Projects

Iris Synthesis

Funded by WVU, Aug 2024 - Ongoing

Pupil Dynamics Modeling

Funded by WVU, May 2023 - May 2024

• Devised a novel autoencoder-based method to model iris texture deformation

Open Source Implementation of two iris recognition methods in the NIST API 

Funded by NIST, May 2023 - May 2024

• Implemented deep learning models for iris segmentation, and pupil and iris circle estimation using LibTorch in C++

• Implemented two different iris recognition methods conforming to the NIST API using LibTorch and OR‑Tools in C++

Gender Bias in Iris Recognition

Funded by WVU, May 2022 - May 2023

• Evaluated iris recognition performance differences between males and females using 8 different methods on 3 different datasets

• Curated and extracted an iris image dataset from face videos using different image processing techniques

Deception Detection

Funded by Securiport, May 2021 - May 2022

• Devised deep learning models for iris segmentation and circle estimation for pupil and iris boundaries

• Implemented a circle annotation tool to label validation data for pupil and iris circles

Image Styling based on Text Connotation

Funded by NSF, Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

• Designed a method to transfer the emotion embedded in texts into the style of photos by utilizing neural style transfer and NLP techniques