Hatef OTROSHI SHAHREZA

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Hatef is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Biometrics Security and Privacy Group, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2024, and was a Research Assistant during his PhD at Idiap Research Institute, where he received H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (TReSPAsS-ETN) for his doctoral program. Proir to his PhD, he received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2018, the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Kashan, Iran, in 2016. During his Ph.D., Hatef also spent 6 months as a visiting scholar with the Biometrics and Internet Security Research Group at Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. He was the recipient of the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) Research Award 2023. His research interests include but are not limited to deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, generative models, foundation models, and biometrics. He is an IEEE Senior Memeber. 


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News:

  • Mar 2025: We published the pre-print of our new paper, "Foundation Models and Biometrics: A Survey and Outlook" [pdf].
  • Feb 2025: We are organising the "1st International Workshop on Foundation, Multimodal Large Language and Generative Models for Face and Gesture Recognition" at FG 2025 [link to workshop].
  • Jan 2025: Our paper was accepted in ICLR 2025 [pdf].
  • Dec 2024: I will be attending NeurIPS 2024 to present our 3 papers on synthetic data, membership inference attacks, and backdoor attacks.
  • Nov 2024: I will give an invited keynote talk in the Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security Workshop at BMVC 2024.
  • Nov 2024: Our paper was accepted in IEEE-Access [pdf].
  • Sep 2024: I defended my PhD and graduated from EPFL [PhD thesis].
  • Jul 2024: Our paper was accepted in IEEE-Access [pdf].
  • May 2024: I will give an invited keynote talk in the Synthetic Data for Face and Gesture Analysis Workshop at FG 2024.
  • Mar 2024: Our paper was accepted in IEEE-TIFS [pdf].
  • Mar 2024: Our paper was accepted at FG 2024 [pdf].
  • Dec 2023: I was interviewed, as Researcher on the Rise, by the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter [link, pp 28-31]
  • Nov 2023: We are organising SDFR competition at FG 2024.
  • Sep 2023: I received the EAB Research Award 2023.
  • Sep 2023: Our paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2023 [pdf].
  • Sep 2023: Our paper was accepted at TPAMI [project page].

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