Prof. Nuno Gonçalves is researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra and Tenured Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computers Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He received his MsC and PhD degrees in 2002 and 2008, respectively from the University of Coimbra. His main research areas are computer vision, biometrics, computer graphics and machine learning, with special emphasis to bidimensional graphic codes, biometrics, facial recognition, morphing attack detection, steganography, 3D vision, low-level vision and geometric problem in vision systems. He has scientific publications in the following topics: facial recognition, morphing attack detection, 3D vision, facial diagnosis, augmented and virtual reality, reflections for image rendering, machine readable codes, light field cameras, omnidirectional vision, non-central cameras, calibration, optics, camera models, motion estimation, pose estimation, web information systems, sports vision, legged robotics, amongst others. He is, or was, Principal Investigator and Coordinator of 10 projects funded by FCT or with the industry (funded by the INCM - Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office) in the area of security elements involving: machine readable codes (with some applications in virtual and augmented reality), security unique marks in printing labels, security unique marks in assay contrasts in artifacts of precious metals and processing of human faces in 3D by using several types of cameras, 3D vision, facial recognition and biometrics and authentication of images. He is author or more than 60 articles in international journals and international conferences with peer-review and he is regular reviewer of the most impact journals and conferences. He is inventor of 5 patents registered in the EU, USA and some other countries. From the projects coordinated the Prof. Nuno Gonçalves, several new products of INCM have been developed so far or have incorporated the invented technologies, including: portuguese tobacco tax stamp, vehicle registration card (Documento Único Automóvel), card for sports (Cartão do Adepto), wine brand protection stamp of Barca Velha bottles (one of the top wines in Portugal), stamps for the IVDP (Instituto da Vinha e do Vinho do Porto) and innovative assay markings of precious metals. The outcomes were also internationalized. INCM has signed a joint-venture with OpSec Security (a multinational company in the production of holograms) to use the technology created by the team led by him in tax stamps. Currently INCM is selling tax stamps for Angola and Líbano. Some other countries are expected to use the UniQode technology soon. After the first successful projects coordinated, other projects were also signed, this time to explore facial biometrics. TrustFace and FACING (both finished) created several innovative solutions and research algorithms. These outcomes are now being industrialized. They include: TrustFace cards with enhanced technology to validate the integrity of faces printed on cards, CodeFace (the first printing-proof steganography model suitable for faces and being considered for the new generation of the Portuguese citizen card), a new Facial Recognition algorithm. These projects also created innovations that were patented by INCM and University of Coimbra (2 new international patents). Additionally, in the scope of the work of a PhD student of the PI (Iurii Medvedev, MD), which is working in morphing attack detection, the team submitted an algorithm to the NIST, which is the area reference competitor, and the algorithms submitted in Nov/21 achieved the top results (winner) of the benchmark in more than half of the datasets. And in the other half of the datasets, the algorithm was ranked top 3.