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most citedGeneral Framework to Evaluate Unlinkability in Biometric Template Protection Systems

241 citations · 508 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Curvature Under Attack in hZACH-ViT: Gauge Symmetry, Boundary Saturation, and Adversarial Failure

Athanasios Angelakis, Marta Gomez-Barrero

Curvature is often treated as an intrinsic property of a representation, although its empirical effect also depends on coordinate scale, learned logit temperature, and numerical sa…

cs.CV2026

From ECG Signals to Representative-Morphology Heatmaps for Biometric Recognition

Athanasios Angelakis, Marta Gomez-Barrero

Electrocardiography (ECG) contains subject-specific morphology that supports biometric recognition, yet image-based performance depends on how the waveform is rendered. We introduc…

cs.CV2026

Compact Vision Models for Iris Presentation Attack Detection under Presentation Attack Instrument Shift and Environmental Degradation

Athanasios Angelakis, Marta Gomez-Barrero

Iris presentation attack detection (PAD) is security-critical when a subsystem that appears reliable during development encounters presentation attack instruments (PAIs) or acquisi…

cs.CV2026

Extending ZACH-ViT to Robust Medical Imaging: Corruption and Adversarial Stress Testing in Low-Data Regimes

Athanasios Angelakis, Marta Gomez-Barrero

The recently introduced ZACH-ViT (Zero-token Adaptive Compact Hierarchical Vision Transformer) formalized a compact permutation-invariant Vision Transformer for medical imaging and…

cs.CV2024★ 92 cited

Reversing the Irreversible: A Survey on Inverse Biometrics

Marta Gomez-Barrero, Javier Galbally

With the widespread use of biometric recognition, several issues related to the privacy and security provided by this technology have been recently raised and analysed. As a result…

cs.CV2023★ 241 cited

General Framework to Evaluate Unlinkability in Biometric Template Protection Systems

Marta Gomez-Barrero, Javier Galbally, Christian Rathgeb +1

The wide deployment of biometric recognition systems in the last two decades has raised privacy concerns regarding the storage and use of biometric data. As a consequence, the ISO/…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Introduction to Presentation Attack Detection in Iris Biometrics and Recent Advances

Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Javier Galbally +1

Iris recognition technology has attracted an increasing interest in the last decades in which we have witnessed a migration from research laboratories to real world applications. T…

cs.CV2021★ 16 cited

Differential Anomaly Detection for Facial Images

Mathias Ibsen, Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb +3

Due to their convenience and high accuracy, face recognition systems are widely employed in governmental and personal security applications to automatically recognise individuals.…

cs.CV2021

SVC-onGoing: Signature Verification Competition

Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia +29

This article presents SVC-onGoing, an on-going competition for on-line signature verification where researchers can easily benchmark their systems against the state of the art in a…

cs.CV2021

ICDAR 2021 Competition on On-Line Signature Verification

Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia +28

This paper describes the experimental framework and results of the ICDAR 2021 Competition on On-Line Signature Verification (SVC 2021). The goal of SVC 2021 is to evaluate the limi…

cs.CV2021

On the Generalisation Capabilities of Fisher Vector based Face Presentation Attack Detection

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch

In the last decades, the broad development experienced by biometric systems has unveiled several threats which may decrease their trustworthiness. Those are attack presentations wh…

cs.CY2021

Biometrics in the Era of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities

Marta Gomez-Barrero, Pawel Drozdowski, Christian Rathgeb +7

Since early 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on many aspects of daily life. A range of different measures have been implemented worldwide to reduce the rate…

cs.CV2021

Selfie Periocular Verification using an Efficient Super-Resolution Approach

Juan Tapia, Andres Valenzuela, Rodrigo Lara +2

Selfie-based biometrics has great potential for a wide range of applications since, e.g. periocular verification is contactless and is safe to use in pandemics such as COVID-19, wh…

cs.SD2020

Texture-based Presentation Attack Detection for Automatic Speaker Verification

Lazaro J. Gonzalez-Soler, Jose Patino, Marta Gomez-Barrero +3

Biometric systems are nowadays employed across a broad range of applications. They provide high security and efficiency and, in many cases, are user friendly. Despite these and oth…

cs.CV2020

On the Generalisation Capabilities of Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection Methods in the Short Wave Infrared Domain

Jascha Kolberg, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch

Nowadays, fingerprint-based biometric recognition systems are becoming increasingly popular. However, in spite of their numerous advantages, biometric capture devices are usually e…

cs.CV2020★ 37 cited

Anomaly Detection with Convolutional Autoencoders for Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection

Jascha Kolberg, Marcel Grimmer, Marta Gomez-Barrero +1

In recent years, the popularity of fingerprint-based biometric authentication systems significantly increased. However, together with many advantages, biometric systems are still v…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

Morphing Attack Detection -- Database, Evaluation Platform and Benchmarking

Kiran Raja, Matteo Ferrara, Annalisa Franco +18

Morphing attacks have posed a severe threat to Face Recognition System (FRS). Despite the number of advancements reported in recent works, we note serious open issues such as indep…

cs.CV2019

Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection Based on Local Features Encoding for Unknown Attacks

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Leonardo Chang +2

Fingerprint-based biometric systems have experienced a large development in the last years. Despite their many advantages, they are still vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs).…

cs.CV2019★ 85 cited

Biometric Presentation Attack Detection: Beyond the Visible Spectrum

Ruben Tolosana, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch +1

The increased need for unattended authentication in multiple scenarios has motivated a wide deployment of biometric systems in the last few years. This has in turn led to the discl…

cs.CR2018★ 28 cited

Homomorphic Encryption for Speaker Recognition: Protection of Biometric Templates and Vendor Model Parameters

Andreas Nautsch, Sergey Isadskiy, Jascha Kolberg +2

Data privacy is crucial when dealing with biometric data. Accounting for the latest European data privacy regulation and payment service directive, biometric template protection is…