Congrats to Haiyu Wu and Kağan Ozturk!
Haiyu Wu completed his final defense for his PhD, and is headed to Altos Labs in San Diego!
And on the same day, Kağan Ozturk completed his PhD candidacy exam!
Watch for great things in the future from each of them.

I finally got an updated version of "The criminality from face illusion" seminar for the Kansas Data Science Consortium uploaded on youtube.
youtu.be/X1NBzlZ-_Kc

Supporting paper in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/923...
arxiv.org/abs/2006.03895

ScholarGPS 2024 “Highly-Ranked Scholar – Lifetime”.

ScholarGPS 2024 rankings are out (scholargps.com). Using numbers of papers, citations and co-authors, and excluding self-citations, “Highly-Ranked Scholar – Lifetime” = “top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide”.

“Face Recognition, Demographic Accuracy Variation and Wrongful Arrest”

That is my Keynote at the 19th Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference. Stephanie Schuckers and Jonathan Gratch are the other Keynotes! May 26-30 in Clearwater - great location.

fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/keynotes/

America Stands with Zelenskyy: A National "THANK YOU" for Defending the Free World.
A good friend, who is a veteran, shared this petition.
Take a look and decide where you think America stands.
www.change.org/p/america-st...

Another criminality-from-face paper!
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
A Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications paper claims 95% accuracy at classifying a person as criminal or not. But 100% correlation of categories to different image sources. A fatal error as outlined in:
arxiv.org/pdf/2006.03895

The “Criminality from Face” Illusion will be my talk in the Data Bias and Fairness Speaker Series hosted by the Kansas Data Science Consortium, Feb 19 at 2:00 pm CST. The talk should be easy to understand and illustrate some basic data science lessons.

Keynote at WACV 2025 workshop.

“What makes a good quality face recognition training set?” will be my keynote talk at the Workshop on Image/Video/Audio Quality in Computer Vision and Gen AI.

wacv2025-image-quality-workshop2.github.io/index.html
wacv2025.thecvf.com

See you in Tucson on Feb 28!

IREX, the NIST iris recognition effort, keeps a leaderboard of iris matchers. The Notre Dame Computer Vision Research Lab has the TripletNN algorithm on the leaderboard currently. The only open source, and I believe the only non-commercial entry listed. Not number 1, yet.
pages.nist.gov/IREX10/

How Much Do I Need to Change My Face to Avoid Facial Recognition?

This is an interesting question. Kyle Barr asked several colleagues and I this question for Gizmodo.
gizmodo.com/how-much-do-...

"Domers on a bench"
"Domers on a bench: is a series of insta-length impromptu interviews with people on Notre Dame campus.
They caught up with me as I was leaving the office the other day.
www.instagram.com/domersonaben...

Great new old play at the Young Vic theater in London - A Face In the Crowd. Commentary on US celebrity and politics.
Songs from Elvis Costello.

Biometrics Institute Congress in London ended yesterday, with side events still today. Great talks (Jonathon Phillips, Arun Ross, Patrick Grother, Mark Nixon, ...) and panels. And great view of London from the meeting hall.

Looking forward to meeting with colleagues Jonathon Phillips (NIST), Michael King (FIT), Arun Ross (MSU), Stephanie Schuckers (UNCC), Eilidh Noyes (Huddersfield) and more at the Biometrics Institute Congress in London next week! Platinum Sponsor FaceTec!
www.biometricsinstitute.org/event/biomet...

“Iridology should be regarded as a medical fraud.”
I recently reviewed a paper about iridology for IEEE Access. It had the nerve to cite John Daugman. My review was a hard reject, in memory and honor of John.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/iri...