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Fernando Pérez-González

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Fernando joined the faculty of the School of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Vigo, as an assistant professor in 1990 and since 2000 is Professor (Catedrático) in the same institution. During 2009-2012 he was the holder of the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair (now King Felipe VI Endowed Chair) on Information Science and Technology at the University of New Mexico (UNM), where he currently is Research Professor. During 2007-2014 he was Founding Executive Director of GRADIANT (Galician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications), a private-public R&D center with a staff of more than 200.

He has been the principal investigator of more than 50 projects with industry. He holds 15 patents covering a wide range of technologies, including printed document protection, watermarking for surveillance systems, automatic content recognition, signal processing in the encrypted domain, telecommunications measurement equipment, and technologies for broadcast gap-fillers.

He was coeditor of the book Intelligent Methods in Signal Processing and Communications (Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1997), has been Guest Editor of three special sections of the EURASIP journal Signal Processing devoted to signal processing for communications and digital watermarking, as well as Guest Editor of a Feature Topic of the IEEE Communications Magazine on digital watermarking. He has been Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the 10th-15th International Workshops on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW), the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'13), and the 7th  and 18th IEEE Workshops on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS2015, WIFS2026).

Fernando was the Chair of the 5th and 6th Baiona Workshops on Signal Processing in Communications, held in Baiona, Spain, in 1999 and 2003, respectively, and Co-Chair of the 7th Information Hiding Workshop, in Barcelona, Spain, 2005, the First Workshop on Applications of the Benford’s Law, in Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2007, the 4th IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS2012, in Tenerife, Spain, 2012, the 4th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, in Vigo, Spain, 2016, the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2021, in Dublin, Ireland, 2022, and Chair of the 12th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, in Baiona, Spain, 2024. He has co-authored over 80 papers in leading international journals and more than 190 papers published in various conference proceedings. He led the group of the University of Vigo that took part in the European projects CERTIMARK and REWIND, ECRYPT, NIFTy, WITDOM, UNCOVER and TRUMPET. He has also been the representative for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in the European Research Area CHISTERA.

During 2007-2010 he was Program Manager of the Spanish National R&D Plan on Electronic and Communication Technologies, Ministry of Science and Innovation, where he oversaw an annual budget of over 21 M€.

Fernando served as Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2005-2009) and IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security (2006-2010). He was been Editor in Chief of EURASIP International Journal on Information Security (Springer-Nature) from 2017 to 2021. During 2019-2021 he served as Senior Area Editor of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security; from 2023 he is back as an Associate Editor of this journal.

He was an Elected Member of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committe, IEEE Signal Processing Society, in the periods 2010-2012, 2015-2017; 2024-2026 and an Eelected Member of the Special Area Team in Biometrics, Data Forensics and Security, EURASIP, during 2016-2018. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Academy (AIIA). Since 2014, he has been a member of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences, serving on its board of directors since 2019.

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  • Juan Ramón Hernández (1998), now at Nagra. Awarded best Ph.D. Thesis in Spain in Electronic Commerce by the Spanish Institute of Telecommunications Engineers, 1999.
  • Carlos Mosquera (1998), Professor (University of Vigo)
  • Roberto López-Valcarce (2000), Associate Professor (University of Vigo).
  • Félix Balado (2003), Assistant Professor (University College Dublin)
  • Pedro Comesaña (2006), Associate Professor (University of Vigo). Awarded best Ph.D. Thesis in Spain in Security and Defense by the Spanish Institue of Telecommunications Engineers, 2007.
  • Luis Pérez-Freire (2008), Executive Director (GRADIANT). Awarded best Ph.D. Thesis in Spain in Management, Economy and Regulation of Telecommunications by the Spanish Institute of Telecommunications Engineers, 2009.
  • Juan R. Troncoso (2012), Postdoctoral Fellow (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne).  Awarded best Ph.D. Thesis in Spain in Telecommunication Networks and Services by the Spanish Institute of Telecommunications Engineers, 2013.
  • Juan Antonio Elices  (2014, at UNM), Researcher at Safe Browsing Group, Google, US.
  • Gabriel Domínguez (2016), Director, Diagnostic AI at AstraZeneca, UK.
  • David Vázquez Padín (2016), Senior Researcher (University of Vigo). Awarded best Ph.D. Thesis in Galicia by the Galician Institute of Telecommunications Engineers, 2018.
  • Simón Oya (2019), Assistant Professor (University of British Columbia, Canada).
  • Alberto Pedrouzo-Ulloa (2019),  Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Vigo).
  • Mina Namazi (2020), Postdoc Researcher, Case Western Reserve University, US.
  • Andrea Montibeller (2024, at University of Trento), Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Trento).
  • Elena Rodríguez-Lois, ongoing.
  • Miguel Morona-Mínguez, ongoing.

Teaching

Digital Communications

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Principles of Digital Communications

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Multimedia Security

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Privacy and Anonimity

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Publications

2026

Title Authors Venue Download
Beyond Spectral Peaks: Interpreting the Cues Behind Synthetic Image Detection - April 2026Sara Mandelli, Diego Vila-Portela, David Vázquez-Padín, Paolo Bestagini, Fernando Pérez-GonzálezICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Technical Report: Expanded Analysis and Experimental Evaluation of Apple’s Synthetic Defocus Noise Pattern - January 2026David Vázquez-Padín, Fernando Pérez-González, Pablo Pérez-MiguélezResearchGate GmbH
Apple’s Synthetic Defocus Noise Pattern: Characterization and Forensic Applications - January 2026David Vázquez-Padín, Fernando Pérez-González, Pablo Pérez-MiguélezIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
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