Fadi Boutros

Fadi Boutros

Doctor of Engineering, Research scientist

Publications

  1. Fadi Boutros, Marcel Klemt, Meiling Fang, Arjan Kuijper, and Naser Damer. Unsupervised Face Recognition using Unlabeled Synthetic Data. In 17th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2023, Hawaii, USA, 4-8 Jan 2023. IEEE, 2023
  2. Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, and Naser Damer. Intra and Cross-spectrum Iris Presentation Attack Detection in the NIR and Visible Domains Using Attention-based and Pixel-wise Supervised Learning. In Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing Presentation Attack Detection and Vulnerability Assessment, Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 463–482. Springer, 2023 (to appear)
  3. Matej Vitek, Abhijit Das, Diego Rafael Lucio, Luiz Antonio Zanlorensi, DavidMenotti, Jalil Nourmohammadi Khiarak, Mohsen Akbari Shahpar, Meysam AsgariChenaghlu, Farhang Jaryani, Juan E. Tapia, Andres Valenzuela, Caiyong Wang, Yunlong Wang, Zhaofeng He, Zhenan Sun, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Jonas Henry Grebe, Arjan Kuijper, Kiran Raja, Gourav Gupta, Georgios Zampoukis, Lazaros Tsochatzidis, Ioannis Pratikakis, S. V. Aruna Kumar, B. S. Harish, Umapada Pal, Peter Peer, and Vitomir Struc. Exploring Bias in Sclera Segmentation Models: Aˇ Group Evaluation Approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 18:190–205, 2023
  4. Fadi Boutros, Marco Huber, Patrick Siebke, Tim Rieber, and Naser Damer. SFace: Privacy-friendly and Accurate Face Recognition using Synthetic Data. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 10-13, 2022. IEEE, 2022 (to appear)
  5. Pedro C. Neto, Fadi Boutros, Joao Ribeiro Pinto, Naser Damer, Ana F. Sequeira,˜ Jaime S. Cardoso, Messaoud Bengherabi, Abderaouf Bousnat, Sana Boucheta, Nesrine Hebbadj, Mustafa Ekrem Erakin, Ugur Demir, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Pedro Beber de Queiroz Vidal, and David Menotti. OCFR 2022: Competition on Occluded Face Recognition From Synthetically Generated Structure-Aware Occlusions. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 10-13, 2022. IEEE, 2022 (to appear)
  6. Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, and Naser Damer. Unsupervised Face Morphing AttackDetection via Self-paced Anomaly Detection. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 10-13, 2022. IEEE, 2022 (to appear)
  7. Marco Huber, Fadi Boutros, Anh Thi Luu, Kiran B. Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Naser Damer, Pedro C. Neto, Tiago Gonc¸alves, Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime S. Cardoso, Joao Tremoc¸o, Miguel Lourenc¸o, Sergio Serra, Eduardo Cerme˜ no, Marija˜ Ivanovska, Borut Batagelj, Andrej Kronovsek, Peter Peer, and Vitomir Struc. SYNMAD 2022: Competition on Face Morphing Attack Detection Based on Privacyaware Synthetic Training Data. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 10-13, 2022. IEEE, 2022 (to appear)
  8. Jan Kolf, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Naser Damer. Lightweight Periocular Recognition through Low-bit Quantization. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 10-13, 2022. IEEE, 2022 (to appear)
  9. Fadi Boutros, Patrick Siebke, Marcel Klemt, Naser Damer, Florian Kirchbuchner,and Arjan Kuijper. PocketNet: Extreme Lightweight Face Recognition Network Using Neural Architecture Search and Multistep Knowledge Distillation. IEEE Access, 10:46823–46833, 2022
  10. Pedro C. Neto, Joao Ribeiro Pinto, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Ana F. Sequeira, and˜ Jaime S. Cardoso. Beyond Masks: On the Generalization of Masked Face Recognition Models to Occluded Face Recognition. IEEE Access, 10:86222–86233, 2022
  11. Meiling Fang, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper.The overlapping effect and fusion protocols of data augmentation techniques in iris PAD. Mach. Vis. Appl., 33(1):8, 2022
  12. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Self-restrainedtriplet loss for accurate masked face recognition. Pattern Recognit., 124:108473, 2022
  13. Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Marius Sußmilch, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner,¨ and Arjan Kuijper. Masked face recognition: Human versus machine. IET Biometrics, 11(5):512–528, 2022
  14. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Kiran B. Raja, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Template-Driven Knowledge Distillation for Compact and Accurate Periocular Biometrics Deep-Learning Models. Sensors, 22(5):1921, 2022
  15. Fadi Boutros, Olga Kahm, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, Naser Damer, and¨ Arjan Kuijper. Low-resolution Iris Recognition via Knowledge Transfer. In Arslan Bromme, Naser Damer, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Kiran B. Raja, Christian Rathgeb,¨ Ana F. Sequeira, Massimiliano Todisco, and Andreas Uhl, editors, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2022, Darmstadt, Germany, September 14-16, 2022, volume P-329 of LNI, pages 293–300. IEEE / Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V., 2022¨
  16. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. ElasticFace: Elastic Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 19-20, 2022, pages 1577–1586. IEEE, 2022
  17. Naser Damer, Cesar Augusto Fontanillo L´ opez, Meiling Fang, No´ emie Spiller, Minh Vu´ Pham, and Fadi Boutros. Privacy-friendly Synthetic Data for the Development of Face Morphing Attack Detectors. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 19-20, 2022, pages 1605–1616. IEEE, 2022
  18. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, and Arjan Kuijper. QuantFace: Towards LightweightFace Recognition by Synthetic Data Low-bit Quantization. In 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 2125, 2022, pages 855–862. IEEE, 2022
  19. Naser Damer, Noemie Spiller, Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner,´ and Arjan Kuijper. PW-MAD: Pixel-Wise Supervision for Generalized Face Morphing Attack Detection. In George Bebis, Vassilis Athitsos, Tong Yan, Manfred Lau, Frederick Li, Conglei Shi, Xiaoru Yuan, Christos Mousas, and Gerd Bruder, editors, Advances in Visual Computing - 16th International Symposium, ISVC 2021, Virtual Event, October 4-6, 2021, Proceedings, Part I, volume 13017 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 291–304. Springer, 2021
  20. Naser Damer, Kiran B. Raja, Marius Sußmilch, Sushma Venkatesh, Fadi Boutros,¨ Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, Raghavendra Ramachandra, and Arjan Kuijper. ReGenMorph: Visibly Realistic GAN Generated Face Morphing Attacks by Attack Re-generation. In George Bebis, Vassilis Athitsos, Tong Yan, Manfred Lau, Frederick Li, Conglei Shi, Xiaoru Yuan, Christos Mousas, and Gerd Bruder, editors, Advances in Visual Computing - 16th International Symposium, ISVC 2021, Virtual Event, October 4-6, 2021, Proceedings, Part I, volume 13017 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 251–264. Springer, 2021
  21. Caiyong Wang, Yunlong Wang, Kunbo Zhang, Jawad Muhammad, Tianhao Lu,Qi Zhang, Qichuan Tian, Zhaofeng He, Zhenan Sun, Yiwen Zhang, Tianbao Liu, Wei Yang, Dongliang Wu, Yingfeng Liu, Ruiye Zhou, Huihai Wu, Hao Zhang, Junbao Wang, Jiayi Wang, Wantong Xiong, Xueyu Shi, Shao Zeng, Peihua Li, Haodong Sun, Jing Wang, Jiale Zhang, Qi Wang, Huijie Wu, Xinhui Zhang, Haiqing Li, Yu Chen, Liang Chen, Menghan Zhang, Ye Sun, Zhiyong Zhou, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Arjan Kuijper, Juan E. Tapia, Andres Valenzuela, Christoph Busch, Gourav Gupta, Kiran B. Raja, Xi Wu, Xiaojie Li, Jingfu Yang, Hongyan Jing, Xin Wang, Bin Kong, Youbing Yin, Qi Song, Siwei Lyu, Shu Hu, Leon Premk, Matej Vitek, Vitomir Struc, Peter Peer, Jalil Nourmohammadi-Khiarak, Farhang Jaryani, Samaneh Salehi Nasab, Seyed Naeim Moafinejad, Yasin Amini, and Morteza Noshad. NIR Iris Challenge Evaluation in Non-cooperative Environments: Segmentation and Localization. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2021, Shenzhen, China, August 4-7, 2021, pages 1–10. IEEE, 2021
  22. Sandip Purnapatra, Nic Smalt, Keivan Bahmani, Priyanka Das, David Yambay, AmirMohammadi, Anjith George, Thirimachos Bourlai, Sebastien Marcel, Stephanie Schuck-´ ers, Meiling Fang, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, Alperen Kantarci, Basar Demir, Zafer Yildiz, Zabi Ghafoory, Hasan Dertli, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Son Vu, Vassilis Christophides, Dashuang Liang, Guanghao Zhang, Zhanlong Hao, Junfu Liu, Yufeng Jin, Samo Liu, Samuel Huang, Salieri Kuei, Jag Mohan Singh, and Raghavendra Ramachandra. Face Liveness Detection Competition (LivDetFace) - 2021. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2021, Shenzhen, China, August 4-7, 2021, pages 1–10. IEEE, 2021
  23. Meiling Fang, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper.Iris Presentation Attack Detection by Attention-based and Deep Pixel-wise Binary Supervision Network. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2021, Shenzhen, China, August 4-7, 2021, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2021
  24. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Jan Niklas Kolf, Kiran B. Raja, Florian Kirchbuchner, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Arjan Kuijper, Pengcheng Fang, Chao Zhang, Fei Wang, David Montero, Naiara Aginako, Basilio Sierra, Marcos Nieto, Mustafa Ekrem Erakin, Ugur Demir, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Asaki Kataoka, Kohei Ichikawa, Shizuma Kubo, Jie Zhang, Mingjie He, Dan Han, Shiguang Shan, Klemen Grm, Vitomir Struc, Sachith Seneviratne, Nuran Kasthuriarachchi, Sanka Rasnayaka, Pedro C. Neto, Ana F. Sequeira, Joao Ribeiro Pinto, Mohsen Saffari, and Jaime S. Cardoso.˜ MFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competition. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2021, Shenzhen, China, August 4-7, 2021, pages 1–10. IEEE, 2021
  25. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper.MixFaceNets: Extremely Efficient Face Recognition Networks. In International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2021, Shenzhen, China, August 4-7, 2021, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2021
  26. Marco Huber, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Naser Damer. Mask-invariantFace Recognition through Template-level Knowledge Distillation. In 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2021, Jodhpur, India, December 15-18, 2021, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2021
  27. Meiling Fang, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, and Naser Damer. Partial Attack Supervision and Regional Weighted Inference for Masked Face Presentation Attack Detection. In 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2021, Jodhpur, India, December 15-18, 2021, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2021
  28. Pedro C. Neto, Fadi Boutros, Joao Ribeiro Pinto, Naser Damer, Ana F. Sequeira,˜ and Jaime S. Cardoso. FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognition. In 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2021, Jodhpur, India, December 15-18, 2021, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2021
  29. Pedro C. Neto, Fadi Boutros, Joao Ribeiro Pinto, Mohsen Saffari, Naser Damer,˜ Ana F. Sequeira, and Jaime S. Cardoso. My Eyes Are Up Here: Promoting Focus on Uncovered Regions in Masked Face Recognition. In Arslan Bromme, Christoph¨ Busch, Naser Damer, Antitza Dantcheva, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Kiran B. Raja, Christian Rathgeb, Ana F. Sequeira, and Andreas Uhl, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2021, Digital Conference, September 15-17, 2021, volume P-315 of LNI, pages 21– 30. Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V., 2021¨
  30. Meiling Fang, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Cross-database and cross-attack Iris presentation attack detection using micro stripes analyses. Image Vis. Comput., 105:104057, 2021
  31. Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Marius Sußmilch, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan¨ Kuijper. Extended evaluation of the effect of real and simulated masks on face recognition performance. IET Biom., 10(5):548–561, 2021
  32. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Kiran B. Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, FlorianKirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. On Benchmarking Iris Recognition within a Head-mounted Display for AR/VR Applications. In 2020 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2020, Houston, TX, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2020, pages 1–10. IEEE, 2020
  33. Meiling Fang, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Deep Learning Multi-layer Fusion for an Accurate Iris Presentation Attack Detection. In IEEE 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2020, Rustenburg, South Africa, July 6-9, 2020, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2020
  34. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Kiran B. Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, FlorianKirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Fusing Iris and Periocular Region for User Verification in Head Mounted Displays. In IEEE 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2020, Rustenburg, South Africa, July 6-9, 2020, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2020
  35. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Meiling Fang, Kiran B. Raja, Florian Kirchbuchner,and Arjan Kuijper. Compact Models for Periocular Verification Through Knowledge Distillation. In Arslan Bromme, Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Kiran B. Raja,¨ Christian Rathgeb, and Andreas Uhl, editors, BIOSIG 2020 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, online, 16.-18. September 2020, volume P-306 of LNI, pages 291–298. Gesellschaft fur Informatik¨ e.V., 2020
  36. Naser Damer, Jonas Henry Grebe, Cong Chen, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner,and Arjan Kuijper. The Effect of Wearing a Mask on Face Recognition Performance: an Exploratory Study. In Arslan Bromme, Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Ki-¨ ran B. Raja, Christian Rathgeb, and Andreas Uhl, editors, BIOSIG 2020 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, online, 16.-18. September 2020, volume P-306 of LNI, pages 1–10. Gesellschaft fur¨ Informatik e.V., 2020
  37. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Kiran B. Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, FlorianKirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Iris and periocular biometrics for head mounted displays: Segmentation, recognition, and synthetic data generation. Image Vis. Comput., 104:104007, 2020
  38. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Kiran B. Raja, Raghavendra Ramachandra, FlorianKirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Periocular Biometrics in Head-Mounted Displays: A Sample Selection Approach for Better Recognition. In 8th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2020, Porto, Portugal, April 29-30, 2020, pages 1–6. IEEE, 2020
  39. Matej Vitek, Abhijit Das, Y. Pourcenoux, A. Missler, C. Paumier, Sumanta Das,Ishita De Ghosh, Diego Rafael Lucio, Luiz A. Zanlorensi, David Menotti, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Jonas Henry Grebe, Arjan Kuijper, J. Hu, Y. He, C. Wang, H. Liu, Y. Wang, Z. Sun, Daile Osorio Roig, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch,´ Juan E. Tapia, Andres Valenzuela, G. Zampoukis, Lazaros T. Tsochatzidis, Ioannis Pratikakis, S. Nathan, R. Suganya, Vineet Mehta, Abhinav Dhall, Kiran B. Raja, G. Gupta, Jalil Nourmohammadi-Khiarak, M. Akbari-Shahper, Farhang Jaryani, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, R. Vyas, S. Dakshit, Peter Peer, Umapada Pal, and Vitomir Struc. SSBC 2020: Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition in the Mobile Environment. In 2020 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2020, Houston, TX, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2020, pages 1–10. IEEE, 2020
  40. Priyanka Das, Joseph McGrath, Zhaoyuan Fang, Aidan Boyd, Ganghee Jang, AmirMohammadi, Sandip Purnapatra, David Yambay, Sebastien Marcel, Mateusz Trok-´ ielewicz, Piotr Maciejewicz, Kevin W. Bowyer, Adam Czajka, Stephanie Schuckers, Juan E. Tapia, Sebastian Gonzalez, Meiling Fang, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, Renu Sharma, Cunjian Chen, and Arun Ross. Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris) - The 2020 Edition. In 2020 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2020, Houston, TX, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2020, pages 1–9. IEEE, 2020
  41. Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. D-ID-Net: Two-Stage Domain and Identity Learning for Identity-Preserving Image Generation from Semantic Segmentation. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2019, Seoul, Korea, October 27-November 2, 2019. IEEE Computer Society (to appear), 2019
  42. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kuijper. Eye-MMS: Miniature Multi-scale Segmentation Network of Key Eye-regions in Embedded Applications. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops 2019, Seoul, Korea, October 27-November 2, 2019. IEEE Computer Society (to appear), 2019
  43. Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Alexandra Mosegui Saladie, Florian Kirchbuchner, andArjan Kuijper. Realistic Dreams: Cascaded Enhancement of GAN-generated Images with an Example in Face Morphing Attacks. In 10th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2019, Tampa, Florida, USA, September 23-26, 2019. IEEE (to appear), 2019
  44. Khawla Mallat, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Arjan Kuijper, and Jean-Luc Dugelay.Cross-spectrum thermal to visible face recognition based on cascaded image synthesis. In International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2019, 4-7 June, 2019, Crete, Greece. IEEE (to appear), 2019
  45. Khawla Mallat, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, and Jean-Luc Dugelay. Robust FaceAuthentication Based on Dynamic Quality-weighted Comparison of Visible and Thermal-to-visible Images to Visible Enrollments. In 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2019, Ottawa, Canada , July 2-5, 2019. IEEE (to appear), 2019
  46. Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer, Philipp Terhorst, Florian Kirchbuchner, and Arjan Kui-¨ jper. Exploring the Channels of Multiple Color Spaces for Age and Gender Estimation from Face Images. In 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2019, Ottawa, Canada , July 2-5, 2019. IEEE (to appear), 2019
  47. Kiran Raja, Naser Damer, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Fadi Boutros, and ChristophBusch. Cross-Spectral Periocular Recognition by Cascaded Spectral Image Transformation. In IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 8-10, 2019. IEEE (to appear), 2019
  48. Naser Damer, Viola Boller, Yaza Wainakh, Fadi Boutros, Philipp Terhorst, Andreas¨ Braun, and Arjan Kuijper. Detecting Face Morphing Attacks by Analyzing the Directed Distances of Facial Landmarks Shifts. In Pattern Recognition - 40th German Conference, GCPR 2018, Stuttgart, Germany, October 10-12, 2018, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2018
  49. Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Philipp Terhorst, Andreas Braun, and Arjan Kuijper. P-¨ score: Performance Aligned Normalization and an Evaluation in Score-level Multibiometric Fusion. In 26th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2018, Rome, Italy, September 3 - 7, 2018. IEEE, 2018