Ashish Atreja, Neil B Mehta, Anil K Jain, C M Harris, Hemant Ishwaran, Michel Avital, ...
Satisfaction with web-based training in an integrated healthcare delivery network: do age, education, computer skills and attitudes matter?
Ashish Atreja, Neil B Mehta, Anil K Jain, C M Harris, Hemant Ishwaran, Michel Avital, ...
Satisfaction with web-based training in an integrated healthcare delivery network: do age, education, computer skills and attitudes matter?
Semi-Supervised Boosting for Multi-Class Classification (2009)
Hamed Valizadegan, Rong Jin, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Most semi-supervised learning algorithms have been designed for binary classification, and are extended to multi-class classification by approaches such as one-against-the-rest. The main...
Pores and Ridges: High Resolution Fingerprint Matching Using Level 3 Features (2009)
Anil K. Jain, Yi Chen, Student Member, Meltem Demirkus, Student Member
Abstract—Fingerprint friction ridge details are generally described in a hierarchical order at three different levels, namely, Level 1
Face Recognition in Video: Adaptive Fusion of Multiple Matchers (2008)
Face recognition in video is being actively studied as a covert method of human identification in surveillance systems. Identifying human faces in video is a difficult problem due to the presence of...
Document Structure and Layout Analysis (2008)
Anoop M. Namboodiri, Anil K. Jain
A document image is composed of a variety of physical entities or regions such as text blocks, lines, words, figures, tables, and background. We could also assign functional or logical labels such as...
Introduction to Pattern Recognition 1 (2008)
Informally, a pattern is defined by the common denominator among the multiple instances of an entity. For example, commonality in all fingerprint images defines the fingerprint pattern; the...
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT (2008)
Report Documentation, Page Omb No, A. Contract Number, Anil K. Jain
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and...
Michael L. Raymer, William F. Punch, Erik D. Goodman, Leslie A. Kuhn, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Pattern recognition generally requires that objects be described in terms of a set of measurable features. The selection and quality of the features representing each pattern have a...
Integrated Segmentation and Classification for Automotive Airbag Suppression (2008)
Michael E. Farmer, Anil K. Jain
The use of airbags into automobiles has significantly improved the safety of the occupants. Unfortunately, when airbags are deployed in the case of a crash, they can also cause fatal injuries if the...
Abstract A Hybrid Approach for Face Template Protection (2008)
Y C Feng, Pong C Yuen, Anil K Jain
Biometric template protection is one of the important issues in deploying a practical biometric system. To tackle this problem, many algorithms have been reported in recent years, most of them being...
BoostCluster: Boosting Clustering by Pairwise Constraints (2008)
Yi Liu, Rong Jin, Anil K. Jain
Data clustering is an important task in many disciplines. A large number of studies have attempted to improve clustering by using the side information that is often encoded as pairwise constraints....
SemiBoost: Boosting for Semi-supervised Learning (2008)
Pavan Kumar Mallapragada, Rong Jin, Anil K. Jain, Yi Liu
Semi-supervised learning has attracted a significant amount of attention in pattern recognition and machine learning. Most previous studies have focused on designing special algorithms to effectively...
Securing electronic medical records using biometric authentication (2008)
Stephen Krawczyk, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Ensuring the security of medical records is becoming an increasingly important problem as modern technology is integrated into existing medical services. As a consequence of the adoption of...
Hardening Fingerprint Fuzzy Vault Using Password ∗ (2008)
Karthik N, Abhishek Nagar, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. 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...
To appear in ICDM 2004 Analysis of Consensus Partition in Cluster Ensemble (2008)
Alexander P. Topchy, Anil K. Jain
In combination of multiple partitions, one is usually interested in deriving a consensus solution with a quality better than that of given partitions. Several recent studies have empirically...
There exist many approaches to clustering, but the important issue of feature selection, i.e., selecting the data attributes that are relevant for clustering, is rarely addressed. Feature selection...
A MULTISPECTRAL WHOLE-HAND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM (2008)
Robert K. Rowe, Umut Uludag, Meltem Demirkus, Sujan Parthasaradhi, Anil K. Jain
We describe the design and development of a prototype whole-hand imaging system. The sensor is based on multispectral technology that is able to provide hand shape, fingerprints and palmprint...
Face Detection in Color Images Rein-Lien Hsu, Student Member, IEEE, (2008)
Mohamed Abdel-mottaleb, Anil K. Jain
AbstractÐHuman face detection plays an important role in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, face recognition, and face image database management. We propose a face...
To appear in ICB06 Localized Iris Image Quality Using 2-D Wavelets (2008)
Yi Chen, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
The performance of an iris recognition system can be undermined by poor quality images and result in high false reject rates (FRR) and failure to enroll (FTE) rates. In this paper, a wavelet-based...
A Web Based Tool for an Automated Dental Identification (2008)
Gamal Fahmy, Diaa Nassar, Eyad Haj-said, Hong Chen, Omima Nomir, Jindan Zhou, ...
We present a web-based environment for the Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS). This system is designed for identification missing, unidentified and wanted persons based on dental...
Likelihood Ratio-Based Biometric Score Fusion Karthik Nandakumar, Student Member, IEEE, (2008)
Yi Chen, Student Member, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Multibiometric systems fuse information from different sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of individual matchers. We propose a framework for the optimal combination...
Abstract — Multibiometric systems fuse information from different sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of individual matchers. We propose a framework for optimal combination of...
Tattoo-ID: Automatic Tattoo Image Retrieval for Suspect & Victim Identification (2008)
Anil K. Jain, Jung-eun Lee, Rong Jin
Abstract. 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...
Template Adaptation based Fingerprint Verification (2008)
Choonwoo Ryu, Hakil Kim, Anil K. Jain
This paper proposes a minutiae-based template adaptation algorithm which can be applied after the fingerprint authentication process. The algorithm updates a template by using a query fingerprint,...
3D TOUCHLESS FINGERPRINTS: COMPATIBILITY WITH LEGACY ROLLED IMAGES (2008)
Yi Chen, Eva Diaz-santana, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprints are traditionally captured based on contact of the finger on paper or a platen surface. This often results in partial or degraded images due to improper finger placement, skin...
Abstract Text Information Extraction in Images and Video: A Survey (2008)
Keechul Jung, Kwang In Kim, Anil K. Jain
Text data present in images and video contain useful information for automatic annotation, indexing, and structuring of images. Extraction of this information involves detection, localization,...
Abstract. Face recognition in video has gained wide attention due to its role in designing surveillance systems. One of the main advantages of video over still frames is that evidence accumulation...
Quality-based Score Level Fusion in Multibiometric Systems ∗ (2008)
Karthik N, Yi Chen, Anil K. Jain
The quality of biometric samples has a significant impact on the accuracy of a matcher. Poor quality biometric samples often lead to incorrect matching results because the features extracted from...
High Performance Multilayer Perceptron on a Custom Computing Machine (2008)
Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) are one of the most popular neural network models for solving pattern classification and image classification problems. Because of their ability to learn complex...
Biometric Template Security (2008)
Anil K. Jain, Karthik N, Abhishek Nagar
Abstract — Biometric recognition offers a reliable and natural solution to the problem of user authentication in identity management systems. With the widespread deployment of biometric systems in...
Love, Thomas E., Cebul, Randall D., Einstadter, Douglas, Jain, Anil K., Miller, Holly, Harris, C. Martin, ...
BACKGROUND: Electronic medical records (EMRs) have the potential to facilitate the design of large cluster-randomized trials (CRTs). OBJECTIVE: To describe the design of a CRT of clinical decision...
Biometric Template Security (2008)
Anil K. Jain, Karthik Nandakumar, Abhishek Nagar
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,...
BMC Medical Education BioMed Central (2008)
Ashish Atreja, Neil B Mehta, Anil K Jain, Cm Harris, Hemant Ishwaran, Michel Avital, ...
Research article Satisfaction with web-based training in an integrated healthcare delivery network: do age, education, computer skills and attitudes matter?
Learning 2D Shape Models (2007)
A new fully automated shape learning method is presented. It is based on clustering a set of training shapes in the original shape space (defined by the coordinates of the contour points) and...
Alignment of MR Brain Structures Using Semi-Rigid Point Matching (2007)
Anil K. Jain, Nicolae Duta, Nicolae Duta
We report a novel method for automatic point registration. This method comprises of two steps: (i) a similarity point matching (using only similarity transformations) based on efficient heuristic...
Object Detection in the Presence of Clutter Using Gabor Filters (2007)
Nalini Ratha Anil, Anil K. Jain, Sridhar Lakshmanan
In this paper the problem of detecting objects in the presence of clutter is studied. The images considered are obtained from both visual and infra-red sensors. A feature-based segmentation approach...
Writer Adaptation of Online Handwriting Models (2007)
Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain
Writer-adaptation is the process of converting a writerindependent handwriting recognition system, which models the characteristics of a large group of writers, into a writer-dependent system, which...
Aditya Vailaya, Anil K. Jain, Hongjiang Zhang
We address the issue of clustering of video images. We assume that video clips have been segmented into shots which are further represented by a set of keyframes. Video clustering is thus reduced to...
Automatic Classification of Bacteria Culture Images (2007)
Automatic image analysis plays an important role in biological, medical, and ecological applications. However, because of the complexity and difficulty of automatic image analysis, no currently...
Learning 2D Shape Models (2007)
A new fully automated shape learning method is presented. It is based on clustering a set of training shapes in the original shape space defined by the coordinates of the contour points and...
Image Databases: A Case Study in Norwegian Silver Authentication (2007)
Britt Kroepelien, Aditya Vailaya, Anil K. Jain
Establishing the identity of the craftsmen of old Norwegian silver objects can be accomplished through the recognition of master-marks. Manually searching through the 6000 master-marks and 250...
Abstract. Consider the problem of tting a nite Gaussian mixture, with an unknown number of components, to observed data. This paper proposes a new minimum description length (MDL) type criterion,...
Michael L. Raymer, William F. Punch, Anil K. Jain
Pattern recognition generally requires that objects be described in terms of a set of measurable features. The selection and quality of the features representing each pattern has a considerable...
?y, Student Member, IEEE, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb (2007)
Human face detection plays an important role in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, face recognition, and face image database management. We propose a face detection...
Learning-Based Object Detection in Cardiac MR Images (2007)
An automated method for left ventricle detection in MR cardiac images is presented. Ventricle detection is the rst step in a fully automated segmentation system used tocompute volumetric information...
Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Sharath Pankanti
Abstract. Automatic identication methods based on physical biometric characteristics such as ngerprint or iris can provide positive identi-cation with a very high accuracy. However, the...
Instituto de Telecomunicac~oes, and (2007)
Departamento de Engenharia Electrot'ecnica e de Computadores.
Nicolae Duta, Anil K. Jain, Kanti V. Mardia
This paper investigates the feasibility of person identication based on feature points extracted from palmprint images. Our approach rst extracts a set of feature points along the prominent palm...
Rein-lien Hsu, Anil K. Jain, Mihran Tuceryan
Three-dimensional (3-D) objects are often represented by geometric models in applications dealing with virtual reality, augmented reality, and cyberspace. Surface representations can provide an...
Multimedia Document Authentication using On-line Signatures as Watermarks (2007)
Anoop M. Namboodiri, Anil K. Jain
Authentication of digital documents is an important concern as digital documents are replacing the traditional paper-based documents for o#cial and legal purposes. This is especially true in the case...
While there exist many approaches to clustering, the important issue of feature selection, that is, what attributes of the data are relevant, is rarely addressed. Feature selection for clustering is...
From Template to Image: Reconstructing Fingerprints from Minutiae Points (2007)
Arun Ross, Jidnya Shah, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Most fingerprint-based biometric systems store the minutiae template of a user in the database. It has been traditionally assumed that the minutiae template of a user does not reveal any...
Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault: Implementation and Performance (2007)
Karthik N, Student Member, Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Senior Member
Reliable information security mechanisms are required to combat the rising magnitude of identity theft in our society. While cryptography is a powerful tool to achieve information security, one of...
Anil K. Jain, Abhishek Nagar, Karthik N
Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance in forensics. While tremendous progress has been made in the field of automatic fingerprint identification, latent fingerprint matching...
Meltem Demirkus, Advisor Dr, Anil K. Jain
To obtain a research position in the area of statistical pattern recognition and its applications in biometrics, computer vision and image processing.
Deformation Modeling for Robust 3D Face Matching (2006)
Abstract — Face recognition based on 3D surface matching is promising for overcoming some of the limitations of current 2D image-based face recognition systems. The 3D shape is generally invariant...
Biometrics: A tool for information security (2006)
Anil K. Jain, Arun Ross, Sharath Pankanti, Senior Member
Abstract—Establishing identity is becoming critical in our vastly interconnected society. Questions such as “Is she really who she claims to be?, ” “Is this person authorized to use this...
Performance evaluation of fingerprint verification systems (2006)
Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, James L. Wayman, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—This paper is concerned with the performance evaluation of fingerprint verification systems. After an initial classification of biometric testing initiatives, we explore both the...
Matching 2.5D face scans to 3D models (2006)
Xiaoguang Lu, Anil K. Jain, Dirk Colbry, Student Member, Student Member
Abstract—The performance of face recognition systems that use two-dimensional images depends on factors such as lighting and subject’s pose. We are developing a face recognition system that...
Fingerprint-Based Recognition (2006)
Biometric recognition, or biometrics, refers to the authentication of an individual based on her/his biometric traits. Among the various biometric traits (e.g., face, iris, fingerprint, voice),...
Fingerprint warping using ridge curve correspondences (2006)
Arun Ross, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—The performance of a fingerprint matching system is affected by the nonlinear deformation introduced in the fingerprint impression during image acquisition. This nonlinear deformation...
Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification (2006)
Julian Fierrez-aguilar, Yi Chen, Javier Ortega-garcia, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. The effect of image quality on the performance of fingerprint verification is studied. In particular, we investigate the performance of two fingerprint matchers based on minutiae and ridge...
Multimodal facial gender and ethnicity identification (2006)
Xiaoguang Lu, Hong Chen, Anil K. Jain
Human faces provide demographic information, such as gender and ethnicity. Different modalities of human faces, e.g., range and intensity, provide different cues for gender and ethnicity...
3d model-assisted face recognition in video (2005)
Unsang Park, Hong Chen, Anil K. Jain
Face recognition in video has gained wide attention as a covert method for surveillance to enhance security in a variety of application domains (e.g., airports). A video contains temporal information...
Incorporating Image Quality in Multi-algorithm Fingerprint Verification (2005)
Julian Fierrez-aguilar, Yi Chen, Javier Ortega-garcia, Anil K. Jain
The e#ect of image quality on the performance of fingerprint verification is studied. In particular, we investigate the performance of two fingerprint matchers based on minutiae and ridge information...
Fusion of Local and Regional Approaches (2005)
Julian Fierrez-aguilar, Stephen Krawczyk, Javier Ortega-garcia, Anil K. Jain
Function-based methods for on-line signature verification are studied. These methods are classified into local and regional depending on the features used for matching. One representative method of...
K.: Ridge-based fingerprint matching using hough transform (2005)
Aparecido Nilceu Marana, Anil K. Jain
Despite the efficacy of minutia-based fingerprint matching techniques for good-quality images captured by optical sensors, minutia-based techniques do not often perform so well on poor-quality images...
3d model-assisted face recognition in video (2005)
Unsang Park, Hong Chen, Anil K. Jain
Face recognition in video has gained wide attention as a covert method for surveillance to enhance security in a variety of application domains (e.g., airports). A video contains temporal information...
Fusion of local and regional approaches for on-line signature verification (2005)
Julian Fierrez-aguilar, Stephen Krawczyk, Javier Ortega-garcia, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Function-based methods for on-line signature verification are studied. These methods are classified into local and regional depending on the features used for matching. One representative...
A principled approach to score level fusion in multimodal biometric systems (2005)
Sarat C. Dass, Karthik N, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. A multimodal biometric system integrates information from multiple biometric sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of each individual biometric system. We propose an...
Toward an automated dental identification system (2005)
Gamal Fahmy, Diaa Nassar, Eyad Haj-said, Hong Chen, Omaima Nomir, Jindan Zhou, ...
This paper addresses the problem of developing an automated system for postmortem identification using dental records. The Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS) can be used by law enforcement...
Validating a biometric authentication system: Sample size requirements (2005)
Saratc. Dass, Yongfang Zhu, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Authentication systems based on biometric features (e.g., fingerprint impressions, iris scans, human face images, etc.) are increasingly gaining widespread use and popularity. Often,...
Biometric template security: Challenges and solutions (2005)
Anil K. Jain, Arun Ross, Umut Uludag
A biometric system is vulnerable to a variety of attacks aimed at undermining the integrity of the authentication process. These attacks are intended to either circumvent the security afforded by the...
Dental Biometrics: Alignment and Matching of Dental Radiographs (2005)
Hong Chen, Student Member, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Dental biometrics utilizes dental radiographs for human identification. The dental radiographs provide information about teeth, including tooth contours, relative positions of neighboring...
Fuzzy vault for fingerprints (2005)
Umut Uludag, Sharath Pankanti, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Biometrics-based user authentication has several advantages over traditional password-based systems for standalone authentication applications, such as secure cellular phone access. This is...
Toward an automated dental identification system (2005)
Gamal Fahmy, Diaa Eldin, M. Nassar, Eyad Haj-said, Hong Chen, Omima Nomir, ...
Law enforcement agencies have exploited biometrics for decades as key tools in forensic identification. With the evolution in information technology and the huge volume of cases that need to be...
Combining multiple clusterings using evidence accumulation (2005)
We explore the idea of evidence accumulation (EAC) for combining the results of multiple clusterings. First, a clustering ensemble- a set of object partitions, is produced. Given a data set (n...
Clustering ensembles: Models of consensus and weak partitions (2005)
Er Topchy, Anil K. Jain, William Punch
Abstract. Clustering ensembles have emerged as a powerful method for improving both the robustness as well as the stability of unsupervised classification solutions. However, finding a consensus...
Multimodal facial feature extraction for automatic 3D face recognition (2005)
Abstract. Facial feature extraction is important in many face-related applications, such as face alignment for recognition. We propose a multimodal scheme to integrate 3D (range) and 2D (intensity)...
Morphable Models of Faces (2005)
Romdhani, Sami, Blanz, Volker, Basso, Curzio, Vetter, Thomas, Li, Stan Z., Jain, Anil K.
Soft Biometric Traits for Personal Recognition Systems (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Sarat C. Dass, Karthik N
Abstract. Many existing biometric systems collect ancillary information like gender, age, height, and eye color from the users during enrollment. However, only the primary biometric identifier...
Ethnicity identification from face images (2004)
Human facial images provide the demographic information, such as ethnicity and gender. Conversely, ethnicity and gender also play an important role in face-related applications. Image-based ethnicity...
Attacks on biometric systems: a case study in fingerprints (2004)
In spite of numerous advantages of biometrics-based personal authentication systems over traditional security systems based on token or knowledge, they are vulnerable to attacks that can decrease...
Adaptive clustering ensembles (2004)
Er Topchy, Behrouz Minaei-bidgoli, Anil K. Jain, William F. Punch
Clustering ensembles combine multiple partitions of the given data into a single clustering solution of better quality. Inspired by the success of supervised boosting algorithms, we devise an...
An introduction to biometric recognition (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Arun Ross, Salil Prabhakar
Abstract—A wide variety of systems requires reliable personal recognition schemes to either confirm or determine the identity of an individual requesting their services. The purpose of such
Multiobjective data clustering (2004)
Alexander P. Topchy, Anil K. Jain
Conventional clustering algorithms utilize a single criterion that may not conform to the diverse shapes of the underlying clusters. We offer a new clustering approach that uses multiple clustering...
Biometrics: a grand challenge (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Lin Hong, Arun Ross
Reliable person identification is an important problem in diverse businesses. Biometrics, identification based on distinctive personal traits, has the potential to become an irreplaceable part of any...
Clustering with soft and group constraints (2004)
Abstract. Several clustering algorithms equipped with pairwise hard constraints between data points are known to improve the accuracy of clustering solutions. We develop a new clustering algorithm...
Estimating Fingerprint Deformation (2004)
Arun Ross, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Fingerprint matching is affected by the nonlinear distortion introduced in fingerprint impressions during the image acquisition process. This nonlinear deformation causes fingerprint...
Multiobjective data clustering (2004)
Alexander P. Topchy, Anil K. Jain
Conventional clustering algorithms utilize a single criterion that may not conform to the diverse shapes of the underlying clusters. We offer a new clustering approach that uses multiple clustering...
Biometrics: a grand challenge (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Lin Hong, Arun Ross, James L. Wayman
Reliable person recognition is an important problem in diverse businesses. Biometrics, recognition based on distinctive personal traits, has the potential to become an irreplaceable part of many...
Simultaneous Feature Selection and Clustering Using Mixture Models (2004)
Clustering is a common unsupervised learning technique used to discover group structure in a set of data. While there exist many algorithms for clustering, the important issue of feature selection,...
Nonlinear Manifold Learning for Data Stream (2004)
There has been a renewed interest in understanding the structure of high dimensional data set based on manifold learning. Examples include ISOMAP [25], LLE [20] and Laplacian Eigenmap [2] algorithms....
Biometric Cryptosystems: Issues and Challenges (2004)
Umut Uludag, Student Member, Sharath Pankanti, Anil K. Jain, Senior Member, Salil Prabhakar, ...
this paper, we present various methods that monolithically bind a cryptographic key with the biometric template of a user stored in the database in such a way that the key cannot be revealed without...
Fuzzy Fingerprint Vault (2004)
Umut Uludag And, Umut Uludag, Anil K. Jain
Biometrics-based authentication has the potential to eliminate illegal key exchange problem associated with traditional cryptosystems. In this paper, we explore the utilization of a fingerprint...
Estimating Fingerprint Deformation (2004)
Arun Ross, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Fingerprint matching is affected by the nonlinear distortion introduced in fingerprint impressions during the image acquisition process. This nonlinear deformation causes fingerprint...
face recognition with 3D model-based synthesis (2004)
Xiaoguang Lu, Rein-lien Hsu, Anil K. Jain, Behrooz Kamgar-parsi, Behzad Kamgar-parsi
Abstract. Current appearance-based face recognition system encounters the difficulty to recognize faces with appearance variations, while only a small number of training images are available. We...
Matching 2.5D Scans for Face Recognition (2004)
Xiaoguang Lu, Dirk Colbry, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. The performance of face recognition systems that use twodimensional images is dependent on consistent conditions such as lighting, pose, and facial appearance. We are developing a face...
Local correlation-based fingerprint matching (2004)
Karthik Nandakumar, Anil K. Jain
Most fingerprint matching systems are based on matching minutia points between two fingerprint images. Each minutia is represented by a fixed number of attributes such as the location, orientation,...
Integrating Faces, Fingerprints and Soft Biometric Traits for User Recognition (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Karthik N, Xiaoguang Lu, Unsang Park
Abstract. Soft biometric traits like gender, age, height, weight, ethnicity, and eye color cannot provide reliable user recognition because they are not distinctive and permanent. However, such...
Soft Biometric Traits for Personal Recognition Systems (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Sarat C. Dass, Karthik N
Abstract. Many existing biometric systems collect ancillary information like gender, age, height, and eye color from the users during enrollment. However, only the primary biometric identifier...
Simultaneous feature selection and clustering using mixture models (2004)
Student Member, Senior Member, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Clustering is a common unsupervised learning technique used to discover group structure in a set of data. While there exist many algorithms for clustering, the important issue of feature...
Biometrics: a grand challenge (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Lin Hong, Arun Ross, James L. Wayman
Reliable person recognition is an important problem in diverse businesses. Biometrics, recognition based on distinctive personal traits, has the potential to become an irreplaceable part of many...
Fingerprint classification using orientation field flow curves (2004)
Manual fingerprint classification proceeds by carefully inspecting the geometric characteristics of major ridge curves in a fingerprint image. We propose an automatic approach of identifying the...
Landscape of clustering algorithms (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Er Topchy, Joachim M. Buhmann
Numerous clustering algorithms, their taxonomies and evaluation studies are available in the literature. Despite the diversity of different clustering algorithms, solutions delivered by these...
Landscape of clustering algorithms (2004)
Anil K. Jain, Er Topchy, Joachim M. Buhmann
Numerous clustering algorithms, their taxonomies and evaluation studies are available in the literature. Despite the diversity of different clustering algorithms, solutions delivered by these...
Robust motionbased image segmentation using fusion (2004)
Michael E. Farmer, Xioaguang Lu, Hong Chen, Anil K. Jain
To support real-time tracking of objects in video sequences, there has been considerable effort directed at developing optical flow and general motion-based image segmentation algorithms. The goal is...
Simultaneous feature selection and clustering using mixture models (2004)
Student Member, Senior Member, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Clustering is a common unsupervised learning technique used to discover group structure in a set of data. While there exist many algorithms for clustering, the important issue of feature...
Combining multiple weak clusterings (2003)
Er Topchy, Anil K. Jain, William Punch
A data set can be clustered in many ways depending on the clustering algorithm employed, parameter settings used and other factors. Can multiple clusterings be combined so that the final partitioning...
Combining face and iris biometrics for identity verification (2003)
Yunhong Wang, Tieniu Tan, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Face and iris identification have been employed in various biometric applications. Besides improving verification performance, the fusion of these two biometrics has several other...
Personal verification using palmprint and hand geometry biometric (2003)
Ajay Kumar, Helen C. Shen, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. A new approach for the personal identification using hand images is presented. This paper attempts to improve the performance of palmprint-based verification system by integrating hand...
Combining face and iris biometrics for identity verification (2003)
Yunhong Wang, Tieniu Tan, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Face and iris identification have been employed in various biometric applications. Besides improving verification performance, the fusion of these two biometrics has several other...
Combining Classifiers for Face Recognition (2003)
Xiaoguang Lu, Yunhong Wang, Anil K. Jain
Current two-dimensional face recognition approaches can obtain a good performance only under constrained environments. However, in the real applications, face appearance changes significantly due to...
Dental biometrics: Human identification using dental radiographs (2003)
Anil K. Jain, Hong Chen, Silviu Minut
Abstract. The goal of forensic dentistry is to identify people based on their dental records, mainly as radiograph images. In this paper we attempt to set forth the foundations of a biometric system...
Generating discriminating cartoon faces using interacting snakes (2003)
As a computational bridge between the high-level a priori knowledge of object shape and the low-level image data, active contours (or snakes) are useful models for the extraction of deformable...
Multimedia content protection via biometrics-based encryption (2003)
for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse
Resampling for Face Recognition (2003)
Abstract. A number of applications require robust human face recognition under varying environmental lighting conditions and different facial expressions, which considerably vary the appearance of...
Learning fingerprint minutiae location and type (2003)
Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti
For simplicity of pattern recognition system design, a sequential approach consist-ing of sensing, feature extraction and classification/matching is conventionally adopted, where each stage...
Learning fingerprint minutiae location and type (2003)
Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti
For simplicity of pattern recognition system design, a sequential approach consist-ing of sensing, feature extraction and classification/matching is conventionally adopted, where each stage...
Combining face and iris biometrics for identity verification (2003)
Yunhong Wang, Tieniu Tan, Anil K. Jain
Abstract. Face and iris identification have been employed in various biometric applications. Besides improving the verification performance, the fusion of both of the biometrics has several other...
Anil K. Jain, Umut Uludag, Student Member
With the wide spread utilization of biometric identification systems, establishing the authenticity of biometric data itself has emerged as an important research issue. The fact that biometric data...
Learning Fingerprint Minutiae Location and Type (2003)
Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti
For simplicity of patternrecogLFIqI system desigL a sequential approachconsisting ofsensing feature extraction and classi#cation/matching is conventionally adopted, where each stag transforms its...
Learning similarity measure for natural image retrieval with relevance feedback (2002)
Guo-dong Guo, Anil K. Jain, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, Senior Member
Abstract—A new scheme of learning similarity measure is proposed for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). It learns a boundary that separates the images in the database into two clusters. Images...
The need for efficient methods for archiving and retrieving personal digital photo collections arises due to a significant increase in the number of digital images and videos that people have to...
Hiding a face in a fingerprint image (2002)
Anil K. Jain, Umut Uludag, Rein-lien Hsu
With the wide spread utilization of biometric identification systems, establishing the authenticity of biometric data itself has emerged as an important research issue. We present a fingerprint image...
On-line signature verification (2002)
Anil K. Jain, Friederike D. Griess, Scott D. Connell, East Lansing, Mi J
We describe a method for on-line handwritten signature verification. The signa-tures are acquired using a digitizing tablet which captures both dynamic and spatial information of the writing. After...
Hiding fingerprint minutiae in images (2002)
We introduce an application of steganography and watermarking to enable secure biometric data (e.g., fingerprints) exchange. We hide fingerprint minutiae data in a host image, which can be a...
Evidence accumulation clustering based on the k-means algorithm (2002)
Abstract. The idea of evidence accumulation for the combination of multiple clusterings was recently proposed [7]. Taking the K-means as the basic algorithm for the decomposition of data into a large...
On the Individuality of Fingerprints (2002)
Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprint identification is based on two basic premises: (i) persistence: the basic characteristics of fingerprints do not change with time; and (ii) individuality: the fingerprint is unique to an...
Decision-level Fusion in Fingerprint Verification (2002)
Abstract. A scheme is proposed for classier combination at decision level which stresses the importance of classier selection during combination. The proposed scheme is optimal (in the Neyman-Pearson...
On the Individuality of Fingerprints (2002)
Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprint identification is based on two basic premises: (i) persistence: the basic characteristics of fingerprints do not change with time; and (ii) individuality: the fingerprint is unique to an...
On the Individuality of Fingerprints (2002)
Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprint identification is based on two basic premises: (i) persistence: the basic characteristics of fingerprints do not change with time; and (ii) individuality: the fingerprint is unique to an...
Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models (2002)
A new unsupervised algorithm for learning a finite mixture model from multivariate data is proposed. The adjective "unsupervised " is justified by two properties of the algorithm:...
Nicolae Duta, Anil K. Jain, Kanti V. Mardia
This paper investigates the feasibility of person identication based on feature points extracted from palmprint images. Our approach rst extracts a set of feature points along the prominent palm...
Face detection in color images (2002)
Rein-lien Hsu, Mohamed Abdel-mottaleb, Anil K. Jain
Human face detection is often the first step in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, face recognition, and image database management. We propose a face detection...
Can Identical Twins be Discriminated Based on Fingerprints? (2002)
Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Sharath Pankanti
Reliable and accurate identification of people is extremely important in a number of business transactions as well as access to privileged information. Automatic identification methods based on...
On The Similarity Of Identical Twin Fingerprints (2002)
Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Sharath Pankanti
Reliable andaccurate veri#cation of people is extremely important in a number of business transactions as well as access to privilegxWVBBVdgVdg Automatic veri#cation methods basedon physical...
Decision-level Fusion in Fingerprint Verification (2002)
A scheme is proposed for classifier combination at decision level which stresses the importance of classifier selection during combination. The proposed scheme is optimal (in the Neyman-Pearson...
On the Individuality of Fingerprints (2002)
Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain
Fingerprint identification is based on two basic premises: (i) persistence: the basic characteristics of fingerprints do not change with time; and (ii) individuality: the finger-print is unique to an...
Fvc2000: Fingerprint verification competition (2002)
Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, J. L. Wayman, Anil K. Jain
AbstractÐReliable and accurate fingerprint recognition is a challenging pattern recognition problem, requiring algorithms robust in many contexts. FVC2000 competition attempted to establish the...
Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models (2002)
AbstractÐThis paper proposes an unsupervised algorithm for learning a finite mixture model from multivariate data. The adjective ªunsupervisedº is justified by two properties of the algorithm: 1)...
Feature Saliency in Unsupervised Learning (2002)
Clustering is a common unsupervised learning technique to discover the structure of a set of multidimensional data. While there exist many algorithms for clustering, the important issue of feature...
Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) Kalman Filters for Robust High Speed Human Motion Tracking (2002)
Michael E. Farmer, Rein-lien Hsu, Anil K. Jain
Accurate and robust tracking of humans is of growing interest in the image processing and computer vision communities. The ability of a vision system to track the subjects and accurately predict...
Face detection in color images (2002)
Rein-lien Hsu, Mohamed Abdel-mottaleb, Anil K. Jain
Human face detection is often the first step in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, face recognition, and image database management. We propose a face detection...
Biometric authentication: International ECCV 2002 Workshop: proceedings (2002)
Tistarelli, Massimo, Bigun, Josef, Jain, Anil K.
Biometric authentication refers to identifying an individual based on his or her distinguishing physiological and/or behavioral characteristics. It associates an individual with a previously...
Structure in on-line documents (2001)
Anil K. Jain, Anoop M. Namboodiri
We present a hierarchical approach for extracting homogeneous regions in on-line documents. The problem of identifying and processing ruled and unruled tables, text and drawings is addressed. The...
Image classification for content-based indexing (2001)
Aditya Vailaya, Associate Member, Anil K. Jain, Hong-jiang Zhang, Senior Member
Abstract—Grouping images into (semantically) meaningful categories using low-level visual features is a challenging and important problem in content-based image retrieval. Using binary Bayesian...
Bayesian learning of sparse classifiers (2001)
Bayesian approaches to supervised learning use priors on the classifier parameters. However, few priors aim at achieving "sparse " classifiers, where irrelevant/redundant parameters...
Template-based online character recognition (2001)
Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain
Handwriting is a common, natural form of communication for humans, and therefore it is useful to utilize this modality as a means of input to machines. One well known method of classifying individual...
Face modeling for recognition (2001)
3D Human face models have been widely used in applications such as face recognition, facial expression recognition, human action recognition, head tracking, facial animation, video...
The spatial distribution of gray level intensities in an image can be naturally modeled using Markov Random Field (MRF) models. We develop and investigate the performance of face detection algorithms...
Automatic Construction of 2D Shape Models (2001)
A procedure for automated 2D shape model design is presented. The modeling system is given a set of training example shapes dened by the coordinates of their contour points. The shapes are...
Image Classification for Content-Based Indexing (2001)
Aditya Vailaya, Associate Member, Anil K. Jain, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Senior Member
Grouping images into (semantically) meaningful categories using low-level visual features is a challenging and important problem in content-based image retrieval. Using binary Bayesian classifiers,...
Recent advances in fingerprint verification (2001)
Anil K. Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Arun Ross
More than a century has passed since Alphonse Bertillon first conceived and then industriously practiced the idea of using body measurements for solving crimes [18]. Just as his idea was gaining...
The spatial distribution of gray level intensities in an image can be naturally modeled using Markov Random Field (MRF) models. We develop and investigate the performance of face detection algorithms...
Face modeling for recognition (2001)
3D Human face models have been widely used in applications such as facial animation, video compression/coding, augmented reality, head tracking, facial expression recognition, human action...
Minutia verification and classification for fingerprint matching (2000)
Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain, Jianguo Wang, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
Raw image data offer rich source of information for matching and classification. For simplicity of pattern recognition system design, a sequential approach consisting of sensing, feature extraction...
Minutia verification and classification for fingerprint matching (2000)
Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain, Jianguo Wang, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
Raw image data offer rich source of information for matching and classification. For simplicity of pattern recognition system design, a sequential approach consisting of sensing, feature extraction...
Unsupervised selection and estimation of finite mixture models (2000)
We propose a new method for fitting mixture models that performs component selection and does not require external initialization. The novelty of our approach includes: a minimum message length (MML)...
Statistical pattern recognition: A review (2000)
Anil K. Jain, Jianchang Mao, Senior Member
AbstractÐThe primary goal of pattern recognition is supervised or unsupervised classification. Among the various frameworks in which pattern recognition has been traditionally formulated, the...
Statistical pattern recognition: A review (2000)
Anil K. Jain, Jianchang Mao, Senior Member
AbstractÐThe primary goal of pattern recognition is supervised or unsupervised classification. Among the various frameworks in which pattern recognition has been traditionally formulated, the...
A.K.Jain, “Recognition of Unconstrained On-Line Devanagari Characters (2000)
Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain
Devanagari is a script used for several major languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi and Nepali, and is used by more than 500 million people. Unconstrained Devanagari writing is more complex than...
Decision-level Fusion in Biometric Verification (2000)
A design scheme is proposed for classifier combination at decision level. The scheme stresses the importance of classifier selection in classifier combination. The proposed scheme is optimal (in the...
Filterbank-Based Fingerprint Matching (2000)
Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Lin Hong, Sharath Pankanti
With identity fraud in our society reaching unprecedented proportions and with an increasing emphasis on the emerging automatic personal identification applications, biometrics -based verification,...
Object tracking using deformable templates (2000)
AbstractÐWe propose a novel method for object tracking using prototype-based deformable template models. To track an object in an image sequence, we use a criterion which combines two terms: the...
Statistical pattern recognition: A review (2000)
Anil K. Jain, Jianchang Mao, Senior Member
AbstractÐThe primary goal of pattern recognition is supervised or unsupervised classification. Among the various frameworks in which pattern recognition has been traditionally formulated, the...
Statistical pattern recognition: A review (2000)
Anil K. Jain, Jianchang Mao, Senior Member
AbstractÐThe primary goal of pattern recognition is supervised or unsupervised classification. Among the various frameworks in which pattern recognition has been traditionally formulated, the...
This paper describes a new approach to adaptive estimation of parametric deformable contours based on B-spline representations. The problem is formulated in a statistical framework with the...
Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 1999.
Automatic image orientation detection (1999)
Aditya Vailaya, Hongjiang Zhang, Senior Member, Changjiang Yang, Feng-i Liu, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—We present an algorithm for automatic image orientation estimation using a Bayesian learning framework. We demonstrate that a small codebook (the optimal size of codebook is selected using...
Combining Multiple Matchers for a High Security Fingerprint Verification System (1999)
Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Shaoyun Chen
Integration of various ngerprint matching algorithms is a viable method to improve the performance of a ngerprint verication system. Dierent ngerprint matching algorithms are often based on dierent...
A prototype hand geometry-based verification system (1999)
Anil K. Jain, Arun Ross, Sharath Pankanti
Geometric measurements of the human hand have been used for identity authentication in a number of commercial systems. Yet, there is not much open public literature addressing research issues...
Learning 2D shape models (1999)
A new fully automated shape learning method is presented. It is based on clustering a set of training shapes in the original shape space (de ned by the coordinates of the contour points) and...
Learning-Based Object Detection in Cardiac MR Images (1999)
An automated method for left ventricle detection in MR cardiac images is presented. Ventricle detection is the first step in a fully automated segmentation system used to compute volumetric...
Deformable Matching Of Hand Shapes For Verification (1999)
We present a method for personal authentication based on deformable matching of hand shapes. Authentication systems are already employed in domains that require some sort of user verification. Unlike...
Deformable Matching Of Hand Shapes For Verification (1999)
Anil K. Jain, Nicolae Duta, Name Nicolae Duta
are disbursement programs) . Numerous distinguishing traits that have been used for personal identification include fingerprints, face, voice, iris and hand geometry. It is generally accepted that...
Learning 2D Shape Models (1999)
A new fully automated shape learning method is presented. It is based on clustering a set of training shapes in the original shape space (defined by the contour points' coordinates) and...
A prototype hand geometry-based verification system (1999)
Anil K. Jain, Arun Ross, Sharath Pankanti
Geometric measurements of the human hand have been used for identity authentication in a number of commercial systems. Yet, there is not much open public literature addressing research issues...
A Multichannel Approach to Fingerprint Classification (1999)
Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Student Member, Lin Hong
Fingerprint classification provides an important indexing mechanism in a fingerprint database. An accurate and consistent classification can greatly reduce fingerprint matching time for a large...
jain@cse.msu.edu (A.K. Jain). (1999)
Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain
Handwriting is a common, natural form of communication for humans, and therefore it is useful to utilize this modality as a means of input to machines. One well-known method of classifying individual...
Registration and Integration of Multiple Object Views for 3D Model Construction (1998)
Chitra Dorai, Gang Wang, Anil K. Jain, Carolyn Mercer
Abstract—Automatic 3D object model construction is important in applications ranging from manufacturing to entertainment, since CAD models of existing objects may be either unavailable or unusable....
Large-scale parallel data clustering (1998)
Dan Judd, Philip K. Mckinley, Anil K. Jain
Abstract—Algorithmic enhancements are described that enable large computational reduction in mean square-error data clustering. These improvements are incorporated into a parallel data-clustering...
Learning the Human Face Concept From Black and White Pictures (1998)
This study presents a learning approach for the face detection problem. Given an arbitrary black and white, still image, find the location and size of every human face it contains. Numerous...
Learning the Human Face Concept in Black and White Images (1998)
This study presents a learning approach for the face detection problem. The problem can be stated as follows: given an arbitrary black and white, still image, find the location and size of every...
Learning Prototypes for On-Line Handwritten Digits (1998)
Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain
A writer independent handwriting recognition system must be able to recognize a wide variety of handwriting styles, while attempting to obtain a high degree of accuracy when recognizing data from any...
Learning Prototypes for On-Line Handwritten Digits (1998)
A writer independent handwriting recognition system must be able to recognize a wide variety of handwriting styles, while attempting to obtain a high degree of accuracy when recognizing data from any...
Abstract. Cluster analysis deals with the automatic discovery of the grouping of a set of patterns. Despite more than 40 years of research, there are still many challenges in data clustering from...
Shape spectrum based view grouping and matching of 3d free-form objects (1997)
Abstract—We address the problem of constructing view aspects of 3D free-form objects for efficient matching during recognition. We introduce a novel view representation based on “shape...
Representation and recognition of handwritten digits using deformable templates (1997)
Abstract—We investigate the application of deformable templates to recognition of handprinted digits. Two characters are matched by deforming the contour of one to fit the edge strengths of the...
Panel Report: The Potential of Geons for Generic 3-D Object Recognition (1997)
Sven Dickinson Dept, Sven J. Dickinson, Robert Bergevin, Irving Biederman, Jan-olof Eklundh, Roger Munck-fairwood, ...
Biederman's introduction of geons to the vision community has spawned considerable interest in building geon-based vision systems. However, numerous issues must be addressed before such systems...
Shape Spectrum Based View Grouping and Matching of 3D Free-Form Objects (1997)
We address the problem of constructing view aspects of 3D free-form objects for efficient matching during recognition. We introduce a novel view representation based on `shape spectrum'...
Object Detection Using Gabor Filters (1997)
Anil K. Jain, Nalini K. Ratha, Sridhar Lakshmanan
This paper pertains to the detection of objects located in complex backgrounds. A featurebased segmentation approach to the object detection problem is pursued, where the features are computed over...
Cosmos - A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects (1997)
We address the problem of representing and recognizing 3D free-form objects when (a) the object viewpoint is arbitrary, (b) the objects may vary in shape and complexity, and (c) no restrictive...
Representation and Recognition of Handwritten Digits using Deformable Templates (1997)
We investigate the application of deformable templates to recognition of handprinted digits. Two characters are matched by deforming the contour of one to fit the edge strengths of the other, and a...
Optimal Registration of Object Views Using Range Data (1997)
Chitra Dorai, John Weng, Anil K. Jain
This paper deals with robust registration of object views in the presence of uncertainties and noise in depth data. Errors in registration of multiple views of a 3D object severely affect view...
Panel Report: The Potential of Geons for Generic 3-D Object Recognition (1997)
Sven J. Dickinson, Robert Bergevin, Irving Biederman, Jan-olof Eklundh, Roger Munck-fairwood, Anil K. Jain, ...
Biederman's introduction of geons to the vision community has spawned considerable interest in building geon-based vision systems. However, numerous issues must be addressed before such systems...
Practicing Vision: Integration, Evaluation and Applications (1997)
Computer vision has emerged as a challenging and important area of research, both as an engineering and a scientific discipline. The growing importance of computer vision is evident from the fact...
COSMOS - A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects (1997)
We address the problem of representing and recognizing 3D free-form objects when 1) the object viewpoint is arbitrary, 2) the objects may vary in shape and complexity, and 3) no restrictive...
Recognition of digits in hydrographic maps: Binary vs. topographic analysis (1996)
Øivind Due Trier, Torfinn Taxt, Anil K. Jain
This paper compares the performance of topographic analysis and binary analysis for recognition of digits in hydrographic maps. The performance of each method was measured by the correct...
Image Retrieval using Color and Shape (1996)
This report deals with efficient retrieval of images from large databases based on the color and shape content in images. With the increasing popularity of the use of large volume image databases in...
Recognition of 3D Free-Form Objects (1996)
We address the problem of recognizing 3D rigid freeform objects using dense range data when the objects can be imaged from arbitrary viewpoints and the objects vary in shape and complexity. We...
FPGA-based High Performance Page Layout Segmentation (1996)
Nalini Ratha, Nalini K. Ratha, Anil K. Jain, Anil K. Jain, Diane T. Rover, Diane T. Rover
A page layout segmentation algorithm for locating text, background and halftone areas is presented. The algorithm has been implemented on Splash 2 -- an FPGA based array processor. The synthesis...
Artificial Neural Networks: A Tutorial (1996)
Anil K. Jain, Jianchang Mao, K. Mohiuddin
Numerous efforts have been made in developing "intelligent" programs based on the Von Neumann's centralized architecture. However, these efforts have not been very successful in...
Recognition of Digits in Hydrographic Maps: Binary vs. Topographic Analysis (1996)
Øivind Due Trier, Torfinn Taxt, Anil K. Jain
This paper compares the performance of topographic analysis and binary analysis for recognition of digits in hydrographic maps. Each of the methods processed the input image by extracting binary...
From Images to Models: Automatic 3D Object Model Construction from Multiple Views (1996)
Chitra Dorai, Gang Wang, Anil K. Jain, Carolyn Mercer
Automatic 3D object model construction is important in applications ranging from manufacturing to entertainment industry, since CAD models of existing objects may be either unavailable or unusable....
A Hierarchical System for Efficient Image Retrieval (1996)
Aditya Vailaya, Yu Zhong, Anil K. Jain
Retrieval efficiency and accuracy are two important issues in designing a content-based database retrieval system. We propose a new image database retrieval method based on shape information. This...
Nalini K. Ratha, Shaoyun Chen, Anil K. Jain
ow orientation based feature extraction in
John H. Edmondson, Paul I. Rubinfeld, Peter J. Bannon, J. Benschneider, Debra Bernstein, Ruben W. Castelino, ...
A new CMOS microprocessor, the Alpha 21164, reaches 1,200 mips/600 MFLOPS (peak performance). This new implementation of the Alpha architecture achieves SPECint92/SPECfp92 performance of 345/505...
Clustering using a coarse-grained parallel Genetic Algorithm: A Preliminary Study (1995)
Nalini K. Ratha, Anil K. Jain, Moon J. Chung
Genetic Algorithms (GA) are useful in solving complex optimization problems. By posing pattern clustering as an optimization problem, GAs can be used to obtain an optimal minimum squared-error...
Goal-Directed Evaluation of Binarization Methods (1995)
Øivind Due Trier, Student Member, Anil K. Jain
This paper presents a methodology for evaluation of low-level image analysis methods, using binarization (two-level thresholding) as an example. Binarization of scanned gray scale images is the first...
An FPGA-based Point Pattern Matching Processor with Application to Fingerprint Matching (1995)
Nalini K. Ratha, Anil K. Jain, Diane T. Rover
We describe the design and synthesis of a highperformance coprocessor for point pattern matching with application to fingerprint matching using Splash 2 - an attached processor for SUN SPARCstation...
(mm) Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (1995)
Cmos Process First, John H. Edmondson, Paul I. Rubinfeld, Peter J. Bannon, Bradley J. Benschneider, Elizabeth M. Cooper, ...
this paper.
COSMOS - A Representation Scheme for Free-Form Surfaces (1995)
We address the problem of representing and recognizing arbitrarily curved 3D rigid objects when (a) the objects may vary in shape and complexity, and (b) no restrictive assumptions are made about the...
COSMOS - A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects (1995)
We address the problem of representing and recognizing 3D free-form objects when (a) the object viewpoint is arbitrary, (b) the objects may vary in shape and complexity, and (c) no restrictive...
Shape Spectra Based View Grouping For Free-Form Objects (1995)
The concept of "shape spectrum" of an object view is introduced for constructing view aspects of free-form objects. The shape spectrum captures the shape characteristics of an object by...
View Organization and Matching of Free-Form Objects (1995)
We address the problem of constructing view aspects of free-form objects for efficient matching during recognition. We introduce a novel view representation based on "shape spectrum"...
Feature Extraction Methods For Character Recognition - A Survey (1995)
Øivind Due Trier, Anil K Jain, Torfinn Taxt
This paper presents an overview of feature extraction methods for off-line recognition of segmented (isolated) characters. Selection of a feature extraction method is probably the single most...
A Distributed Edge Detection And Surface Reconstruction Algorithm (1995)
Nalini Ratha, Tolga Acar, Muhittin Gokmen, Anil K. Jain
A scalable parallel algorithm for edge detection and surface reconstruction is presented. The algorithm is based on fitting a weak membrane to the pixel gray values by minimizing the associated...
High Performance Custom Computing for Image Segmentation (1995)
The use of dynamic instruction architectures based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is described. Using this approach, an application specific instruction based system has been designed for...
Convolution on Splash 2 (1995)
Nalini K. Ratha, Anil K. Jain, Diane T. Rover
Convolution is a fundamental operation in many signal and image processing applications. Since the computation and communication pattern in a convolution operation is regular, a number of special...
A Uniform Bayesian Framework for Integration (1995)
Sharath Pankanti, Anil K. Jain
Vision researchers have advocated the integration of vision modules. However, generic system integration issues for recovering 3D information have not been adequately addressed in the literature. We...
Fingerprint Matching on Splash 2 (1995)
Nalini K. Ratha, Anil K. Jain, Diane T. Rover
this memory. The PEs are connected through a crossbar that is programmed by X 0 . There is a 36-bit linear data path (SIMD Bus) running through all the PEs. The PEs can read data either from their...
Parallel Implementation of Vision Algorithms on Workstation Clusters (1994)
Dan Judd, Nalini K. Ratha, Philip K. Mckinley, John Weng, Anil K. Jain
Parallel implementations of two computer vision algorithms on distributed cluster platforms are described. The first algorithm is a square-error data clustering method whose parallel implementation...
Parallel Implementation of Vision Algorithms on Workstation Clusters (1994)
Dan Judd Nalini, Dan Judd, Nalini K. Ratha, Philip K. Mckinley, John Weng, Anil K. Jain
Parallel implementations of two computer vision algorithms on distributed cluster platforms are described. The first algorithm is a square-error data clustering method whose parallel implementation...
Optimal Registration of Multiple Range Views (1994)
Chitra Dorai, John Weng, Anil K. Jain
Errors in registration of multiple views of an object based on estimated transformations between views can affect surface classification. We derive a minimum variance estimator (MVE) for computing...
Optimal Registration of Multiple Range Views (1994)
Chitra Dorai, John Weng, Anil K. Jain
This report deals with robust registration of multiple range images in presence of uncertainties and noise in surface data. Most approaches to registration assume that surface depth data are very...
Robust Feature Detection for 3D Object Recognition and Matching (1993)
Sharath Pankanti, Chitra Dorai, Anil K. Jain
Salient surface features play a central role in tasks related to 3D object recognition and matching. There is a large body of psychophysical evidence demonstrating the perceptual significance of...
On Texture In Document Images (1992)
Anil K. Jain, Sushil K. Bhattacharjee, Yao Chen
This paper deals with the application of a multichannel filtering-based texture segmentation method to a variety of document image processing problems: text-graphics separation, address-block...
Report on Range Image Understanding Workshop, East Lansing, Michigan, March 21–23, 1988 (1989)
Peer Reviewed
Texture Segmentation Using Voronoi Polygons (1989)
Texture segmentation is one of the early steps towards identifying surfaces and objects in an image. Textures considered here are de#ned in terms of primitives called tokens. In this paper wehave...
The article reports that the latest research indicates using a combination of biometric avenues for human identification is more effective, and far more challenging. While biometric systems have...
The article reports that the latest research indicates using a combination of biometric avenues for human identification is more effective, and far more challenging. While biometric systems have...
Learning Shape Models from Examples using Automatic Shape Clustering and Procrustes Analysis
Nicolae Duta, Milan Sonka, Anil K. Jain
. A new fully automated shape learning method is presented. It is based on clustering a shape training set in the original shape space and performing a Procrustes analysis on each cluster to obtain a...
Model-guided Segmentation of Corpus Callosum in MR Images
Arvid Lundervold, Nicolae Duta, Torfinn Taxt, Anil K. Jain
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, followed by automated segmentation of the corpus callosum (CC) in midsagittal sections have important applications in both clinical neurology and...
Learning Shape Models from Examples using Automatic Shape Clustering and Procrustes Analysis
Nicolae Duta, Milan Sonka, Anil K. Jain
A new fully automated shape learning method is presented. It is based on clustering a shape training set in the original shape space and performing a Procrustes analysis on each cluster to obtain a...
Love, Thomas E., Cebul, Randall D., Einstadter, Douglas, Jain, Anil K., Miller, Holly, Harris, C. Martin, ...
Fracture healing in India: Available therapies, indications, and protocols
The availability of fracture healing therapies to the general public is limited in India. The infrastructure of the health system in India, involving both public and private sectors, does not provide...