Research Focus

• Synthetic Face Age-Progression from Digital Images
• Automatic Age Estimation and Classification
• Automatic Gender Classification and Race Determination from Face Images
• Template Aging for Face Recognition
• Mobile Platform Biometric Solutions
• Very Dense Face Landmarking / Annotation
• Face and Facial Feature Tracking in Video
• CASIS, Center for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences

Student Research

• Rachel Cramer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, "L1-Regularized Support Vector Machines for Soft Biometric Classification", November 2011.
• Brian Bullard, Department of Computer Science, “Automatic Face Detection and Image Tagging in a Social Networking Structure”, December 2010.
• Fernando Schiefelbein, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, “Robust Facial Age-Estimation using Advanced Statistical Techniques”, April 2010.
• Maurice Benson, Department of Computer Science, “Using 3D Video Game Feedback and Artificial Neural Networks to Elicit and Classify Valid Event Related Potentials for a Brain Computer Interface”, April 2010.
• Luu Khoa, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal Canada, “Automatic-Photorealistic Facial-Aging of Children Derived from Familial Evidence”, September 2009.
• M. Moran Parker, “Academic Research Computing”, October 2009.
• William Shipman, Department of Computer Science, “Unifying Mobile Devices, the Internet, and Emergency Management Services via Short/Multimedia Messaging Services”, December 2008.
• Yi Chen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, “QTL Detection from Stochastic Process by Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Model”, December 2007.
• Ryan Wilkins, Department of Computer Science, “Neurocognitive Inspired Hierarchical Face Recognition System, July 2007.
• Kathleen Karlon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, “Time Series Competition Among Three Sophisticated Paradigms”, June 2006.
•  Tamirat Tesafaye, Department of Computer Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, “Impact of Face Image Currency on Recognition Rates of the Eigenface Algorithm,” June 2005.
• Yeusheng Zhia, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, “Time Series Forecasting Competition Among Three Sophisticated Paradigms,” May 2005.