Thesis
Data Privacy
Face Recognition and Tracking
Computer Vision
Multimodal Person Identification
Gait Recognition
Body Segmentation
Facial Expression Analysis
Meeting Recognition
Handwriting Recognition
Thesis
"Face De-Identification using Multi-Factor Active Appearance Models."
Ralph Gross, PhD Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-ISR-08-100, 2008. Download: pdf [26MB]
Data Privacy
" Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook."
Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross. 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2006. Download: pdf [584KB]
"Model-Based Face De-Identification."
Ralph Gross, Latanya Sweeney, Fernando de la Torre, and Simon Baker.
IEEE Workshop on Privacy Research In Vision, 2006. Download: pdf [2.6MB]
"Information Revelation and Privacy in Social Networking Sites (or: Privacy on Facebook)."
Ralph Gross and Alessandro Acquisti. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2005. Download: pdf [434 KB]
"Integrating Utility into Face De-Identification."
Ralph Gross, Edoardo Airoldi, Bradley Malin, and Latanya Sweeney. Workshop
on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), 2005.
Download: pdf [803 KB] © Springer-Verlag
"Mining Images in Publicly-Available Cameras for Homeland Security."
Latanya Sweeney and Ralph Gross. AAAI Spring Symposium, 2005.
Download: pdf [92 KB]
Face Recognition and Tracking
"Active Appearance Models with Occlusion."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, and Simon Baker. Image and Vision Computing, 24(6), 2006, 593-604. Download: pdf [3.2MB]
"Generic vs. Person Specific Active Appearance Models."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, and Simon Baker. Image and Vision Computing, 2005. 23(11), 2005, 1080-1093. Download: pdf [2MB]
"Generic vs. Person Specific Active Appearance Models."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker. British Machine Vision Conference, 2004. Download: pdf [840 KB]
"Constructing and Fitting Active Appearance Models With Occlusion."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker. First IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPIV), 2004. Download: pdf [985 KB]
Movies: fit.mpg [2 MB] box.mpg [1 MB] hand.mpg [1.1 MB] rotate.mpg [1.1 MB]
"Appearance-Based Face Recognition and Light-Fields."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(4):449-465, 2004.
Download: pdf [757 KB]
"Face Recognition Across Pose and Illumination."
Ralph Gross, Simon Baker, Iain Matthews, Takeo Kanade. in S. Li, A. Jain, editors. Handbook of Face Recognition. Springer Verlag, 2004.
"Face Databases."
Ralph Gross. in S. Li, A. Jain, editors. Handbook of Face Recognition. Springer Verlag, 2005.
"Real-Time Non-Rigid Driver Head Tracking for Driver Mental State Estimation."
Simon Baker, Iain Matthews, Jing Xiao, Ralph Gross, Takahiro Ishikawa and Takeo Kanade. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-04-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. Download: pdf [1065 KB]
"An Image Pre-Processing Algorithm for Illumination Invariant Face Recognition."
Ralph Gross, Vladimir Brajovic. 4th International Conference on Audio-and Video Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), 2003.
Download: pdf [325 KB]
"Appearance-Based Face Recognition and Light-Fields."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-02-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. August 2002.
Download: pdf [5701 KB]
"Appearance-based 3-D Face Recognition from Video."
Volker Krueger, Ralph Gross, Simon Baker. 24th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2002
Download: pdf [1070 KB] © Springer-Verlag.
"Fisher Light-Fields for Face Recognition Across Pose and Illumination."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker. 24th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2002.
Download: pdf [516 KB], ps.gz [3024 KB] © Springer-Verlag.
"Eigen Light-Fields and Face Recognition Across Pose."
Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker. 5th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May 2002
Download: pdf [4191 KB], ps.gz [3015 KB]
"Quo Vadis Face Recognition."
Ralph Gross, Jianbo Shi, Jeffrey F. Cohn. Third Workshop on Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision, 2001. Download: pdf [6599 KB], ps.gz [5285 KB]
"Quo Vadis Face Recognition."
Ralph Gross, Jianbo Shi, Jeffrey F. Cohn. Technical report CMU-RI-TR-01-17. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June 2001.
Download: pdf [1684 KB], ps.gz [2606 KB]
"Growing Gaussian Mixture Models for Pose Invariant Face Recognition."
Ralph Gross, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel. International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Download: pdf [57 KB], ps.gz [151 KB]
"Face Recognition in a Meeting Room."
Ralph Gross, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Grenoble, France, 2000.
Download: pdf [402 KB], ps.gz [226 KB]
Computer Vision
"Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework. Part 2:
The Choice of the Error Norm."
Simon Baker, Ralph Gross, Takahiro Ishikawa, Iain Matthews. Technical report CMU-RI-TR-03-01, 2003. Download: pdf [457 KB]
"Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework. Part 3:
Allowing Linear Appearance Variation."
Simon Baker, Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews. Technical report CMU-RI-TR-03-35, 2003. Download: pdf [691 KB]
"Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework. Part 4."
Simon Baker, Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews. Technical report CMU-RI-TR-04-14, 2004. Download: pdf [221 KB]
Multimodal Person Identification
"Robust biometrics person identification using automatic classifier fusion of speech, mouth, and face experts."
Niall Fox, Ralph Gross, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Richard B. Reilly. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 9(4):701-714, 2007.
"Robust automatic human identification using face, mouth, and accoustic information."
Niall Fox, Ralph Gross, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Richard B. Reilly. IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, 2005.
"Person Identification Using Automatic Integration of Speech, Lip, and Face Experts."
Niall Fox, Ralph Gross, Philip de Chazal, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Richard B. Reilly. ACM Workshop on Biometrics: Methods and Applications, 2003.
Download: pdf [723 KB]
Gait Recognition
"Silhouette-based Human Identification from Body Shape and Gait."
Robert Collins, Ralph Gross, Jianbo Shi. 5th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May 2002. Download: pdf [445 KB], ps.gz [422 KB]
"The CMU Motion of Body (MoBo) Database."
Ralph Gross, Jianbo Shi. Technical report CMU-RI-TR-01-18. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June 2001. Download: pdf [1010 KB] , ps.gz [2606 KB]
Body Segmentation
"Object Segmentation by Graph Partitioning."
Stella X. Yu, Ralph Gross, Jianbo Shi. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2002, Vancouver, Canada. Download: pdf [729 KB], ps.gz [3457 KB]
Facial Expression Analysis
"Individual Differences in Facial Expression: Stability over Time, Relation to Self-Reported Emotion, and Ability to Inform Person Identification."
Jeffrey F. Cohn, Karen Schmidt, Ralph Gross and Paul Ekman. IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 2002, Pittsburgh, USA. Download: pdf [85 KB], ps.gz [59 KB]
Meeting Recognition
"Towards a Multimodal Meeting Record."
Ralph Gross, Michael Bett, Hua Yu, Xiaojin Zhu, Yue Pan, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel.
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York, 2000. Download: pdf [4300 KB], ps.gz [985 KB]
"Multimodal Meeting Tracker."
Michael Bett, Ralph Gross, Hua Yu, Xiaojin Zhu, Yue Pan, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel.
Proceedings of RIAO 2000, Paris, France.
Download: pdf [166 KB], ps.gz [561 KB]
"Multimodal People ID for a Multimodal Meeting Browser."
Jie Yang, Xiaojin Zhu, Ralph Gross, John Kominek, Yue Pan, Alex Waibel
ACM Multimedia'99, Orlando, Florida, 1999.
Download: pdf [427 KB], ps.gz [1000 KB]
Handwriting Recognition
"Model-Based Recovery of Dynamic Information from Static Handwriting."
Ralph Gross. Master Thesis, University of Karlsruhe, January 1998.
Download: pdf [1600 KB], ps.gz [688 KB]
"Run-On Recognition in an On-Line Handwriting Recognition System."
Ralph Gross. Term Project, University of Karlsruhe, June 1997.
Download: pdf [607 KB], ps.gz [213 KB]