Publications

International journal guest editor participation

- A. F. Sequeira and A. Ross, "Guest Editorial: Selected Works From International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics 2020," in IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 154-154, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TBIOM.2021.3062118.


- A. F. Sequeira and Marta Gomez-Barrero and Paulo Lobato Correia, "Guest Editorial: BIOSIG 2020 Special Issue on Trustworthiness of Person Authentication," in IET Biometrics, 2021.


- A. F. Sequeira, Computers Special Issue "Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Biometrics 2021", in MDPI Computers, (on-going).


International journal with scientific refereeing

- Esteves, T; Pinto, JR; Ferreira, PM; Costa, PA; Rodrigues, LA; Antunes, I; Lopes, G; Gamito, P; Abrantes, AJ; Jorge, PM; Lourenco, A; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS; Rebelo, A

AUTOMOTIVE: a case study on automatic multimodal drowsiness detection for smart vehicles,

in IEEE Access IEEE Access 9 (2021): 153678-153700, 2021.

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3128016


- Ana F. Sequeira, Tiago Gonçalves, Wilson Silva, João T. Pinto and Jaime S. Cardoso,

An Exploratory Study of Interpretability for Face Presentation Attack Detection

in Journal: IET Biometrics, 2021.

DOI: 10.1049/bme2.12045


- Saffari, M. and Khodayas, M. and Saadabadi, MSE. and Ana F. Sequeira and Cardoso, JS

Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Dropout with Informative Kernel Determinantal Point Process

in Sensors, volume 21, issue 5, pp 1-21, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/s21051846 . SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85102004914


- Chiara Galdi, Jonathan Boyle, Lulu Chen, Valeria Chiesa, Luca Debiasi, Jean-Luc Dugelay, James Ferryman, Artur Grudzien, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Marcin Kowalski, Michael Linortner, Patryk Maik, Kacper Michon, Luis Patino, Bernhard Prommegger, Ana F. Sequeira, Łukasz Szklarski, Andreas Uhl

PROTECT: Pervasive and useR fOcused biomeTrics bordEr projeCT. A Case Study

in IET Biometrics, volume 9, issue 6. DOI: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2020.0033


- Ana F. Sequeira and Jaime S. Cardoso

Fingerprint liveness detection methods in the presence of Capable Intruders [bib] [pdf]

In Sensors, 15, 14615-14638. DOI:10.3390/s150614615, 2015.


International book chapter with scientific refereeing

- João C. Monteiro, Ana F. Sequeira, Hélder P. Oliveira and Jaime S. Cardoso

Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications,

Chapter in Robust iris localisation in challenging scenarios [bib] [pdf]

(Sebastiano Battiano, Sabine Coquillart, Robert Laramee, Andreas Kerren, Jose Braz, eds.), In Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 146-162, Springer - Verlag, ISBN 978-3-662-44911-0, 2014.


International conferences

19 - Pedro C. Neto, Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime S. Cardoso;

Myope Models - Are Face Presentation Attack Detection Models Short-Sighted?

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 2022, pp. 390-399

DOI: 10.1109/WACVW54805.2022.00045


18 - Pedro Neto, Fadi Boutros, João R. 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

2021 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), 2021, pp. 1-5, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/BIOSIG52210.2021.9548320.


17 - Boutros, F; Damer, N; Kolf, JN; Raja, KB; Kirchbuchner, F; Ramachandra, R; Kuijper, A; Fang, P; Zhang, C; Wang, F; Montero, D; Aginako, N; Sierra, B; Nieto, M; Erakin, ME; Demir, U; Ekenel, HK; Kataoka, A; Ichikawa, K; Kubo, S; Zhang, J; He, M; Han, D; Shan, S; Grm, K; Struc, V; Seneviratne, S; Kasthuriaarachchi, N; Rasnayaka, S; Neto, PC; Ana F. Sequeira; Pinto, JR; Saffari, M; Cardoso, JS,

MFR 2021: masked face recognition competition

International IEEE Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021), 2021


16 - Pedro Neto, Fadi Boutros, João R. Pinto, Naser Damer, Ana F. Sequeira, and Jaime S. Cardoso

FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognition

2021 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2021), 2021, pp. 01-08, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/FG52635.2021.9666792


15 - João Afonso Pereira, Ana F. Sequeira, Diogo Pernes and Jaime S. Cardoso,

A robust fingerprint presentation attack detection method against unseen attacks through adversarial learning

19th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 17.-18.09.2020, Darmstadt, Germany.


14 - Ana F. Sequeira, João T. Pinto, Wilson Silva, Tiago Gonçalves and Jaime S. Cardoso,

Interpretable Biometrics: Should We Rethink How Presentation Attack Detection is Evaluated?

8th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF2020), Porto, Portugal (Fully On-line event) [bib] [pdf]


13 -Pedro Ferreira, Ana F. Sequeira, Diogo Pernes, Ana Rebelo and Jaime S. Cardoso,

Adversarial learning for a robust iris presentation attack detection method against unseen attack presentations

18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 18.-20.09.2019, Darmstadt, Germany. [bib] [pdf]


12 - H. Hofbauer, E. Jalilian, Ana F. Sequeira, James Ferryman, Andreas Uhl

Mobile NIR Iris Recognition: Identifying Problems and Solutions [pdf]

(BTAS 2018), Special Session on Recent Advances in Biometric Technology for Mobile Phones (RABTMD 2018), 22.10.2018, Los Angeles, USA.


11 - Ana F. Sequeira, James Ferryman, Lulu Chen, Chiara Galdi, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Valeria Chiesa, Andreas Uhl, Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Artur Grudzień, Marcin Kowalski, Łukasz Szklarski, Patryk Maik and Piotr Gmitrowicz

PROTECT Multimodal DB: a multimodal biometrics dataset envisaging Border Control

17th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 27.-28.09.2018, Darmstadt, Germany.


10 - Pedro M. Ferreira, Ana F. Sequeira, Ana Rebelo and Jaime S. Cardoso

Robust Clustering-based Segmentation Methods for Fingerprint Recognition

17th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 27.-28.09.2018, Darmstadt, Germany. [bib] [pdf]


9 - Ana F. Sequeira, Lulu Chen, James Ferryman, Peter Wild, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Josef Bigun, Kiran B. Raja, R. Ramachandra, Christoph Busch, Tiago de Freitas Pereira, Sebastien Marcel, Sushree Sangeeta Behera, Mahesh Gour, Vivek Kanhangad.

Cross-Eyed 2017: Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Recognition Competition [pdf]

International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2017), Denver, USA, 1-4.10.2017.


8 - Ana F. Sequeira, Lulu Chen, James Ferryman, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Josef Bigun, Kiran B. Raja, R. Ramachandra, Christoph Busch, Peter Wild,

Cross-Eyed - Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Recognition Database and Competition [pdf]

15th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, 21.-23.09.2016.


7 - Ana F. Sequeira, Shejin Thavalengal, James Ferryman, Peter Corcoran and Jaime S. Cardoso,

A realistic evaluation of iris presentation attack detection [bib] [pdf]

In Proceedings of the Special Session on Signal and Image Processing for Biometric Human Recognition: 39th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Vienna, Austria, 27-29 June 2016.


6 - Pedro Ferreira, Ana F. Sequeira and Ana Rebelo,

A Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Fingerprint Segmentation [pdf]

In Proceedings of the Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17 - 19 June, 2015 .

5 - Ana F. Sequeira, Hélder P. Oliveira , João C. Monteiro, João P. Monteiro and Jaime S. Cardoso

MobILive 2014 - Mobile Iris Liveness Detection Competition [bib] [pdf]

In Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), pp. 1-6, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 30 September – 02 October, 2014.

DOI: 10.1109/BTAS.2014.6996290

4 - Ana F. Sequeira, Juliano Murari and Jaime S. Cardoso

Iris liveness detection methods in mobile biometrics scenario [bib] [pdf]

In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp.3002-3008, Beijing, China, 6 - 11 July, 2014.

DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889816

3 - Ana F. Sequeira, João C. Monteiro, Ana Rebelo and Hélder P. Oliveira

MobBIO: a Multimodal Database Captured with a Portable Handheld Device [pdf]

In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), pp.133-139, Lisboa, Portugal, 5 - 8 January, 2014.

2 - Ana F. Sequeira, Juliano Murari and Jaime S. Cardoso

Iris Liveness Detection Methods in Mobile Applications [bib] [pdf]

In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), pp.22-33, Lisboa, Portugal, 5 - 8 January, 2014.

1 - João C. Monteiro, Hélder P. Oliveira, Ana F. Sequeira and Jaime S. Cardoso

Robust Iris Segmentation under Unconstrained Settings [bib] [pdf]

In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, pp. 180 - 190, Barcelona, Spain, 21 - 24 February, 2013


National conferences

- Ana F. Sequeira, Ana Rute Louro, Jaime S. Cardoso

Liveness detection methods in fingerprint recognition [pdf] [poster]

In Proceedings of the 20th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD2014), Covilhã, Portugal, 31 October, 2014.

- Ana F. Sequeira, Juliano Murari, Jaime S. Cardoso

Quality measures for iris images in mobile applications [pdf] [poster]

In Proceedings of the 19th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD2013), Lisbon, Portugal, 31 October, 2013.

- Juliano Murari, Ana F. Sequeira and Jaime S. Cardoso

Liveness detection in iris recognition systems [pdf] [poster]

In Proceedings of the 2nd PhD. Students Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Porto, Portugal, 25 - 27 June, 2013.

- Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime S. Cardoso, Samaneh Khoshrou

Color feature selection for unconstrained iris recognition [pdf] [poster]

In Proceedings of the 18th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 26 October, 2012

- Ana F. Sequeira, Jaime S. Cardoso, Samaneh Khoshrou

Color feature selection for an unconstrained iris recognition system [pdf] [poster]

In Proceedings of the 1st PhD. Students Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 27 - 28, Porto, Portugal, 28 - 29 June, 2012

Didactic Publications:

"Olá, Matemática! 5º ano"(2010, ISBN: 978-972-0-20503-2) and "Olá, Matemática! 6º ano"(2011, ISBN: 978-972-0-20527-8), Ana Filipa Sequeira, Ana Pais Andrade, Célia Almeida, Elisabete Beja, Porto Editora.

Master Thesis

- Ana F. Sequeira

Medusa – Uma cifra inspirada na Bífida e uma sua implementação (Medusa - a cipher inspired on Bifid and one implementation)

MSc Thesis, António Machiavelo (supervisor)

FCUP – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 2007.