“One of the Best 26 Journal papers for 2015” among 10 Elsevier Journals. It was selected to appear in “Elsevier – Virtual Special Issues Celebrating the Breadth of Biometrics Research 2015”
Book #5 … IN PROGRESS Thirimachos Bourlai (Editor), Face Recognition Across the Imaging Spectrum, Second Edition, Springer Nature: Call for Book Chapters May 15th 2022
Book #4 T. Bourlai, P. Karampelas and Reda Alhajj, and, “Disease Control through Social Network Surveillance“, Springer Nature, Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications Series. Publication date: 25th of August 2022.
Book #2 P. Karampelas, and T. Bourlai, “Surveillance in Action”, Springer Nature, Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications Series. Published 2018.
NEW … Jacob Rose, Thirimachos Bourlai and Haiying Liu. Multispectral Face Mask Compliance Classification During a Pandemic, Book – Disease Control through Social Network Surveillance, eds. T. Bourlai, P. Karampelas and Reda Alhajj, 2022.
NEW … Ananya Zabin, Suha Reddy Mokalla and Thirimachos Bourlai. On the Effectiveness of Periocular-Based Human Authentication when Wearing Face Masks to Slow the Spread of COVID-19, Book – Disease Control through Social Network Surveillance, eds. T. Bourlai, P. Karampelas and Reda Alhajj, 2022.
NEW … Victor Philippe, Suha Reddy Mokalla and Thirimachos Bourlai. Effects of Face Masks on the performance of Modern Face Detectors, Book – Disease Control through Social Network Surveillance, eds. T. Bourlai, P. Karampelas and Reda Alhajj, 2022.
NEW …T. Bourlai, “Heart ID”, Book: United States Military Academy Special Colloquium on Computational Engineering Mathematics 2020-2021, WIT Press, 2022.
NEW …T. Bourlai, “Data Collection Challenges for Multi spectral Biometric Research in a COVID 19 Era”, United States Military Academy Special Colloquium on Computational Engineering Mathematics 2020-2021, WIT Press, 2022.
Suha Reddy Mokalla and T. Bourlai, “Face Detection in the MWIR Spectrum“, Book – Securing Social Identity in Mobile Platforms, eds. T. Bourlai, V. Patel and P. Karampelas, 2020.
Thirimachos Bourlai (WVU) and Scott Armistead (DSIAC), “Standoff Biometric Identification Face Recognition”, DSIAC TECHNICAL INQUIRY (TI) RESPONSE REPORT, Fall 2019.
“Biometrics and Hygiene Considerations”, Biometrics Institute, 2020.
Latest Conferences
Chrisopher B. Nalty, Neehar Peri, Joshua Gleason, Carlos D. Castillo, Shuowen Hu, Thirimachos Bourlai, Rama Chellappa, “A Brief Survey on Person Recognition at a Distance“, IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC) , 2023.
Sandip Purnapatra, Nic Smalt, Keivan Bahmani, Priyanka Das, David Yambay, Amir Mohammadi, Anjith George, T. Bourlai, Sébastien Marcel, Stephanie Schuckers, et al., “Face Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Face)-2021“, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), pp. 1-10, 2021.
Justin Romeo and T. Bourlai, “Semi-Automatic Geometric Normalization of Profile Faces“, European Conference in Intelligence Security Informatics (The Premier European Conference on Counterterrorism and Criminology), Oulu, Finland, November 26-27, 2019.
N. Narang and T. Bourlai, “Deep Features based Classification of Multi-spectral Images when using for Face Recognition in the SWIR Band”, CVPR (WiCV), 2016 [Poster Presentation].
NEW … Suha Mokalla, T. Bourlai, “Utilizing Alignment Loss to Advance Eye Center Detection and Face Recognition in the LWIR Band”, IEEE TBIOM 2023 (accepted Feb 26th 2023).
Imaging white blood cells using a snapshot hyper-spectral imaging system, C. Robison, J. Dawson, C. Kolanko and T. Bourlai, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyper-spectral, and Ultra-spectral Imagery XXI, SPIE (Defense + Security), Baltimore, MD, April 2015. (Accepted) [Oral]
Face Recognition by using Multispectral Imagery, T. Bourlai, InfraMation (Thermal Imaging Leading User’s Conference – Organized by FLIR), Nashville, Tennessee, May 12 – 14, 2015. [Oral] [Invited Paper]
Expansion of Bioelectronics and Biosensing Applications through the Development of Computational Methods for Aptamer Discovery, E. Moore, K. Hickey, R. Ayscue, P. Gannett, L. Sooter, T. Menzies and T. Bourlai, NanoSAFE Bioelectronics and Biosensing International Symposium, Morgantown, WV, U.S.A., April 27-28, 2014.
Development and Evaluation of an Objective Method for Human Hair Examination Using Image and Mitochondrial DNA Analyses, A. S. McWhorter, N. Osia, T. Bourlai, T. Moroose and P. Buzzini, American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Conference , Seattle, WA, Feb 17-22, 2014
2013
Reducing Pathogen Transmission in a Hospital Setting. Handshake verses Fist Bump: A Pilot Study, P. A. Ghareeb, T. Bourlai, et al., Elsevier – Journal of Hospital Infection, Sept. 25th (published online) 2013 [Impact Factor 2.855 / 5Y 3.221]
Methodological Insights on Restoring Face Photos of Multinational Passports, T. Bourlai and A. Clark, IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, U.S.A., 12-14 November, 2013 [Oral]
Securing Multimodal Biometric Data through Watermarking and Steganography, C. Whitelam, N. Osia and T. Bourlai, IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, U.S.A., 12-14 Nov, 2013 [Oral]
Applications of Passive Infrared Imaging to Forensic Facial Recognition, T. Bourlai et al. InfraMation, (Thermal Imaging Leading User’s Conference – Organized by FLIR), Loews Royal Pacific, Orlando, FL, November 5-7, 2013 [Oral] [Invited Paper]
Integrating Physiological Measurements with Avatars for Effective Identification Technologies, M. Martin, C. Greff, T. Bourlai, G. Cutlip and D. Pollina IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, U.S.A., 12-14 Nov, 2013 [Poster].
On Ear-based Human Identification in the Mid-Wave Infrared Spectrum, A. Abaza and T. Bourlai, Image and Vision Computing, Journal – Elsevier, June 2013 [Accepted] [Impact Factor 1.959]
Minimizing the Impact of Low Interoperability between Optical Fingerprint Sensors, E. Marasco, L. Lugini, B. Cukic, T. Bourlai, Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), Washington DC, Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2013.
Mid-wave IR Face Recognition Systems, T. Bourlai, SPIE Newsroom Magazine – Defense & Security, February 2013 [DOI: 10.1117/2.1201302.004745] [invited article].
2012
Holistic and Partial Face Recognition in the MWIR band using Manual and Automatic Detection of Face-based Features, N. Osia and T. Bourlai IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, U.S.A., 13-15 Nov, 2012.
Quality Metrics for Practical Face Recognition, A. Abaza, T. Bourlai, M. A. Harrison, IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 2012.
Fused-based Segmentation Method for Tracking of Human Lung Epithelial Cells , M. Martin, X. Li, Y. Qian, Y. Liu, and T. Bourlai, Biomedical Engineering Society Conference, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., Oct. 2012.
Multi-Spectral Face Recognition: Identification of People in Difficult Environments , T. Bourlai and B. Cukic IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics , (ISI), Washington, U.S.A., June 2012 [Invited Paper].
The Human-Robot Cloud: Situated Collective Intelligence on Demand, N. Mavridis, T. Bourlai and D. Ognibene, IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER), Thailand, May 2012.
Evaluating the efficiency of a nighttime, middle-range infrared sensor for applications in human detection and recognition, T. Bourlai, J. VonDollen, N. Mavridis, C. Kolanko, SPIE, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXIII , Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral] .
Use of Thermal Imagery for Core Body Temperature Estimation during Pre-cooling, Exertion, and Recovery in Wild-land Firefighter Protective Clothing , T. Bourlai, R. R. Pryor, J. Suyama, S. E. Reis, and D. Hostler, Pre-hospital Emergency Care: Official Journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors, [In Press] [Expected – May 2012].
A Study on using Middle-Wave Infrared Images for Face Recognition, T. Bourlai, A. Ross, C. Chen, and L. Hornak SPIE, Biometric Technology for Human Identification IX, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral].
On Designing a SWIR Multi-Wavelength Facial-Based Acquisition System, T. Bourlai, N. Narang et. al. SPIE (Vol. 8353), Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVIII, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral] .
Human Ear Detection in the Thermal Infrared Spectrum, A. Abaza and T. Bourlai SPIE (Vol. 8354), Thermo-sense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral] .
SWIR Imaging for Facial Image Capture through Tinted Materials, J. Ice, N. Narang, C. Whitelam, N. Kalka, L. Hornak, J. Dawson, and T. Bourlai SPIE (Vol. 8353), Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVIII, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012.
2011
Eye Detection in the Middle-Wave Infrared Spectrum, T. Bourlai and Z. Jafri IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2011 (32.5% Acceptance Rate) [oral].
Pupil Detection under Lighting and Pose Variations in the Visible and Active Infrared, T. Bourlai, C. Whitelam, I. Kakadiaris, IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2011 (32.5% Acceptance Rate) [oral].
Cross-spectral Face Recognition in Heterogeneous Environments: A Case Study on Matching Visible to Short-wave Infrared Imagery, N. Kalka, T. Bourlai, B. Cukic, L. Hornak International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IEEE, IAPR), 2011 (32% Acceptance Rate).
Can Facial Metrology Predict Gender?, D. Cao, C. Chen, M. Piccirilli, P. Marco, D. Adjeroh, T. Bourlai, A. Ross International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IEEE, IAPR), 2011 (32% Acceptance Rate).
Restoring Degraded Face Images for Matching Faxed or Scanned Photos, T. Bourlai, A. Ross, and A. Jain IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 371 – 384, June 2011.
Ascertaining Human Identity in Night Environments, T. Bourlai, N. Kalka, D. Cao, B. Decann, Z. Jafri, F. Nicolo, C. Whitelam, J. Zuo, D. Adjeroh, B. Cukic, J. Dawson, L. Hornak, A. Ross, N. A. Schmid, Distributed Video Sensor Networks, Springer, 2011, Part 7, 471-478, DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-127-1_31. [Book Chapter]
2010
Methodological Advances on Pulse Measurement through Functional Imaging, T. Bourlai, P. Buddharaju et al., Computational Surgery and Dual Training, Springer, 2010 [Book Chapter] .
On Design and Optimization of a Face Verification System that is Smart-Card-Based, T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer Journal of Machine Vision and Applications Springer, vol. 21, issue 5, pp. 695-711, 2010.
The Multi-Scenario Multi-Environment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB) , J. Ortega-Garcia, J. Fierrez, F. Alonso-Fernandez, J. Galbally, M. R. Freire, J. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, C. Garcia-Mateo, J. L. Alba-Castro, E. Gonzalez-Agulla, E. Otero-Muras, S. Garcia-Salicetti, L. Allano, B. Ly-Van, B. Dorizzi, J. Kittler, T. Bourlai, N. Poh et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32, issue 6, pp. 1097-1111, June 2010.
Quality-based Score Normalization with Device Qualitative Information for Multimodal Biometric Fusion, N. Poh, J. Kittler and T. BourlaiIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics–Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 539-554, May 2010.
A Multimodal Biometric Test Bed for Quality-dependent, Cost-sensitive and Client-specific Score-level Fusion Algorithms, N. Poh T. Bourlai and J. Kittler Pattern Recognition Journal vol. 43, issue 3, pp. 1094-1105, March 2010.
Cross-spectral Face Verification in the Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) Band , T. Bourlai N. Kalka, A. Ross, B. Cukic, L. Hornak International Conference on Pattern Recognition , (ICPR) 2010.
Multispectral Eye Detection: A Preliminary Study, C. Whitelam, Z. Jafri T. BourlaiInternational Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR) 2010 [oral] .
Benchmarking Quality-dependent and Cost-sensitive Multimodal Biometric Fusion Algorithms, N. Poh T. Bourlai,J. Kittler, L. Allano, F. Alonso, O. Ambekar, J. Baker, B. Dorizzi, O. Fatukasi, J. Fierrez, H. Ganster, J-O. Garcia, D. Maurer, A. A. Salah, T. Scheidat and C. Vielhauer IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security vol.4, issue 4, 2009.
Use of a Novel Thermal and Visual Facial Mapping System to Measure Stress in Surgeons May Provide a Valuable Metric in Surgical Skills Acquisition. A. Joseph, T. Bourlai,et al. American College of Surgeons Educational Consortium, Chicago, U.S.A., 2009 [oral] .
2008
High definition thermal and visual facial mapping: a valuable metric for surgical skill acquisition? B. Bass, E. Silverman, T. Bourlai J. Dowdall, I. Pavlidis, B.J. Dunkin, The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Performance Based Optimization in Face Verification using Smart Cards, T. Bourlai, K. Messer and J. Kittler Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, New York, U.S.A. [oral]
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