Publications

Book Chapters

D. Reid, S. Samangooei, C. Chen, M. S. Nixon, A. Ross , “Soft Biometrics for Surveillance: An Overview”. in Handbook of Statistics, Vol. 31, C. R. Rao and V. Govindaraju (Eds.), Elsevier 2013.

Journals

C. Chen, A. Dantcheva, A. Ross, “An Ensemble of Patch-based Subspaces for Makeup-Robust Face Recognition”, Information Fusion Journal, 2016. PDF

C. Chen and A. Ross, “Matching Thermal to Visible Face Images Using Hidden Factor Analysis in a Cascaded Subspace Learning Framework”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2016. PDF

Conferences

D. Anghelone, C. Chen, P. Faure, A. Ross, A. Dantcheva, “Explainable Thermal to Visible Face Recognition Using Latent-Guided Generative Adversarial Network,” Proc. of 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG), December 2021.

C. Chen, A. Ross, “An Explainable Attention-Guided Iris Presentation Attack Detector,” Workshop on Explainable & Interpretable Artificial Intelligence for Biometrics (xAI4Biometrics) at the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), January 2021. PDF

P. Das, J. McGrath, Z. Fang, A. Boyd, G. Jang, A. Mohammadi, S. Purnapatra, D. Yambay, S. Marcel, M. Trokielwicz, P. Maciejewicz, K. Bowyer, A. Czajka, S. Schuckers, J. T. Farias, S. Gonzalez, M. Fang, N. Damer, F. Boutros, A. Kuijper, R. Sharma, C. Chen and A. Ross, ``Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris)-The 2020 Edition,” Proc. of International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), September 2020. PDF

S. Yadav, C. Chen, A. Ross, “Relativistic Discriminator: A One-Class Classifier for Generalized Iris Presentation Attack Detection,” Proc. of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), (Aspen, USA), March 2020. PDF

A. Ross, S. Banerjee, C. Chen, A. Chowdhury, V. Mirjalili, R. Sharma, T. Swearingen and S. Yadav, “Some Research Problems in Biometrics: The Future Beckons,” Proc. of 12th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), (Crete, Greece), June 2019. PDF

S. Yadav, C. Chen, A. Ross, “Synthesizing Iris Images using RaSGAN with Application in Presentation Attack Detection,” Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), (Long Beach, USA), June 2019. PDF

C. Chen and A. Ross, “Matching Thermal to Visible Face Images Using a Semantic-Guided Generative Adversarial Network,” Proc. of 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG), (Lille, France), May 2019. PDF

C. Chen and A. Ross, “Exploring the Use of IrisCodes for Presentation Attack Detection,” Proc. of 9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), (Los Angeles, USA), October 2018. PDF

C. Chen and A. Ross, “A Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Network for Joint Iris Detection and Presentation Attack Detection,” 1st Workshop on Cross-Domain Biometric Recognition (CDBR) at the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), (Lake Tahoe, USA), March 2018. PDF

C. Chen, A. Dantcheva, T. Swearingen, A. Ross, “Spoofing Faces Using Makeup: An Investigative Study,” Proc. of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2017), (New Delhi, India), February 2017. PDF

A. Rattani, C. Chen, A. Ross, “Evaluation of Texture Descriptors for Automated Gender Estimation from Fingerprints”. Proc. of ECCV Workshop on Soft Biometrics, (Zurich, Switzerland), September 2014.

C. Chen, A. Dantcheva, A. Ross, “Impact of Facial Cosmetics on Automatic Gender and Age Estimation Algorithms”. Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), (Lisbon, Portugal), January 2014. PDF

C. Chen, A. Dantcheva, A. Ross, “Automatic Facial Makeup Detection with Application in Face Recognition”. Proc. of 6th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), (Madrid, Spain), June 2013. PDF

C. Chen and A. Ross, “Local Gradient Gabor Pattern (LGGP) With Applications in Face Recognition, Cross-spectral Matching and Soft Biometrics”. Proc. of SPIE Biometric and Surveillance Technology for Human and Activity Identification X, (Baltimore, USA), May 2013. PDF

A. Dantcheva, C. Chen, A. Ross, “Makeup Challenges Automated Face Recognition Systems”. SPIE Newsroom 2013, Defense and Security.

A. Dantcheva, C. Chen, A. Ross, “Can Facial Cosmetics Affect the Matching Accuracy of Face Recognition Systems?”. roc. of 5th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), (Washington DC, USA), September 2012. PDF

D. Cao, C. Chen, D. Adjeroh, A. Ross, “Predicting Gender and Weight from Human Metrology Using a Copula Model”. Proc. of 5th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), (Washington DC, USA), September 2012. PDF

T. Bourlai, A. Ross, C. Chen, L. Hornak, “A Study on Using Mid-wave Infrared Images for Face Recognition”. Proc. of SPIE Biometric and Surveillance Technology for Human and Activity Identification X, (Baltimore, USA), May 2012. PDF

C. Chen and A. Ross, “Evaluation of Gender Classification Methods on Thermal and Near-infrared Face Images”. Proc. of International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), (Washington DC, USA), October 2011. PDF

D. Cao, C. Chen, M. Piccirilli, D. Adjeroh, T. Bourlai, A. Ross, “Can Facial Metrology Predict Gender?”. Proc. of International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), (Washington DC, USA), October 2011. PDF

A. Ross and C. Chen, “Can Gender be Predicted from Near-Infrared Face Images?”. Proc. of International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), (Burnaby, Canada), June 2011. 2011. PDF