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.