Umut Uludag: Michigan State University

Umut Uludag

Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory

Computer Science and Engineering Department

Michigan State University

Hello, I am a Scientist at Lumidigm . I was a research assistant and Ph.D. student in Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory , Computer Science and Engineering Department , Michigan State University , working under supervision of Prof. Anil K. Jain. I have defended my PhD dissertation with the title "Secure Biometric Systems" in March 2006.

Biometrics Research at MSU

Pattern Recognition Research at MSU

Robotics Research at MSU

My resume: in pdf format.

Research Interests:

Biometrics
Pattern Recognition
Watermarking
Multimedia
Image Processing
Computer Vision
Digital Security

Education:

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering Department , Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2006.
Courses: Computer Vision, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Computability and Languages, Pattern Recognition and Analysis, Design and Theory of Algorithms, Advanced Computer Networks and Communications, Advanced Software Engineering, Selected Topics: Recognition by Machine, Cryptography and Network Security.

M.Sc. (Honors), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001.
Courses: Computer Vision, Artificial Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Advanced Topics in Speech Processing, Speech Processing, Data Compression, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Analysis.

B.Sc. (Honors), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999.
Courses: Image Processing, Computer Communication Networks, Mobile Communication, Information Theory, Digital Communication, Communication Engineering, Signals & Systems, Electronics I – II, Microprocessors, Robotics, Electromagnetic Waves, Electrotechnology, Digital Systems, System Dynamics & Control, Electrical Networks I-II, Electromechanical Energy Conversion, Electronics Laboratory...

Research Experience:

Scientist, Lumidigm, Inc., April 2006 - present.
Working on: biometrics, pattern recognition.
Research Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering Department, MSU, MI, August 2001 - March 2006.
Worked on: biometrics, pattern recognition, watermarking, digital security.
Researcher, TUBITAK, Marmara Research Center, Information Technologies Institute, Turkey, July 1999 - July 2001.
Worked on: object recognition, watermarking, biometrics.

Publications:

Copyright Notice:

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Book Chapters:

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A.K. Jain and U. Uludag, "Biometrics in Digital Rights Management", in Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management, W. Zeng, H. Yu, and C-Y. Lin (Eds.), pp. 197-218, Academic Press, 2006.
A.K. Jain, K. Nandakumar, U. Uludag and X. Lu, "Multimodal Biometrics: Augmenting Face With Other Cues", in Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods, R. Chellappa and W. Zhao (Eds.), pp. 679-705, Academic Press, 2006.

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Journal Articles:

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R. Snelick, U. Uludag, A. Mink, M. Indovina, and A. Jain, "Large Scale Evaluation of Multimodal Biometric Authentication Using State-of-the-Art Systems", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 450-455, March 2005. (abstract)
U. Uludag, S. Pankanti, S. Prabhakar and A. K. Jain, "Biometric Cryptosystems: Issues and Challenges," Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Multimedia Security for Digital Rights Management, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 948-960, June 2004. (abstract)
U. Uludag, A. Ross and A. K. Jain, "Biometric Template Selection and Update: A Case Study in Fingerprints," Pattern Recognition , vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1533-1542, July 2004. (abstract)
A. K. Jain and U. Uludag, "Hiding Biometric Data," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 1494-1498, November 2003. (abstract)
B. Gunsel, U. Uludag and A. M. Tekalp, "Robust Watermarking of Fingerprint Images," Pattern Recognition, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 2739-2747, December 2002. (abstract)

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Conference Papers:

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R. K. Rowe, U. Uludag, M. Demirkus, S. Parthasaradhi, and A. Jain, "A Multispectral Whole-hand Biometric Authentication System", To appear in Proc. Biometrics Symposium 2007 , Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
R. K. Rowe, K. A. Nixon, S. Parthasaradhi, and U. Uludag, "Robust Fingerprint Acquisition", Proc. SPIE Defense & Security Symposium, Biometric Technology for Human Identification IV, vol. 6539, Orlando, FL, April 2007.
U. Uludag and A. Jain, "Securing Fingerprint Template: Fuzzy Vault with Helper Data", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Privacy Research In Vision (PRIV) , New York City, NY, June 2006.
A. Jain, A. Ross and U. Uludag, "Biometric Template Security: Challenges and Solutions", Proc. 13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2005) , Antalya, Turkey, September 2005.
U. Uludag, S. Pankanti and A. Jain, "Fuzzy Vault for Fingerprints", Proc. AVBPA 2005, 5. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 310-319, Rye Brook, NY, July 2005, (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3546, Springer, 2005). This paper received the Best Student Paper Award sponsored by Identix Incorporated.
J. Reisman, U. Uludag and A. Ross, "Secure Fingerprint Matching with External Registration", Proc. AVBPA 2005, 5. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 720-729, Rye Brook, NY, July 2005, (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3546, Springer, 2005).
U. Uludag and A.K. Jain, "Fingerprint Minutiae Attack System", The Biometric Consortium Conference, Arlington, VA, September 2004.
U. Uludag and A.K. Jain, "Fuzzy Fingerprint Vault", Proc. Workshop: Biometrics: Challenges Arising from Theory to Practice, pp. 13-16, Cambridge, UK, August 2004.
U. Uludag and A.K. Jain, "Attacks on Biometric Systems: A Case Study in Fingerprints," Proc. SPIE-EI 2004, Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, vol. 5306, pp. 622-633, San Jose, CA, January 2004.
M. Indovina, U. Uludag, R. Snelick, A. Mink and A. Jain, " Multimodal Biometric Authentication Methods: A COTS Approach," Proc. MMUA 2003, Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication, pp. 99-106, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2003.
U. Uludag and A. K. Jain, "Multimedia Content Protection via Biometrics-based Encryption," Proc. ICME 2003, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, vol. III, pp. 237-240, Baltimore, MD, July 2003.
A. K. Jain, U. Uludag and A. Ross, "Biometric Template Selection: A Case Study in Fingerprints," Proc. AVBPA 2003, 4. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 335-342, Guildford, UK, June 2003, (in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2688, Springer, 2003).
A. K. Jain, U. Uludag and R. L. Hsu, "Hiding a Face in a Fingerprint Image," Proc. ICPR 2002, 16. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 3, pp. 756-759, Quebec, Canada, August 2002.
A. K. Jain and U. Uludag, "Hiding Fingerprint Minutiae in Images," Proc. AutoID 2002, 3. Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, pp. 97-102, Tarrytown, NY, March 2002.
U. Uludag, B. Gunsel and M. Ballan, "A Spatial Method for Watermarking of Fingerprint Images," Proc. 1st International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, PRIS 2001, pp. 26-33, Setubal, Portugal, July 2001.
U. Uludag and B. Sankur, "Sinusoidal Image Watermarking," Proc. IEEE SIU-2001, 9. Signal Processing and Applications Conference, pp. 51-55, Gazi Magusa, North Cyprus, April 2001, (in Turkish).
U. Uludag, B. Gunsel and A. M. Tekalp, "Robust Watermarking of Busy Images," Proc. SPIE-EI 2001, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents III, vol. 4314, pp. 18-25, San Jose, CA, January 2001. (abstract)
U. Uludag, B. Gunsel and A. M. Tekalp, "An Amplitude Modulation based Watermarking Method for Multimedia Data," Proc. IEEE SIU-2000, 8. Signal Processing and Applications Conference, pp. 518-523, Antalya, Turkey, June 2000 (in Turkish).

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Technical Reports:

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U. Uludag and L. M. Arslan, "Audio Watermarking Using DC Level Shifting," Project Technical Report, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2001. (local copy)

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Theses:

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U. Uludag, "Secure Biometric Systems," Ph.D. Thesis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2006. (Advisor: Prof. Anil Jain)
U. Uludag, " Visual Data Watermarking based on Sinusoidal Signal Embedding," M.Sc. Thesis, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001. (Advisor: Prof. Bulent Sankur)
U. Uludag, "Document Image Segmentation by the Method of White Tiles," B.Sc. Thesis , Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999. (Advisor: Prof. Bulent Sankur)

Professional
Activities:

Member: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, International Journal of Computer Vision, Machine Vision and Applications, Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and numerous conferences.
Presented posters at CITeR, West Virginia, meetings: "Biometric Template Selection and Update: A Case Study in Fingerprints", "Multimedia Content Protection via Biometrics-based Encryption", November 2003.
Presented poster at MSU CyberSecurity Initiative Workshop: "Multimedia Content Security", November 2003.
Participated in Research Open House, CSE, MSU, 2001-2005.
Participated in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Day, MSU, 2001-2003.
Participated in Alumni Distinguished Scholars (ADS) Presentations, MSU, 2004.
Program Committee Member: International Conference on Informatics (ICI-2004) .
Presented paper at The Biometric Consortium Conference 2004: "Fingerprint Minutiae Attack System", Arlington, VA, September 2004. (Featured in the WAVE Report's BC Issue).
Presented poster at Poster Workshop for SPC Meeting, CSE, MSU: "FFV: Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault", April 2005. (Won 2. place among 14 entries in IS1 (Intelligent Systems Work in Biometrics, Computer Vision or Robotics) Category).
Web Support Coordinator: AVBPA 2005, 5. International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication
Presented paper at The Biometric Consortium Conference 2005: "Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault", Arlington, VA, September 2005.
Program Committee Member: Biometric Technology for Human Identification IV (DS36)
Program Committee Member: Biometric Technology for Human Identification V (DS26)
Program Committee Member: Biometrics Symposium 2007

Awards:

Biography included in: Marquis Who's Who in America, 60th Diamond Ed., 2006.
Best Student Paper, Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication Conference, 2005.
M.Sc. Honors, Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2001.
B.Sc. Honors, Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1999.
University Scholarship, TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1994-1995.

Internships:

Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, NY, June 2005 - August 2005, worked on embedded fingerprint recognition.
Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, May 2004 - August 2004, worked on smart-card based fingerprint recognition.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, May 2003-August 2003, worked on multibiometrics system analysis and design.
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, May 2002-August 2002, worked on biometrics workload analysis.
Nortel Networks-Netas A.S., Summer 1998, worked on signaling in telecommunications networks & digital exchanges.
Turkish Telecommunications A.S. Summer 1998 & 1997, worked on ISDN & SDL language of CCITT; PCM systems & DMS systems.