05-08: Programme committee member at BSYM 2007 to be published by IEEE.

• 2007-04-04: FVC 2006 results available.

• 2007-04-01: Beginning of a 2-year postdoctoral research stay in PRIP Lab. with Prof. Anil K. Jain.

• 2007-03-28: Award Mejor Proyecto Tecnológico Mostoles Emprende 2006 (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto).

• 2007-02-26: Programme committee member at ICB 2007 to be published in Springer LNCS.

• 2007-02-15: Award XII Premios Bancaja a Jóvenes Emprendedores (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto)

• 2006-12-12: Award Premio Joven Emprendedor Universitario AJE Madrid (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto)

• 2006-11-23: Presentation at Seminarios en Ingeniería Informática y de Telecomunicación 2006-2007, EPS, UAM.

• 2006-11-20: Attended Terceras Jornadas de Reconocimiento Biométrico de Personas.

• 2006-11-16: Award Premio a la Mejor Idea Empresarial Revista Emprendedores (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto)

• 2006-10-31: Scientific committee member at SWB 2007.

• 2006-10-17: Graduate teaching of the course Digital Audio Processing (with D. Torre-Toledano, from oct-06 to jan-07).

• 2006-10-06: Award III Competición de Creación de Empresas UPM (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto).

• 2006-10-04: EBF European Biometric Industry Award.

• 2006-09-29: Undergraduate teaching of the course Introduction to Engineering (from sept-06 to jan-07).

• 2006-09-13: Invited speech at Biosecure Research Project Workshop.

• 2006-09-19: Attended BCC 2006.

• 2006-07-27: Ph.D. degree.

• 2006-07-12: Award Premio al Emprendedor Universitario CIADE-UAM (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto).

• 2006-06-23: Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship awarded (to be conducted at PRIP and ATVS labs.)

• 2006-05-26: Ph.D. Dissertation "Adapted Fusion Schemes for Multimodal Biometric Authentication" submitted to UPM.

• 2006-05-12: Oral presentation at MMUA 2006.

• 2006-04-15: End of the research stay in CVSSP.

• 2006-03-08: Collaboration in the organization of FVC 2006.

• 2006-03-08: Panelist at NIST Biometric Quality Workshop.

• 2006-03-08: Invited speech at NIST Biometric Quality Workshop.

• 2006-01-23: Beginning of a 3-month research stay in CVSSP with Prof. Josef Kittler.

• 2006-01-07: Panelist at ICB 2006.

• 2006-01-07: Invited speech at ICB 2006.

• 2006-01-05: Oral presentation at ICB 2006 (Motorola Best Student Paper, with Yi Chen).

• 2005-11-10: Award III Concurso de Ideas y Nuevas EBT madri+d (with D. Galbally and M. del Puerto).

• 2005-10-22: Oral and poster presentations at IWBRS 2005.

• 2005-10-22: Poster session chair at IWBRS 2005.

• 2005-10-22: Programme committee member at IWBRS 2005 published in Springer LNCS-3781.

• 2005-08-19: Invited speech at Biosecure Residential Workshop.

• 2005-08-19: 1-week stay at Paris in Biosecure Residential Workshop.

• 2005-07-20: Oral and poster presentations at IAPR AVBPA 2005.

• 2005-06-21: Best PhD Proposal at VII Rosina Ribalta national awards.

• 2005-06-16: Invited speech at BioSec 3rd Workshop.

• 2005-05-06: Selected as 1 of the 16 spanish PhD students in New Technologies for the Campus de Excelencia.

• 2005-04-21: End of the research stay in PRIP Lab.

• 2005-01-27: Beginning of a 3-month research stay in PRIP Lab. with Prof. Anil K. Jain.

• 2005-01-19: Invited speech at BioSec 2nd Workshop.

• 2004-12-11: Alberto Posse (under J. F.-A. direction) is the recipient of a national award (Best B.Sc. Thesis).

• 2004-12-08: End of the research stay in Biometric Systems Lab.

• 2004-09-16: Beginning of a 3-month research stay in Biometric Systems Lab. with Prof. Davide Maltoni.

• 2004-07-16: Our signature verification system is ranked 2nd in SVC 2004 (results presented at ICBA 2004).

• 2004-07-15: Oral presentation at ICBA 2004.

• 2004-06-04: Our speaker verification system is ranked 3rd in NIST SRE 2004.

• 2004-05-31: Local committee member at ISCA ODYSSEY 2004.

• 2004-05-15: Poster presentation at BIOAW 2004.

• 2004-04-12: Poster presentation at SPIE BTHI 2004.

• 2003-09-14: Poster presentation at IEEE ICIP 2003.

• 2003-07-23: End of the research stay in Halmstad University.

• 2003-07-06: Oral presentation at IEEE ICME 2003.

• 2003-06-10: Best Poster at IAPR AVBPA 2003.

• 2003-05-01: Beginning of a 3-month research stay in Halmstad University with Prof. Josef Bigun.

• 2002-09-01: Ph.D. scholarship awarded from CAM (worth 50000€ for 4 years).

• 2002-06-13: 1-week stay at Paris in a COST-275 Short-Term Scientific Mission.

• 2002-01-01: I leave the GTI group and join the ATVS group. PhD studies are oriented to biometric authentication.

• 2001-10-01: Beginning of the PhD courses.

• 2001-09-11: M.Sc. degree (yes, 9/11).

• 2001-03-01: M.Sc. Thesis is oriented to temporal event detection in video sequences. I join the GTI group.

• 2000-11-20: 1-week stay at Paris to follow the course "Morphological Image Processing in Practice" by Prof. Jean Serra.