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Josef Bigun publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Josef Bigun sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 229 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Josef Bigun D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Josef Bigun sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to image understanding.
  • 2000 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to image understanding and for service to IAPR

Overview

Josef Bigun is affiliated with Halmstad University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on computer vision and pattern recognition. Their research spans multiple subfields including signal processing, artificial intelligence, neurology, and media technology.

The main topics of their work include face recognition and analysis, biometric identification and security, and face and expression recognition. Additional areas of interest cover facial nerve paralysis treatment and research, nasal surgery and airway studies, cutaneous melanoma detection and management, and image processing techniques and applications.

Bigun's recent publications illustrate an active engagement with biometric and face recognition technologies across diverse scenarios. Notable papers include:

  • "On the effect of selfie beautification filters on face detection and recognition," 2022, Pattern Recognition Letters
  • "Cross-sensor periocular biometrics in a global pandemic: Comparative benchmark and novel multialgorithmic approach," 2022, Information Fusion
  • "Periocular Biometrics: A Modality for Unconstrained Scenarios," 2024, Computer
  • "One-Shot Learning for Periocular Recognition: Exploring the Effect of Domain Adaptation and Data Bias on Deep Representations," 2023, IEEE Access
  • "Facilitating free travel in the Schengen area-A position paper by the European Association for Biometrics," 2023, IET Biometrics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bigun include Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez-Diaz, José María Buades Rubio, Pontus Hedman, and Vasilios Skepetzis.

Bigun has published a significant number of works in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Pattern Recognition Letters, IET Biometrics, Information Fusion, and Computer, highlighting a broad engagement with journals and preprint repositories in the biometrics and computer vision communities.

Awards achieved during their career include recognition as an IEEE Fellow in 2003 for contributions to image understanding and being named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 2000 for contributions to image understanding and service to the association.

Best Publications

  • Multidimensional orientation estimation with applications to texture analysis and optical flow

    J. Bigun;G.H. Granlund;J. Wiklund

  • Optimal Orientation Detection of Linear Symmetry

    Josef Bigun

  • Real-Time Face Detection and Motion Analysis With Application in “Liveness” Assessment

    K. Kollreider;H. Fronthaler;M.I. Faraj;J. Bigun

  • Face authentication with Gabor information on deformable graphs

    B. Duc;S. Fischer;J. Bigun

  • Localization of corresponding points in fingerprints by complex filtering

    Kenneth Nilsson;Josef Bigun

  • A Comparative Study of Fingerprint Image-Quality Estimation Methods

    F. Alonso-Fernandez;J. Fierrez;J. Ortega-Garcia;J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez

  • Expert Conciliation for Multi Modal Person Authentication Systems by Bayesian Statistics

    E. S. Bigün;Josef Bigün;Benoît Duc;S. Fischer

  • Non-intrusive liveness detection by face images

    K. Kollreider;H. Fronthaler;J. Bigun

  • Authentication gets personal with biometrics

    J. Ortega-Garcia;J. Bigun;D. Reynolds;J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez

  • Rapid and brief communication: Discriminative multimodal biometric authentication based on quality measures

    Julian Fierrez-Aguilar;Javier Ortega-Garcia;Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez;Josef Bigun

  • N-folded symmetries by complex moments in Gabor space and their application to unsupervised texture segmentation

    J. Bigun;J.M.H. du Buf

  • Evaluating liveness by face images and the structure tensor

    K. Kollreider;H. Fronthaler;J. Bigun

  • Comparison of face verification results on the XM2VTFS database

    J. Matas;M. Hamouz;K. Jonsson;J. Kittler

  • Verifying liveness by multiple experts in face biometrics

    K. Kollreider;H. Fronthaler;J. Bigun

  • Local Features for Enhancement and Minutiae Extraction in Fingerprints

    H. Fronthaler;K. Kollreider;J. Bigun

  • Recognition by symmetry derivatives and the generalized structure tensor

    J. Bigun;T. Bigun;K. Nilsson

  • Retinal vision applied to facial features detection and face authentication

    F. Smeraldi;J. Bigun

  • A survey on periocular biometrics research

    Fernando Alonso-Fernandez;Josef Bigun

  • Fusion of audio and video information for multi modal person authentication

    Benoît Duc;Elizabeth Saers Bigün;Elizabeth Saers Bigün;Josef Bigün;Gilbert Maître

  • Multimodal biometric authentication using quality signals in mobile communications

    J. Bigun;J. Fierrez-Aguilar;J. Ortega-Garcia;J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez

  • N-folded symmetries by complex moments in Gabor space

    J. Bigun;J. du Buf

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Alonso-Fernandez
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez Halmstad University
Julian Fierrez
Julian Fierrez Autonomous University of Madrid
Javier Ortega-Garcia
Javier Ortega-Garcia Autonomous University of Madrid
Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez Autonomous University of Madrid
Massimo Tistarelli
Massimo Tistarelli University of Sassari
Christoph Busch
Christoph Busch Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Kiran B. Raja
Kiran B. Raja Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Hans Knutsson
Hans Knutsson Linköping University
Anil K. Jain
Anil K. Jain Michigan State University
Wulfram Gerstner
Wulfram Gerstner École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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