1. ★October 9, 2009: a grant from Nation Institute of Justice to support research in face annotation (this project is in collaboration with Michigan State University).

  2. ★September 28-30, 2009: BTAS conference is held in Washington, DC. Karen Hollingsworth and Sarah Baker presented papers. Kevin Bowyer served as General Chair and Patrick Flynn served as Publications Chair.

  3. ★September 11, 2009: Congratulations to Chris Middendorff on the defense of his Ph.D. dissertation.

  4. ★September 2009: Alex Zavodny is spending a semester at NAVTEQ as a research intern.

  5. ★August 24, 2009: New graduate students include Joseph Thompson, Matt Pruitt, Jeremiah Barr, and Jay Doyle.

  6. ★August 17, 2009: Congratulations to Tanya Peters and Sarah Baker upon the defense of their M.S. degrees.

  7. ★July 13, 2009 - a contract from FBI and US Army to support research on face recognition performance for identical twins.

  8. ★June 5, 2009 - The paper “3D Signatures for Fast 3D Face Recognition” by Chris Boehnen, Tanya Peters and P. Flynn won the best student paper award at ICB 2009.

  9. ★June 1, 2009 - the ND-IRIS-0405 data corpus (64,980 iris images, a superset of ICE2005 and ICE2006) has been released. Go here for details.

  10. ★May 1, 2009 - Chris Fallin and Tricia Strei defended their undergraduate theses.  Chris also won an NSF Graduate Fellowship and one of the College’s Steiner awards for undergraduate studies; he will be attending graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University.

  11. ★May 1, 2009 - P. Flynn joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing.

  12. ★May 2009 - an REU Supplement from NSF (Thain and Flynn) to support research on grid-enabled scientific data repositories.

  13. ★Apr. 21, 2009 - Chris Boehnen defended his Ph.D. and will be joining the staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratories

  14. ★Mar. 16, 2009 - P. Flynn joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security.

  15. ★Feb 12, 2009 - the BXGRID has been noticed.

  16. ★Jan 19, 2009 - an award from CITeR (P. Flynn and A. Ross (WVU)) to support research in superresolution reconstruction of iris images.

  17. ★Jan. 19, 2009 - a contract from Lockheed Martin (Bowyer) to support ear biometrics.

  18. ★Sep 24, 2008 - a contract from US Army (Flynn and Bowyer) to support the Multiple Biometrics Grand Challenge.

  19. ★June 2008 - a contract from Progeny Systems (Bowyer) to support soft biometrics research.

  20. ★May 2008 - a gift from NAVTEQ (Flynn) to support modeling and analysis of large-scale terrain data sets.

  21. ★April 2008 - an REU supplement from NSF (Thain and Flynn) to support research on grid-enabled scientific data repositories.


 

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