Talks

• Conference Speaker
  • CVPRW 2023, 4th Chalearn Face Anti-spoofing Workshop and Challenge, Vancouver, Canada, Keynote Speaker, Unveiling the Mounting Hurdles of Spotting GAN-Generated Fake Images, June 19, 2023. https://sites.google.com/view/face-anti-spoofing-challenge/welcome/challengecvpr2023?authuser=0
  • ICISC 2023, The 2023 International Conference on Images, Signals, and Computing, Chengdu, China, Keynote Speaker, Breaking Barriers in Biometrics: Crafting Powerful Deep Neural Networks for Precise Synthesis of Massive-Scale Datasets, May 27, 2023. https://www.icisc-conf.org/keynote-speakers/
  • ICPRS 2022, 12th IET/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems, Saint-Etienne, France, Keynote Speaker, Completely Contactless Palmprint Detection and Matching for Ubiquitous Personal Identification, June 8, 2022. http://s836450039.websitehome.co.uk/icprs22/speaker-details-ajay.html
  • CISP-BMEI 2019, 12th IEEE International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, Huaqiao, Suzhou, China, Keynote Speaker, Advances in Human Identification using Finger Dorsal Patterns, Oct 19, 2019. http://www.cisp-bmei.cn/keynotes.html
  • SIBGRAPHI 2018, 31st Intl. Conference on on Graphics, Patterns and Images, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, Invited Speaker, Contactless 3D Fingerprint Identification: Promises and Challenges, Oct 30, 2018. http://www.imago.ufpr.br/sibgrapi2018
  • SBRA 2017, 7th Symposium on Biometrics, Recognition and Authentication, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan, Invited Speaker, Breaking the Boundaries in Iris Recognition using Deep Learning Capabilities, Nov 13, 2017. http://www.ieice.org/~biox/sbra2017
  • ICPRS 2017, 8th IET/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems, Madrid, Spain, Keynote Speaker, Advances and Challenges in the Development of Next Generation Biometrics Technologies, July 11, 2017. http://velastin.dynu.com/icprs17/programme.php
  • PSBB 2017, Second ISPRS International Workshop on Photogrammetric and computer vision techniques for video Surveillance, Biometrics and Biomedicine, Moscow, Russia, Keynote Speaker, Contactless Fingerprint Identification: Recent Advances and Challenges, May 15, 2017. http://technicalvision.ru/ISPRS/PSBB17
  • BIOSIG 2015, 14th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, Darmstadt, Germany, Keynote Speaker, Finger Recognition: From Knuckles to 3D Finger Recognition, September 10, 2015. http://www.biosig.de/biosig2015
  • SPIE Symposium on Deference and Security, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Invited Talk, An Automated Watchlist Identification System for Higher Security at the Border Crossings, April 22, 2015.
  • IEEE SPS-APSIPA Winter School on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing, December 21, 2014, New Delhi, India, Invited Speaker, Iris Recognition: Pushing the Boundaries, http://misp.iiitd.ac.in/speakers.html
  • IEEE Intl. Conference for Biometrics Special Interest Group 2013, IEEE BIOSIG 2013, Darmstadt (Germany), Invited Speaker, Human Identification at-a-distance using Eye Imaging, September 4, 2013
  • Washington Conference on ‘Rising Pan European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics’, Washington DC (USA), Invited Talk, Expectations and Challenges before Futuristic Biometrics Technologies, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, Washington DC, May 6, 2011.
  • FP7 RISE Beijing Conference, Beijing, China, Emerging Biometrics Applications and Ethical Issues, Keynote Speaker, October 21, 2011.
  • Intl. Conference on Advances in Vision and Information Technologies, http://www.acvit.org ACVIT 2009, India, Keynote Speaker, Challenges and Trends in the Second Generation Biometrics Technologies, December 17, 2009.
• Conference/Technical Tutorials
  • IEEE/IAPR Winter School on Biometrics, tutorial talk on "Less-Constrained and Completely Contactless Palmprint Identification" delivered on January 14, 2021, Shenzhen, China, https://hugefiles.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/album/web/other/wsb2021/slides/Ajay_Kumar.pdf
  • IEEE/IAPR Winter School on Biometrics, tutorial talk on "Contactless Fingerprint Identification: Recent Advances and Challenges" delivered on January 13, 2019, Shenzhen, China, https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb19/index.php
  • IEEE/IAPR Winter School on Biometrics, tutorial talk on ‘Biometrics Identification from Ocular Images using Deep Learning’ delivered on January 29, 2018, Shenzhen, China, https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb18/index.php
  • ICPRS tutorial on ‘Mobile and Ubiquitous Personal Identification using Contactless Finger Knuckle Biometrics’ delivered during 8th IET/IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems, July 11, 2017, Madrid, Spain. http://velastin.dynu.com/icprs17/tutorial.php
  • Winter School on Machine Learning in Biometrics, 2017 tutorial on ‘Iris and Ocular Biometrics’ delivered on February 21, 2017, New Delhi, India, http://iab-rubric.org/mlib2017
  • IEEE/IAPR Winter School on Biometrics, tutorial talk on ‘Accurate Personal Identification using Finger Knuckle and Finger Vein Biometric Images’ delivered on January 13, 2017, Hong Kong, http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb17
  • GIAN International Course on Multimodal and Advanced Biometrics Authentication, Over 26 hours of tutorials during 12 days course, MNIT Jaipur, 2-11 January, 2017, Jaipur, India.
  • ISBA 2016 Tutorial on ‘Personal Identification using Contactless Live 3D Finger Scans’ delivered during IEEE Conf. Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis, 29th February, 2016, Sendai, Japan.
  • CVPR 2015 Tutorial on ‘Contactless 3D Fingerprint Identification’ delivered during IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 7, 2015, Boston, USA, http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/tutorials.php
• Invited Talks
  • Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile, Unmasking the Illusion: Navigating the Open Challenges of Detecting Sophisticated and Deceptive Deep Fake Images, July 26, 2023.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), India, SpectralGAN: Accurate Synthesis of Real-World Fingerprint and Face Images, Sep 15, 2022.
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India, Completely Contactless Finger Knuckle Detection and Identification for Real World Applications, Sep 12, 2022.
  • CFAR Distinguished Professor Lecture Series, A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Singapore, Open Challenges in Detecting Sophisticated and Photorealistic Deep Fake Images, Sep 9, 2022.
  • Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Individuality of Human Identification using 3D Fingerprints, May 12, 2015.
  • Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Identifying Contactless Live Human Hands with Pose Variations, August 2011.
  • Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Contactless Finger Identification using Very Low Resolution Imaging, June 2011.
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India), Development of Next Generation Biometrics Systems: Advances and Opportunities, Sep. 2010.
  • Department of Computer Science (Dipartimento di Informatica) Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, New Approaches for Performance Improvement in Biometric Identification, Mar. 2009.
  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Feature Selection and Combination in Biometrics, Dec. 2006.
  • Department of Computer Science and Eng., University of California, Riverside (USA), Integrating Face and Palmprint using claimed User Identity, Dec. 2003.
  • Department of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), Recent Progress on Computer Vision based Industrial Inspection, Apr. 2002.
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), Computer Vision for Industrial Inspection and Personal Authentication using Biometrics, Feb. 2005.
• Conference Presentations
  • Ajay Kumar, “Integrating ocular and iris descriptors for fake iris image detection,” 3rd Intl. Workshop Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2013, Valetta, Malta, March 27, 2014.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Adaptive and localized iris weight map for accurate iris recognition under less constrained environments?,” 6th IEEE Intl. Conf. Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2013, Washington DC, Oct1, 2013.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Can We use Minor Finger Knuckle Images to Identify Humans?,” 5th IEEE Intl. Conf. Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2012, Washington DC, Sep 24, 2012.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Iris Recognition using Quaternionic Sparse Orientation Code (QSOC),” IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Biometrics Workshop), CVPRW’12, Providence (USA), Jun, 2012.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Contactless Fingerprint Identification using Level Zero Feature,” IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Biometrics Workshop), CVPRW’11, Colorado Springs (USA), Jun 20, 2011.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Personal identification from iris images using localized Radon transform,” Intl Conf. Pattern Recognition, ICPR’10, Istanbul (Turkey), Aug. 2010.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Human Hand Identification with 3D Hand Pose Variations,” IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Biometrics Workshop), San Francisco (USA), Jun. 2010. Jun 18, 2010.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Human identification using knucklecodes,’ International Conference on Biometrics, Theory and Applications, BTAS’09, Washington DC (USA), Sep. 2009.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Online personal identification in night using multiple face representations,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR’08, Tampa, Florida (USA), Dec. 2008.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Incorporating user quality for performance improvement in hand identification,” Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV’08, Hanoi (Vietnam), Dec. 2008.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Comparison and Combination of iris matchers reliable personal identification,” IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Biometrics Workshop), CVPR’08, Anchorage, Alaska (USA), Jun. 2008.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Biometric authentication using finger back surface,” IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Biometrics Workshop), CVPR’07, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), Jun. 2007.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Biometric recognition using entropy based discretization,” Intl. Conf. Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2007, Honululu, Hawaii (USA), Apr. 2007.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Ear authentication using log-Gabor filters” Defense & Security Symposium, Biometric Technology for Human Identification, DS 25, Orlando, Florida (USA), Apr. 2007.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Integrating palmprint and face for user authentication,” Intl. Workshop on Multi Modal User Authentication, Santa Barbara, California (USA), Dec. 2003.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Texture inspection for defects using neural networks and support vector machines,” Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP 2002, Rochester, New York (USA), Sep. 2002.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Wavelet based detection of local textile defects,” IEEE Intl. Conf. Mechatronics and Machine Vision, M2VIP 2001, Hong Kong, Aug. 2001.
  • Ajay Kumar, “Defect detection in texture materials using Gabor filters,” 35th IEEE/IAS Annual Meeting, IAS 2000, Rome (Italy), Oct. 2000.