Publications

Palmprint | Hand_Geometry | Finger_Knuckle | 3D_Fingerprint | Finger_Vein | Palm_Vein

Iris | Ear | Multibiometrics | Antispoofing | Security | Industrial_Inspection

Contactless_fingerprint | All Publications |

Journals

• Kuo Wang* and Ajay Kumar, "Human Identification in Metaverse Using Egocentric Iris Recognition," TechArXiv, DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.19750411.v1,, pp 1-13, May 2022
• Ajay Kumar, "Toward Pose Invariant and Completely Contactless Finger Knuckle Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, pp. 201–209, July 2019
• Chenhao Lin* and Ajay Kumar, "Matching Contactless and Contact-Based Conventional Fingerprint Images for Biometrics Identification," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, pp. 2008-2020, May 2018
• N. Pattabhi Ramiah and Ajay Kumar, "Towards more accurate iris recognition using cross-spectral matching," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, pp. 208-221, January 2017
• Ajay Kumar and Zhihuan Xu, "Personal identification using minor knuckle patterns from palm dorsal surface," IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, pp. 2338-2348, October 2016
• Chun-Wei Tan* and Ajay Kumar, "Accurate iris recognition at-a-distance using stablized iris encoding and Zernike moments phase features," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 23, pp. 3962-3974, September 2014
• Ajay Kumar, "Importance of being unique from finger dorsal patterns: Exploring minor finger knuckle patterns in verifying human identities," IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, vol. 9, pp. 1288-1298, August 2014
• Chun-Wei Tan* and Ajay Kumar, "Towards online iris and periocular recognition under relaxed imaging constraints," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 22, pp. 3751-3765, October 2013
• Ajay Kumar and Yingbo Zhou, "Human identification using finger images," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 21, pp. 2228-2244, April 2012
• Ajay Kumar and Chenye Wu, "Automated human identification using ear imaging," Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 5, March 2012
• Ajay Kumar and Sumit Shekhar, "Personal identification using multibiometrics rank-level fusion," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, pp. 743-752, vol. 41, no. 5, September 2011
• Vivek Kanhangad, Ajay Kumar, and David Zhang, "A unified framework for contactless hand identification," IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1415-1424, May 2011
• Ajay Kumar and Arun Passi, "Comparison and combination of iris matchers for reliable personal authentication," Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1016-1026, March 2010
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Improving biometric authentication performance from the user quality," IEEE Trans. Instrumentation & Measurement, vol. 59, pp. 730-735, March 2010
• Ajay Kumar, Vivek Kanhangad, and David Zhang, "A new framework for adaptive multimodal biometrics management," IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, pp. 92-102, March 2010
• David Zhang, Vivek Kanhangad, Luo Nan, and Ajay Kumar, "Robust palmprint verification using 2D and 3D features," Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 358-368, January 2010
• Ajay Kumar and K. V. Prathyusha, "Personal authentication using hand vein triangulation and knuckle shape," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 38, pp. 2127-2136, September 2009
• Jay Bhatnagar and Ajay Kumar, "On estimating performance indices for biometric identification," Pattern Recognition, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1803-1815, September 2009
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "User authentication using fusion of face and palmprint," Intl. J. Image & Graphics, vol. 9., no. 2, pp. 251-270, April 2009
• Ajay Kumar and Ch. Ravikanth, "Personal authentication using finger knuckle surface," IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 98-110, March 2009
• Vivek Kanhangad, Ajay Kumar, and David Zhang, "Comments on an adaptive multimodal biometric management algorithm," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 438-440, November 2008
• Ajay Kumar, David C. M. Wong, Helen C. Shen, and Anil K. Jain, "Personal authentication using hand images," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 27, pp. 1478-1486, October 2006
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Personal recognition using hand-shape and texture," IEEE Trans. Image Process, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 2454-2461, August 2006
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Personal authentication using multiple palmprint representation," Pattern Recognition, vol. 38, pp. 1695-1704, October 2005

Patents

• Ajay Kumar and Qian Zheng, "A Method and Device For Contactless Biometrics Identification," U. S. Patent No. 14798573, July 2017
• David Zhang and Ajay Kumar, "Method of multi-modal biometric recognition using hand-shape and palmprint," U. S. Patent No. 8, 135, 181, March 2012

Conferences

• Abhinav Anand , Amioy Kumar , Ajay Kumar, "Multibiometrics User Recognition using Adaptive Cohort Ranking," Proc. 12th Intl. Conf. Biometrics, ICB 2019, 1-8, Crete, Greece, June 2019
• Amoy Kumar, Ajay Kumar, "Adaptive security for human surveillance using multimodal open set biometric recognition," Proc. ICPR 2014, pp. 405-410, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2014
• Aythami Morales, Ajay Kumar, and Miguel A. Ferrer, "Incorporating color information for reliable palmprint authentication," Proc. ICIP 2011, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011
• Ajay Kumar and Sumit Shekhar, "Palmprint recognition using rank-level fusion," Proc. ICIP 2010, Hong Kong, China, September 2010
• Yingbo Zhou and Ajay Kumar, "Contactless palmvein identification using multiple representations," Proc. BTAS 2010, Washington DC, USA, September 2010
• Vivek Kanhangad, Ajay Kumar, and David Zhang, "Combining 2D and 3D hand geometry features for biometric verification," Proc. CVPR 2009, CVPRW'09, pp. 39-44, Miami, USA, June 2009
• Ajay Kumar and T. Srikanth, "Online personal identification in night using multiple representation," Proc. ICPR 2008, Tampa, USA, December 2008
• Ajay Kumar and Arun Passi, "Comparison and combination of iris matchers for reliable personal identification," Proc. CVPR 2008, pp. 21-27, Anchorage, USA, June 2008
• Jay Bhatnagar*, Ajay Kumar, and Nipun Saggar, "A novel approach to improve biometric recognition using rank level fusion," Proc. CVPR 2007, pp. 1-6, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Combining fingerprint, palmprint and hand-shape for user authentication," Proc. ICPR 2006, pp. 549-552, Hong Kong, China, August 2006
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Feature selection and combination in biometrics," Proc. AVBPA 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag GmbH, vol. 3546, pp. 813-822, Rye Brook, USA, July 2005
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Integrating shape and texture for hand verification," Proc. 3rd Intl. Conf. Image & Graphics, ICIG 2004, pp. 222-225, Hong Kong, China, December 2004
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Palmprint authentication using multiple classifiers," Proc. SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security - Biometric Technology for Human Identification, vol. 5404, pp. 20-29, Orlando, USA, April 2004
• Ajay Kumar and David Zhang, "Integrating palmprint with face for user authentication," Proc. Multi Modal User Authentication Workshop, pp. 107-112, Santa Barbara, USA, December 2003
• Ajay Kumar, David C. M. Wong, Helen C. Shen, and Anil K. Jain, "Personal verification using palmprint and hand geometry biometric," Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Authentication (AVBPA), pp. 668-675, Guildford, UK, June 2003

Book Chapters

• Ajay Kumar, "Dynamic security management in multibiometrics", Multibiometrics for Human Identification, B. Bhanu and V. Govindaraju (Eds), Cambridge University Press, April 2011
• Ajay Kumar, "Rank level fusion", Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Stan Z. Li (Eds), Springer, August 2009