Forefront of Combating Visual Information Threats and Enhancing Security

We research and develop cutting-edge strategies to protect visual information, focusing on biometrics and innovative security technologies. 

Shaping the Future of Visual Security

 we focus on developing and refining technologies to secure visual information, from biometrics to state-of-the-art security features.

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VISUAL INFORMATION
SECURITY TEAM

VIS TEAM is a research nucleus focused on the security of visual information, spanning from biometrics, to cutting-edge security elements of sovereign documents or security stamps. VIS TEAM works on both sides of the security: on the detection of fraud and attacks, by one side, and on the protection of the visual content on the other side.

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Dissemination
9 de December, 2019

“UniQode” permite leitura e validação da autenticidade da marca através de dispositivo móvel

Dissemination
9 de December, 2019

“UniQode” permite leitura e validação da autenticidade da marca através de dispositivo móvel

News: Dissemination
Nuno Gonçalves presents seminar at the...
April 11, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Nuno receives three awards from NEEEC/AAC
April 7, 2025
News: Others
Announcement of (8) Research Grants
March 17, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Best Paper Award @ICPRAM 2025
February 26, 2025
News: Scientific Events
Nuno Gonçalves serves as jury member...
February 19, 2025
News: Dissemination
ACHILLES project launches official Website and...
February 18, 2025
News: Dissemination
Nuno Gonçalves presents seminar at the...
April 11, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Nuno receives three awards from NEEEC/AAC
April 7, 2025
News: Others
Announcement of (8) Research Grants
March 17, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Best Paper Award @ICPRAM 2025
February 26, 2025
News: Dissemination
Nuno Gonçalves presents seminar at the...
April 11, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Nuno receives three awards from NEEEC/AAC
April 7, 2025
News: Others
Announcement of (8) Research Grants
March 17, 2025
News: Dissemination
Nuno Gonçalves presents seminar at the...
April 11, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Nuno receives three awards from NEEEC/AAC
April 7, 2025
News: Others
Announcement of (8) Research Grants
March 17, 2025
News: Results and Achievements
Best Paper Award @ICPRAM 2025
February 26, 2025

Protecting and Detecting: Leading Visual Information Security

Featured project

UniqueMark

This project aims to improve the safety of INCM's contrasting marks in precious metal artefacts (the precious metals are officially designated: gold, silver, platinum and palladium), making them unique and unable to be copied and faked. One of the objectives of this project is to allow the test of authenticity...
Start date: 2016-01-06
End date: 2018-01-05
Funding by: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda (INCM)
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BlockDFake
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UniqueMark Operation
The UniqueMark project, developed between INCM and UC, betwe...
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ACHILLES
Inspired by the Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius...
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ICAO compliant Dataset
This ICAO Compliant Dataset project is part of the FACING2 p...
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FACING2 – Face Image Understanding
The FACING-2 project aims to study and develop methods that ...
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TruIM – Trust Image Understanding
TruIm Project aims at developing technologies to authenticat...
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VISUAL-ID – Unique Visual Identities in Graphics, Images and Faces
The Visual-ID project emerge in the context of the partnersh...
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FACING
Os principais objetivos deste projeto são a realização de ba...
Project Completed
UniqueMark Pilot
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CertifyMeAP
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ACHILLES
Inspired by the Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius...
Project In progress
FACING2 – Face Image Understanding
The FACING-2 project aims to study and develop methods that ...
Project Completed
UniqueMark Pilot
ICAO compliant Dataset
Funded by:Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda (INCM)
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UniqueMark Operation

The UniqueMark project, developed between INCM and UC, between the end of 2016 and mid-201...

Project In progress

ACHILLES

Inspired by the Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stron...

Project In progress
UniqueMark Operation
The UniqueMark project, developed between INCM and UC, betwe...
Project In progress
ACHILLES
Inspired by the Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius...
Project In progress
ICAO compliant Dataset
This ICAO Compliant Dataset project is part of the FACING2 p...
Project In progress
FACING2 – Face Image Understanding
The FACING-2 project aims to study and develop methods that ...

Featured Papers

Towards Secure Biometric Solutions: Enhancing Facial Recognition while Protecting User Data

Authors: Jose Silva, Aniana Cruz, Bruno Sousa and Nuno Gonçalves
Featured in: 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) 2025

StylePuncher: encoding a hidden QR code into images

Authors: Farhad Shadmand, Luiz Schirmer and Nuno Gonçalves
Featured in: 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) 2025

RiemStega: Covariance-based loss for print-proof transmission of data in images

Authors: Aniana Cruz; Guilherme Schardong; Luiz Schirmer; João Marcos, Farhad Shadmand; Nuno Gonçalves
Featured in: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025

RiemStega: Covariance-based loss for print-proof transmission of data in images

Featured in: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025
Authors: Aniana Cruz; Guilherme Schardong; Luiz Schirmer; João Marcos, Farhad Shadmand; Nuno Gonçalves

RiemStega: Covariance-based loss for print-proof transmission of data in images

Featured in: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025
Authors: Aniana Cruz; Guilherme Schardong; Luiz Schirmer; João Marcos, Farhad Shadmand; Nuno Gonçalves

MorFacing: A Benchmark for Estimation Face Recognition Robustness to Face Morphing Attacks

Featured in: IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2024)
Authors: Iurii Medvedev and Nuno Gonçalves

MorFacing: A Benchmark for Estimation Face Recognition Robustness to Face Morphing Attacks

Featured in: IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2024)
Authors: Iurii Medvedev and Nuno Gonçalves

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