Awards

  • DSC Best Paper Award

Maximum-Margin Coupled Mappings for Cross-Domain Matching
Authors: Stephen Siena (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Vishnu Naresh Boddeti (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).

Propagation of Facial Identities in a Social Network
Authors: Tao Wu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Jonathon Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) and Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

  • Best Poster Award Monday
Transient Biometrics Using Finger Nails
Authors: Igor Barros Barbosa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Theoharis Theoharis (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Christian Schellewald (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and Cham Athwal (Birmingham City University, UK)
  • Best Poster Award Tuesday
On RGB-D Face Recognition using Kinect
Authors:Gaurav Goswami (IIIT Delhi, India), Samarth Bharadwaj (IIIT Delhi, India), Mayank Vatsa (IIIT Delhi, India) and Richa Singh (IIIT Delhi, India)
  • Best Poster Award Wednesday

The Challenge of Face Recognition from Digital Point-and-Shoot Cameras
Authors: Ross Beveridge (Colorado State University, USA), Jonathon Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA), David Bolme (Oak Ridge National Lab), Bruce Draper (Colorado State University, USA), Geof Givens (Colorado State University, USA), Yui Man Lui (Colorado State University, USA), Mohammad Nayeem Teli (Colorado State University, USA), Hao Zhang (Colorado State University, USA), W. Todd Scruggs (Science Applications International Corporation, USA), Kevin Bowyer (University of Notre Dame, USA), Patrick Flynn (University of Notre Dame, USA) and Su Cheng (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

Automated Clarity and Quality Assessment for Latent Fingerprints
Authors: Anush Sankaran (IIIT Delhi, India), Mayank Vatsa (IIIT Delhi, India) and Richa Singh (IIIT Delhi, India)

  •  Best Demo Award (Day 1)
Continuous User Authentication via Typing Behavior
Authors: Joseph Roth (Michigan State University, USA), Xiaoming Liu (Michigan State University, USA) and Dimitri Metaxas (Rutgers University, USA)
  • Best Demo Award (Day 2)
Off-the-person Electrocardiography for Biometric Applications
Authors: Hugo Plácido da Silva (IT – Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
  • 5-year Highly Cited Paper Award

Multibiometric Template Security Using Fuzzy Vault
Authors: Karthik Nandakumar (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) and Anil K. Jain (Michigan State University)