Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Associate Professor, PhD

Family Name: Alonso-Fernandez
Given Name: Fernando
Role: Associate Professor
Title: PhD
Subject: Signal Analysis
Email: feralo@hh.se
url: https://sites.google.com/view/fernando-alonso-fernandez
Phone: +46-35-167304
Cell Phone: 

Subject areas: Signal Analysis
Application areas: Biometrics

Professional Profiles

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=o6B_JIUAAAAJ&hl=en

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-a-1a3b63a/

Awards

Best Degree Project Award from Lektor Sten Fåhrés minnesfond (First prize, 25,000 kronor) to supervised Bachelor students Adam Olsson and Frida Femling for their thesis Fruit and Vegetable Identification Using Machine Learning (May 2018)

Best Poster Award at the 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS) to paper Hand Detection and Gesture Recognition Using Symmetric Patterns co-written and presented by PhD students Hassan Nemati and Yuantao Fan, as final assignment of the course PhD course on Multiscale and Multidimensional Analysis (March 2016)

Best Reviewer Award at the IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), in Sendai, Japan, Feb. 29- Mar. 2, 2016

Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) to paper Face Tracking Using Optical Flow: Development of a Real-Time AdaBoost Cascade Face Tracker co-written and presented by supervised MSc student Andreas Ranftl, summarizing his master thesis work (September 2015). Article further extended to a journal article.

Doctorate Extraordinary Award by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid to outstanding PhD Thesis (February 2011)

Award COIT - BANESTO to the Best PhD Thesis on Information and Communication Technologies applied to Banking awarded by the Spanish College of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT) (2.4k€) (May 2010)

Research Projects

Projects: BIO-DISTANCE

Projects: Facial Detection and Recognition Resilient to Physical Image Deformations (Swedish Research Council, 2013-2016)

Projects: Ocular Biometrics in Unconstrained Sensing Environments (Swedish Research Council, 2017-2020)

Editorial Appointments

Editorial Board member of IET Biometrics Journal (from August 2018)

Associate Editor of IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter (from May 2018)

Teaching

Teaching: MSc course Computer Vision in 3D (2018)

Teaching: BSc course Biometrics Recognition/Biometrisk identifiering (2016, 2018)

Teaching: PhD course Introduction to Research on Embedded and Intelligent Systems (2017)

Teaching: PhD course on Multiscale and Multidimensional Analysis (2016)

Teaching: PhD course on Multiscale and Multidimensional Analysis (2014)

Resources (databases, software)

Resources: Database of Iris Segmentation Ground Truth

Resources: Iris Segmentation Code based on the GST

Conference and Events Organization

Host and Co-Chair of SBF, the Swedish Biometrics Forum, two times/year from January 2018 (Halmstad, Sweden)

Poster and Demo Chair of EAB-RPC, the Annual Research Projects Conference of the European Association of Biometrics (Darmstadt, Germany) from 2018

General Co-Chair of ICB-2016, the 9th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (Halmstad, Sweden)

Publications

Publication list in Google Scholar with citation figures: click here

You can download most of my publications from our library repository here (use "Alonso-Fernandez" as search term)

The following is a list of publications retrieved automatically from our library repository, but I have no control on how they are brought here, and most of the time the list appears incomplete. Therefore, I recommend you to use the links above instead.