Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory
Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory
The biometric research group at NTNU focuses on various biological and behavioral biometrics including 2D- and 3D-face recognition, fingerprint recognition, fingervein recognition, ear recognition, signature recognition, gait recognition, keystroke recognition, gesture recognition and mouse dynamics.
Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory is more than just a physical room at the campus. It is a discussion forum to brainstorm, to generate new ideas and projects and to present intermediate results. Thus it is an essential part of the Department of Information Security and Communication at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and represents an active focus point with many international research projects.
Further, it is the intention of the laboratory to increase the awareness of biometrics in Norway via the Norwegian Biometric Forum and its potential involvement in the Norwegian legislation and to contribute to the international standardization in the field.
Furthermore, we focus on:
- privacy enhancing technologies, such as biometric template protection
- presentation attack detection
- face morphing attack detection
Our group serves also as independent testing institution for biometric performance evaluations based on our in-house biometric databases. The Biometrics lab is an active member in the European Association for Biometrics and co-organizer of the international BIOSIG conference as well as many other conferences and workshops.
Academic staff
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Patrick Adrianus Bours Professor
+4741265872 patrick.bours@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Christoph Busch Professor
+47-61135194 christoph.busch@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Kiran Raja Associate Professor
+47-61135374 kiran.raja@ntnu.no Department of Computer Science -
Guoqiang Li Researcher
+47-61135251 +4797927047 guoqiang.li@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Raghavendra Ramachandra Professor
+47-61135458 raghavendra.ramachandra@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Raymond Veldhuis
+31614346251 raymond.veldhuis@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Bian Yang Professor
+47-61135486 bian.yang@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology
PhD candidates
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Marcel Grimmer
+47-61135164 marceg@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Wassim Kabbani PhD Candidate
wassim.h.kabbani@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Hailin Li PhD Candidate
+4793847300 hailin.li@ntnu.no Department of Information Security and Communication Technology -
Tabita Anggraini Meilita Lumban Tobing
tabita.tobing@ntnu.no -
Frøy Løvåsdal PhD student
froyl@stud.ntnu.no -
Raghavendra Mudgalgundurao PhD student
raghavem@stud.ntnu.no -
Bhanu Shrestha Integrated PhD Candidate
+47-61135163 bhanu.shrestha@ntnu.no Department of Computer Science -
Haoyu Zhang PhD student
haoyu.zhang@ntnu.no
NBL News
- Marcel Grimmer successfully defended his PhD thesis
- Best Paper Awarded at CVIP 2023
- Best Paper Awarded at NISK 2023
- Pernille Kopperud successfully defended her Master Thesis
- Eric Jensen and Morten Bjerre successfully defended their Master Thesis
- Prof. Patrick Bours wins the NTNU Innovation Award 2023
- Parisa Rezaee Borj has successfully defended her PhD thesis
- Sushma Venkatesh has successfully defended her PhD thesis
- Best Poster Awarded at BIOSIG 2022
- more ...
Research projects
The Biometrics lab is interacting with industrial and academic partners in a number of national and international projects. Our current projects are:
Completed projects are:
Research topics of PhD candidates
- Bhanu Shrestha -- Human Cognition and AI in Decision Making for Facial Image Manipulation Detection
- Wassim Kabbani -- Face Image Quality Measures and Assessment
- Hailin Li -- Robust algorithms for fingerprint presentation attack detection
- Raghavendra Mudgal-Gundurao -- Unsupervised Self-Verification using Facial Biometrics
- Haoyu Zhang -- Detection and Generation of Morphing Attacks
Research topics of graduated PhD
- Marcel Grimmer -- Synthetic Face Image Generation for Biometric Recognition. Defended his thesis on 2025-03-05.
- Jag Mohan Singh -- Robust Biometric Authentication using 3D Information. Defended his thesis on 2024-05-22.
- Parisa Rezaee Borj -- Online Grooming Detection on Social Media Platforms. Defended her thesis on 2023-04-18.
- Sushma Venkatesh -- Robust Algorithms for Morph Attack Detection. Defended her thesis on 2022-10-11.
- Edlira Martiri -- Template Protection for Multi-Biometrics. Defended her thesis on 2022-01-14.
- Hareesh Mandalapu -- Robust Algorithms for Audio-Visual Biometric Authentication. Defended his thesis on 2021-12-15.
- Ali Khodabakhsh -- Automated Authentication of Audiovisual Content: A Biometric Approach. Defended his thesis on 2021-06-18.
- Pawel Drozdowski -- Efficient Privacy-preserving Identification in Large-scale Multi-biometric Systems. Defended his thesis on 2020-05-06.
- Patrick Schuch -- Deep Learning for Fingerprint Recognition Systems.
Defended his thesis on 2019-10-16. - Pankaj Wasnik -- Presentation Attack Detection for Smart Phone Based Biometrics.
Defended his thesis on 2019-05-08. - Ctirad Sousedik -- Presentation Attack Resistant Fingerprint Biometrics.
Defended his thesis on 2018-01-30. - Kiran Bylappa Raja -- Robust Biometric Verification based on the Eye Region.
Defended his thesis on 2016-11-11. - Guoqiang Li -- Innovative methods for fingerprint identification systems.
Defended his thesis on 2016-10-27. - Soumik Mondal -- Continuous Authentication and Identification.
Defended his thesis on 2016-02-24. - Martin Olsen -- Fingerprint Image Quality.
Defended his thesis on 2015-12-17. - Anika Pflug -- Ear Recognition.
Defended her thesis on 2015-06-19. - Mohammed Derawi -- Smartphones and Biometrics.
Defended his thesis on 2012-11-16. - Daniel Hartung -- Vascular Pattern Recognition.
Defended his thesis on 2012-10-18.
NBL annual workshops
- NBL Annual Workshop 2025
- NBL Annual Workshop 2024
- NBL Annual Workshop 2023
- NBL Annual Workshop 2022
- NBL Annual Workshop 2021
- NBL Annual Workshop 2020
- NBL Annual Workshop 2019
- NBL Annual Workshop 2018
- NBL Annual Workshop 2017
- NBL Annual Workshop 2016
- NBL Annual Workshop 2015
- NBL Annual Workshop 2014
- NBL Annual Workshop 2013
- NBL Annual Workshop 2012
- NBL Annual Workshop 2011
Open thesis proposals
- Master thesis -- Face Image Eye-Whiteness Quality Assessment
- Master thesis -- Face Image Eyes Visibility Quality Assessment
- Master thesis -- Face Image Radial Distortion Quality Assessment
- Master thesis -- Face Image Forntalization with Deep Learning
- Master thesis -- Editing Face Images with Deep Learning
- Master thesis -- Face Ageing with Latent Diffusion Models
- Master thesis -- Efficient Quality Assessment for Expression Neutrality
- Master thesis -- Print-scan Effect Simulation of 2-D Face Images for Morphing Attack Detection
- Master thesis -- Face Morphing Attack Detection based on segmentation
- Master thesis -- Face age progression with Generative Models
