Arun Hampapur, Lisa Brown, Jonathan Connell, Ahmet Ekin, Norman Haas, Max Lu, ...
[Exploring the concept of multiscale spatiotemporal tracking]
Chapter 1 DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE MULTI-CAMERA NETWORKS (2009)
Andrew Senior, Arun Hampapur, Lisa Brown, Ying-li Tian, Sharath Pankanti
Abstract We present the IBM Smart Surveillance System that uses a distributed architecture to manage a heterogeneous network of active cameras. This system consists of a distributed network of...
Minutiae Verification in Fingerprint Images Using Steerable Wedge Filters (2008)
Sharat S. Chikkerur, Sharath Pankanti, Nalini K. Ratha, Ruud Bolle, Venu Govindaraju
A majority of the existing fingerprint recognition systems are based on matching minutia features. Therefore minutiae extraction forms a very critical step and largely determines the overall accuracy...
Exploratory Computer Vision Group (2008)
Anil Jain, Lin Hong, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
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An accurate automatic personal identication is critical to a wide range of application domains such as access control, electronic commerce, and welfare benets disbursement. Traditional personal...
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1 Fingerprint Minutiae: A Constructive Definition (2007)
Ruud M. Bolle, Andrew W. Senior, Nalini K. Ratha, Sharath Pankanti
Abstract. The flow pattern of ridges in a fingerprint is unique to the person in that no two people with the same fingerprints have yet been found. Fingerprints have been in use in forensic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Blinkering Surveillance: Enabling Video Privacy through Computer Vision (2003)
Andrew Senior, Sharath Pankanti, Arun Hampapur, Lisa Brown, Ying-li Tian, Ahmet Ekin
In this paper we describe a technology for protecting privacy in video systems. The paper presents a review of privacy in video surveillance and describes how a computer vision approach to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Appearance Models for Occlusion Handling (2001)
Andrew Senior, Arun Hampapur, Ying-li Tian, Lisa Brown, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
Objects in the world exhibit complex interactions. When captured in a video sequence, some interactions manifest themselves as occlusions. A visual tracking system must be able to track objects which...
Automated fingerprint identification and imaging systems (2001)
More than a century has passed since Alphonse Bertillon first conceived and then industriously practiced the idea of using body measurements for solving crimes [1]. Just as his idea was gaining...
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...
Appearance models for occlusion handling (2001)
Andrew Senior, Arun Hampapur, Ying-li Tian, Lisa Brown, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
Objects in the world exhibit complex interactions. When captured in a video sequence, some interactions manifest themselves as occlusions. A visual tracking system must be able to track objects which...
Appearance models for occlusion handling (2001)
Andrew Senior, Arun Hampapur, Ying-li Tian, Lisa Brown, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
Objects in the world exhibit complex interactions. When captured in a video sequence, some interactions manifest themselves as occlusions. A visual tracking system must be able to track objects which...
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...
Biometrics: promising frontiers for emerging identification market (2000)
Anil Jain, Lin Hong, Sharath Pankanti
An accurate automatic personal identification is critical to a wide range of application domains such as access control, electronic commerce, and welfare benefits disbursement. Traditional personal...
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...
Fingerprint Classification and Matching (2000)
Anil Jain Sharath, Anil Jain, Sharath Pankanti
Introduction The problem of resolving the identity of a person can be categorized into two fundamentally distinct types of problems with different inherent complexities [1]: (i) verification and (ii)...
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,...
Fingerprint Classification and Matching (2000)
The problem of resolving the identity of a person can be categorized into two fundamentally dis-tinct types of problems with different inherent complexities [1]: (i) verification and (ii)...
Evaluation Techniques for Biometrics-based Authentication Systems (FRR (2000)
Ruud M. Bolle, Sharath Pankanti, Nalini K. Ratha
Biometrics-based authentication is becoming popular because of increasing ease-of-use and reliability. Performance evaluation of such systems is an important issue. We attempt to address two aspects...
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...
Can multibiometrics improve performance (1999)
Lin Hong, Anil Jain, Sharath Pankanti
While it is widely acknowledged that the performance improvement in current biometrics-based personal authentication systems is necessary, it is not clear what mechanisms could be used to improve the...
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...
Verification Watermarks on Fingerprint Recognition and Retrieval (1999)
Minerva M. Yeung, Sharath Pankanti
Current “invisible ” watermarking techniques aim at producing watermarked data that suffer no or little quality degradation and perceptually identical to the original versions. The most common...
An Identity Authentication System Using Fingerprints (1997)
Anil Jain, Lin Hong, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
Fingerprint verification is an important biometric technique for personal identification. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a prototype automatic identity authentication...
Identity Authentication Using Fingerprints (1997)
Lin Hong, Anil Jain, Sharath Pankanti, Ruud Bolle
We describe the design and implementation of an automatic identity authentication system which uses fingerprint to establish the identity of an individual. An improved minutia extraction algorithm...
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...
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...