Hand geometry is a biometric that identifies users from the shape of their hands. Hand geometry readers measure a user's palm and fingers along many dimensions including length,width,deviation,and angle and compare those measurements to measurements stored in a file.
Thomas Shi-Tao Huang was a Chinese-born American computer scientist,electrical engineer,and writer. He was a researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Huang was one of the leading figures in computer vision,pattern recognition and human computer interaction.
Ramesh Chandra Jain is a scientist and entrepreneur in the field of information and computer science. He is a Bren Professor in Information &Computer Sciences,Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences,University of California,Irvine.
King-Sun Fu was a Chinese-born American computer scientist. He was a Goss Distinguished Professor at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette,Indiana. He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR),served as its first president,and is widely recognized for his extensive and pioneering contributions to the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu,IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988,to Azriel Rosenfeld.
Linda G. Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,a professor of electrical engineering,and adjunct professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.
The Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) is an international competition for fingerprint verification algorithms organized in 2000 by the Biometric System Laboratory,the U.S. National Biometric Test Center and the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory. After the success of the first edition (FVC2000),three other editions were organized every two years.
Bir Bhanu is the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Endowed University of California Presidential Chair in Engineering,the Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,and Cooperative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering,at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California,Riverside (UCR). He is the first Founding Faculty of the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at UCR and served as the Founding Chair of Electrical Engineering from 1/1991 to 6/1994 and the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) from 4/1998 to 6/2019. He has been the director of Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab) at UCR since 1991. He was the Interim Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at UCR from 7/2014 to 6/2016. Additionally,he has been the Director of the NSF Integrative Graduate Education,Research and Training (IGERT) program in Video Bioinformatics at UC Riverside. Dr. Bhanu has been the principal investigator of various programs for NSF,DARPA,NASA,AFOSR,ONR,ARO and other agencies and industries in the areas of object/target recognition,learning and vision,image/video understanding,image/video databases with applications in security,defense,intelligence,biological and medical imaging and analysis,biometrics,autonomous navigation and industrial machine vision.
Matti Kalevi Pietikäinen is a Finnish computer scientist. He is currently Professor (emer.) in the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis,University of Oulu. His research interests are in texture-based computer vision,face analysis,affective computing,biometrics,and vision-based perceptual interfaces. He was Director of the Center for Machine Vision Research,and Scientific Director of Infotech Oulu.
Josef KittlerFREng is a British scientist and Distinguished Professor at University of Surrey,specialising in pattern recognition and machine intelligence.
Venu Govindaraju is an Indian-American whose research interests are in the fields of document image analysis and biometrics. He presently serves as the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo,The State University of New York,Buffalo,NY,USA.
Theodosios Pavlidis is a computer scientist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the State University of New York,Stony Brook.
Jagdishkumar Keshoram Aggarwal is an American computer scientist,who is currently retired and is Cullen Trust Endowed Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering,University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his contributions in the fields of computer vision,pattern recognition and image processing focusing on human motion and activities. He served in various positions in the Department of Electrical and Computer of the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions.
Sudeep Sarkar is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida,Tampa. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for contributions to computer vision.
Jianchang (JC) Mao is a Chinese-American computer scientist and Vice President,Google Assistant Engineering at Google. His research spans artificial intelligence,machine learning,computational advertising,data mining,and information retrieval. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for his contributions to pattern recognition,search,content analysis,and computational advertising.
Gang Hua is a Chinese-American computer scientist who specializes in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition. He is an IEEE Fellow,IAPR Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is a key contributor to Microsoft's Facial Recognition technologies.
Jiebo Luo is a Chinese-American computer scientist,the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He is interested in artificial intelligence,data science and computer vision.
Mark S. Nixon is an author,researcher,editor and an academic. He is the former president of IEEE Biometrics Council,and former vice-Chair of IEEE PSPB. He retired from his position as Professor of Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton in 2019.
Mário A. T. Figueiredo is a Portuguese engineer,academic,and researcher. He is an IST Distinguished Professor and holds the Feedzai chair of machine learning at IST,University of Lisbon.
Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor,who works at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins University,he is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing,the Center for Imaging Science,the Institute for Assured Autonomy,and the Mathematical Institute for Data Sciences. He joined Johns Hopkins University after 29 years at The University of Maryland. Before that,he was an assistant,associate professor,and later,director,of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.
Xiaoming Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist and an academic. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,MSU Foundation Professor as well as Anil K. and Nandita Jain Endowed Professor of Engineering at Michigan State University.
