The document summarizes the research capabilities and projects of the Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing Systems (CUBS) lab at SUNY Buffalo, led by Distinguished Professor Venu Govindaraju. The lab has strengths in multiple disciplines relevant to biometrics, document analysis, and security. It has a strong track record of technology transfer to industry partners and government sponsors such as the US Postal Service. Current research projects include biometric identification, document recognition, and enhancing security through techniques such as soft biometrics and detecting human versus synthetic inputs. The lab also has over 10 current PhD students and has graduated over 20 PhD alumni.

1. CUBSR&D PortfolioVenuGovindarajuDistinguished Professor, SUNY Buffalo

2. OverviewUnique CapabilitiesSponsorsTechnology Transfer RecordProjectsBiometricsDocument Recognition and RetrievalSecurityPeople

3. Unique CapabilitiesFaculty strengths in multiple disciplinesBehavioral Sciences, Social IssuesComputer Vision, VisualizationChemical and Biological SensorsPattern Recognition, Machine LearningSmart Environments, Pervasive ComputingSpectroscopySolid record of transferring of technology to field Large pool of current PhD students (10)Growing pool of PhD alumni in industry (25)Several current projects with industry

4. Sponsors(last 5 years)ACIS, Buffalo, NYApplied Media Analysis, College Park, MDBBN Technologies, Cambridge, MABuffalo Computer Graphics, Blasdell, NYCUBRC, Cheektowaga, NYFujitsu, Sunnyvale, CAHP Labs, IndiaHealth Transaction Network, Williamsville, NYMatrix, Niagara Falls, NYUltra-Scan, Amherst, NYArmy Research Labs

5. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

6. Directorate of Central Intelligence (DCI)

7. National Endowment of Humanities (NEH)

8. National Science Foundation (NSF)

9. NYSTAR

10. Oishei FoundationTechnology Transfer4 US patents awardedBiometric convolution; Handwriting comparisons; Diagnosis of physiological states; Handwriting recognition4 US patents pendingFingerprint hashing; Deceit and verity; Document classification; Document Imagecapture Licensed technology to industryKyos Systems, Xact Data, Buffalo Computer Graphics, Lockheed MartinUSPS 1999 Annual Report"USPS issued a contract to SUNY Buffalo to develop the handwriting recognition technology. ….. an estimated 400 million pieces of mail were automatically routed ….. saved the Postal Service at least $90 million in its first year in the field.

11. BIOMETRICSCUBS

12. AnthropometricsSKIN TONE

13. Fingerprint IndexingEnrollment PhaseSearching Phase

14. CryptographyCancelable Biometrics

15. SensorsSkin spectroscopy and “liveness”

16. Fusion

17. Spoofing in Multimodal Systems

18. Facial Passwords

19. Q: The suspect is male1st IterationPruned SetQ: The suspect has a beard2nd IterationPruned SetQ: The suspect wears spectacles3rd IterationSUSPECTSoft BiometricsSemantic Face RetrievalOriginal Set

20. Unobtrusive People TrackingFreedom from Continuous SurveillanceRECOGNIZEREASONEvolutionaryRecognitionRETRIEVEDid Bob and Frank meet at the library yesterday?Given building map, occupants, schedules, sensor locations

21. Soft BiometricsCrash scene analysis

22. DOCUMENT RECOGNITION AND RETRIEVALCUBS

23. Document Enhancement,

24. Multilingual Information RetrievalQ: Can we have a searchable archive of world’s newspapers?Q: All newspapers in any language translated to a common language?Central RepositorySearchable database(digitized)

25. Smart EMR

26. Handwriting Forensics

27. ???Web SecurityVerify humannessMACHINES FAILSynthetic handwriting generator poses questions in varying writing stylesEnglish!HUMANS SUCCEED

28. securityCUBS

29. Soft BiometricsExpressions+=AU 6AU 12AU 6 & 12++=AU 1AU 2AU 4AU 1, 2 & 4++=AU 1AU 4AU 15AU 1, 4 & 15FACSFEARHAPPYANGERSADFEARHAPPYSADFacial Expression Manifold

30. Gaze Tracking

31. Soft BiometricsEmotional States

32. Deceit and Verity

33. PEOPLECUBS

34. PeopleFacultyFrank BrightSUNY Distinguished ProfessorBiological, Chemical SensorsVenuGovindarajuSUNY Distinguished ProfessorMachine LearningDirectorMark FrankProfessorBehavioral SciencesRaymond FuAssistant ProfessorComputer Vision, VisualizationAlex CartwrightProfessorSpectroscopy, PhotonicsBharat JayaramanProfessorCyber Physical Systems