Publications

Here you can find publications from our group.

Books & Chapters

  1.    Albert, A.M. and Ricanek, K. (2010) Implications of Adult Facial Aging Factors on Biometrics. In Biometrics, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-953-7619-X-X, InTech Publishing, October 2010.  

  2.    Ricanek, K.; Sethuram, A.; Patterson E.K.; Albert, A.M.; and Boone E.J. (2009) Craniofacial aging.  In:  Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security.  J.G. Voeller (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  Hoboken, NJ. <http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470087923/hns/article/hhs2671/curent/pdf>.

  3.    Woodard, D. L., Ricanek, K. (2009). Iris Databases. In: Biometrics Encyclopedia, Stan Z. Li (Ed.), New York, NY: Biometrics Encyclopedia, Springer.

  4.    Dozier, G., Savvides, M., Bryant, K., Ricanek, K., Woodard, D. L. (2009) Developing Iris Templates via Bit Inconsistency and GRIT. In Biometrics Encyclopedia, Stan Z. Li (Ed.), New York, NY: Biometrics Encyclopedia, Springer.



Technical Reports and White Papers

  1. A. Midori Albert and Karl Ricanek Jr, "Adult Diachronic Facial Aging Considerations Pertinent to Computer Automated Face Recognition Research," September 2008.

  2. E.K. Patterson, K. Ricanek, and A.M. Albert, "Models and Techniques for Facial Aging of Digital Images of Adults," Dyncorp International Technical Report, March 2006.

  3. A.M. Albert, K. Ricanek, and E.K. Patterson, "The Aging Adult Skull and Face: A Critical Update to the Review of the Literature on Factors and Processes of Change Focusing on Interaction Between Bodyweight, Facial Fat, and Aging," Dyncorp International Technical Report, April 2006.

  4. K. Ricanek, E.K. Patterson, and A.M. Albert, "Age-Related Morphological Changes: Effects on Facial Recognition Technologies," UNCW Technical Report, CALL #WRG FSC-$, 2004.

  5. A.M. Albert, K. Ricanek, and E.K. Patterson, "The Aging Adult Skull and Face: A Review of the Literature and Report on Factors and Processes of Change," UNCW Internal Technical Report, UNCW Technical Report, CALL #WRG FSC-A, 2004.

  6. M. Albert, K. Ricanek, and E. Patterson, "The Aging Adult Skull and Face: A Review of the Literature and Report on Factors and Processes of Change", Technical Report, Dyncorp, July 2004.

  7. K. Ricanek, E. Patterson, and M. Albert, "Age Related Morphological Changes: Effects on Facial Recognition Technologies", White Paper for Dept. of Defense, July 2003.


Referred Articles

  1. Wankou Yang, Cuixian Chen, Karl Ricanek, Changyin Sun, "Ensemble of Global and Local Features for Face Age Estimation", Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISSN), Guilin, China, May 2011. (to appear)

  2. Wankou Yang, Amrutha Sethuram, Eric Patterson, Karl Ricanek, Changyin Sun, "Gender Classification using the Profile", Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISSN), Guilin, China, May 2011. (to appear)

  3. Wankou Yang, Changyin Sun, Lei Zhang, Karl Ricanek, "Laplacian Bidirectional PCA for Face Recognition, Journal of Neurocomputing Letters, Elsevier, vol 74, isses 1-3, pp 486-493, December 2010.

  4. Yishi Wang, Karl Ricanek, Cuixian Chen, Yaw Chang, "Gender Classification from Infants to Seniors", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS), Washington, D.C., September, 2010.

  5. Yishi Wang, Karl Ricanek, Cuixian Chen, Yaw Chang, "Manifold Learning for Gender Classification", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December 7, 2010.

  6. Khoa Luu, Tien Dai Bui, Ching Y. Suen, Karl Ricanek, "Combined Local and Holistic Facial Features for Age-Determination", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, December 7, 2010.

  7. Marios Savvides, Karl Ricanek Jr, Damon L. Woodard, Gerry Dozier, "Unconstrained Biometric Identification: Emerging Technologies", Computer Magazine, vol. 43 no 3, pp 56–62, February 2010.

  8. Guodong Gou, Gouwang Mu, Karl Ricanek, "Cross-Age Face Recognition on A Very Large Database: The Performance Versus Age Intervals and Improvement Using Soft Biometric Traits", Proceedings of IAPR 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul Turkey, August. 2010.

  9. K. Luu, T. D. Bui, C. Y. Suen, K. Ricanek, "Spectral Regression based Age Determination", IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics, in association with the 23th IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, June. 2010.

  10. Amrutha Sethuram, Karl Ricanek, Eric Patterson, "A Hierarchical Approach to Facial Aging", Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Workshop on AMFG, in association with the 23th IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, June. 2010.

  11. Cuixian Chen, Yaw Chang, Karl Ricanek, Yishi Wang, "Face Age Estimation Using Model Selection", Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Workshop on AMFG, in association with the 23th IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, June 2010.

  12. Susan J. Simmons, Ann E. Stapleton, Fang Fang, Qijun Fang, and Karl Ricanek, "Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Identify Quantitative Trait Loci Using Replicated Lines", Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 2010.

  13. Susan J. Simmons, Fang Fang, Qijun Fang, Karl Ricanek, "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Model Composition Search Strategy for Quantitative Trait Loci in a Bayesian Hierarchical Model", Proceedings of International Conference on Biological Science and Engineering, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, March 2010.

  14. Karl Ricanek, "Hierarchical Face Age-Estimation Algorithm Using Informed Facial Features", Proceedings of 19th Annual International ANNIE, St. Louis, MO, November 2009.

  15. K. Luu, C. Suen, T. Bui, K. Ricanek, "Automatic Child-Face Age-Progression Based on Heritability Factors of Familial Faces", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Identity and Security (BIDS), Tampa, Fl, September, 2009

  16. A. Rawls and K. Ricanek, "MORPH: Development and Optimization of a Longitudinal Age Progression Database," Proceedings of the International Conference on Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication, Madrid, Spain, September, 2009.

  17. A. Sethuram, E. Patterson, K. Ricanek, and A. Rawls, "Improvements and Performance Evaluation Concerning Synthetic Age Progression and Face Recognition Affected by Adult Aging," Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Sassari, Italy, June, 2009.

  18. Karl Ricanek Jr, Eric Patterson, and Amrutha Sethuram, "Diachronic Review of Facial Aging: Mechanisms and Algorithms", Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Robust Biometrics: Understanding the Science and Technology (ROBUST), Waikiki, Hawaii, October 2008

  19. Khoa Luu, K. Ricanek Jr, T.D. Bui, and C.Y. Suen, "The Burlington Familial Face Database: A Longitudinal Study of Family-based Growth and Development on Face Recognition," Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Robust Biometrics: Understanding the Science and Technology (ROBUST), Waikiki, Hawaii, October 2008.

  20. Eric Patterson, Mathew Ratliff, and Karl Ricanek Jr, "Facial Micro-expressions Identification", Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Robust Biometrics: Understanding the Science and Technology (ROBUST), Waikiki, Hawaii, October 2008.

  21. Phillip J. Whisenhunt, Karl Ricanek Jr, "A Look at Biometrics Focused in Iris Recognition", Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, ACTA Press, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 2008.

  22. Susan Simmonds, Devrim Unay, Karl Ricanek Jr, Bernard Gosselin, "Random Forests Versus Support Vector Machines: Stem and Calyx Classification for Jonagold Apples", Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, ACTA Press, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 2008.

  23. A. Midori Albert and Karl Ricanek, Jr., "The MORPH Database: Investigating the Effects of Adult Craniofacial Aging on Automated Face-Recognition Technology", Journal of Forensic Science Communications, Research and Technology, Volume 10, No. 2, April 2008, http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/april2008/research/2008_04_research02.htm

  24. C. Pearson, S. Simmons, K. Ricanek, and E. Boone, "Comparative Analysis of a Hierarchical Bayesian Method for Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis for the Arabidopsis Thaliana", Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, Second IAPR International Workshop, Singapore, October 2007.

  25. E. Patterson, A. Sethuram, M. Albert, K. Ricanek, and M. King, "Aspects of Age Variation in Facial Morphology Affecting Biometrics," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Biometrics:  Theory, Applications, and Systems, Washington, D.C., September, 2007.

  26. E. Patterson, A. Sethuram, M. Albert, and K. Ricanek, "Comparison of Synthetic Face Aging to Age Progression by Forensic Sketch Artist," Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, ACTA Press, pages 247-252, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, August, 2007.

  27. K. Ricanek, R.B. Wilkins, A. Sethuram, and E. Patterson, "A Novel Cognitive-Psychology Based Face Recognition System for Improved Identification Rates for the Problem of Age-Progression" Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, ACTA Press, pages 289-294, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, August, 2007.

  28. Midori Albert, Jr., Karl Ricanek and Eric Patterson, A review of the literature on the aging adult skull and face: Implications for forensic science research and applications, Journal of Forensic Science International, 16 April 2007, (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T6W-4NH6N87-4/2/32387a10f5d792b909910ac112f32a6c).

  29. E. Patterson, K. Ricanek, M. Albert, and E. Boone, "Automatic Representation of Adult Aging in Facial Images" Proc. 6th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, August 2006, pp 171-176.

  30. K. Ricanek, E. Boone, and E. Patterson, "Craniofacial Aging on the Eigenface Biometric", Proc. 6th International Association of Science and Technology for Development International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, August 2006, pp 249-253.

  31. Karl Ricanek, Jr. and Tamirat Tesafaye, "MORPH: A Longitudinal Image Database of Normal Adult Age-Progression", IEEE 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Southampton, UK, April 2006, pp 341-345.

  32. K. Ricanek and E. Boone, "The Effect of Normal Adult Aging on Standard PCA Face Recognition Accuracy Rates," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, July 2005, pp 2018-2023.

  33. K. Ricanek, and E. Boone, "Landmark Based Statistical Measures for Face Recognition," Hawaiian International Conference on Statistics, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2005. (electronic dissemination only; no page numbers issued)