Welcome to !dentitYi
My name is Yi Chen, a Ph. D student at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. I am currently working on my thesis, titled "Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Using Extended Feature Set", under supervision of Dr. Anil. K. Jain, university distinguished professor. I am also a research assistant at the Biometrics Research Laboratory.
What's new about Yi?
- In July, I received the NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship 2007, which is an annual award to up to 10 doctoral students on original research that has direct implications for criminal justice in the United States. Find out more about application for 2008.
- On July 20-27, I attended the 92nd Educational Conference of International Association for Identification (IAI) in San Diego, CA. I gave two presentations on "Automatic Matching and Retrieval of Tattoo Images" and "Fingerprint Extended Feature Set". Please download the presentation files here.
- On July 18, I visited Cogent Systems in South Pasadena, CA, and gave a presenation.
- On June 15, I gave a lecture at the 4th Biometric Summer School in Alghero, Italy.
- In June, I had a two-week stay at Sagem Morph Inc. Eragny, France, on research collaboration.
- On May 18, I visited DigitalPersona, redwood city, CA and gave a presentation on Automatic Fingerprint Authentication: Sensor, Image and Feature.
- On May 11, I visited Biometric Fusion Center, Clarksburgh, WV, and gave a presentation on Extended Feature Set for Fingerprint Matching.
- Download our recent publication on Automatic Retrieval on Scars, Marks and Tattoos (SMT) for Personal Identification.
- On March 26, the "Data Format for the Interchange of Extended Fingerprint and Palmprint Features" , a working draft of the ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007 Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Other Biometric Information is published by the CDEFFS committee.
- I was selected by the CSE faculty to receive the 2007 Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
- On Dec 07, I became an associate member of the IAI (International Association of Identification).
- On Oct 11, I attended the CITeR Meeting in Morgantown, WV. Two presentations were given on "Fingerprint Level 3 features" and "Automatic Matching and Retrieval of Scars, Marks and Tattoos (SMT)."
- On Oct 5, I passed my master's written exam in the Department of Statistics and Probability with Distinction.
- On Sep 20, I presented our paper "3D Touchless Fingerprints: Compatibility with Legacy Rolled Fingerprints" at Biometric Symposium, Biometric Consortium Conference, Washington D.C.
- I visited Laura Liu at Biometric Research Center, Hong Kong Polytechinic University and Prof. Yunhao Liu at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology during my trip to ICPR 2006, Aug 20-24, where I presented two papers.
- On Aug. 5, I visited The Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR) and Institution of Automation Chinese Acadamy of Sciences in Beijing. I also got a chance to visit google in Beijing, thanks to my collagemate Jingsong Mu.
- From May to July, I was a summer research intern at TBS, Switzerland.
- On July 22-23, I visited Dr. Norman Poh at IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland.
- On July 21, I visited Prof. Christophe Champod and his lab at the school of criminal sciences / Institut de Police Scientifique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
- On June 21-24, I visited Sagem Morph Inc. France, one of the biggest biometric companies, and gave two presentations on Fingerprint Deformation and Level 3 features.
- In April, 2006, I became a member of CDEFFS, the ANSI/NIST Committee to Define an Extended Fingerprint Feature Set.
- On April 5-6, I attended the NIST Latent Testing Workshop and presented our work on fingerprint matching using Level 3 features.
- On March,8th, 2006, Dr. Jain presented our work on quality-based fusion at the NIST Biometric Quality Workshop. Our papers on image quality have been listed in the reading materials.
- Our paper "Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification" received the ICB 2006 Motorola best student paper award.
- On Jan. 8th, 2006, I had my paper "A Localized Iris Image Quality Measure Using 2D Wavelets" (PDF) presented at ICB'06 in Hong Kong.
- Julian fierrez presented our other paper "Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification" (PDF) at ICB'06 in Hong Kong.
- On Nov. 11-13, 2005, I attended the Face Recognition Advanced Study Workshop in Morgantown, WV.
- On Nov. 9-10, 2005I attended the CITeR Meeting in Morgantown, WV.
- On Sep. 20th, 2005, I presented my paper "Fingerprint Deformation for Spoof Detection" (PDF) at Biometric Symposium'05, Crystal City, VA. (Slides)
- From May to Aug, 2005, I was a research intern at Identix Incorporated R&D, Jersey City, NJ.
- On Jul. 23th, 2005, I presented my paper "Fingerprint Quality Indices for Predicting Authentication Performance" (PDF) at AVBPA'05, Rye Brook, NY.
What's new about Biometrics?
"The fingerprint is unique to each individual and is recognizably human, independent of race, sex, creed or class. Therefore, it symbolizes the equality of all individuals."