I received my M.Sc. and D.Sc. (Tech.) degrees in information engineering from the University of Oulu in 2010 and 2015, respectively. The research work conducted during my postgraduate studies has been recognized with two awards: the Five Year Highest Impact Award at BTAS 2016 and the IET Biometrics Premium (Best Paper) Award in 2013.
My general research interests include computer vision, audio and image processing, computational imaging, machine learning and pattern recognition. My particular focus has been on biometric authentication (face, iris, "talking-face" and bevioural), especially presentation attack detection (PAD) and multi-modal active (continuous) authentication on mobile devices. The work on PAD has also spanned my research topics into image and video forensics, including "deepfake" detection. I have also gained experience in conducting research and development in industry while working at Visidon Ltd - a company specialized in computer vision and computational imaging algorithms optimized for mobile and embedded platforms.
Our paper on remote photoplethysmography based biometric authentication received the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2024)
A paper on face PAD has been published in PRL special issue on Biometric Presentation Attacks: handcrafted features versus deep learning approaches (BioPAth)
Yu Z, Komulainen J, Li X & Zhao G (2023)
Review of face presentation attack detection competitions.
Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing - Presentation Attack Detection and Vulnerability Assessment. [pdf]
Komulainen J, Boulkenafet Z & Akhtar Z (2019)
Review of face presentation attack detection competitions.
Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing - Presentation Attack Detection. [pdf]
Komulainen J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2017)
Contact lens detection in iris images.
Iris and Periocular Biometrics. [pdf]
Anjos A, Komulainen J, Marcel S, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2014)
Face anti-spoofing: Visual approach.
Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing.
Peer-reviewed scientific journal articles
Muhammad U, Yu Z & Komulainen J (2022)
Self-supervised 2D face presentation attack detection via temporal sequence sampling.
Pattern Recognition Letters. [code][pdf]
Rehman YAU, Po LM & Komulainen J (2020)
Enhancing Deep Discriminative Feature Maps via Perturbation for Face Presentation Attack Detection.
Image and Vision Computing. [pdf]
Mahbub U, Komulainen J, Ferreira D & Chellappa R (2019)
Continuous Authentication of Smartphones Based on Application Usage.
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science. [pdf]
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J & Hadid A (2018)
On the generalization of color texture-based face anti-spoofing.
Image and Vision Computing. [pdf]
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J & Hadid A (2017)
Face anti-spoofing using speeded-up robust features and Fisher vector encoding.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J & Hadid A (2016)
Face spoofing detection using colour texture analysis.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security. [code]
Boutellaa E, Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J & Hadid A (2016)
Audiovisual synchrony assessment for replay attack detection in talking face biometrics.
Multimedia Tools and Applications.
Pereira TdF, Komulainen J, Anjos A, De Martino JM, Hadid A, Pietikäinen M & Marcel S (2014)
Face liveness detection using dynamic texture.
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
Määttä J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2012)
Face spoofing detection from single images using texture and local shape analysis.
IET Biometrics.
Received the IET Biometrics Premium (Best Paper) Award 2013!
Peer-reviewed scientific conference papers
Sun Z, Li X, Komulainen J & Zhao G (2024)
Biometric authentication based on enhanced remote photoplethysmography signal morphology.
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB). Received the Best Paper Runner-Up Award! [pdf]
Sieranoja S, Komulainen J, Sahidullah M, Kinnunen T & Hadid A (2018)
Audiovisual synchrony detection with optimized audio features.
IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP). [pdf]
Siirtola P, Komulainen J & Kellokumpu V (2018)
Effect of context in swipe gesture-based continuous authentication on smartphones.
European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN). [code][pdf]
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J, Akhtar Z, Benlamoudi A, Samai D, Bekhouche SE, Ouafi A, Dornaika F, Taleb-Ahmed A, Qin L, Peng F, Zhang L B, Long M, Bhilare S, Kanhangad V, Costa-Pazo A, Vazquez-Fernandez E, Pérez-Cabo D, Moreira-Pésrez JJ, Gonzélez-Jiménez D, Mohammadi A, Bhattacharjee S, Marcel S, Volkova S, Tang Y, Abe N, Li L, Feng X, Xia Z, Jiang X, Liu S, Shao E, Yuen P C, Almeida W R, Andalé F, Padilha E, Bertocco G, Dias W, Wainer J, Torres E, Rocha A, Angeloni M A, Folego G, Godoy A & Hadid A (2017)
A Competition on generalized software-based face presentation attack detection in mobile scenarios.
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB). [website][pdf]
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J, Li L, Feng X & Hadid A (2017)
OULU-NPU: A mobile face presentation attack database with real-world variations.
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). [website][pdf]
Li X, Komulainen J, Zhao G, Yuen PC & Pietikäinen M (2016)
Generalized face anti-spoofing by detecting pulse from face videos.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
Komulainen J, Anina I, Holappa J, Boutellaa E & Hadid A (2016)
On the robustness of audiovisual liveness detection to visual speech animation.
IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS). [pdf]
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J & Hadid A (2016)
Scale space texture analysis for face anti-spoofing.
IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB).
Boulkenafet Z, Komulainen J & Hadid A (2015)
Face anti-spoofing based on color texture analysis.
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
Selected as one of the "TOP 10%" papers at ICIP 2015! [code]
Komulainen J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2014)
Generalized textured contact lens detection by extracting BSIF description from Cartesian iris images.
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB).
Selected for the "best reviewed papers session" at IJCB 2014!
Komulainen J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2013)
Context based face anti-spoofing.
International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS)
Chingovska I, Yang J, Lei Z, Yi D, Li SZ, Kähm O, Glaser C, Damer N, Kuijper A, Nouak A, Komulainen J, Pereira T, Gupta S, Khandelwal S, Bansal S, Rai A, Krishna T, Goyal D, Waris M.A, Zhang H, Ahmad I, Kiranyaz S, Gabbouj M, Tronci R, Pili M, Sirena (2013)
The 2nd competition on counter measures to 2D face spoofing attacks.
International Conference on Biometrics (ICB)
Komulainen J, Anjos A, Hadid A, Marcel S & Pietikäinen M (2013)
Complementary countermeasures for detecting scenic face spoofing attacks.
International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) [code][pdf]
Komulainen J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2013)
Face spoofing detection using dynamic texture.
ACCV 2012 Workshops, Part I (LBP)
Chakka M, Anjos A, Marcel S, Tronci R, Muntoni D, Fadda G, Pili M, Sirena N, Murgia G, Ristori M, Roli F, Yan J, Yi D, Lei Z, Zhang Z, Li S.Z, Schwartz W, Rocha A, Pedrini H, Lorenzo-Navarro J, Castrillon-Santana M, Määttä J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2011)
Competition on counter measures to 2-D facial spoofing attacks.
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB).
Määttä J, Hadid A & Pietikäinen M (2011)
Face spoofing detection from single images using micro-texture analysis.
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)
Received the Five Year Highest Impact Award at BTAS 2016!
Theses
Komulainen J (2015)
Software-based countermeasures to 2D facial spoofing attacks.
Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu. [pdf]
Määttä J (2010)
Augmented reality based worker guidance for industrial environments.
Master's thesis, University of Oulu.
Leisure
When I am not spending quality time with my family, I am playing disc golf and kyykkä (Finnish skittles), or cycling. Music is one of the things that keeps me going. I am a vinyl junkie and a guitarist recovering from GAS (gear acquisition syndrome). I also enjoy good coffee and play a lot with different manual coffee preparation methods, especially V60 and Flair espresso.
