Publications

  • Patents

    Co-inventor in the following patents:
    1. US 6,064,753 System and method for distortion control in live-scan inkless fingerprint images
    2. US 6,301,368 System and method for data hiding in compressed fingerprint images
    3. US 6,597,802 System and method for generating a rolled surface representation from a set of partial images
    4. US 6,836,554 System and method for distorting a biometric for transactions with enhanced security and privacy
    5. US 6,851,051: System and method for liveness authentication using an augmented challenge/response scheme
    6. US 6,819,219 Method for biometric-based authentication in wireless communication for access control
    (Several more pending)

  • Books and conference proceedings

    1. N. Ratha and R. Bolle (Eds.) Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems, ISBN: 0387955933, Springer , October 2003.
    2. R. Bolle, J. Connell, S. Pankanti, N. Ratha and A. Senior, Guide to Biometrics, ISBN: 0387400893, Springer, October 2003.
    3. Anil K. Jain and Nalini K. Ratha (Eds.) SPIE Volume 5404. Proc. of Biometrics Technology for Human Identification, ISBN: 0-8194-5327-7, 2004.
    4. Anil K. Jain and Nalini K. Ratha (Eds.) SPIE Volume 5779. Proc. of Biometrics Technology for Human Identification, ISBN: 0-8194-5764-7, 2005.
    5. Takeo Kanade Anil Jain and Nalini K. Ratha (Eds.) Proc. of Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, LNCS 3546, ISBN: 3-540-27887-7.

  • Book chapters

    1. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, “Secure fingerprint authentication”, in Biometric Solutions For authentication in an E-world (David D. Zhang Editor), pp. 263-288, Kluwer Academic Pubishers, 2002.
    2. N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Smartcard based authentication”, in Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society (A. K. Jain, R. Bolle and S. Pankanti, Eds.), pp. 369-384, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
    3. N. K. Ratha, A.K. Jain and D. Rover, “Fingerprint Matching on Splash 2” in Splash 2: FPGAS in a Custom Computing Machine, D. Buell, J. Arnold and W. Kleinfolder (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 117-140, 1996.

  • Journal papers

    1. C. Dorai, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Dynamic Behavior Analysis in Compressed Fingerprint Videos”, IEEE Trans. CSVT, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 58—74, Jan 2004.
    2. R M. Bolle, N. K. Ratha and S. Pankanti, “Error analysis of pattern recognition systems––the subsets bootstrap, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 1-33, Jan. 2004.
    3. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, “Biometrics break-ins and band aids”, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 24, No. 13, pp. 2105-2113, Sept. 2003.
    4. R. M. Bolle, J. H. Connell and N. K. Ratha, “Biometric Perils and Patches”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, No. 12, pp. 2727-2738, Dec. 2002.
    5. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, “Enhancing security and privacy in biometrics-based authentication systems”, IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 614-634, Sep. 2001.
    6. N. K. Ratha and A.K. Jain, “Computer Vision Algorithms on Reconfigurable Logic Arrays”, IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 29-43, 1999.
    7. A.K. Jain, N. K. Ratha and S. Lakshmanan, “Object Detection Using Gabor Filters”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 295-309, 1997.
    8. N. K. Ratha, S. Chen, K. Karu and A.K. Jain, “A Real-time Matching System for Large Fingerprint Databases”, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 18, 8, pp. 799-813, 1996.
    9. N. K. Ratha, S. Chen and A.K. Jain, “Adaptive Flow Orientation Based Feature Extraction in Fingerprint Images”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 28, pp. 1657-1672, November 1995.

  • Conference papers

    1. Nalini K. Ratha, Miguel A. Figueroa-Vilanueva, Jon H. Connell and Ruud M. Bolle, ``A secure protocol for data hiding in compressed fingerprint images’’, Prod. Of ECCV, BioAWorkshop 2004, LNCS 3087, pp. 205 – 216, May 2004.
    2. Ruud M. Bolle, Nalini K. Ratha and Sharath Pankanti, ``An Evaluation of Error Confidence Interval Estimation Methods’’, Proc. of ICPR 2004, Vol. 3, Cambridge, UK, August 2004, pp. 103—106.
    3. Ruud M. Bolle, Sharath Pankanti, Jonathan H. Connell, and Nalini K. Ratha ``Iris Individuality: A partial iris model’’, Proc. of ICPR 2004, Vol. 2, Cambridge, UK, August, 2004, pp. 927—930.
    4. Ruud M. Bolle, Nalini K. Ratha and Sharath Pankanti,``Efficacy of joint person bootstrap estimation of confidence interval’’, Proc. of Workshop on Biometrics in conjunction with ICPR 2004 called Biometric Challenges arising from theory to practice (BCTP 2004), pp. 55-58
    5. Nalini K. Ratha, Ruud M. Bolle and Sharath Pankanti, ``Large-scale biometrics identification: Challenges and solutions,’’ Invited paper at International Workshop on Biometric Technologies (BT 2004), University of Calgary, pp. 29—38.
    6. Ruud M. Bolle, Nalini K. Ratha and Sharath Pankanti, ``Performance Evaluation in 1 : 1 Biometric Engines,’’ Invited paper for SinoBiometrics: To be published in Dec. 2004
    7. Sharath Chikkerur, Sharath Pankanti, Nalini Ratha and Ruud Bolle ``Novel approaches for minutiae filtering in fingerprint images’’ WACV paper (to appear in Jan 2005)
    8. M. A. Figueroa-Villanueva, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “A comparative performance analysis of JPEG 2000 vs. WSQ for fingerprint image compression”, in Proc. of Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003), Surrey, UK, June 2003, pp. 385-392.
    9. S. Noronha, C. Dorai, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Architecture for synchronous multiparty authentication using biometrics”, in Proc. of Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003), Surrey, UK, June 2003, pp. 609-616.
    10. M. Osborne and N. K. Ratha, “A JC-BioAPI compliant smart card with biometrics for secure access”, in Proc. of Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003), Surrey, UK, June 2003, pp. 903-910.
    11. J. H. Connell, N. K. Ratha, R. M. Bolle, “Fingerprint image enhancement using weak models”, Proc. of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002, Vol. 1 , pp. I-45 -I-48.
    12. S. Pankanti, N. K. Ratha, R. M. Bolle, “Structure in errors: a case study in fingerprint verification , Proc. of 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Quebec City, Vol. 3, Aug. 2002, pp. 440-443.
    13. R. M. Bolle, A. W. Senior, N. K. Ratha and S. Pankanti, “Fingerprint Minutiae: A Constructive Definition”, in Proc. of Workshop on Biometric Authentication ECCV 2002, Denmark, June 2002, pp. 58-66.
    14. N. Haas, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Pre-enhancing non-uniformly illuminated fingerprint images”, in Proc. of IEEE on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID 02), Tarrytown, NY, March 2002, pp. 89-94.
    15. M. Y. Yao, S. Pankanti, N. Haas, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Quantfying quality: a case study in fingerprints”, in Proc. of IEEE on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID 02), Tarrytown, NY, March 2002 pp.126-131.
    16. R. M. Bolle, S. Pankanti and N. K. Ratha, "Confidence Interval Measurement in Performance Analysis of Biometrics systems using the Bootstrap", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision, Hawaii, Dec. 2001.
    17. R. M. Bolle, N. K. Ratha and J. H. Connell, “Automated Biometrics: Security & Privacy”, in Proc. of Workshop on PRIS, Portugal, July 2001, pp. 2-11.
    18. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, "An Analysis of Minutia Matching Strength", in Proc. of Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2001), Halmstad, Sweden, June 2001, pp. 223-228.
    19. N. K. Ratha, A. Senior and R. M. Bolle, "Automated Biometrics", in Proc. of ICAPR, 2001, Rio, Brazil, March 2001, pp. 445-454.
    20. N. K. Ratha, R. M. Bolle, V. D. Pandit, V. Vaish, “Robust fingerprint authentication using local structural similarity”, Fifth IEEE Workshop on. Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Santa Barbara, CA, Dec. 2000, pp. 29 -34.
    21. S. Ghosal, R. Udupa, S. Panknti, N. K. Ratha, “Learning partitioned least squares filters for fingerprint enhancement”, Fifth IEEE Workshop on. Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Santa Barbara, CA, Dec. 2000, pp. 2-7.
    22. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, “Secure data hiding in wavelet compressed fingerprint images”, in Proc. of ACM Multimedia Workshops 2000, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2000, pp.127-130.
    23. R. M. Bolle, S. Pankanti, N. K. Ratha, “Evaluation techniques for biometrics-based authentication systems (FRR)”, Proc. 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 2 , pp. 831-837, Sept. 2000.
    24. S. Ghosal, N. K. Ratha, R. Udupa, S. Pankanti, “Hierarchical partitioned least squares filter-bank for fingerprint enhancement”, Proc. 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2000, Vol. 3 , pp. 334-337.
    25. N. K. Ratha, A. K. Jain, and D. T. Rover, “FPGA-based coprocessor for text string extraction”, Proc. Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception (CAMP-2000), Padova, Italy, Sept. 2000, pp. 217 -221.
    26. C. Dorai, N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Detecting dynamic behavior in compressed fingerprint videos: distortion, Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Fort Collins, CO, June 2000, Vol. 2 , pp. 320 -326.
    27. N. K. Ratha and R. Bolle, “Fingerprint Image Quality Estimation”, in Proc. of ACCV-2000, Taipei, Jan 2000, pp. 819-823.
    28. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, “A biometrics-based secure authentication system”, in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoId 99), Summit, NJ, Oct. 1999, pp. 70-73.
    29. R. M. Bolle, N. K. Ratha and S. Pankanti, “Evaluating fingerprint authentication systems using bootstrap confidence intervals”, in Proc. of IEEE on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID 99), Summit, NJ, pp. 9-13.
    30. R. M. Bolle, N. K. Ratha, A. Senior and S. Pankanti, “Minutia template exchange format”, in Proc. Of IEEE on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID 99), Summit, NJ, pp. 74-77.
    31. N. K. Ratha and R. M. Bolle, “Effect of controlled image acquisition on fingerprint matching”, in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-98), Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 1998, pp. 1659-1661.
    32. N. K. Ratha, J. H. Connell and R. M. Bolle, “Image Mosaicing for rolled fingerprint construction”, in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-98), Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 1998, pp. 1651-1653.
    33. R. M. Bolle, N. K. Ratha and S. Pankanti, “Research issues in biometrics”, in Proc. of ACCV-98, Hong Kong, Jan. 1998, pp. 2-9.
    34. N. K. Ratha and A. K. Jain, “FPGA-based computing in Computer vision”, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP-97), Boston, Oct. 1997, pp. 128-137.
    35. N. K. Ratha and A. K. Jain, “Multilayer Perceptron on Splash 2”, ”, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP-97), Boston, Oct. 1997, pp. 138-142.
    36. R. S. Germain, R. Bolle, A. Califano, S. Colville, S. Pankanti, N. Ratha, “Issues in Large Scale Automatic Biometric Identification”, IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Stony Brook, Nov. 1997, pp. 43-46.
    37. N. K. Ratha, A. K. Jain and D.T Rover, “FPGA- based high performance page layout segmentation” in Proc. of IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Ames, Iowa, Mar. 1996, pp. 29-34.
    38. N. K Ratha, A.K. Jain “High performance custom computing for image segmentation”, in Proc. of IEEE Conf. on High performance Computing (HiPC-95), Dec. 1995, New Delhi, pp. 67-72.
    39. N. K Ratha, A. K. Jain and D.T. Rover, “An FPGA -based point pattern matching coprocessor with application to fingerprint matching”, in Proc.of IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP-95), Como, Italy, pp. 394-401.
    40. N. K Ratha, A. K. Jain and M. J. Chung, “Clustering using coarse-grained parallel genetic Algorithm: a Preliminary study”, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP-95), Como, Italy, pp. 394-401.
    41. N. K. Ratha, T. Acar, M. Gokman and A. K Jain , “A distributed edge detection and surface reconstruction algorithm based on weak membrane modeling”, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP-95), Como, Italy, pp. 149-154.
    42. N. K. Ratha, A. K. Jain and D.T. Rover, “Convolution on Splash 2” in proc. of IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom computing Machines (FCCM-95), Napa, CA, pp.204-213.
    43. N. K. Ratha, A. K. Jain and S. Lakshmanan, “Object detection in the presence of clutter using Gabor filters,” in Proc. of SPIE, Applications of digital Image Processing XVII, Vol. 2298, pp.612-623, September, 1994.
    44. D. Judd, N. K. Ratha, P. K . McKinley, J. Weng and A. K Jain, “Parallel implementation of vision algorithms on workstation clusters,” in proc. of IAPR- 94, Jerusalem , pp. 317- 321, October, 1994.
    45. S. H. Choi, N. K. Ratha, M. J. Chung and D. T Rover, “Signal processing application using VHDL on Splash 2 ,” in VHDL International users’ Forum ( VIUF) Fall Conference, pp. 6.11-6,18, November, 1994.


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