| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Position: | Ph.D. Student Member |
| Office: | D19 / 2.02 |
| Email: | robert.nichols -at- h-da.de |
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Robert Nichols received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Hochschule Darmstadt in 2021 and 2024. He is currently a Ph.D. student with the da/sec biometrics and security research group at the Faculty of Computer Science, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany and part of the German National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE). His research interests include face recognition with a focus on morphing attacks and human perception, as well as fairness in biometrics.
Research Interests
- Face recognition, Face manipulation & detection
- Human (Face) Perception
- Bias and Fairness in Biometrics
- Generative AI
Current Offerings
For a list of further currently offered bachelor- and master theses, please have a look at this page. If you may have a specific topic related to my research interests in mind that is not listed on the aforementioned page, please get in touch with me by email.
Publications
Journal articles
Robert Nichols, Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Christoph Busch, „Psychophysical Evaluation of Human Performance in Detecting Digital Face Image Manipulations“, in IEEE Access, 2022
Conferences
Robert Nichols, Lázaro J. González-Soler and Christian Rathgeb, „On the Use of Synthetic Hand Images for Biometric Recognition”, in Proc. Intl. Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), 2024.
Mathias Ibsen, Robert Nichols, C. Rathgeb, David J. Robertson, et al., „Conditional Face Image Manipulation Detection: Combining Algorithm and Human Examiner Decisions“, in Proc. ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 2024.