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April, 2025: Two papers accepted in different workshops of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025). Topics: Vision-Language Models in Food Image Recognition and Membership Inference Test applied to Images.
February, 2025: Co-Organizer of the Workshop 1st International Workshop on Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition (FM&LLM&GM2025) at the IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference (FG 2025).
January, 2025: I received the “Juan Lopez de Peñalver Award (2024)” from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering (RAING). This award recognises researchers/engineers under 40 years who have carried out outstanding development and innovation work in the field of engineering.
December, 2024: New position at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid: Associate Professor (Profesor Permanente Laboral).
October, 2024: Selected as one of the most influential researchers in the world according to “Ranking of the World Scientist: World Top 2%”, carried out by Stanford University and Elsevier. Check also additional information posted by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
March, 2024: Hiring alert!! 2 Postdoctoral and 5 PhD students Positions at UAM. If you are interested, please check the following document [CLOSED].
January, 2024: Co-Organizer of the Workshop/Challenge 2nd Edition Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data (FRCSyn) at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2024). The platform used in the 2nd edition of FRCSyn challenge is CodaLab.
December, 2023: Co-Organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Responsible Face Image Processing (ReFIP) at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2024).
October, 2023: Our paper GANDiffFace received the “Best Paper Award” at the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures in IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023.
October, 2023: Selected as one of the most influential researchers in the world according to “Ranking of the World Scientist: World Top 2%”, carried out by Stanford University and Elsevier.
September, 2023: I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” in the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023).
September, 2023: Co-Organizer of the Workshop/Challenge 1st Edition Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data (FRCSyn) at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024). The platform used in the 1st edition of FRCSyn challenge is CodaLab.
June, 2023: I received the “Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2019-2022” from the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI).
June, 2023: Co-Organizer of the Keystroke Verification Challenge (KVC) at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2023).
May, 2023: Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Advances of Mobile and Wearable Biometrics (WAMWB) at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI 2023).
March, 2023: Area Chair of the IEEE Int. Joint Conf. on Biometrics (IJCB 2023).
March, 2023: Publicity Chair of The 19th IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS 2023).
February, 2023: Presenting our research and technology at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
January, 2023: I have been accepted as Technical Area Committee of the European Association For Signal Processing (EURASIP). In particular, in the area BForSec: Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security.
November, 2022: Evaluator of the ELLIS PhD Program.
November, 2022: I have been accepted as member by the ELLIS Society, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.
2022: General Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair of The 18th IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS 2022).
July, 2022: Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Digital Face Manipulation and Detection.
June-July, 2022: Local Organization Committee of the PRIMA and TRESPASS Summer School at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
2022: Guest Editor of the Special Issue Manipulation Detection in Digital Images and Videos from EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
October, 2022: Co-Organizer of the IJCB 2022 Mobile Behavioral Biometrics Competition (MobileB2C).
January, 2022: I have been invited to serve as Associate Editor in the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).
2021: Co-Editor of the Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection: From DeepFakes to Morphing Attacks (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Series, Springer).
September, 2021: I received the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” in the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2021).
September, 2021: Co-Organizer of the ICDAR 2021 Competition on On-Line Signature Verification (SVC 2021).
July, 2019: Local Organization Committee and Poster Chair of the 9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2019).
October, 2018: I have been accepted as Editorial Board in the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter.
September, 2018: I received the “European Biometrics Industry Award (2018)” by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB).