2026 Sébastien Marcel: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	71	1793	1736	42	42	292	17678

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Sébastien Marcel is a researcher affiliated with the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland. Their scholarly work spans over 221 publications primarily in the domain of Computer Science.

Their research is concentrated in subfields including:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Neurology
Information Systems

Key topics addressed in their work include:

Face recognition and analysis
Biometric Identification and Security
Face and Expression Recognition
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Digital Media Forensic Detection
User Authentication and Security Systems
Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research

Sébastien Marcel has contributed to several frequently publishing venues, such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
IEEE Access
Revue Neurologique

Among book publications, they have authored works published by Springer International Publishing, including the Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (2023).

Frequent co-authors in Sébastien Marcel's research network include:

Hatef Otroshi Shahreza
Anjith George
Ketan Kotwal
Pavel Korshunov
Christian Rathgeb

Selected recent research papers authored or co-authored by Sébastien Marcel include:

Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Motor Recovery in Subacute Ischemic Stroke: a Randomized Clinical Trial, 2020, Translational Stroke Research
Prediction of Early Neurological Deterioration in Individuals With Minor Stroke and Large Vessel Occlusion Intended for Intravenous Thrombolysis Alone, 2021, JAMA Neurology
Are GAN-based morphs threatening face recognition?, 2022, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
EdgeFace: Efficient Face Recognition Model for Edge Devices, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science
Towards Protecting and Enhancing Vascular Biometric Recognition Methods via Biohashing and Deep Neural Networks, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science

Best Publications

On the effectiveness of local binary patterns in face anti-spoofing

Ivana Chingovska;Andre Anjos;Sebastien Marcel

880
Citations
Image Quality Assessment for Fake Biometric Detection: Application to Iris, Fingerprint, and Face Recognition

Javier Galbally;Sebastien Marcel;Julian Fierrez

737
Citations
Person Authentication Using Brainwaves (EEG) and Maximum A Posteriori Model Adaptation

S. Marcel;J.D.R. Millan

654
Citations
DeepFakes: a New Threat to Face Recognition? Assessment and Detection

Pavel Korshunov;Sébastien Marcel

556
Citations
Biometric Antispoofing Methods: A Survey in Face Recognition

Javier Galbally;Sebastien Marcel;Julian Fierrez

502
Citations
Torchvision the machine-vision package of torch

Sébastien Marcel;Yann Rodriguez

435
Citations
Counter-measures to photo attacks in face recognition: A public database and a baseline

Andre Anjos;Sebastien Marcel

416
Citations
LBP - TOP based countermeasure against face spoofing attacks

Tiago de Freitas Pereira;André Anjos;José Mario De Martino;Sébastien Marcel

404
Citations
Spoofing in 2D face recognition with 3D masks and anti-spoofing with Kinect

Nesli Erdogmus;Sebastien Marcel

363
Citations
Spoofing Face Recognition With 3D Masks

Nesli Erdogmus;Sebastien Marcel

338
Citations
Can face anti-spoofing countermeasures work in a real world scenario?

Tiago de Freitas Pereira;Andre Anjos;Jose Mario De Martino;Sebastien Marcel

323
Citations
Spoofing 2D face recognition systems with 3D masks

Nesli Erdogmus;Sebastien Marcel

303
Citations
Bi-Modal Person Recognition on a Mobile Phone: Using Mobile Phone Data

Christopher McCool;Sebastien Marcel;Abdenour Hadid;Matti Pietikainen

287
Citations
Biometric Face Presentation Attack Detection With Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Network

Anjith George;Zohreh Mostaani;David Geissenbuhler;Olegs Nikisins

284
Citations
Face liveness detection using dynamic texture

Tiago de Freitas Pereira;Jukka Komulainen;André Anjos;José Mario De Martino

282
Citations
Face authentication using adapted local binary pattern histograms

Yann Rodriguez;Sébastien Marcel

278
Citations
Local binary patterns as an image preprocessing for face authentication

G. Heusch;Y. Rodriguez;S. Marcel

268
Citations
Biometrics Systems Under Spoofing Attack: An evaluation methodology and lessons learned

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

251
Citations
Face Anti-spoofing Based on General Image Quality Assessment

Javier Galbally;Sébastien Marcel

233
Citations
Competition on counter measures to 2-D facial spoofing attacks

Murali Mohan Chakka;Andre Anjos;Sebastien Marcel;Roberto Tronci

226
Citations
Anti-spoofing: Evaluation Methodologies

Ivana Chingovska;André Anjos;Sébastien Marcel

125
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman Poh University of Surrey

Josef Kittler University of Surrey

Abdenour Hadid University of Oulu

Christoph Busch Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Samy Bengio Apple (United States)

Conrad Sanderson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Javier Galbally Autonomous University of Madrid

Julian Fierrez Autonomous University of Madrid

Matti Pietikäinen University of Oulu

Kiran B. Raja Norwegian University of Science and Technology

External Links

Personal website of Sébastien Marcel Google Scholar page

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