Lazaro Janier Gonzalez-Soler

Degree:Dr.
Position:Senior Researcher
Office: D19 room 2.01
Email:lazaro-janier.gonzalez-soler -at- h-da.de
Telephone:+49 6151 533 300 86

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Lazaro Janier Gonzalez-Soler received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Havana, in 2014. In 2022, he completed his PhD on the development of generalisable presentation attack detection (PAD) algorithms for multiple types of biometric characteristics (i.e, fingerprints, face, and voice). Dr. Lazaro Janier Gonzalez-Soler is a senior researcher within the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE) and working with da/sec at the Faculty of Computer Science, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. His principal research interests are focused in areas of the Biometric and Machine Learning to improve the security of biometric systems.

Research Interests

  • Biometric Security
  • Presentation Attack Detection.
  • Image Forensics.
  • Biometric and Multi-biometric Systems.
  • Parallel algorithms for Biometric, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition.

Current Offerings and Collaboration

Currently, available bachelor/master thesis projects are listed on this page. If you have your own idea that relates to the above research interests or are interested in a collaboration, don’t hesitate to contact me by e-mail.

Publications

Journal Articles

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Kacper. M. Zyla, Christian Rathgeb, and Daniel Fischer. „Contactless hand biometrics for forensics: review and performance benchmark“. In EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2024. [PDF]

Daile Osorio-Roig, Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb and Christoph Busch, „Privacy-preserving Multi-biometric Indexing based on Frequent Binary Pattern“, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Durita Kvilt Jónsdóttir, Christian Rathgeb and Daniel Fischer, „Information Fusion and Hand Alignment to improve Hand Recognition in Forensic Scenarios“, in IEEE Access, 2024. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero and Christoph Busch, „Toward Generalizable Facial Presentation Attack Detection Based on the Analysis of Facial Regions“, in IEEE Access, 2023. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero and Christoph Busch, „On the Generalisation Capabilities of Fisher Vector based Face Presentation Attack Detection“, IET Biometrics, 2021. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Jascha Kolberg, Leonardo Chang, Airel Perez-Suarez and Christoph Busch, „Local Feature Encoding for Unknown Presentation Attack Detection: An Analysis of Different Local Feature Descriptors“, IET Biometrics, 2021. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Leonardo Chang, Airel Pérez-Suárez and Christoph Busch, „Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection Based on Local Features Encoding for Unknown Attacks“, in IEEE Access, 2021. [PDF]

Books

Lázaro J. González-Soler, M. Gomez-Barrero, J. Patino, M. Kamble, M. Todisco and C. Busch, „Fisher Vectors for Biometric Presentation Attack Detection”, in Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing: Presentation Attack Detection and Vulnerability Assessment, Springer, 2023.

Conference Papers

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marcel Grimmer, Daniel Fischer, Christian Rathgeb, and Christoph Busch. „PCR-HIQA: Perceptual Classifiability Ratio for Hand Image Quality Assessment“. In Proc. Intl. Joint Conf. on Biometrics (IJCB), 2024.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Maciej Salwowski, Christian Rathgeb, and Daniel Fischer. „TattTRN: Template Reconstruction Network for Tattoo Retrieval“. In Proc. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW), pages 1–10, 2024. [PDF]

Mathias Ibsen, Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb, and Christoph Busch. „Tetraloss: Improving the robustness of face recognition against morphing attacks“. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), pages 1–10, 2024. [PDF]

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.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Kacper M. Zyla, Christian Rathgeb, Daniel Fischer, „On the Impact of Tattoos on Hand Recognition”, in Proc. Intl. Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), 2023.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb, Daniel Fischer, „Semi-synthetic Data Generation for Tattoo Segmentation”, in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), 2023.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Kevin A. Barhaugen, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch, „When Facial Recognition Systems become Presentation Attack Detectors”, in Proc. Intl. Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), 2022.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Madhu Kamble, Massimiliano Todisco, and Christoph Busch, „Dual-stream temporal convolutional neural network for voice presentation attack detection,“ in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), 2022.

Mathias Ibsen, Lázaro J. González-Soler, Christian Rathgeb, Pawel Drozdowski, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch, „Differential Anomaly Detection for Facial Images”, in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2021.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Manuel Günther, Christoph Busch, „Analysing the feasibility of using Objectosphere for Face Presentation Attack Detection”, in NISK, 2021.

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Jose Patino, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Massimiliano Todisco, Christoph Busch, Nicholas Evans, „Texture-based Presentation Attack Detection for Automatic Speaker Verification”, in Proc. Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2020. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch, „Fisher Vector Encoding of Dense-BSIF Features for Unknown Face Presentation Attack Detection”, in Proc. Intl. Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), 2020. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Christoph Busch, „Evaluating the Sensitivity of Face Presentation Attack Detection Techniques to Images of Varying Resolutions”, in NISK, 2020. [PDF]

Lázaro J. González-Soler, M. Gomez-Barrero, Leonardo Chang, Airel Pérez-Suárez, C. Busch, „On the Impact of Different Fabrication Materials on Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection”, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB), 2019. [PDF]

Lázaro J. Gonzalez-Soler, Leonardo Chang, Jose Hernandez-Palancar, Airel Perez-Suarez, Marta Gomez-Barrero, „Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection Method based on a Bag-of-Words Approach”, in Proc. Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP). Springer, 2017, pp. 263 – 271. [PDF]

A list of earlier publications can be found here.

Thesis

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Computer Science, „Generalisable Presentation Attack Detection for Multiple Types of Biometric Characteristics“, Hochschule Darmstadt, December 2022. [Link]

Awards