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Julian Fierrez 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 Julian Fierrez sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 426 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Julian Fierrez 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 Julian Fierrez sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 74 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Julian Fierrez is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain and has a research focus concentrated in computer science, particularly in biometric identification and security. Their body of work covers several subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, signal processing, information systems, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.

Their research topics prominently include:

  • Biometric Identification and Security
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Julian Fierrez has frequently published in notable venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • IEEE Access
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Information Fusion

Their recent papers include:

  • "Deepfakes and beyond: A Survey of face manipulation and fake detection," 2022, Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • "SensitiveNets: Learning agnostic representations with application to face images," 2020, Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • "Handwriting Biometrics: Applications and Future Trends in e-Security and e-Health," 2020, Cognitive Computation
  • "Synthetic data for face recognition: Current state and future prospects," 2023, Image and Vision Computing
  • "Deepfakes and beyond: A Survey of face manipulation and fake detection," 2020, Information Fusion

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Aythami Morales
  • Rubén Tolosana
  • Rubén Vera-Rodríguez
  • Javier Ortega-García
  • Ignacio Serna

In addition to journal publications, Julian Fierrez has contributed to academic literature through book publications. A notable book is the "Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing," published by Springer International Publishing in 2023.

Best Publications

  • DeepFakes and Beyond: A Survey of Face Manipulation and Fake Detection

    Ruben Tolosana;Ruben Vera-Rodriguez;Julian Fierrez;Aythami Morales

  • MCYT baseline corpus: a bimodal biometric database

    J. Ortega-Garcia;J. Fierrez-Aguilar;D. Simon;J. Gonzalez

  • 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

  • HMM-based on-line signature verification: Feature extraction and signature modeling

    Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia;Daniel Ramos;Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

  • A Comparative Study of Fingerprint Image-Quality Estimation Methods

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

  • 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

  • Biometrics Systems Under Spoofing Attack: An evaluation methodology and lessons learned

    Abdenour Hadid;Nicholas W. D. Evans;Sébastien Marcel;Julian Fiérrez

  • Target dependent score normalization techniques and their application to signature verification

    J. Fierrez-Aguilar;J. Ortega-Garcia;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

  • Rapid and brief communication: Biosec baseline corpus: A multimodal biometric database

    Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia;Doroteo Torre Toledano;Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

  • Fingerprint Databases and Evaluation

    Fernando Alonso-Fernandez;Julian Fierrez

  • BiosecurID: a multimodal biometric database

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

  • Cancelable Templates for Sequence-Based Biometrics with Application to On-line Signature Recognition

    Emanuele Maiorana;Patrizio Campisi;Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia

  • Multi-biometric template protection based on Homomorphic Encryption

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

  • SensitiveNets: Learning Agnostic Representations with Application to Face Images

    Aythami Morales;Julian Fierrez;Ruben Vera-Rodriguez;Ruben Tolosana

  • Exploring Recurrent Neural Networks for On-Line Handwritten Signature Biometrics

    Ruben Tolosana;Ruben Vera-Rodriguez;Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia

  • Soft Biometrics and Their Application in Person Recognition at a Distance

    Pedro Tome;Julian Fierrez;Ruben Vera-Rodriguez;Mark S. Nixon

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier Ortega-Garcia
Javier Ortega-Garcia Autonomous University of Madrid
Aythami Morales
Aythami Morales Autonomous University of Madrid
Javier Galbally
Javier Galbally Autonomous University of Madrid
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez Halmstad University
Josef Bigun
Josef Bigun Halmstad University
Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez Autonomous University of Madrid
Réjean Plamondon
Réjean Plamondon Polytechnique Montréal
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy Pompeu Fabra University
Vishal M. Patel
Vishal M. Patel Johns Hopkins University
Raymond N.J. Veldhuis
Raymond N.J. Veldhuis University of Twente

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