Sébastien Marcel

Expertise image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, biometrics Current work Face recognitionSpeaker recognitionMobile biometrics ( http://www.mobioproject.org )Spoofing ( http://www.tabularasa-euproject.org )Biometrics evaluation and testing ( http://www.beat-eu.org ) Sébastien Marcel is the head of the Biometrics group and senior research scientist at the Idiap Research Institute (CH), where he leads a research team and conducts research on biometrics and more particularly face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition and spoofing/anti-spoofing.He received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in France (2000) at CNET, the research center of France Telecom (now Orange Labs). He is currently interested in pattern recognition and machine learning with a focus on multimodal biometric person recognition. In 2010, he was appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari (IT) where he taught a series of lectures in face recognition. He serves on the Program Committee of several scientific journals and international conferences in pattern recognition and computer vision.Sébastien Marcel is the principal investigator of international research projects including MOBIO (EU FP7 Mobile Biometry http://www.mobioproject.org ), TABULA RASA (EU FP7 Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks http://www.tabularasa-euproject.org ) and BEAT (EU FP7 Biometrics Evaluation and Testing http://www.beat-eu.org ). Education PhD | Signal processing 1997 – 2000 Université de Rennes I (France) Directed by Christian ROUX Master in research | Artificial Intelligence 1996 – 1996 Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse (France) Professionals experiences Senior research scientist 2008–2008 Idiap research instituteVisiting Associate Professor 2010–2010 University of Cagliari (Italy)Research scientist 2005–2007 Idiap research institutePostdoctoral researcher 2000–2004 Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial IntelligenceResearch Engineer 1997–2000 France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) Teaching & PhD PhD Students Parsa Rahimi Noshanagh Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Fabien Cardinaux, Yann Rodriguez, Agnès Just, Guillaume Heusch, Anindya Roy, Venkatesh Bala Subburaman, Cosmin Atanasoaei, Laurent El Shafey, Ivana Chingovska, Tiago De Freitas Pereira, Amir Mohammadi, Alexander Unnervik, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza