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
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Subject areas: Signal Analysis
Application areas: Biometrics

Professional Profiles

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

: 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 (press note, list of awardees)

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 (press note in the COIT magazine)

Selected Talks

"Human Authentication Using Facial Cues", Keynote Talk, Artificial Intelligence International Conference, A2IC, November 21-23, 2018, Barcelona (web, video)

“Periocular Biometrics: Databases, Algorithms and Directions”, Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis, SSBA, Uppsala, Sweden, March 14-16 2016 (slides)

"Personal Recognition Based on Facial Information", Faculty of Information and Communication Technology of the University of Malta, April 14, 2015 (web)

“Personal Recognition Based on Facial Information”, Workshop of the Norwegian Biometric Forum (NBF), in cooperation with the Norwegian Forum for Research and Innovation in Security and Communications (FRISC network) and the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), Oslo, Norway, November 14, 2013 (slides, web)

"Signature and Handwriting Activities and Perspectives”, COST-2101 Workshop on Signature and Handwriting Analysis for Person Identification, Canterbury, UK, November 30, 2007 (slides)

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)

Main funding from:

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Evaluations of Technology

CROSS-EYED 2017: 2nd Cross-Spectrum Iris/Periocular Recognition, by University of Reading (UK), in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB-2017). Periocular system ranked 1st among 12 participants in the final submission (results, submissions named HH1, HH2, HH3) (publication)

CROSS-EYED 2016: 1st Cross-Spectrum Iris/Periocular Recognition, by University of Reading (UK), in conjunction with the 8th Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS-2016). Periocular system ranked 1st among 7 participants in the final submission (results, submissions named HH1, HH2, HH3) (publication)

ICIR2013: First ICB Competition on Iris Recognition, by Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB-2013). Iris system ranked 2nd among 13 participants in the final submission, 1st position among academic participants (results) (publication)

4NSigComp2010: Forensic Signature Verification Competition, by the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2010). Off-line signature system ranked 2nd among 10 participants in the final submission (publication with results)

SigComp 2009: Signature Competition, On- and Offline Skilled Forgeries, by the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR-2009). Signature systems ranked 2nd among 15 participants (online signatures), and 5th among 8 participants (offline signatures) in the final submission (publication with results)

LivDet 2009: Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition, by the University of Cagliari (Italy) and Clarkson University (USA), in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP-2009). System ranked 2nd among 4 participants in the final submission

BSEC 2009: The BioSecure Signature Evaluation Campaign, by TELECOM & Management SudParis, in conjunction with the International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB'09). Signature systems ranked 2nd and 1st among 14 participants (2 different scenarios) in the final submission (publication with results)

BMEC 2007: The Biosecure Multimodal Evaluation Campaign, by the EU FP7 BioSecure Network of Excellence. System ranked 2nd/1st among 14/9 participants (cross-device, mobility scenarios respectively) in the final submission (publication with results)

Editorial Appointments

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

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

Teaching

Teaching: Sensors Systems (2019)

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)

Database: Database of Iris Segmentation Ground Truth. Segmentation data of nearly 10000 iris images, in conjunction with Salzburg University (Austria) (publication describing the database)

Software: Iris Segmentation Code based on the Generalized Structure Tensor (GST) (publication describing the system)

Database: ATVS-FakeIris Database (ATVS-FIr DB), at my previous group in Madrid. 800 real iris and associated fake image samples (publication describing the database)

Database: ATVS-FakeFingerprint Database (ATVS-FFp DB), at my previous group in Madrid. 2250 real and associated fake fingerprint images (publication describing the database)

Database: Multimodal Biometric Database “BioSecure BMDB”, joint effort between 11 university institutes across Europe in the framework of the EU FP7 BioSecure Network of Excellence (publication describing the database)

Database: Multimodal Biometric Database “BIOSECUR-ID”, at my previous group in Madrid. 400 individuals in 4 sessions at 6 Spanish institutions under the public Spanish R&D project BIOSECUR-ID (TIC2003-08382-C05) (publication describing the database)

Database: Multimodal Biometric Database “BioSec” , at my previous group in Madrid. 250 individuals in 4 sessions at 4 European institutions under the public European R&D BioSec FP6 IP (IST-2002-001766) (publication describing the database)

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.