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[Lab image] Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID)
Head: Takeo Kanade
Contact: Takeo Kanade (tk@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Lab Location: EDSH 101
Lab Telephone: (412) 268 3127

Associated center: VASC

This page last updated - January 1999.
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Lab Description

We, in collaboration with the CMRI Electro-Optics Technology Group, are developing and evaluating human identification technologies as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored program in Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID). Our efforts can be roughly divided into the following categories:

Static and Dynamic Body Biometrics

We are developing algorithms for the use of 3D space-time body biometrics for human identification. Our research focuses on two main issues: (1) the extraction of body biometric features from video and (2) identifying subjects from the extracted body biometric features.

Face Recognition From Video

We are developing face recognition algorithms that take full advantage of the additional information contained in video imagery.

Human Identification From Expression

We are investigating the extent to which facial expression impacts upon existing face recognition algorithms, and also the extent to which facial expressions and other spatio-temporal information can be used to identfy people.

Hyperspectral Imagery

We are invesitgating the information content of hyperspectral and polarimetric imagery for human identification.

Database Collection

We are collecting a number of databases to aid in the evaluation of human identification algorithms. In particular, we are collecting databases of: (1) synchronized multi-camera video sequences of body motion, (2) human faces under a wide range of imaging conditions, (3) AU coded expression videos, and (4) hyperspectal and polarimetric images of human faces.

Personnel [Past members]

Name Title Email Address
Jeffrey's personal homepage Jeffrey Cohn Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu
Fernando's personal homepage Fernando De la Torre Frade Research Scientist ftorre@cs.cmu.edu
David Duggins Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager duggins@ri.cmu.edu
Ralph's personal homepage Ralph Gross PhD Student, ISRI rgross@cs.cmu.edu
Lie's personal homepage Lie Gu PhD Student, CS lgu@andrew.cmu.edu
Takeo's personal homepage Takeo Kanade U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS tk@cs.cmu.edu
Tom's personal homepage Tom Kang PhD Student, CS thkang@cs.cmu.edu
Yanxi's personal homepage Yanxi Liu Adjunct Associate Research Professor yanxi@cs.cmu.edu
Iain's personal homepage Iain Matthews Senior Systems Scientist iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
Henry Schneiderman Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) hws@ux1.sp.cs.cmu.edu

Current Projects [Past Projects]

3D Head Motion Recovery in Real Time - A cylindrical model-based algorithm recovers the full motion (3D rotations and 3D translations) of the head in real time.
Face Recognition Across Pose - Recognizing people from different poses.
Facial Asymmetry as a Biometric - We are investigating the effect of facial asymmetry measurement statistics as a biometric under expression variations.
Multi-view Car Detection and Registration - This method can detect cars with occlusions and varying viewpoints from a single still images by using multi-class boosting algorithm.

Recent publications [View all 51 publications]

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