Title: Detecting Fake ID Documents in Real Scenarios

Type: R&D Contract with Veridas

Funding: ca. 100K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: April 2025 - December 2026

Principal investigator(s): Ruben Tolosana and Julian Fierrez

Objectives:

- Research and Development of novel AI methods able to detect fake ID documents (i.e., Physical Attacks such as print, screen, and composite, and Digital Attacks created using GenerativeAI methods such as face-swapping or text inpainting).

Title: Database Generation and Benchmark

Type: R&D Contract with Gradiant

Funding: ca. 150K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: November 2024 - February 2026

Principal investigator(s): Ruben Tolosana and Julian Fierrez

Objectives:

- Research and Development of a novel database composed of real and DeepFake videos in virtual meeting scenarios. Proposal of a benchmark for DeepFake detection.

Title: Automatic Fall Detection through Mobile Devices and AI Methods

Type: R&D Contract with Cartronic

Funding: ca. 47K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: May 2022 - December 2023

Principal investigator(s): Ruben Tolosana and Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

Objectives:

- Research and Development of a software module able to detect falls in elderly population using mobile devices and Artificial Intelligence methods.

Title: Detecting Fraud in Facial Biometric Systems

Type: R&D Contract with Veridas

Funding: ca. 47K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: March 2022 - June 2023

Principal investigator(s): Aythami Morales and Ruben Tolosana

Objectives:

- Research and Development of a software module able to detect presentation attacks to facial biometric systems (e.g., facial masks, printed faces, replay attacks) in accordance to NIST and ISO developments in this area.

Title: Quality Measurement for Face Biometrics

Type: R&D Contract with Veridas

Funding: ca. 40K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: September 2020 - June 2021

Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez

Objectives:

- Research and Development of a software module able to measure facial biometric quality both as a single scalar measure that predicts the utility of the face input and as a vector or quality indicators in accordance to NIST developments in this area.

Title: Biometrics and Behavior for Assessing Remote Education

Type: R&D Commission funded by UAM

Funding: ca. 30K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: October 2019 - December 2021

Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Aythami Morales

Objectives:

- Research and Development in biometrics for enabling remote assesment of e-learning sessions conducted in desktop computers with webcam, physical keyboard, and mouse.

Title: Mobile User Monitoring from Heterogeneous Biometric Data

Type: Competitive Research Grant, BBVA Foundation

Funding: ca. 100K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: September 2018 - August 2020

Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia

Objectives:

- To explore new mobile continuous monitoring schemes based on the ensemble of heterogeneous data generated from the interaction between human and devices.

- The study of novel continuous trustworthy metrics developed specifically for mobile scenarios.

- The study of new combination methods to exploit the discriminative ability of patterns from multiple sources of information.

Title: Advanced Analytics

Type: Technical Support Contract with Accenture

Funding: ca. 80K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: February 2017 - January 2021

Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez

Objectives:

- Technical support in advanced analytics including text, image, and video inputs.

Title: Characterization of Neuro-Degenerative Disorders with new Biomarkers

Type: Competitive Research Grant (UAM-CEAL), Banco Santander

Funding: 12.5K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: July 2017 - December 2018

Principal investigator(s): Aythami Morales

Objectives:

- To study new biomarkers for monitoring neuro-degenerative disorders.

- To foster research collaborations between Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).

Title: Cognitive Analytics for Biometric Signature Authentication in Banking Scenarios

Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank

Funding: ca. 200K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: October 2016 - September 2020

Principal investigator(s): Javier Ortega-Garcia

Objectives:

- Research and Development in biometrics for improving the security and the user experience in banking applications at bank branches, remotely using desktop computing, and in mobile scenarios using smartphones.

Title: e-BioSign: Improvement of Signature Comparison Technology

Type: R&D Contract with Cecabank

Funding: ca. 100K euros

Participants: Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

Period: April 2014 - May 2016

Principal investigator(s): Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia

Objectives:

- Transfer of signature biometrics technology, including the development of an SDK to be integrated in Ceca systems.

- Development of methods and tools to enable the forensic comparison of dynamic signatures, under the same principles followed by forensic experts when comparing signature images.