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Overview

Javier Galbally is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research predominantly lies within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, and Information Systems. Their work spans across topics related to Biometric Identification and Security, Face Recognition and Analysis, Face and Expression Recognition, Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods, Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques, Natural Language Processing Techniques, and Topic Modeling.

The scientist has contributed to multiple papers, some of the notable recent publications include:

  • "Biometric Quality: Review and Application to Face Recognition with FaceQnet" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "SVC-onGoing: Signature verification competition" (2022), published in Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • "Face Image Quality Assessment: A Literature Survey" (2022), published in ACM Computing Surveys
  • "3D-FLARE: A Touchless Full-3D Fingerprint Recognition System Based on Laser Sensing" (2020), published in IEEE Access
  • "A new Foe in biometrics: A narrative review of side-channel attacks" (2020), published in Computers & Security

Javier Galbally has coauthored works frequently with several researchers, which include:

  • Julián Fiérrez
  • Aythami Morales
  • Javier Ortega-García
  • Marta Gomez-Barrero
  • Javier Hernandez-Ortega

Their publications have appeared mainly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • IEEE Access
  • Computers & Security

Best Publications

  • Image Quality Assessment for Fake Biometric Detection: Application to Iris, Fingerprint, and Face Recognition

    Javier Galbally;Sebastien Marcel;Julian Fierrez

  • Biometric Antispoofing Methods: A Survey in Face Recognition

    Javier Galbally;Sebastien Marcel;Julian Fierrez

  • The Multiscenario Multienvironment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)

    Javier Ortega-Garcia;Julian Fierrez;Fernando Alonso-Fernandez;Javier Galbally

  • A high performance fingerprint liveness detection method based on quality related features

    Javier Galbally;Fernando Alonso-Fernandez;Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia

  • General Framework to Evaluate Unlinkability in Biometric Template Protection Systems

    Marta Gomez-Barrero;Javier Galbally;Christian Rathgeb;Christoph Busch

  • Face Anti-spoofing Based on General Image Quality Assessment

    Javier Galbally;Sébastien Marcel

  • BiosecurID: a multimodal biometric database

    J. Fierrez;J. Galbally;J. Ortega-Garcia;M. R. Freire

  • Multi-biometric template protection based on Homomorphic Encryption

    Marta Gomez-Barrero;Emanuele Maiorana;Javier Galbally;Patrizio Campisi

  • On the vulnerability of face verification systems to hill-climbing attacks

    Javier Galbally;Chris McCool;Julian Fierrez;Sebastien Marcel

  • Iris liveness detection based on quality related features

    Javier Galbally;Jaime Ortiz-Lopez;Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia

  • Iris image reconstruction from binary templates: An efficient probabilistic approach based on genetic algorithms

    Javier Galbally;Arun Ross;Marta Gomez-Barrero;Julian Fierrez

  • Direct Attacks Using Fake Images in Iris Verification

    Virginia Ruiz-Albacete;Pedro Tome-Gonzalez;Fernando Alonso-Fernandez;Javier Galbally

  • On-line signature recognition through the combination of real dynamic data and synthetically generated static data

    Javier Galbally;Moises Diaz-Cabrera;Miguel A. Ferrer;Marta Gomez-Barrero

  • FaceQnet: Quality Assessment for Face Recognition based on Deep Learning

    Javier Hernandez-Ortega;Javier Galbally;Julian Fierrez;Rudolf Haraksim

  • Multi-biometric template protection based on bloom filters

    Marta Gomez-Barrero;Christian Rathgeb;Guoqiang Li;Raghavendra Ramachandra

  • Unlinkable and irreversible biometric template protection based on bloom filters

    Marta Gomez-Barrero;Christian Rathgeb;Javier Galbally;Christoph Busch

  • An evaluation of direct attacks using fake fingers generated from ISO templates

    Javier Galbally;Raffaele Cappelli;Alessandra Lumini;Guillermo Gonzalez-de-Rivera

  • Evaluation of direct attacks to fingerprint verification systems

    J. Galbally;J. Fierrez;F. Alonso-Fernandez;M. Martinez-Diaz

  • The 2nd competition on counter measures to 2D face spoofing attacks

    I. Chingovska;J. Yang;Z. Lei;D. Yi

  • Benchmarking Touchscreen Biometrics for Mobile Authentication

    Julian Fierrez;Ada Pozo;Marcos Martinez-Diaz;Javier Galbally

  • Synthetic on-line signature generation. Part I: Methodology and algorithms

    Javier Galbally;Réjean Plamondon;Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Fierrez
Julian Fierrez Autonomous University of Madrid
Javier Ortega-Garcia
Javier Ortega-Garcia Autonomous University of Madrid
Aythami Morales
Aythami Morales Autonomous University of Madrid
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez Halmstad University
Miguel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Christoph Busch
Christoph Busch Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Réjean Plamondon
Réjean Plamondon Polytechnique Montréal
Sébastien Marcel
Sébastien Marcel Idiap Research Institute
Christian Rathgeb
Christian Rathgeb Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Arun Ross
Arun Ross Michigan State University

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