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ana filipa pinheiro sequeira. Completed the Doutoramento in Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores in 2015/12/16 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Doutoramento in PDEEC - Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Electronica e de Computadores (PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering) in 2015/12/16 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Mestrado in MESTRADO EM ENGENHARIA MATEMÁTICA in 2007/07/31 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências and Licenciatura in LICENCIATURA EM MATEMÁTICA - RAMO EDUCACIONAL in 2002/09/30 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências. Is Contracted Researcher in Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência and Invited Assistant Professor in Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia. Published 7 articles in journals. Has 1 section(s) of books. Organized 7 event(s). Participated in 5 event(s). Supervised 3 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 1. Supervised 3 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 4. Has received 2 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Researcher in 3 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: artificial intelligence; machine learning ; computer vision; biometric recognition; cryptography; mathematics; probability; biometrics; person identification; border crossing; user-centric; automated borders; Automóvel, Aeronautica e Espaço; TIC Aplicadas à industria; ECG; driver fatigue detection; automotive research; human perception; anti-spoofing; machine learning; iris; face; fingeprirnt; Computer Methods in Biomechanics; Biomedical Engineering; biometria; continuous authentication; image processing; forensics; liveness detection; Fingerprint segmentation; Fuzzy C-means clustering; Morphological processing; Fingerprint; Segmentation; multimodal biometrics; adversarial learning; transfer learning; presentation attack detection; deep learning; databases; SQL; criptografia; security; anti spoofing ; machine learning; iris recognition; competition ; biometric competition; biometric competition; explainability; XAI; biometric recognition; Biometrics; Biosignals; Computer vision; Data; Driver; Drowsiness; Simulator; Vehicles; Intelligence; Electrical; Computers; Systems; FOS: Computer and information sciences; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Computer Science - Machine Learning; Machine Learning (cs.LG); .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ana filipa pinheiro sequeira

Citation names

  • Ana F. Sequeira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D81C-F94B-30F8
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6685-2033
Google Scholar ID
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Email addresses

  • ana.f.sequeira@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • linkedin.com/in/ana-filipa-sequeira-2b80ab14 (Social media)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Finnish Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/12/16
Concluded
 PDEEC - Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Electronica e de Computadores (PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
" Liveness Detection and Robust Recognition in Iris and Fingerprint Biometric Systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16 parte curricular, Aprovada na Tese
2015/12/16
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Liveness Detection and Robust Recognition in Iris and Fingerprint Biometric Systems " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/07/31
Concluded
 MESTRADO EM ENGENHARIA MATEMÁTICA (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"MEDUSA: UM CIFRA INSPIRADA NA BÍFIDA E UMA SUA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16 parte curricular, Muito Bom na tese
2002/09/30
Concluded
 LICENCIATURA EM MATEMÁTICA - RAMO EDUCACIONAL (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"NÃO SE APLICA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2015/11/19 - 2018/07/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) University of Reading, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/09/19 - 2021/02/28 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/11/01 - Current Area Leader Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence (VCMI) Area, in the Centre of Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), INESCTEC, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/08/01 - 2019/01/31 Researcher Irisguard UK, United Kingdom
2011/02/01 - 2015/09/30 PhD Student & Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2008 - 2010 Trainer in Adults Education – Mathematics and Information&Communication Technology SONAE , Portugal
2005 - 2008 Trainer in Adults Education – Mathematics and Information&Communication Technology Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/06/01 - 2015/05/31 Liveness Detection and Robust Recognition in Iris and Fingerprint Biometric Systems.
SFRH/BD/74263/2010
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/04/01 - Current AUTOMOTIVE - AUTOmatic multiMOdal drowsiness detecTIon for smart Vehicles
PTDC/EEI-EEE/30707/2017
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC)
LA/P/0063/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0063/2020
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/09/01 - 2018/07/31 PROTECT EU Project
700259
Researcher
University of Reading, United Kingdom
 European Union
Concluded
2015/11/19 - 2017/03/31 FastPass- a harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points
312583
Researcher
University of Reading, United Kingdom
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - Current New Space Portugal
02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC644936537-00000046
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Monteiro, João C.; Sequeira, Ana F.; Oliveira, Hélder P.; Cardoso, Jaime S.. "Robust Iris Localisation in Challenging Scenarios". In Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications, 146-162. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-662-45944-7_10
Conference paper
  1. Neto, PC; Mamede, RM; Albuquerque, C; Gonçalves, T; Sequeira, AF. "Massively Annotated Datasets for Assessment of Synthetic and Real Data in Face Recognition". 2024.
    10.1109/fg59268.2024.10581953
  2. Vieira, M; Gonçalves, T; Silva, W; Sequeira, AF. "An End-to-End Framework to Classify and Generate Privacy-Preserving Explanations in Pornography Detection". 2024.
    10.1109/biosig61931.2024.10786730
  3. Neto, Pedro C.; Caldeira, Eduarda; Cardoso, Jaime S.; Sequeira, Ana F.. "Compressed Models Decompress Race Biases: What Quantized Models Forget for Fair Face Recognition". Darmstadt, 2023.
    10.48550/arxiv.2308.11840
  4. Eduarda Caldeira; Pedro C. Neto; Tiago Gonçalves; Naser Damer; Ana F. Sequeira; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Unveiling the Two-Faced Truth: Disentangling Morphed Identities for Face Morphing Detection". Paper presented in EUSIPCO, Helsinki, 2023.
    10.23919/eusipco58844.2023.10289844
  5. Pedro C. Neto; Ana F. Sequeira; Jaime S. Cardoso; Philipp Terhörst. "PIC-Score: Probabilistic Interpretable Comparison Score for Optimal Matching Confidence in Single- and Multi-Biometric Face Recognition". Vancouver, 2023.
    Published • 10.1109/cvprw59228.2023.00109
  6. Neto P.C.; Caldeira E.; Cardoso J.S.; Sequeira A.F.; Neto, PC; Caldeira, E; Cardoso, JS; et al. "Compressed Models Decompress Race Biases: What Quantized Models Forget for Fair Face Recognition". 2023.
    10.1109/biosig58226.2023.10346003
  7. Neto, PC; Boutros, F; Pinto, JR; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS; Bengherabi, M; et al. "OCFR 2022: Competition on Occluded Face Recognition From Synthetically Generated Structure-Aware Occlusions". 2022.
    10.1109/ijcb54206.2022.10007963
  8. Brömme, A.; Damer, N.; Gomez-Barrero, M.; Raja, K.; Rathgeb, C.; Sequeira, A.F.; Todisco, M.; Uhl, A.. "Chairs' Message". 2022.
    10.1109/BIOSIG55365.2022.9897047
  9. Huber, M; Boutros, F; Luu, AT; Raja, K; Ramachandra, R; Damer, N; Neto, PC; et al. "SYN-MAD 2022: Competition on Face Morphing Attack Detection Based on Privacy-aware Synthetic Training Data". 2022.
    10.1109/ijcb54206.2022.10007950
  10. Neto, PC; Boutros, F; Pinto, JR; Saffari, M; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS; et al. "My Eyes Are Up Here: Promoting Focus on Uncovered Regions in Masked Face Recognition". 2021.
    10.1109/biosig52210.2021.9548320
  11. Boutros, F; Damer, N; Kolf, JN; Raja, K; Kirchbuchner, F; Ramachandra, R; Kuijper, A; et al. "MFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competition". 2021.
    10.1109/ijcb52358.2021.9484337
  12. Brömme, A.; Busch, C.; Damer, N.; Dantcheva, A.; Gomez-Barrero, M.; Raja, K.; Rathgeb, C.; Sequeira, A.F.; Uhl, A.. "Chairs' Message - 20th anniversary of BIOSIG". 2021.
    10.1109/BIOSIG52210.2021.9548313
  13. Brömme, A.; Busch, C.; Damer, N.; Dantcheva, A.; Gomez-Barrero, M.; Raja, K.; Rathgeb, C.; Sequeira, A.F.; Uhl, A.. "Chairs’ Message - 20th anniversary of BIOSIG". 2021.
  14. Ana F. Sequeira. "A robust fingerprint presentation attack detection method against unseen attacks through adversarial learning". Paper presented in BIOSIG 2020, Darmstadt, 2020.
    Published
  15. Ana F. Sequeira; Jaime S. Cardoso; wilson silva; joão r. pinto; tiago gonçalves; Sequeira, AF; Silva, W; et al. "Interpretable Biometrics: Should We Rethink How Presentation Attack Detection is Evaluated?". Paper presented in 8th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF2020), Porto, 2020.
    In press • 10.1109/iwbf49977.2020.9107949
  16. Pereira, JA; Sequeira, AF; Pernes, D; Cardoso, JS. "A robust fingerprint presentation attack detection method against unseen attacks through adversarial learning". 2020.
  17. Costa, Paulo; Pedro Silva; João Ribeiro Pinto; Ana F. Sequeira; Ana Rebelo. "Face Anti Spoofing: Handcrafted and Learned Features for Face Liveness Detection". Paper presented in RECPAD - Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Porto, 2019.
    Published
  18. Ana F. Sequeira; Pedro Ferreira; Diogo Pernes; Ana Rebelo; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Adversarial learning for a robust iris presentation attack detection method against unseen attack presentations". Paper presented in 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), 2019.
  19. Ferreira, PM; Sequeira, AF; Pernes, D; Rebelo, A; Cardoso, JS. "Adversarial learning for a robust iris presentation attack detection method against unseen attack presentations". 2019.
  20. Hofbauer, Heinz; Jalilian, Ehsaneddin; Sequeira, Ana F.; Ferryman, James; Uhl, Andreas. "Mobile NIR Iris Recognition: Identifying Problems and Solutions". Paper presented in BTAS, 2018.
    10.1109/btas.2018.8698590
  21. Sequeira, AF; Chen, L; Ferryman, J; Galdi, C; Chiesa, V; Dugelay, JL; Maik, P; et al. "PROTECT Multimodal DB: Fusion evaluation on a novel multimodal biometrics dataset envisaging Border Control". 2018.
    10.23919/biosig.2018.8552926
  22. Ferreira, PM; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS; Rebelo, A. "Robust Clustering-based Segmentation Methods for Fingerprint Recognition". 2018.
    10.23919/biosig.2018.8553022
  23. Sequeira, Ana F.; Chen, Lulu; Ferryman, James; Wild, Peter; Alonso-Fernandez, Fernando; Bigun, Josef; Raja, Kiran B.; et al. "Cross-eyed 2017: Cross-spectral iris/periocular recognition competition". Paper presented in International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2017.
    10.1109/btas.2017.8272762
  24. Sequeira, Ana F.; Thavalengal, Shejin; Ferryman, James; Corcoran, Peter; Cardoso, Jaime S.. "A realistic evaluation of iris presentation attack detection". Paper presented in International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing, 2016.
    10.1109/tsp.2016.7760965
  25. Ferreira, Pedro M.; Sequeira, Ana F.; Rebelo, Ana; Ferreira, PM; Sequeira, AF; Rebelo, A. "A fuzzy C-Means algorithm for fingerprint segmentation". 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-19390-8n
  26. Ana F. Sequeira; Juliano Murari; Jaime S. Cardoso; Sequeira, AF; Murari, J; Cardoso, JS; Sequeira, Ana F.; Murari, Juliano; Cardoso, Jaime S.. "Iris Liveness Detection Methods in Mobile Applications". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2014.
    10.5220/0004691800220033
  27. Sequeira, Ana F.; Oliveira, Helder P.; Monteiro, Joao C.; Monteiro, Joao P.; Cardoso, Jaime S.. "MobILive 2014 - Mobile Iris Liveness Detection Competition". Paper presented in Int. Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2014.
    10.1109/btas.2014.6996290
  28. Sequeira, AF; Monteiro, JC; Rebelo, A; Oliveira, HP; Ana F. Sequeira; João C. Monteiro; Ana Rebelo; Hélder P. Oliveira. "MobBIO: A Multimodal Database Captured with a Portable Handheld Device". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2014.
    10.5220/0004679601330139
  29. Ana F. Sequeira; João C. Monteiro; Hélder P. Oliveira; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Robust Iris Segmentation under Unconstrained Settings". 2013.
    10.5220/0004281701800190
  30. Monteiro, JC; Oliveira, HP; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "Robust Iris Segmentation under Unconstrained Settings". 2013.
  31. Monteiro, JC; Sequeira, AF; Oliveira, HP; Cardoso, JS. "Robust Iris Localisation in Challenging Scenarios". 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-662-44911-0_10
Conference poster
  1. MAMEDE, RAFAEL; Mafalda Oliveira; Neto, Pedro C.; Ana F. Sequeira; Jaime S. Cardoso. Corresponding author: MAMEDE, RAFAEL. "Latent Noise Augmentation: On the applicability of noise as an augmentation in the latent space.". Paper presented in RECPAD, 2022.
Journal article
  1. DeAndres-Tame, Ivan; Tolosana, Ruben; Melzi, Pietro; Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Kim, Minchul; Rathgeb, Christian; Liu, Xiaoming; et al. "Second FRCSyn-onGoing: Winning solutions and post-challenge analysis to improve face recognition with synthetic data". Information Fusion 120 (2025): 103099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103099.
    Published • 10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103099
  2. Caldeira, E; Neto, PC; Huber, M; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF. "Model compression techniques in biometrics applications: A survey". INFORMATION FUSION (2025): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00Z-X1N.
    10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102657
  3. Caldeira, E; Neto, PC; Gonçalves, T; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "Disentangling morphed identities for face morphing detection". Science Talks (2024): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-017-Y6G.
    10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100331
  4. Neto, PCP; Pinto, JR; Boutros, F; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "Beyond Masks: On the Generalization of Masked Face Recognition Models to Occluded Face Recognition". IEEE ACCESS (2022):
    10.1109/access.2022.3199014
  5. Sequeira, AF; Goncalves, T; Silva, W; Pinto, JR; Cardoso, JS. "An exploratory study of interpretability for face presentation attack detection". IET BIOMETRICS (2021):
    10.1049/bme2.12045
  6. Saffari, M; Khodayar, M; Saadabadi, MSE; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Dropout with Informative Kernel Determinantal Point Process". SENSORS (2021):
    10.3390/s21051846
  7. Esteves, Telma; Pinto, João Ribeiro; Ferreira, Pedro M.; Costa, Pedro Amaro; Rodrigues, Lourenço Abrunhosa; Antunes, Inês; Lopes, Gabriel; et al. "AUTOMOTIVE: a case study on AUTOmatic multiMOdal drowsiness detecTIon for smart VEhicles". IEEE ACCESS (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/14081.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3128016
  8. Sequeira, A.F.; Ross, A.. "Selected Works from International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics 2020". IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 3 2 (2021): 154-154. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85122046355&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TBIOM.2021.3062118
  9. Galdi, Chiara; Boyle, Jonathan; Chen, Lulu; Chiesa, Valeria; Debiasi, Luca; Dugelay, Jean-Luc; Ferryman, James; et al. "PROTECT: Pervasive and useR fOcused biomeTrics bordEr projeCT – a case study". IET Biometrics 9 6 (2020): 297-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-bmt.2020.0033.
    10.1049/iet-bmt.2020.0033
  10. Sequeira, Ana; Cardoso, Jaime. "Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Presence of Capable Intruders". Sensors 15 6 (2015): 14615-14638. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150614615.
    Published • 10.3390/s150614615
Manual
  1. Ana F. Sequeira; Ana Pais Andrade; Celia Almeida; Elisabete Beja. Olá Matemática! 6ºano. Porto Editora. 2011.
    Published
  2. Ana F. Sequeira; Ana Pais Andrade; Celia Almeida; Elisabete Beja. Olá Matemática! 5ºano. Porto Editora. 2010.
    Published
Preprint
  1. Mamede, RM; Neto, PC; Sequeira, AF. "Fairness Under Cover: Evaluating the Impact of Occlusions on Demographic Bias in Facial Recognition". 2024. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-017-3RK.
  2. Caldeira, E; Cardoso, JS; Sequeira, AF; Neto, PC. "MST-KD: Multiple Specialized Teachers Knowledge Distillation for Fair Face Recognition". 2024. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-017-3RM.
  3. Neto, PC; Colakovic, I; Karakatic, S; Sequeira, AF. "How Knowledge Distillation Mitigates the Synthetic Gap in Fair Face Recognition". 2024. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-017-3RN.
  4. Neto, PC; Gonçalves, T; Pinto, JR; Silva, W; Sequeira, AF; Ross, A; Cardoso, JS; et al. "Explainable Biometrics in the Age of Deep Learning". 2022. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00X-6A3.
    10.48550/arXiv.2208.09500
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ana F. Sequeira. "Liveness Detection and Robust Recognition in Iris and Fingerprint Biometric Systems". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/81992.
  2. "Liveness Detection and Robust Recognition in Iris and Fingerprint Biometric Systems". 2015. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-010-WZ1.
  3. Ana F. Sequeira. "Medusa - a cipher inspired on Bifid and one implementation". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2007.

Other

Other output
  1. BIOSIG 2021 Special issue on efficient, reliable, and privacy-friendly biometrics. 2022. Sequeira, AE; Gomez Barrero, M; Damer, N; Correia, PL. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00X-BYE.
    10.1049/bme2.12101
  2. Editorial of the Special Issue from WorldCIST'20. 2022. Domingues, I; Sequeira, AF.
    10.1007/s10588-022-09361-4
  3. Guest Editorial: BIOSIG 2020 special issue on trustworthiness of person authentication. 2021. Sequeira, AF; Gomez Barrero, M; Correia, PL.
    10.1049/bme2.12055
  4. Myope Models - Are face presentation attack detection models short-sighted?. 2021. Neto, P.C.; Sequeira, A.F.; Cardoso, J.S.; Neto, PC; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85120496089&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/wacvw54805.2022.00045
  5. Multimedia systems and applications in biomedicine. 2020. Domingues, I; Sequeira, AF; Pinto, C; Rocha,.
    10.1080/21681163.2020.1722756
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/09/19 Adversarial learning for a robust iris presentation attack detection method against unseen attack presentations 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG)
IEEE; EAB; IAPR (Darmstadt, Germany)
2017/10/01 "Cross-Eyed 2017: Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Recognition Database and Competition" International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 1-4.10.2017, Denver, USA.
IEEE; IEEE Biometrics Council (Denver, United States)
2014/09/30 "MobILive 2014 - Mobile Iris Liveness Detection Competition" IEEE Int. Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)
IEEE (Clearwater, United States)
2014/01/05 "MobBIO: a Multimodal Database Captured with a Portable Handheld Device" 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/01/05 "Iris Liveness Detection Methods in Mobile Applications" 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)
(Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - Current Explainable and Fair Face Biometrics
Supervisor
 PRODEI (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/01/01 - Current explainable face biometrics
Supervisor
 PDEEC (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/09 - Current Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Biometric Analysis
Supervisor
 Engenharia electrotécnica e de computadores (PhD)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2020/02/01 - Current Face recognition under severe representation drifts
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2025 Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Fair and Transparent Biometrics
Supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/07/01 An integrated and user-friendly platform for  the deployment of explainable Artificial Intelligence methods applied to Face Recognition
Supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/07/01 Bias detection and mitigation for Biometrics Explainable Artificial Intelligence methods applied to Face Recognition
Supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/07/01 Classifying and Explaining Pornography Detection: An End-to-End Framework
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/07/01 Adapting Biased Teachers for Fair Knowledge Distillation in Face Recognition
Supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/10/31 Don’t look away! Keeping the human in the loop with an interactive active learning platform
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/10/27 Explainable Artificial Intelligence – Detecting biases for Interpretable and Fair Face Recognition Deep Learning Models
Supervisor
 M.BIO - Mestrado em Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/10/01 Explainable Artificial Intelligence – Getting insights from Deep Neural Networks for Interpretable and Fair Face Recognition
Supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/10/01 Don't look away! Keeping the human in the loop with a interactive active learning platform
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/07/01 Deep Neural Networks for Face-Based Emotion Recognition
Co-supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/07/01 - 2021 Head Pose Estimation for Facial Biometric Recognition Systems
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020 Fingerprint Anti-spoofing - domain adaptation and transfer learning
Co-supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020 Real time face analysis for a face biometric recognition system
Supervisor
 Ciências de Engenharia, orientação em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2014/08/01 Liveness Detection in Biometrics
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2013/08/01 Liveness detection in iris recognition systems
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2011/02/01 - 2012/08/02 Robust Iris Recognition under Unconstrained Settings
Co-supervisor
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/09/20 - Current Co-Chair for the Competitions at IJCB 2023 (2023/09/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2023/03/01 - Current • INVICTA 2024: The INvicta school of VIsion, Computational intelligence, and patTern Analysis is a school of artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern analysis organised by the Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence - VCMI - group of the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia - CTM - of the INESC TEC. The first edition took place in Porto on the week of 18-22/03/2024 hosting 45 participants from all around the world. (2024/03/18 - 2024/03/22)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2013/01/01 - Current Member of the pioneer organization of the "VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence Summer School" (Now in its 9th edition). visum is a non-profit summer school focused on Computer Vision and Machine Learning fields. (2013/07/05 - 2013/07/12)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2025/04/07 - 2025/04/11 INVICTA 2025: The INvicta school of VIsion, Computational intelligence, and patTern Analysis is a school of artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern analysis organised by the Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence - VCMI - group of the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia - CTM - of the INESC TEC. The second edition took place in Porto on the week 7-11/04/2025 hosting 25 participants from all around the world. https://invicta.inesctec.pt/ (2025/04/07 - 2025/04/11)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence (VCMI) Area, in the Centre of Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), INESCTEC, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2024/03/22 The INvicta school of VIsion, Computational intelligence, and patTern Analysis - INVICTA - is a school of artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern analysis organised by the Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence - VCMI - group of the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia - CTM - of the INESC TEC. https://invicta.inesctec.pt/ (2024/03/18 - 2024/03/22)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2023/01/05 xai4biometrics Workshop at WACV 2021-2022-2023 (2021/01/05 - 2023/01/05)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/05/01 IWBF is an international forum devoted to facilitating synergies in research and development among the areas of multimedia forensics, forensic biometrics, and forensic science. IWBF2020 is organized by INESC TEC and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) jointly with the European Association of Biometrics (EAB). (2020/04/29 - 2020/04/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet i Gjøvik, Norway
2016 - 2017 Cross-Eyed 2016 & 2017 - Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Recognition Competition, embraced by BTAS & IJCB. (2016 - 2017)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
 University of Reading, United Kingdom
2014 - 2014 MobILive 2014 – 1st Mobile Iris Liveness Detection Competition (IJCB2014). (2014 - 2014)
Other
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/07/23 - 2018/07/27 DeepLearn2018 - Deep Learning Summer School
Workshop
2017 - 2017 Writing a Data Management Plan. Practical guidance on developing an effective DMP
Seminar
 university of reading
2017 - 2017 Research data management: an introduction. General principles and practices of RDM
Seminar
University of Reading, United Kingdom
2016/09/06 - 2016/09/06 Deep Learning for Biometrics Tutorial
Workshop
 BTAS2016
IEEE, United States
2016/07/09 - 2016/07/09 Deep Learning Theoretical & Hands-on Session
Workshop
 visum 2016

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/07/19 Towards Zero-Shot Interpretable Human Recognition: A 2D-3D Registration Framework
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Henrique Leitão de Jesus (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/07/01 Explainable Face Recognition using Vision Transformers
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ricardo Ramos Nobre Correia (Master)
2023/06/01 Impacto do contexto da imagem na deteção de ataques de morphing facial baseados em aprendizagem profunda
(Thesis) Arguer
 Joana Alves Pimenta (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/06/12 Continuous Biometric Identification on the Steering Wheel
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João tiago ribeiro Pinto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016/01/01 - Current EAB - European Association of Biometrics Member since 2016. Individual member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current Member of the IEEE Biometrics Council's Finance Committee
Member
 IEEE, United States
2023/03/30 - Current Membro da IAPR Ad Hoc Committee on Hybrid Conferences
Member
2022/09/01 - Current Comissão Técnica de Biometria Portuguesa: ¿comissão técnica internacional da JTC1 ISO/IEC SC 37
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025/09/15 - Current IJCB 2025 - International Joint Conference on Biometrics IAPR IEEE
2024/09/01 - Current xAI4Biometrics 2024: Workshop on Explainable & Interpretable Artificial Intelligence For Biometrics ECCV
2023/09/01 - Current INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS (IJCB 2023)
2023/01/01 - Current International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG)
2023/01/01 - Current xai4biometrics Workshop at WACV 2023 WACV IEEE
2020/09/28 - Current INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS (IJCB 2020) Houston, USA
2020/04/01 - Current 19th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2020) Biometrics Special Interest Group
2020/02/01 - Current ICIAR 2020 - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
2019/01/01 - Current ISBA 2019 - IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis Hyderabad, INDIA
2022/01/04 - 2022/01/04 xai4biometrics Workshop at WACV 2022 Winter Applications in Computer Vision Conference 2022 (WACV 2022)
2020/09/19 - 2021/09/17 20th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2021)
2020/12 - 2021/06 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON BIOMETRICS (IJCB 2021) Competitions co-chair
2021/01/05 - 2021/01/05 xai4biometrics Workshop at WACV 2021 Winter Applications in Computer Vision Conference 2021 (WACV 2021)
2019 - 2020 IWBF2020 International Conference On Biometrics and Forensics INESC TEC; NTNU; EAB
2019/09/23 - 2019/09/26 10th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) Tampa, US

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - Current Analise Matematica III Analise Matematica III (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/02/01 - Current Probabilidade e Estatistica Probabilidade e Estatistica (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/02/26 Bases de dados Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/09/18 - 2020/02/07 Bases de dados Engenharia inofrmatica (Licenciatura)
2016/09/01 - 2016/12/31 “Biometrics: Theory and Application” Computer Science (Postgraduate Certificate) University of Reading School of Systems Engineering, United Kingdom

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2023/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Presences in MSc jury Ricardo Ramos Nobre Correia, Master of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Explainable Face Recognition using Vision Transformers”, IST, 2023. Joana Alves Pimenta, Mestrado em Engenharia Biomédica, ““Impacto do contexto da imagem na deteção de ataques de morphing facial baseados em aprendizagem profunda”, Un. Coimbra, 2023. Ana Margarida Vitoriano, MSc Thesis, DCC, FCUP, 2023.
Evaluator

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/12/15 - Current Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization Taylor Francis Online
2019 - Current IEEE Access (2169-3536) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2017/07/11 - Current Transactions on Information Forensics & Security ScholarOne Manuscripts
2017/04/04 - Current Sensors (1424-8220) MDPI AG
2016/12/06 - Current Pattern Recognition Letters (0167-8655) Elsevier
2016/03 - Current Machine Vision and Applications (1432-1769) Springer-Verlag
2023/09/01 - 2024/12/31 EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Distinctions

Other distinction

2024 Best Paper Award
2024 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Germany
2013 1st place in Liveness Detection-Iris Competition
IEEE, United States
2011 PhD Scholarship Funded by FCT