Ferrer Ballester, Miguel Ángel
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Procesado Digital de la Señal (PDS)

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Biography

He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he has taught since 1990 and heads the Digital Signal Processing Group there. His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision applied to biometrics and audio quality evaluation.

Publications

International JCR Journals

Aythami Morales, Ester González, Miguel A. Ferrer, “On the feasibility of interoperable schemes in hand biometrics”, accepted at Sensors, special Issue on Hand-Based Biometrics Sensors and Systems, January 2012. [Download]

Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, Ajay Kumar, “Toward Contactless Palmprint Authentication”, IET Computer Vision: Special Issue on Future Trend in Biometric Processing, ISSN: 1751-9632, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 407-416, 2011. [Download]

Miguel A. Ferrer and Aythami Morales, “Hand-Shape Biometrics combining the visible and Short Wave InfraRed Bands”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, ISSN: 1556-6013, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1305-1314, December 2011. [Download]

Carlos. M. Travieso, J. Zhang, P- Miller, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Bimodal biometric verification based on face and lips”, Neurocomputing, ISSN 0925-2312 vol. 74, pp. 2407-2410, 2nd June 2011. [Download]

A. Morales, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Improved Finger-Knuckle-Print Authentication based on Orientation Enhancement” in IEE Electronic letters, vol. 47, No. 6, pp , ISSN 0013-5194, 17nd March 2011. [Download]

J.F.Vargas, M.A.Ferrer, C.M.Travieso,J.B.Alonso, “Off-line signature verification based on grey level information using texture features”, in Pattern Recognition, ISSN: 0031-3203, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 375-385, February 2011. [Download]

Miguel A. Ferrer, A. Morales, Jesús B. Alonso, “Fingers Shape Biometric Identification using Point Distribution Models”, in IEE Electronic letters, vol. 46, No. 7, pp , ISSN 0013-5194, 1st April 2010. [Download]

Omar Santana, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Writer Identification based on Graphology Techniques”, in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Magazine, , ISSN:  0885-8985, vol. 25 no. 6, pp. 35-42, June 2010. [Download]

Miguel A. Ferrer, Aythami Morales, Lourdes Ortega, “Infrared hand dorsum images for identification”, in Electronic Letters, vol 45, No 6, pp. 306-308, ISSN 0013-5194, 12 March 2009. [Download]

Patricia Henriquez, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Juan I. Godino-Llorente, Fernando Diaz-de-Maria, “Characterization of Healthy and Pathological Voice Through Measures Based on Nonlinear Dynamics”, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, ISSN: 1558-7916, vol. 17, no. 6, pp.1186-1195, August 2009. [Download]

Z.J.J.Li, M.A. Ferrer, C.M. Travieso, J.B. Alonso, “Biometric based on ridges of palm skin over the head of the second metacarpal bone”, in IEE Electronic letters, ISSN 0013-5194, vol. 42, No. 7, pp 391-393 , 30th March 2006. [Download]

Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, JesúsB. Alonso, “Using Hand Knuckle Texture for Biometric Identification”, in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, ISSN:  0885-8985, vol. 21 no. 6, part I,  pp. 23-27, June 2006. [Download]

Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, “Offline geometric parameters for automatic signature verification using fixed-point arithmetic”, in IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, ISSN 0162-8828, vol. 27, no. 6, pp 993-997, June 2005. [Download]

J. Ballesteros, C.M. Travieso, J.B.Alonso, M.A.Ferrer, “Slant estimation of handwritten characters by means of Zernike moments”, in IEE Electronic letters, vol. 41, No. 20, pp 1110-1112, ISSN 0013-5194, 29th September 2005. [Download]

Jesús B. Alonso, José de León, Itziar Alonso, and Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic Detection of Pathologies in the voice by HOS based Parameters”, in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal processing, vol. 2001, no 4, pp. 275-284, December 2001. [Download]

Miguel A Ferrer, Itziar G Alonso, Carlos M Travieso, “Influence of Initialization and Stop Criteria on HMM based recognizers”, Electronics letters of IEE, vol. 36, no. 13, pp. 1165-1166, June 2000. [Download]

Miguel Ángel Ferrer y Aníbal Ramón Figueiras Vidal, “Efficient Adaptive Vector Quantization of LPC Parameters” IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 314 a 317, July 1995. [Download]

 

International Book Chapters

J.F. Vargas and M.A. Ferrer, “Neural Networks on Automatic Handwritten Signature Verification: a review of state of the art”, in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. IGI Global publication,  ISBN: 978-1-59904-849-9, vol. III, pp. 1232-1237, July 2008.

Aday Tejera Santana, Miguel A. Ferrer Ballester, “Blind Source Separation by ICA”, ”, in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, IGI Global publication,  ISBN: 978-1-59904-849-9, vol. I, pp. 270-274, July 2008

Aythami Morales and Miguel A. Ferrer, “Contact-free hand biometrics system for real environments based on geometric features”, in Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Edited by Ashraf A. Zaher, In-Tech, pp 185-194,  ISBN: 978-953-307-002-5, Croatia 2009.

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jorge Corsino, “Automatic Arrhytmia Detection”, in Soft Computing Methods for Practical Environments Solutions: Techniques and Studies”, Edited by Marcos Gestal Pose and Daniel Rivero Cebrián,  Information Science Reference, IGI Global, pp. 204-218, ISBN 978-1-61520-893-7, New York, 2010.

Aythami Morales Moreno and Miguel A. Ferrer. BiSpectral Contactless hand based biometric identification device, Recent Application in Biometrics, Jucheng Yang and Norman Poh (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-488-7, InTech, pp. 267-284, July 2011. Available from:  http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/bispectral-contactless-hand-based-biometric-identification-device

Jesus F. Vargas and Miguel A. Ferrer. “Texture Analysis for Off-Line Signature Verification”, in Biometric Systems, Design and Applications, Zahid Riaz (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-542-6, InTech, pp.219-234, October 2011. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/texture-analysis-for-off-line-signature-verification


Lecture Notes

Nestor Falcón, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Image processing techniques for Braille Writing recognition”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 3643/2005, pp. 379-385, 2005.

M. Faúndez-Zanuy, Miguel A. Ferrer-Ballester, Carlos M. Travieso-González, Virginia Espinosa-Duró, “Hand Geometry Based Recognition with a MLP Classifier”, in Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 3832/2005, pp. 721-727, 2005.

Jesús B. Alonso, Fernando Díaz-de-Maria, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Optimal Size of Time Window in Nonlinear Features for Voice Quality Measurement”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 3817/2006, pp.206-217, February 2006.

Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Pedro Gómez-Vilda, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Manuel Blanco-Velasco, Fernando Cruz-Roldán, Miguel Angel Ferrer-Ballester, ”Support Vector Machines Applied to the Detection of Voice Disorders”,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, Volume 3817, Pages 219 – 230, February 2006.

Carlos M. Travieso, Juan C. Briceño, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Using Fisher Kernel on 2D-Shape Identification”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 4739/2007, pp.740-746, 2007.

Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Joan Fabregas, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Evaluation of Supervised v.s Non Supervised Databases for Hand Geometry Verification”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 4507/2007, pp.1122-1129, 2007.

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, David A. Elizondo, Miguel-Ángel Ferrer-Ballester, Carlos M. Travieso-González, “Authentication of Individuals using Hand Geometry Biometrics: A Neural Network Approach”, in Neural Processing Letters, ISSN 1370-4621,  vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 201-216, December 2007.

Carlos F. Romero, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Handwriting Knowledge based on Parameterization for Writer Identification”, in Lecfture Notes in Electrical Engineering, ISSN: 1876-1100, ISBN: 978-0-387-84813-6, vol. 27, pp. 3-15, 2009.  

A. Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, M. Faúndez, J. Fabregas, G. González, J. Garrido, R. Ribalda, J. Ortega, M. Freire, “Biometric Systema Verification Closet o ‘Real World’ Conditions”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743,  vol. 5707, pp.236-243, 2009.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Joan Frabregas, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos Travieso, Amparo Sacristán, “On the Relevance of Image Acquisition Resolution for Hand Geometry Identification Based on MLP”, in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Application, ISBN 978-1-60750-072-8, Proceedings of the 19th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets (Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, May 28–30 2009, vol. 204, pp. 314-322, , Edited by B. Apolloni, S. Bassis and C. F. Morabito, 2009

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Reducing Features from Pejibaye Palm DNA Marker for a Efficient Classification”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 5933, pp.152-162, 2010.

Juan José Fuertes, Carlos M. Travieso, A. Alvarez, M.A. Ferrer, J.B. Alonso, “Reducing Artifacts in TMS-Evoked EEG”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 6076, pp.302-310, 2010.

Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Bubbles detection on sea surface images”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 6352, pp.565-568, 2010.

Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Joan Fabregas, Miguel A. Ferrer, A. Morales, Javier Ortega, G. González and J. Garrido, “Biometric Database Acquisition Close to “Real World” Conditions”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Computer Science, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 5967, pp.197-206, 2010.

Carlos M. Travieso, Marcos del Pozo, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Reducing Features using Discriminative Common Vectors”, in Springer Cognitive Computing, vol. 2, pp:160-164, 2010

Patricia Henríquez, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Juan R. Orozco-Arroyave, “Application of Nonlinear Dynamics Characterization to Emotional Speech”, in Springer Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. 7015, pp.127-136, 2011.

 

Other International Journals

S. Gonzalez, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesus B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Hand-geometry Biometrics identification systems”, in AS internacional, ISSN 1023 7291 , pp. 92-94, July 2004.

A.González, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, “Help System to diagnosis of Melanoma by Dermoscopy” in WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, ISSN 1790-5022, issue 1, vol. 2, pp. 31-36, January 2006

G. Ravelo, C.M.Travieso, F.D.Lorenzo, J.L. Navarro, S. Martín, J.B. Alonso, M.A. Ferrer, “Application of Support Vector Machine and Gaussian Mixture Models for the Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea based on the RR Series”, in WSEAS Transactions on Computers, ISSN 1109-2750,  issue 1, vol. 5, pp. 121-124 , January 2006

Carlos F. Romero, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Using off-line Handwritten Text for Writer Identification”, in WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, ISSN 1790-5022, Issue 1, vol. 3, pp.56-61, January 2007.

J.Francisco Vargas, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Off-line handwritten Signature Contours analysis for Identification”, in WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, ISSN 1790-5022, Issue 1, vol. 3, pp.62-66, January 2007.

Santiago T. Pérez, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, José F. Cruz, “Design of a synchronous FFHSS modulator on a FPGA with System Generator”, in WSEAS Transaction on Circuits and Systems, ISSN 1109-2734, Vol. 8, Issue 8, pp. 641-650, August 2009.

 

National Journals

Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester, “Diseño y Simulación de un Vocoder a 800 BPS”, Mundo Electrónico, páginas: 126 a 131, Mayo 1989.

Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester, “Tratamiento Digital de la Señal de Voz”, Investigación y Ciencia, páginas: 83 a 84,  Julio 1995.

Juan Carlos Briceño Lobo, Carlos M. Travieso González, Jesús Bernardino Alonso Hernández, Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester, “Investigación sobre el reconocimiento automático Foliar de la Laurisilva Canaria”, Vector Plus, número 23, Junio 2004.

Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Contenidos WEB para un grupo de investigación con carga docente”, Revista Anual de Teoría, Investigación y Práctica Educativa QURRICULUM, Universidad de La Laguna, número 17, pp. 197-205, ISSN: 1130-5371, año 2004

Zai Jian Jia Li, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, Fabio Roman, “Autenticación de personas a partir de la biometría de la región dígito palmas”, Vector Plus, número 27,  ISSN: 1134-5306, Junio 2006.


 

International Conferences

Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester y Aníbal R. Figueiras Vidal, “Improving CELP Voice Quality by Modifying the Excitation”, International. Conference. on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, pp. 1360-1364, S.Francisco. USA, September de 1993.

Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester y Aníbal R. Figueiras Vidal, “Improving CELP Voice Quality By Weighting the Error Criterion”, VII European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 924-927, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1994.

Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester y Aníbal R. Figueiras Vidal, “Improving CELP Voice Quality By Projection Similarity Measure”, International Conferences  on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 4, ss. 34.2, pp. 2063-2066, Yokohama, Japan, September 1994.

Itziar Goretti Alonso, Miguel Ángel Ferrer, Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal, “A Comparative Study of Different Hybrid Hidden Markov Model and Neural Network Classifiers for Speech Recognition”, IASTED Signal and Image processing Conference, pp. 559-564, Las Vegas, USA, October 1998.

Carlos M Travieso, Ciro R. Morales, Itziar Goretti Alonso, Miguel Ángel Ferrer, “Handwritten Digits Parameterisation for HMM Based Recognition”, VII IEE Int. Conf on Image Processing and its applications, pp. 770-774, Manchester, UK, July 1999.

Itziar G. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Aníbal R. Figueiras, “Improving a HMM speech recogniser with a Polynomyal GMDH Neural Network Postprocessor”, IEEE international Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing, pp. 231-234, Budapest, September 1999

Jose L. Camino, Carlos M. Travieso, Ciro R. Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Signature Classification by Hidden Markov Models”, 33rd Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, pp. 481-484, Madrid, Spain,  October 1999

Itziar G. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Aníbal R. Figueiras, “Improving a HMM recogniser with a Polynomyal GMDH Neural Network Postprocessor”, IASTED Signal and Image processing Conference, pp. 279-283, Las Bahamas, USA, october 1999.

F. Ayudarte, J. de León, J.F. Rivero, M.A. Ojeda, J. Alonso, M.A. Ferrer.,” Harmonic-Noise estimation using high order statistical”, in III Congreso de Laringología, París, June 2000.

F. Ayudarte, J. de León, J.F. Rivero, J. Alonso, M.A. Nuñez, M.A. Ferrer, “Cepstral coefficients contribution to voice signals analysis.Autores”, in III Congreso de Laringología, París, June 2000.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Itziar G. Alonso, Carlos M Travieso, and Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal, “Improving Generalization Ability of HMM/NNs based classifiers”, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2000, pp. 100-101, Tampere, Finlandia, September 2000.

Jesús B. Alonso, José de león, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic detection of pathologies in the voice by HOS based parameters”, IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing,  Baltimore, Maryland USA, June 2001.

Jose A. Sánchez, Carlos M. Travieso, Itziar G. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Handwritten signature recognizer by its envelope and strokes layout using HMM”, in 35th annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, London, pp. 267-271, October 16-19, 2001.

Juan C. Briceño, Carlos Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic recognition of simple Laurisilva Canariensis leaves by perimeter characterization”, in IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPRA 2002), pp. 249-254, Crete, Greece, June 2002.

Cristina Carmona, Jesús B. Alonso, José de León, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic detection of pathological voices using multiband excitation vocoder parameters”, in 16th biennial international Eurasip conference BIOSIGNAL 2002, pp- 120-122, Brno, Czech, June 2002.

Jesús B. Alonso, Cristina Carmona, José de León, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Combining Neural Networks and hidden Markov models for automatic detection of pathologies”, in 16th biennial international Eurasip conference BIOSIGNAL 2002, pp.466-468, Brno, Czech, June 2002.

Enrique Gómez, Carlos M. Travieso, Juan C Briceño, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Biometric Identification System by Lip Shape”, in 36th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Atlantic City,  pp. 39-42, October 20-24, 2002.

Jose De León, J.F. Rivero, F. Ayudarte, M.A. Núñez, J.B. Alonso, M.A. Ferrer, ”Morphological analysis of the glottal excitation curve”, XVIIth World Congress of The International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies, 1538 PH-p, Cairo, sept 28th to 3rd October 2002

Jose De  León, J.F. Rivero, F. Ayudarte, M.A. Núñez, J.B. Alonso, M.A. Ferrer, ”Temporal evolution study of pathological voice features”, XVIIth World Congress of The International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies, 1539 PH-p, Cairo, sept 28th to 3rd October 2002

Godino-Llorente J.I., Sáenz-Lechón, N.; Osma-Ruiz, V.; Gómez-Vilda, P.; Ferrer-Ballester, M.A. "LVQ neural nets applied to the detection of voice impairments". Proc. EMBEC'02, pp. 476-477, Viena, Austria, diciembre 2002.
ISBN: 3-901351-62-0.

Carlos M. Travieso-González, Jesús B. Alonso-Hernández, Miguel A. Ferrer-Ballester, “Sign language to tex by SVM”, in 7th international symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, Paris, pp.435-438, July 1-4, 2003.

Santiago González, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic biometric identification system by hand geometry”, in 37th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Taipei, pp. 281-284, October 14-16, 2003.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesus B. Alonso, Sebastien David, Carlos M. Travieso, “Parameterization methodology for 2D shape classification by hidden Markov models”, in XII European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2004, Vienna, pp. 761-764, September 6-10, 2004.

M.Rafael Díaz, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Biometric System based in the feature of hand palm”, in 38th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp. 136-139, October 11-14, 2004.

Luis E. Martínez, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Parameterization method of a forgery handwritten signature verification system using SVM”, in 38th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp. 193-196, October 11-14, 2004.

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Facial identification using transformed domain by SVM”, in 38th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp. 321-324, October 11-14, 2004.

C. Freire, J. B. Alonso, Carlos M Travieso, S. David, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic detection of larinx pathologies using support vector machines” Complex systems intelligence and modern technological applications, Cherbourg, France, pp. 494-499, 19-22 september 2004

S. David, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso “gpdsHMM: a hidden Markov model toolbox in the Matlab Enviroment” Complex systems intelligence and modern technological applications, Cherbourg, France, pp. 476-479, 19-22 september 2004

Carlos M Travieso, J. B. Alonso, S. David, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Optimization of a biometric system identification by hand geometry” Complex systems intelligence and modern technological applications, Cherbourg, France, pp. 581-586, 19-22 september 2004.

A. Camino, C.M. Travieso, J.B. Alonso, M.A. Ferrer, “Dactylology language translator from video to text”, in 10th international workshop on computer aided systems theory, Las Palmas de G.C., pp. 197-200, ISSN: 84-689-0432-5, February 2005.

N. Falcón, C.M. Travieso, J.B.Alonso, M.A. Ferrer, “Automatic Braille character recognition: BrailLector”, in 10th international workshop on computer aided systems theory, Las Palmas de G.C., pp. 201-204, ISSN: 84-689-0432-5, February 2005.

Jesús B. Alonso, Fernando Díaz de María, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Using Nonlinear features for voice disorder detection’, in 3rd International Conference on Non-linear speech processing, Barcelona, pp.94-106, ISBN: 84-267-1365-3, April 2005.

Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Pedro Gómez Vilda, Nicolás Sáenz León, Manuel Blanco Velasco, Fernando Cruz Roldán, Miguel Ángel Ferrer Ballester, “Discriminative methods for the detection of voice disorders’, in 3rd International Conference on Non-linear speech processing, Barcelona, pp.158-167, ISBN: 84-267-1365-3, April 2005.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Using hand knuckle texture for biometric identification”, in 39th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, pp.74-78, October 11-14, 2005.

Carlos Manuel Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Strategy for improving the reliability in the facial identification”, in 39th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, pp.149-152, October 11-14, 2005.

Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, José de León, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Characterization of a speaker from a telephone recording using speech quality measurements”, in 39th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, pp.329-332, October 11-14, 2005.

A.G. Ravelo, C.M. Travieso, F.D.Lorenzo, J.L.Navarro, S.Martín, J.B.Alonso,M.A.Ferrer, “Application of Support Vector Machines and Gaussian Mixture Models for the Detection of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea based on RR Series”, in Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Tenerife, Spain, pp. 139-143, ISSN:1790.5117, ISBN: 960-8457-38-6, December 16-18, 2005.

Carlos M. Travieso, Juan C. Briceño, Jesús B.Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Recognition System for Wooded Species of Canary Laurisilva from its Contour using Kernel of Fisher”, in Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Tenerife, Spain, pp. 326-331, ISSN:1790.5117, ISBN: 960-8457-38-6, December 16-18, 2005.

Ana González, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, “TDS: The Software for the early Diagnosis of Melanoma”, in Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Tenerife, Spain, pp. 365-368, ISSN:1790.5117, ISBN: 960-8457-38-6, December 16-18, 2005

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “E-Learning experiences with signal processing”, in First International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, Amman, Jordan, ISBN 3-89958-177-6, April 19-21 2006

Juan C. Briceño, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Daniel Briceño, “A genus recognition system for the Costa Rica Lauraceae family using a support vector Machine”, XXXII Conferencia Latinoamericana de informática, ISBN: 956-303-028-1, pp120, 21-25 de agosto de 2006.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Multimodal Biometric System based on Hand Geometry and Palm Print Texture”, in 40th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Lexington, Kentucky, pp.92-97,  October 16-19, 2006.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Carlos M. Travieso, Joan Fabregas, Jesús B. Alonso, “Evaluation of Supervised versus Non-Supervised Databases for Hand Geometry Identification”, in 40th IEEE  International Carnahan Conference on security Technology, Lexington, Kentucky, pp.180-185,  October 16-19, 2006.

Carlos F. Romero, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Writer Identification by Handwritten Text Analysis”, in Proceedings of the5th WSEAS Internacional Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering, ISBN: 960-8457-57-2, pp. 204-208, December 16-18, 2006.

J. Francisco Vargas, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Signature Classification using Optimum Contour”, in Proceedings of the5th WSEAS Internacional Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering, ISBN: 960-8457-57-2, pp. 45-48, December 16-18, 2006.

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Improved of PRD for ECG Signal Decompression”, in Proceedings of the5th WSEAS Internacional Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering, ISBN: 960-8457-57-2, pp. 352-355, December 16-18, 2006.

Daylos Cabrera, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Traffic sign detection and recognition in the public way”, in 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, ISBN: 978-84-690-3603-7, pp. 402-405, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, febrero 2007.

Carlos M. Travieso, Juan C. Briceño,  Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Noisy 2D-Shape Automatic Recognition”, in 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, ISBN: 978-84-690-3603-7, pp. 126-129, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, febrero 2007.

Jorge Ballesteros, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Automatic Arrythmia using Wavelet Analysis and Support Vectors Classification”, in 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, ISBN: 978-84-690-3603-7, pp. 101-104, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, febrero 2007.

Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Implementation and Simulation of SVM with fixed-point arithmetic”, in 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, ISBN: 978-84-690-3603-7, pp. 43-46, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, febrero 2007.

Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “A Knuckles texture verification method in a transformed domain”,  1st Spanish Workshop on Biometrics, Girona, Spain, June 2007.

P.Henríquez, J.B. Alonso, C.M. Travieso, M.A. Ferrer, “Advances in Automatic Detection of Failures in Electric Machines using Audio Signals”, in 11th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ISBN 978-0-88986-693-5, pp. 114-119, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 29-31 August, 2007.

A. Morales, P.Henríquez, J.B. Alonso, C.M. Travieso, M.A. Ferrer, “Multifeatures Knuckles Parameterization”, Proceedings of the 26th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 205-209, ISBN 978-0-88986-709-3, Innsbruck, Austria, 11-13 February 2008.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Aythami Morales, Carlos M. Traviso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Low Cost Multimodal Biometric Identification System based on Hand Geometry, Palm and Finger Textures”, in 41st Annual IEEE Internacional Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 1-4244-1129-7, pp. 52-58, Otawa, Canada, 8-11 October 2007.

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Arbitrary Illumination Conditions for Facial Identification”, in 41st Annual IEEE Internacional Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 1-4244-1129-7, pp. 93-98, Otawa, Canada, 8-11 October 2007.

Carlos García, Yolanda Hernández, Diego Fernández, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Patricia Henríquez, “HESPERIA: Homeland Security Technologies for the Security in Public Spaces and Infraestructures”, in 41st Annual IEEE Internacional Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 1-4244-1129-7, pp. 221-226 , Otawa, Canada, 8-11 October 2007.

Francisco Vargas, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B.Alonso, “Off-line Handwritten Signature GPDS-960 Corpus”, in IAPR 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ASSN: 1520-5363, ISBN: 978-0-7695-2822.9, pp.764-768, Curitiba, Brazil, 23-26 September 2007.

Francisco Vargas, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B.Alonso, “Off-line Signature Verification System Performance against Image Acquisition Resolution”, in IAPR 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ASSN: 1520-5363, ISBN: 978-0-7695-2822.9, pp.834-838, Curitiba, Brazil, 23-26 September 2007.

Jorge Corsino, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Improving an Automatic Arrhythmias Recogniser based in ECG Signals”, in International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing 2008, ISSN 978-989-8111-18-0, pp. 453-457, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 28-31 January 2008.

J. Cabrera, J.Alonso, C. Travieso, M. Ferrer, “A Spanish Tool for Biomedical Signals Processing”, in International Technology, Education, and Development Conference INTED 2008, ISBN: 978-84-612-0192-1, Depósito Legal: V-1024-2008, pp. 320, Valencia March 3rd-5th 2008.

Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, Francisco Díaz, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, “Contact-free hand biometric system for real environments”, in 16th Euopean Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008), 4 pages, Laussane, September 2008.

J.Francisco Vargas, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Off-line Signature Verification based on High Pressure Polar Distribution”, in 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwritting Recognition (ICFHR2008), ISBN: 1-895193-03-6, pp. 373-378, Montreal, Quebec-Canada, August 19-21, 2008

Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, “Comparing Infrared and Visible Illumination for Contact-Less Hand based Biometric Scheme”, in 42nd Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST-2008), ISBN 978-1-4244-1816-9, pp 191-194, 13-16 October 2008.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Aythami Morales, Carlos M. Travieso , Jesús B. Alonso, “Influence of the Pegs Number and Distribution on a Biometric Device based on Hand Geometry”, in 42nd Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST-2008), ISBN 978-1-4244-1816-9, pp 221-225, 13-16 October 2008.

Omar Santana, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Writer Identification based on Graphology Techniques“, in 42nd Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST-2008), ISBN 978-1-4244-1816-9, pp 167-173, 13-16 October 2008.

Jordi Solé-Casals, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Improves a Leaves Automatic Recognition Process Using PCA”, in 2nd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Advances in Soft Computing (Springer) ISBN 978-3-540-85860-7, vol. 29, pp 243-251, Salamanca 22-24 october 2008.

Carlos F. Romero, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Hybrid Parameterization system for writer identification”, in Proceedings of Second International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal processing (BIOSIGNAL 2009), ISBN 978-989-8111-65-4, pp. 449-454, Porto-Portugal, 14 – 17 January, 2009.

Jordi Solé-Casals, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso,  Automatic Recognition of Leaves by Shape Detection Preprocessing with ICA”, in Proceedings of Second International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal processing (BIOSIGNAL 2009), ISBN 978-989-8111-65-4, pp. 462-467, Porto-Portugal, 14 – 17 January, 2009.

Juan Carlos Briceño, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Francisco Vargas, “Off-line signature recognition based on contour parameterization”, in 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST 2009), ISBN 978-84-691-8502-5, pp. 118-120, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, February 2009

Víctor D. Suárez, Carlos M. Travieso, Javier González-Fernández, Miguel A. Ferrer, Luis Gómez, Jesús B. Alonso, “Detecting tissue abnormalities from 2D B-Mode ultrasound images using neural networks”, in 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST 2009), ISBN 978-84-691-8502-5, pp. 45-47, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, February 2009

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Using Discriminative Common Vector for reducing and classifiying Pejibe Palm DNA marker”, in ISCA Tutorial and research workshop on non-linear speech processing 2009, DL: B-29.358-2009, ISBN: 978-84-936186-8-1, Vic, Spain June 25-27, 2009.

Santiago T. Pérez, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, José F. Cruz, “Implementation of a Fast Frequency  Hopping Spread Spectrum Modulator with System Generator base don a FPGA”, in Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Mathematical  Methods, Computational Techniques and Intelligent Systems, ISSN: 1790-2769, ISBN: 978-960-474-094-9, pp.213-217, La Laguna, Spain, July 1-3, 2009.

Jesús F. Vargas, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Offline Signature Verification based on Pseudo-Cepstral Coefficients”, in Proceedings of the 10th Internatonal Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3725-2, pp.126-120, Barcelona, July 26-19, 2009.

A.F.Quiceno-Manrique, J.B.Alonso-Hernández, C.M.Travieso-González, M.A.Ferrer-Ballester and G.Castellanos-Domínguez, “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea in ECG recording using time-frequency distributions and dynamics features”, in proceedings of 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biologic al Society, pp. 5559-5562, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3296-7, ISSN: 1557-170X,  Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Sepember 2-6, 2009.

Marcos del Pozo-Baños, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Face Identification based on TV videos”, in 43rd Annual 2009 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4169-3, pp. 119-125, Zürich, Switzerland, October 5-8, 2009

Carlos M. Travieso, Patricia Botella, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Discriminative Common Vector for face identification”, in 43rd Annual 2009 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4169-3, pp. 134-138, Zürich, Switzerland, October 5-8, 2009

Miguel A. Ferrer, Aythami Morales, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Combining hand biometric traits for personal identification”, in 43rd Annual 2009 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4169-3, pp. 155-159, Zürich, Switzerland, October 5-8, 2009

Miguel A. Ferrer, Joan Fàbregas, Marcos Faúndez, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso “Hand Geomtery Identification System Performance”, in 43rd Annual 2009 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4169-3, pp. 167-171, Zürich, Switzerland, October 5-8, 2009

Carlos M. Travieso, Jordi Solé-Casals, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Feature and Computational time reduction on Hand Biometric System”, in Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, ISBN: 978-989-674-018-4, pp. 367-372, Valencia, Spain, 20-23 January 2010.

Carlos M. Travieso, Jordi Solé-Casals, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Automatic Identification of DNA Markers based on Features Reduction”, in Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, ISBN: 978-989-674-018-4, pp. 347-352, Valencia, Spain, 20-23 January 2010.

Carlos F. Romero, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Writer Verification based on Graphometric Features using Feed-Forward Neural Netowks”, in Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, ISBN: 978-989-674-018-4, pp. 353-358, Valencia, Spain, 20-23 January 2010.

Juan C. Briceño, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Robust identofocation of pesons by Lips Contour using Shape Transformation”, in 14th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems 2010, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SPAIN, pp 203-207,  May 5-7, 2010.

Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, Ajay kumar, “Improved Palmprint Authentication using Contactless Imaging”, in IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2010), ISBN: 978-1-4244-7580-3, Washington, USA, September 2010.

Marcos del Pozo-Baños, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Discriminative Multi-projection Vectors: Modifying the Discriominative Common Vectors approach for Face Verification”, in Proceedings 44th Annual 2010 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7400-4, ISSN: 1071-6572, pp.190-197, San José, California, USA, 5-8 October 2010.

Juan José Fuertes, Carlos M. Travieso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, “Intra Modal Biometric System using Hand Geometry and Palmprint Texture”, in Proceedings 44th Annual 2010 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7400-4, ISSN: 1071-6572, pp.318-322, San José, California, USA, 5-8 October 2010.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Francisco Vargas, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, “Signature Verification using Local Directional Pattern (LDP)”, in Proceedings 44th Annual 2010 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7400-4, ISSN: 1071-6572, pp.336-341, San José, California, USA, 5-8 October 2010.

J.F. Vargas, C.M. Travieso, J.B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Off-line Signature Verification based on Gray Level Information using Wavelet Transform and Texture Measures”, in proceedings of 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ISSBN: 978-0-7695-4221-8, pp. 587592-726, Kolkata, India, 16-18 November 2010.

M. Blumenstein, Miguel A. Ferrer, J.F. Vargas, “The 4NSigComp2010 off-line signature verification competition: Scenario 2”, in proceedings of 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ISSBN: 978-0-7695-4221-8, pp. 721-726, Kolkata, India, 16-18 November 2010.

Marcos del Pozo, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso and Miguel A. Ferrer, “Gender Verification System based on JADE-ICA”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Bio-Inspired System and Signal Processing, ISBN:978-989-8425-35-5, pp. 570-576, Rome, Italy, 26-29 January 2011.

Miguel A. Ferrer, Francisco Vargas, Aythami Morales, “BiSpectral Contactless hand based biometric system”, in 2nd National Conference on Telecommunications (CONATEL 2011), Arequipa, Perú, 17-20 May, 2011.

Francisco Vargas , Miguel A. Ferrer, Aythami Morales, “Off-line Signature Verification using Local Patterns”, in 2nd National Conference on Telecommunications (CONATEL 2011), Arequipa, Perú, 17-20 May, 2011.

P. Henríquez, Jesús .B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, “Application of Higher Order Statistics of Teager-Kaiser Energy Transformed Vibration Signal for Bearing Fault Diagnosis”, in Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis Engineering Management (COMADEN 2011), pp. 265-274, ISBN 0-9541307-2-3, Stavanger, Norway, 30th May, 1st June, 2011.

Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Combining different off-line handwritten caracter recognizers”, in 15th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES 2011), pp.315-318, ISBN: 978-1-4244-8955-8 Poprad, Slovakia, June 23-25, 2011.

Aythami Morales, Ajay Kumar, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Incorporating Color Information for Reliable Palmprint Authentication”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing¸pp. 3254-3257, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1302-6, Brussels, September 11-14, 2011.

Jirí Mekiska,Xavier Font-Aragones, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Rubén Hernandez-Mingorance, Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Thermal Hand Image Segmentation for Biometric Recognition”, in Proceedings 45th Annual 2011 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0901-2, ISSN: 1071-6572, pp.26-30, Mataró, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 October 2011.

Ester González, Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Hernández, “Looking for Hand-Shape based biometric devices interoperability”,  in Proceedings 45th Annual 2011 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0901-2, ISSN: 1071-6572, pp.68-72, Mataró, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 October 2011.

Jaime R. Ticay-Rivas, Marcos del Pozo-Baños, Carlos M Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Multi-Spectral Information Regarding Face Recognition”,  in Proceedings 45th Annual 2011 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0901-2, ISSN: 1071-6572, pp.221-229, Mataró, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 October 2011.

Patricia Henríquez, Paul R. White, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso, “Application of Teager-Kaiser Energy Operator to the Analysis of Degradation of a Helicopter Input Pinion Bearing”, in  Proceedings of the International Conference Surveillance 6, University of Technology of Compiégne, France, October 25-26, 2011.

Ester González, Aythami Morales, Miguel A. Ferrer Carlos M. Travieso, “Looking for hand biometrics interoperability”, in Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Hand-Based Biometrics, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0490-1,pp. 147-152, Honk-Kong, China, 17-18 November 2011.

Juan C. Briceño, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer, “Biometric Identification based on Hand-Shape features using a HMM Kernel”, in Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Hand-Based Biometrics, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0490-1, pp. 159-164, Honk-Kong, China, 17-18 November 2011.

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