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Sidewinder: A Predictive Data Forwarding Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
May 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In-situ data collection for mobile wireless sensor network deployments has received little study, such as in the case of floating sensor networks for storm surge and innundation monitoring. The...
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Infuse: A TDMA Based Data Dissemination Protocol for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Reliable dissemination of bulk data is one of the important problems in sensor networks. For example, programming or upgrading the software in sensors at run-time requires reliable dissemination...
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Symmetric Key Approaches to Securing BGP - A Little Bit Trust Is Enough
July 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol that connects Autonomous Systems (ASes). De-spite its importance for the Internet infrastructure, BGP is vulnerable...
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Online Word Processing Applications for Collaboration, Peer Editing, and Teacher Review
June 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Students need to work collaboratively. This often involves collaborative writing. Jere Brophy's research states that, "Students often benefit from working in pairs or small groups to construct...
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Survival Analysis: Overview of Parametric, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Approaches and New Developments
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Time to event data arise in several fields including biostatistics, demography, economics, engineering and sociology. The terms duration analysis, event-history analysis, failure-time analysis,...
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What Is The Impact Of Eliminating The Reconciliation Between IFRS And US GAAP? Early Evidence
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigate the impact of the SEC's decision to allow foreign private issuers who use IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) (IFRS filers) to stop providing reconciliation...
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An Interorganizational Social Network Analysis of the Michigan Diabetes Outreach Networks
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Public health has always relied on partnerships to conduct organized community efforts for the purpose of improving community health. Traditional methods for measuring partnerships collect...
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Current Research Trends in Internet Servers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper "Scalable Internet Servers: Issues and Challenges" published in PAWS-2000 proceedings identified eleven different areas in Internet Servers that require significant research efforts. The...
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Adaptive QoS Routing by Cross-Layer Cooperation in Ad Hoc Networks
June 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
QoS provisioning is a complex and challenging issue in mobile ad hoc networks, especially when there are multiple QoS constraints. In this paper, authors propose an adaptive QoS routing scheme...
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Power Management for Power Over Ethernet Devices/implementation
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a widely adopted technology used to transfer both data and electrical power over an RJ-45 cable. PoE has many applications ranging from commercial to industrial. The...
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A Survey of Adaptive Middleware
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Developing distributed applications is a difficult task due to three major problems: the complexities of programming inter process communication, the need to support ser-vices across heterogeneous...
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Middleware Reliability Implementations and Connector Wrappers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recently, Spitznagel and Garlan introduced connector wrappers, which cleanly specify reliability policies in a form that can be incorporated into existing architectural specifications. The authors...
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Interfacing the Free2Move F2M03GLA Bluetooth Transceiver With a Bluetooth GPS Receiver
March 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Free2Move F2M03GLA is a versatile Bluetooth transceiver, requiring no additional communication software or firmware for data transmission with another Bluetooth enabled device. This paper...
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Mobile Technology And The Value Chain: Participants, Activities And Value Creation
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Technology has evolved significantly and it is increasingly being used by businesses and consumers alike. Technologies such as those supporting electronic business (e-Business) and mobile business...
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Multicast Algorithms for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
October 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multicast is a key technology that provides efficient data communication among a set of nodes for wireless multi-hop networks. In sensor networks and MANETs, multicast algorithms are designed to...
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Hybrid Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
May 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many efforts have been devoted to maximizing network throughput in a multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh network. Current solutions are based on either pure static or pure dynamic channel...
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Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Disclosure Policy
October 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Software security is a major concern for vendors, consumers, and regulators since attackers that exploit vulnerabilities can cause substantial damages. When vulnerabilities are discovered after...
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Periocular Biometrics in the Visible Spectrum: A Feasibility Study
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Periocular biometric refers to the facial region in the immediate vicinity of the eye. Acquisition of the periocular biometric does not require high user cooperation and close capture distance...
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CDMA and TDMA Cellular Communication
April 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this paper is to investigate how the cellular technologies of Time-Division Multiple Access and Code-Division Multiple Access allow users to communicate, investigate how a man...
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TDMA Service for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Sensors networks are often constrained by limited power and limited communication range. If a sensor receives two messages simultaneously then they collide and both messages become...
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SS-TDMA: A Self-Stabilizing MAC for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on the problem of designing a TDMA service for a grid-based sensor network. Such networks are readily found in many applications in the area of monitoring, hazard detection, and...
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Self-Stabilizing Deterministic Time Division Multiple Access for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
An algorithm for Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is found to be applicable in converting existing distributed algorithms into a model that is consistent with sensor networks. Such a TDMA...
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Load Balancing and Resource Reservation in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
To ensure uninterrupted communication in a mobile ad-hoc network, efficient route discovery is crucial when nodes move and/or fail. Hence, protocols such as Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) precompute...
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Slow Is Fast for Wireless Sensor Networks in the Presence of Message Losses
July 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Transformations from shared memory model to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) quickly become inefficient in the presence of prevalent message losses in WSNs, and this prohibits their wider adoption....
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Authentication in Reprogramming of Sensor Networks for Mote Class Adversaries
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Reprogramming is an essential service for wireless sensor networks. Authenticating reprogramming process is important as sensors need to verify that the code image is truly from a trusted source....
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A Case Study on Prototyping Power Management Protocols for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Power management is an important problem in battery powered sensor networks as the sensors are required to operate for a long time (Usually, several weeks to several months). One of the challenges...
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Exploring the Future of Bioinformatics Data Sharing and Mining With Pygr and Worldbase
December 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the most important challenges in bioinformatics is a pure Computer Science problem: making it easy for different research groups to access, mine and integrate each other's datasets, in ways...
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Routing and Spectrum Allocation for Video On-Demand Streaming in Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks
August 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio, which enables dynamic access of under-utilized licensed spectrums, is a promising technology for more efficient spectrum utilization. Since cognitive radio enables the access of...
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Biometric Template Security
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
Biometric recognition offers a reliable solution to the problem of user authentication in identity management systems. With the widespread deployment of biometric systems in various applications,...
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On the Security of Non-Invertible Fingerprint Template Transforms
September 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many transformation functions have been proposed for generating revocable or non-invertible biometric templates. However, their security analysis either ignores the distribution of biometric...
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Securing Fingerprint Template: Fuzzy Vault With Minutiae Descriptors
July 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Fuzzy vault has been shown to be an effective technique for securing fingerprint minutiae templates. Its security depends on the difficulty in identifying the set of genuine minutiae points among...
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Biometric Template Transformation: A Security Analysis
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
One of the critical steps in designing a secure biometric system is protecting the templates of the users that are stored either in a central database or on smart cards. If a biometric template is...
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Hardening Fingerprint Fuzzy Vault Using Password
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
Security of stored templates is a critical issue in biometric systems because biometric templates are non-revocable. Fuzzy vault is a cryptographic framework that enables secure template storage...
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Fingerprint-Based Fuzzy Vault: Implementation and Performance
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Reliable information security mechanisms are required to combat the rising magnitude of identity theft in the society. While cryptography is a powerful tool to achieve information security, one of...
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Multi-Channel Interference Measurement and Modeling in Low-Power Wireless Networks
June 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multi-channel design has received significant attention for Low-power Wireless Networks (LWNs), such as 802.15.4-based wireless sensor networks, due to its potential of mitigating interference and...
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Fast Regular Expression Matching Using Small TCAMs for Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Regular Expression (RE) matching is a core component of deep packet inspection in modern networking and security devices. This paper proposes the first hardware-based RE matching approaches that...
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Weakest Invariant Generation for Automated Addition of Fault-Tolerance
August 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the important tasks in evolving a fault-intolerant program into a fault-tolerant one is to identify the legitimate states (Its invariant) from where the original program satisfies its...
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Implementation Of Post-Occupancy Evaluation: A Potential Tool For Building Asset Management And Creating More Productive, Cost-Effective And Sustainable Buildings At MSU
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) refers to the evaluation of a completed constructed facility during its occupancy. A structured systematic POE process can answer several significant questions...
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Assessing Fingerprint Individuality in Presence of Noisy Minutiae
December 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Fingerprint image quality is an important source of intra-class variability. When the underlying image quality is poor, human experts as well as automatic systems are more likely to make errors in...
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On the Individuality of Fingerprints: Models and Methods
June 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Fingerprint individuality is the study of the extent of uniqueness of fingerprints and is the central premise of expert testimony in court. A forensic expert testifies whether a pair of...
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A Probabilistic Model To Support Web Crawling For Social Media Based Sites
May 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Web crawling is a popular technique for data collection among researchers, practitioners and scholars. One of the major challenges web crawling techniques often face is the inefficient utilization...
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Hop-by-Hop Message Authentication and Source Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
March 27, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Message authentication is one of the most effective ways to thwart unauthorized and corrupted messages from being forwarded in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). For this reason, many message...
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TCAM Razor: A Systematic Approach Towards Minimizing Packet Classifiers in TCAMs
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Packet classification is the core mechanism that enables many networking services on the Internet such as firewall packet filtering and traffic accounting. Using Ternary Content Addressable...
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Quantifying and Querying Network Reachability
March 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Quantifying and querying network reachability is important for security monitoring and auditing as well as many aspects of network management such as troubleshooting, maintenance, and design....
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Bypassing Space Explosion in Regular Expression Matching for Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
November 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems commonly use Regular Expression (RE) signatures to represent individual security threats. While the corresponding DFA for any one RE is typically...
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FlowSifter: A Counting Automata Approach to Layer 7 Field Extraction for Deep Flow Inspection
January 12, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors introduce FlowSifter, a systematic framework for online application protocol field extraction. FlowSifter introduces a new grammar model Counting Regular Grammars (CRG)...
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Reliable OFDM System Design Under Hostile Multi-Tone Jamming
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Along with the advent of reconfigurable radios, hostile jamming is no longer limited to military applications, but has become a serious threat for civilian wireless communications, where OFDM has...
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HopCaster: A Network Coding-Based Hop-by-Hop Reliable Multicast Protocol
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Intra-flow Network Coding (NC) is an innovative technique that has potential to improve multicast performance in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) by allowing intermediate Forwarding Nodes (FNs) to...
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Fast Sensor Placement Algorithms for Fusion-Based Target Detection
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mission-critical target detection imposes stringent performance requirements for wireless sensor networks, such as high detection probabilities and low false alarm rates. Data fusion has been...
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WizSync: Exploiting Wi-Fi Infrastructure for Clock Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks
September 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Time synchronization is a fundamental service for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This paper proposes a novel WSN time synchronization approach by exploiting the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure....
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Quantitative Security and Efficiency Analysis of SEAR in Wireless Sensor Networks
April 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
SEAR is a novel secure and energy aware routing protocol proposed to address the energy balance and routing security through a balanced energy consumption and probabilistic random walking....
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TCAM SPliT: Optimizing Space, Power, and Throughput for TCAM-Based Packet Classification Systems
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Packet classification is the core mechanism that enables many networking services such as packet filtering and traffic accounting. Using Ternary Content Addressable Memories (TCAMs) to perform...
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All-Match Based Complete Redundancy Removal for Packet Classifiers in TCAMs
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Packet classification is the core mechanism that enables many networking services on the Internet such as firewall packet filtering and traffic accounting. Using Ternary Content Addressable...
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STARS: Static Relays for Multi-Robot Real-Time Search and Monitoring
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors first present a problem called Precedence Constrained Two Traveling Salesman (PC2TSP). They propose a near-optimal heuristic to PC2TSP to generate tours by clustering points,...
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Characterizing Geospatial Dynamics of Application Usage in a 3G Cellular Data Network
July 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Recent studies on cellular network measurement have provided the evidence that significant geospatial correlations, in terms of traffic volume and application access, exist in cellular network...
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Private Entity Authentication for Pervasive Computing Environments
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Entity authentication becomes ubiquitously necessary in pervasive computing environments. The authors provide taxonomy of entity authentication between keys and locks. Based on the discussion,...
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Biometric Recognition of Newborns: Identification Using Palmprints
August 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present some results on newborn identification through high-resolution images of palmar surfaces. To their knowledge, there is no biometric system currently available that can be...
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On the Utility of Extended Fingerprint Features: A Study on Pores
April 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Extended fingerprint features are routinely used by latent examiners in forensic applications. They are now being considered for inclusion in Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS),...
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On Latent Fingerprint Enhancement
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
Automatic feature extraction in latent fingerprints is a challenging problem due to poor quality of most latents, such as unclear ridge structures, overlapped lines and letters, and overlapped...
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On Matching Altered Fingerprints
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Fingerprint alteration refers to changes made in a person's finger ridge structure by means of abrading, cutting, or performing plastic surgery on the fingertips. Fingerprint alteration is a...
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Latent Fingerprint Enhancement Via Robust Orientation Field Estimation
December 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
Latent fingerprints, or simply latents, have been considered as cardinal evidence for identifying and convicting criminals. The amount of information available for identification from latents is...
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On Matching Latent Fingerprints
June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance to law enforcement agencies in forensics application. While tremendous progress has been made in the field of automatic fingerprint...
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Filtering Large Fingerprint Database for Latent Matching
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance to law enforcement agencies in apprehending criminals. Considering the huge size of fingerprint databases maintained by law enforcement...
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FM Model Based Fingerprint Reconstruction From Minutiae Template
January 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
Minutiae-based representation is the most widely adopted fingerprint representation scheme. The compactness of minutiae template has created an impression that the minutiae template does not...
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Fingerprint Alteration
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
The widespread deployment of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) in law enforcement and border control applications has heightened the need for ensuring that the security afforded...
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On the Evidential Value of Fingerprints
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Fingerprint evidence is routinely used by forensics and law enforcement agencies worldwide to apprehend and convict criminals, a practice in use for over 100 years. The use of fingerprints has...
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Beyond Minutiae: A Fingerprint Individuality Model With Pattern, Ridge and Pore Features
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Fingerprints are considered to be unique because they contain various distinctive features, including minutiae, ridges, pores, etc. Some attempts have been made to model the minutiae in order to...
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Face Finder: Filtering a Large Face Database Using Scars, Marks and Tattoos
August 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Facial marks (e.g. moles, freckles, and scars) are soft biometric traits that have limited utility in uniquely identifying individuals. However, facial marks can still play a crucial role both in...
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Continuous User Authentication Using Temporal Information
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Conventional computer systems authenticate users only at the initial log-in session, which can be the cause of a critical security flaw. To resolve this problem, systems need continuous user...
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NFRAD: Near-Infrared Face Recognition at a Distance
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Face recognition at a distance is gaining wide attention in order to augment the surveillance systems with face recognition capability. However, face recognition at a distance in nighttime has not...
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Partial Face Recognition: An Alignment Free Approach
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Many approaches have been developed for holistic face recognition with impressive performance. However, few studies have addressed the question of how to recognize an arbitrary image patch of a...
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An Improved Coupled Spectral Regression for Heterogeneous Face Recognition
December 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
Coupled Spectral Regression (CSR) is an effective framework for heterogeneous face recognition (e.g., VISual light (VIS) vs. Near InfraRed (NIR)). CSR aims to learn different projections for...
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Towards Automated Caricature Recognition
December 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the problem of identifying a subject from a caricature. A caricature is a facial sketch of a subject's face that exaggerates identifiable facial features beyond realism, while...
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Face Recognition in the Virtual World: Recognizing Avatar Faces
January 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
Criminal activity in virtual worlds is becoming a major problem for law enforcement agencies. Forensic investigators are becoming interested in being able to accurately and automatically track...
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Analysis of Facial Features in Identical Twins
December 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
A study of the distinctiveness of different facial features (MLBP, SIFT, and facial marks) with respect to distinguishing identical twins is presented. The accuracy of distinguishing between...
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Biometrics of Next Generation: An Overview
February 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
Prevailing methods of human identification based on credentials (identification documents and PIN) are not able to meet the growing demands for stringent security in applications such as national...
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Web biometrics: User Verification Via Web Interaction
July 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce a biometric trait based on the user behavior extracted from his interaction with a web page. They propose the integration of this soft biometric trait in a conventional login...
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Facial Marks: Soft Biometric for Face Recognition
February 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose to utilize micro features, namely facial marks (e.g., freckles, moles, and scars) to improve face recognition and retrieval performance. Facial marks can be used in three ways:...
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Tattoo-ID: Automatic Tattoo Image Retrieval for Suspect & Victim Identification
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Tattoos are used by law enforcement agencies for identification of a victim or a suspect using a false identity. Current method for matching tattoos is based on human-assigned class labels that is...
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Rank-Based Distance Metric Learning: An Application to Image Retrieval
March 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a novel approach to learn distance metric for information retrieval. Learning distance metric from a number of queries with side information, i.e., relevance judgements, has...
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