Publications - Thirimachos Bourlai

2013 - Now

● T. Bourlai, “Mid-wave IR Face Recognition Systems”, SPIE Newsroom Magazine - Defense & Security, February 2013 [HERE] [DOI: 10.1117/2.1201302.004745] [invited article] [PDF].

2012

● N. Osia and T. Bourlai, "Holistic and Partial Face Recognition in the MWIR band using Manual and Automatic Detection of Face-based Features", IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, U.S.A., 13-15 Nov, 2012 [PDF]

● A. Abaza, T. Bourlai, M. A. Harrison, "Quality Metrics for Practical Face Recognition", IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 2012 [accepted]. [PDF]

● M. Martin, X. Li, Y. Qian, Y. Liu, and T. Bourlai, "Fused-based Segmentation Method for Tracking of Human Lung Epithelial Cells", Biomedical Engineering Society Conference, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., Oct. 2012 [accepted]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, “Short-Wave Infrared for Face-based Recognition Systems”, SPIE Newsroom Magazine - Defense & Security, April 2012 [HERE] [DOI: 10.1117/2.1201204.004192] [invited article]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai and B. Cukic, "Multi-Spectral Face Recognition: Identification of People in Difficult Environments", IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), Washington, U.S.A., June 2012 [invited paper]. [PDF]

● N. Mavridis, T. Bourlai and D. Ognibene, "The Human-Robot Cloud: Situated Collective Intelligence on Demand", IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems (IEEE-CYBER), Thailand, May 2012. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, J. VonDollen, N. Mavridis, C. Kolanko, “Evaluating the efficiency of a nighttime, middle-range infrared sensor for applications in human detection and recognition”, SPIE, Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis, Modeling, and Testing XXIII, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, R. R. Pryor, J. Suyama, S. E. Reis, and D. Hostler, "Use of Thermal Imagery for Core Body Temperature Estimation during Pre-cooling, Exertion, and Recovery in Wild-land Firefighter Protective Clothing", 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]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, A. Ross, C. Chen, and L. Hornak, "A Study on using Middle-Wave Infrared Images for Face Recognition", SPIE, Biometric Technology for Human Identification IX, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, N. Narang et. al., "On Designing a SWIR Multi-Wavelength Facial-Based Acquisition System", SPIE (Vol. 8353), Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVIII, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral]. [PDF]

● A. Abaza and T. Bourlai, "Human Ear Detection in the Thermal Infrared Spectrum", SPIE (Vol. 8354), Thermo-sense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012 [oral]. [PDF]

● J. Ice, N. Narang, C. Whitelam, N. Kalka, L. Hornak, J. Dawson, and T. Bourlai, "SWIR Imaging for Facial Image Capture through Tinted Materials, SPIE (Vol. 8353), Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVIII, Baltimore, U.S.A., Apr. 2012. [PDF]

2011

● T. Bourlai and Z. Jafri, "Eye Detection in the Middle-Wave Infrared Spectrum", IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2011 (32.5% Acceptance Rate) [oral] [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, C. Whitelam, I. Kakadiaris, "Pupil Detection under Lighting and Pose Variations in the Visible and Active Infrared Bands", IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2011 (32.5% Acceptance Rate) [oral] [PDF]

● N. Kalka, T. Bourlai, B. Cukic, L. Hornak, “Cross-spectral Face Recognition in Heterogeneous Environments: A Case Study on Matching Visible to Short-wave Infrared Imagery”, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IEEE, IAPR), 2011 (32% Acceptance Rate). [PDF]

● D. Cao, C. Chen, M. Piccirilli, P. Marco, D. Adjeroh, T. Bourlai, A. Ross, “Can Facial Metrology Predict Gender?”, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IEEE, IAPR), 2011 (32% Acceptance Rate). [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, A. Ross, and A. Jain, “Restoring Degraded Face Images for Matching Faxed or Scanned Photos”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 371 - 384, June 2011. [PDF]

● 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, “Ascertaining Human Identity in Night Environments”, Distributed Video Sensor Networks, Springer, 2011, Part 7, 471-478, DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-127-1_31. [Book Chapter] [PDF]

2010

● T. Bourlai, P. Buddharaju et al., “Methodological Advances on Pulse Measurement through Functional Imaging”, Computational Surgery and Dual Training, Springer, 2010 [Book Chapter]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer, “On Design and Optimization of a Face Verification System that is Smart-Card-Based”, Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Springer, vol. 21, issue 5, pp. 695-711, 2010. [PDF]

● 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., “The Multi-Scenario Multi-Environment BioSecure Multimodal Database (BMDB)”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 32, issue 6, pp. 1097-1111, June 2010. [PDF]

● N. Poh, J. Kittler and T. Bourlai, “Quality-based Score Normalization with Device Qualitative Information for Multimodal Biometric Fusion”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 539-554, May 2010. [PDF]

● N. Poh, T. Bourlai and J. Kittler, “A Multimodal Biometric Test Bed for Quality-dependent, Cost-sensitive and Client-specific Score-level Fusion Algorithms”, Pattern Recognition Journal, vol. 43, issue 3, pp. 1094-1105, March 2010. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, N. Kalka, A. Ross, B. Cukic, L. Hornak. "Cross-spectral Face Verification in the Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) Band", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010. [PDF]

● C. Whitelam, Z. Jafri, T. Bourlai. "Multispectral Eye Detection: A Preliminary Study", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010 [oral]. [PDF]

2009

● T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer, “Smart-Card-Based Face Verification System: Empirical Investigation”, Journal Machine Vision and Applications, Springer, vol. 20, issue 4, p. 225-245, 2009. [PDF]

● 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, “Benchmarking Quality-dependent and Cost-sensitive Multimodal Biometric Fusion Algorithms”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, vol.4, issue 4, 2009. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, A. Ross and A. Jain, “On Matching Digital Face Images against Passport Photos”, IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Identity and Security, Tampa U.S.A., 2009 [oral]. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, P. Buddharaju, et al., “On Enhancing Cardiac Pulse Measurements through Thermal Imaging”, Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, Cyprus, 2009 [oral]. [PDF]

● R. A. Joseph, T. Bourlai et al., “Use of a Novel Thermal and Visual Facial Mapping System to Measure Stress in Surgeons May Provide a Valuable Metric in Surgical Skills Acquisition”, American College of Surgeons Educational Consortium, Chicago, U.S.A., 2009 [oral].

2008

● B. Bass, E. Silverman, T. Bourlai, J. Dowdall, I. Pavlidis, B.J. Dunkin. "High definition thermal and visual facial mapping: a valuable metric for surgical skill acquisition?". The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons. Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A..

● K. Kazakos, F. Yuichi, I. Pavlidis, J. Levine and T. Bourlai. "Smart NEAT-o-Games: Novel Mobile Gaming versus Modern Sedentary Lifestyle". Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF]

2007

● T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer. "Smart-Card-Based Face Verification System: Empirical Optimization of Meta-Parameters". Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [oral] [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer. "Optimization of the Pre-Processing Stage of a Smart Card Face Verification System". European Signal Processing Conference, Poznań, Poland. [oral] [PDF]

● N.Poh, J. Kittler and T. Bourlai. "Improving Device Interoperability by Likelihood Ratio-based Quality Dependent Score Normalization". Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Washington DC, U.S.A. [oral] [PDF]

2006

● T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer. "On Optimization of Smart Card Face Verification Systems". Advance Video and Signal based Surveillance, Sydney, Australia. [oral] [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, K. Messer and J. Kittler. "Database Size Effects on Performance on a Smart Card Face Verification System". Face and Gesture, Southampton, U.K. [PDF]

2005

● T. Bourlai, K. Messer and J. Kittler. "Performance Based Optimization in Face Verification using Smart Cards". Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, New York, U.S.A. [oral]

● T. Bourlai, J. Kittler and K. Messer. "JPEG Compression Effects on a Smart Card Face Verification System". Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, Japan. [oral] [PDF]

2004

● T. Bourlai, K. Messer and J. Kittler. "Face Verification System Architecture using Smart Cards", Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, U.K.. [PDF]

● T. Bourlai, K. Messer and J. Kittler. "Performance versus Computational Complexity Trade-off in Face Verification". Biometric Authentication, Hong Kong, China. [oral] [PDF]

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