Additional Information

• Experienced in Matlab, C/C++, Java, Tcl/Tk, Perl, HTML

• Excellent knowledge of object oriented programming

• Areas of expertise: Face Recognition, Gait Recognition, Image Segmentation, Object Tracking, Fingerprint Recognition, Neural Networks, Speech and Handwriting Recognition, Biometrics, Multi-Modal Human Computer Interaction

Professional Activities

• Program Committee, Non-rigid Registration and Tracking through Learning (in conjunction with ICCV), 2007

• Program Committee, 2nd Beyond Patches Workshop (in conjuction with CVPR), 2007

• Program Committee, International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition, 2007

• Program Committee, First International Workshop on Video Processing for Security, 2006

• Program Committee, Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPiV), 2005

• Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004

• Session Chair, International Biometric Society Spring Meeting, 2004

• Reviewer for
– IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
– IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
– IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
– Image and Vision Computing
– Computer Vision and Image Understanding
– Pattern Recognition Letters
– Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
– IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
– Asian Conference on Computer Vision
– British Machine Vision Conference
– International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

Selected Presentations

• “Model-Based Face De-Identification” at the Workshop on Privacy Research In Vision, New York (June 2006)

• “Integrating Utility into Face De-Identification” at the 5th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) Dubrovnik, Croatia (June 2004)

• “An Image Pre-processing Algorithm for Illumination Invariant Face Recognition” at 4th International Conference on Audio- and Video Base Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2003. Guildford, United Kingdom (June 2003)

• “Fisher Light-Fields for Face Recognition Across Pose and Illumination” at 24th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2002 Zuerich, Switzerland (September 2002)

• “Identifying Humans” Invited presentation at Siemens Corporate Research. Princeton, NJ (August 2002)

• “Eigen Light-Fields and Face Recognition across Pose” at 5th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2002. Washington, DC (May 2002)

• “Quo Vadis Face Recognition?” Invited presentation at Visionics Corporation. Jersey City, NJ (April 2002)

• “Face Recognition in a Meeting Room” at 4th Internation Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2000. Grenoble, France (March 2000)

• “Multimodal Meeting Tracker” at International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Information Access (RIAO), 2000. Paris, France (April 2000)

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• R.Gross. "Face Databases." In S.Li and A.Jain, editors. Handbook of Face Recognition.
Springer, 2005

• R.Gross, S.Baker, I.Matthews, and T.Kanade. "Face recognition across pose and illumination."
In S.Li and A.Jain, editors. Handbook of Face Recognition. Springer, 2005
Journal Papers

• R.Gross, I. Matthews, and S.Baker. "Active appearance models with occlusion." Image and
Vision Computing, 2006.

• R.Gross, I. Matthews, and S.Baker. "Generic vs. person specific active appearance models."
Image and Vision Computing, 23(12):1080-1093, 2005.

• R.Gross, I. Matthews, and S.Baker. "Appearance-based face recognition and light-fields." IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 26(4):449-465, 2004.
Conference Papers

• R.Gross, I. Matthews, and S.Baker. "Generic vs. person specific active appearance models."
In British Machine Vision Conference, 2004.

• R.Gross and V.Bra jovic. "An image pre-processing algorithm for illumination invariant face
recognition." In 4th International Conference on Audio-and Video Based Biometric Person
Authentication (AVBPA), 2003.

• R.Gross, I.Matthews, and S.Baker. "Fisher light-fields for face recognition across pose and il-
lumination." In 24th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM),
2002.

• R.Gross, I.Matthews, and S.Baker. "Eigen light-fields and face recognition across pose." In 5th
International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2002.

• R.Gross, J.Yang, and A.Waibel. "Face recognition in a meeting room." In 4th International
Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2000.

• R.Gross, J.Yang, and A.Waibel. "Growing gaussian mixture models for pose invariant face
recognition." In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2000.

Workshop Papers

• R.Gross, L.Sweeney, F. de la Torre, and S.Baker. "Model-based face de-identification." In IEEE
Workshop on privacy research in vision, 2006.

• A.Acquisti and R.Gross. "I know what you did last summer: self-awareness, imagined com-
munities, and information sharing in an online social network." In Workshop on Privacy
Enhancing Technologies (PET), 2006.

• R.Gross and A.Acquisti. "Information revelation and privacy issues in social networking sites."
In Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2005.

• R.Gross, E.Airoldi, B.Malin, and L. Sweeney. "Integrating utility into face de-identification."
In Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), 2005.

• R.Gross, J.Shi and J.Cohn. "Quo vadis face recognition." In Third Workshop on Empirical
Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision, 2001.

Technical Reports

• S.Baker, R.Gross, and I.Matthews. Lucas-Kanade. "20 years on: A unifying framework: part
4: The choice of the error norm." Technical Report. CMU-RI-TR-04-14, Carnegie Mellon
University, 2004.

• S.Baker, R.Gross, and I.Matthews. Lucas-Kanade. "20 years on: A unifying framework: part
3: Allowing linear appearance variation." Technical Report. CMU-RI-TR-03-35, Carnegie
Mellon University, 2003.

• S.Baker, R.Gross, T.Ishikawa, and I.Matthews. Lucas-Kanade. "20 years on: A unifying frame-
work: part 2: The choice of the error norm." Technical Report. CMU-RI-TR-03-01, Carnegie
Mellon University, 2003.

© 2008 Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon University