Aditya Nigam

Geetanjali Sharma, Gaurav Jaswal, Aditya Nigam et al.

Iris authentication algorithms have achieved impressive recognition performance, making them highly promising for real-world applications such as border control, citizen identification, and both criminal investigations and commercial systems. However, their robustness is still challenged by variations in rotation, scale, specular reflections, and defocus blur. In addition, most existing approaches rely on straightforward point-to-point comparisons, typically using cosine or L2 distance, without effectively leveraging the spatio-spatial-temporal structure of iris patterns. To address these limitations, we propose a novel and generalized matching pipeline that learns rich spatio-spatial-temporal representations of iris features. Our approach first splits each iris image along one dimension, generating a sequence of sub-images that serve as input to a 3D-CNN, enabling the network to capture both spatial and spatio-spatial-temporal cues. To further enhance the modeling of spatio-spatial-temporal feature dynamics, we train the model in curriculum manner. This design allows the network to embed temporal dependencies directly into the feature space, improving discriminability in the deep metric domain. The framework is trained end-to-end with triplet and ArcFace loss in a curriculum manner, enforcing highly discriminative embeddings despite challenges like rotation, scale, reflections, and blur. This design yields a robust and generalizable solution for iris authentication.Github code: https://github.com/GeetanjaliGTZ/CLRecogEye

Abhishek Tandon, Geetanjali Sharma, Gaurav Jaswal et al.

Recent studies have emphasized the potential of forehead-crease patterns as an alternative for face, iris, and periocular recognition, presenting contactless and convenient solutions, particularly in situations where faces are covered by surgical masks. However, collecting forehead data presents challenges, including cost and time constraints, as developing and optimizing forehead verification methods requires a substantial number of high-quality images. To tackle these challenges, the generation of synthetic biometric data has gained traction due to its ability to protect privacy while enabling effective training of deep learning-based biometric verification methods. In this paper, we present a new framework to synthesize forehead-crease image data while maintaining important features, such as uniqueness and realism. The proposed framework consists of two main modules: a Subject-Specific Generation Module (SSGM), based on an image-to-image Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model (BBDM), which learns a one-to-many mapping between image pairs to generate identity-aware synthetic forehead creases corresponding to real subjects, and a Subject-Agnostic Generation Module (SAGM), which samples new synthetic identities with assistance from the SSGM. We evaluate the diversity and realism of the generated forehead-crease images primarily using the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and the Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). In addition, we assess the utility of synthetically generated forehead-crease images using a forehead-crease verification system (FHCVS). The results indicate an improvement in the verification accuracy of the FHCVS by utilizing synthetic data.

Anoushkrit Goel, Simroop Singh, Ankita Joshi et al.

White Matter Tract Segmentation is imperative for studying brain structural connectivity, neurological disorders and neurosurgery. This task remains complex, as tracts differ among themselves, across subjects and conditions, yet have similar 3D structure across hemispheres and subjects. To address these challenges, we propose TrackletGPT, a language-like GPT framework which reintroduces sequential information in tokens using tracklets. TrackletGPT generalises seamlessly across datasets, is fully automatic, and encodes granular sub-streamline segments, Tracklets, scaling and refining GPT models in Tractography Segmentation. Based on our experiments, TrackletGPT outperforms state-of-the-art methods on average DICE, Overlap and Overreach scores on TractoInferno and HCP datasets, even on inter-dataset experiments.

Ankita Joshi, Ashutosh Sharma, Anoushkrit Goel et al.

Tractography plays a pivotal role in the non-invasive reconstruction of white matter fiber pathways, providing vital information on brain connectivity and supporting precise neurosurgical planning. Although traditional methods relied mainly on classical deterministic and probabilistic approaches, recent progress has benefited from supervised deep learning (DL) and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to improve tract reconstruction. A persistent challenge in tractography is accurately reconstructing white matter tracts while minimizing spurious connections. To address this, we propose TractRLFusion, a novel GPT-based policy fusion framework that integrates multiple RL policies through a data-driven fusion strategy. Our method employs a two-stage training data selection process for effective policy fusion, followed by a multi-critic fine-tuning phase to enhance robustness and generalization. Experiments on HCP, ISMRM, and TractoInferno datasets demonstrate that TractRLFusion outperforms individual RL policies as well as state-of-the-art classical and DRL methods in accuracy and anatomical reliability.

Matej Vitek, Darian Tomašević, Abhijit Das et al.

This paper presents a summary of the 2025 Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC), which focused on the development of privacy-preserving sclera-segmentation models trained using synthetically generated ocular images. The goal of the competition was to evaluate how well models trained on synthetic data perform in comparison to those trained on real-world datasets. The competition featured two tracks: $(i)$ one relying solely on synthetic data for model development, and $(ii)$ one combining/mixing synthetic with (a limited amount of) real-world data. A total of nine research groups submitted diverse segmentation models, employing a variety of architectural designs, including transformer-based solutions, lightweight models, and segmentation networks guided by generative frameworks. Experiments were conducted across three evaluation datasets containing both synthetic and real-world images, collected under diverse conditions. Results show that models trained entirely on synthetic data can achieve competitive performance, particularly when dedicated training strategies are employed, as evidenced by the top performing models that achieved $F_1$ scores of over $0.8$ in the synthetic data track. Moreover, performance gains in the mixed track were often driven more by methodological choices rather than by the inclusion of real data, highlighting the promise of synthetic data for privacy-aware biometric development. The code and data for the competition is available at: https://github.com/dariant/SSBC_2025.

Geetanjali Sharma, Gaurav Jaswal, Aditya Nigam et al.

Biometric authentication, which utilizes contactless features, such as forehead patterns, has become increasingly important for identity verification and access management. The proposed method is based on learning a 3D spatio-spatial temporal convolution to create detailed pictures of forehead patterns. We introduce a new CNN model called the Forehead Spatio-Spatial Temporal Network (FH-SSTNet), which utilizes a 3D CNN architecture with triplet loss to capture distinguishing features. We enhance the model's discrimination capability using Arcloss in the network's head. Experimentation on the Forehead Creases version 1 (FH-V1) dataset, containing 247 unique subjects, demonstrates the superior performance of FH-SSTNet compared to existing methods and pre-trained CNNs like ResNet50, especially for forehead-based user verification. The results demonstrate the superior performance of FH-SSTNet for forehead-based user verification, confirming its effectiveness in identity authentication.

Anoushkrit Goel, Bipanjit Singh, Ankita Joshi et al.

White matter tract segmentation is crucial for studying brain structural connectivity and neurosurgical planning. However, segmentation remains challenging due to issues like class imbalance between major and minor tracts, structural similarity, subject variability, symmetric streamlines between hemispheres etc. To address these challenges, we propose TractoEmbed, a modular multi-level embedding framework, that encodes localized representations through learning tasks in respective encoders. In this paper, TractoEmbed introduces a novel hierarchical streamline data representation that captures maximum spatial information at each level i.e. individual streamlines, clusters, and patches. Experiments show that TractoEmbed outperforms state-of-the-art methods in white matter tract segmentation across different datasets, and spanning various age groups. The modular framework directly allows the integration of additional embeddings in future works.

Abhishek Tandon, Geetanjali Sharma, Gaurav Jaswal et al.

We propose a trait-specific image generation method that models forehead creases geometrically using B-spline and Bézier curves. This approach ensures the realistic generation of both principal creases and non-prominent crease patterns, effectively constructing detailed and authentic forehead-crease images. These geometrically rendered images serve as visual prompts for a diffusion-based Edge-to-Image translation model, which generates corresponding mated samples. The resulting novel synthetic identities are then used to train a forehead-crease verification network. To enhance intra-subject diversity in the generated samples, we employ two strategies: (a) perturbing the control points of B-splines under defined constraints to maintain label consistency, and (b) applying image-level augmentations to the geometric visual prompts, such as dropout and elastic transformations, specifically tailored to crease patterns. By integrating the proposed synthetic dataset with real-world data, our method significantly improves the performance of forehead-crease verification systems under a cross-database verification protocol.

Geetanjali Sharma, Abhishek Tandon, Gaurav Jaswal et al.

Iris recognition technology plays a critical role in biometric identification systems, but their performance can be affected by variations in iris pigmentation. In this work, we investigate the impact of iris pigmentation on the efficacy of biometric recognition systems, focusing on a comparative analysis of blue and dark irises. Data sets were collected using multiple devices, including P1, P2, and P3 smartphones [4], to assess the robustness of the systems in different capture environments [19]. Both traditional machine learning techniques and deep learning models were used, namely Open-Iris, ViT-b, and ResNet50, to evaluate performance metrics such as Equal Error Rate (EER) and True Match Rate (TMR). Our results indicate that iris recognition systems generally exhibit higher accuracy for blue irises compared to dark irises. Furthermore, we examined the generalization capabilities of these systems across different iris colors and devices, finding that while training on diverse datasets enhances recognition performance, the degree of improvement is contingent on the specific model and device used. Our analysis also identifies inherent biases in recognition performance related to iris color and cross-device variability. These findings underscore the need for more inclusive dataset collection and model refinement to reduce bias and promote equitable biometric recognition across varying iris pigmentation and device configurations.

Pushapdeep Singh, Jyoti Nigam, Medicherla Vamsi Krishna et al.

While electroencephalography (EEG) has been a popular modality for neural decoding, it often involves task specific acquisition of the EEG data. This poses challenges for the development of a unified pipeline to learn embeddings for various EEG signal classification, which is often involved in various decoding tasks. Traditionally, EEG classification involves the step of signal preprocessing and the use of deep learning techniques, which are highly dependent on the number of EEG channels in each sample. However, the same pipeline cannot be applied even if the EEG data is collected for the same experiment but with different acquisition devices. This necessitates the development of a framework for learning EEG embeddings, which could be highly beneficial for tasks involving multiple EEG samples for the same task but with varying numbers of EEG channels. In this work, we propose EEG Adapter (EAD), a flexible framework compatible with any signal acquisition device. More specifically, we leverage a recent EEG foundational model with significant adaptations to learn robust representations from the EEG data for the classification task. We evaluate EAD on two publicly available datasets achieving state-of-the-art accuracies 99.33% and 92.31% on EEG-ImageNet and BrainLat respectively. This illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed framework across diverse EEG datasets containing two different perception tasks: stimulus and resting-state EEG signals. We also perform zero-shot EEG classification on EEG-ImageNet task to demonstrate the generalization capability of the proposed approach.

Anoushkrit Goel, Simroop Singh, Ankita Joshi et al.

White matter bundle segmentation is crucial for studying brain structural connectivity, neurosurgical planning, and neurological disorders. White Matter Segmentation remains challenging due to structural similarity in streamlines, subject variability, symmetry in 2 hemispheres, etc. To address these challenges, we propose TractoGPT, a GPT-based architecture trained on streamline, cluster, and fusion data representations separately. TractoGPT is a fully-automatic method that generalizes across datasets and retains shape information of the white matter bundles. Experiments also show that TractoGPT outperforms state-of-the-art methods on average DICE, Overlap and Overreach scores. We use TractoInferno and 105HCP datasets and validate generalization across dataset.

Ankita Joshi, Ashutosh Sharma, Anoushkrit Goel et al.

Fiber tractography is a cornerstone of neuroimaging, enabling the detailed mapping of the brain's white matter pathways through diffusion MRI. This is crucial for understanding brain connectivity and function, making it a valuable tool in neurological applications. Despite its importance, tractography faces challenges due to its complexity and susceptibility to false positives, misrepresenting vital pathways. To address these issues, recent strategies have shifted towards deep learning, utilizing supervised learning, which depends on precise ground truth, or reinforcement learning, which operates without it. In this work, we propose Tract-RLFormer, a network utilizing both supervised and reinforcement learning, in a two-stage policy refinement process that markedly improves the accuracy and generalizability across various data-sets. By employing a tract-specific approach, our network directly delineates the tracts of interest, bypassing the traditional segmentation process. Through rigorous validation on datasets such as TractoInferno, HCP, and ISMRM-2015, our methodology demonstrates a leap forward in tractography, showcasing its ability to accurately map the brain's white matter tracts.

Ranjeet Ranjan Jha, Abhishek Bhardwaj, Devin Garg et al.

Resting-state fMRI is commonly used for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by using network-based functional connectivity. It has been shown that ASD is associated with brain regions and their inter-connections. However, discriminating based on connectivity patterns among imaging data of the control population and that of ASD patients' brains is a non-trivial task. In order to tackle said classification task, we propose a novel deep learning architecture (MHATC) consisting of multi-head attention and temporal consolidation modules for classifying an individual as a patient of ASD. The devised architecture results from an in-depth analysis of the limitations of current deep neural network solutions for similar applications. Our approach is not only robust but computationally efficient, which can allow its adoption in a variety of other research and clinical settings.

Avantika Singh, Chirag Vashist, Pratyush Gaurav et al.

Massive biometric deployments are pervasive in today's world. But despite the high accuracy of biometric systems, their computational efficiency degrades drastically with an increase in the database size. Thus, it is essential to index them. An ideal indexing scheme needs to generate codes that preserve the intra-subject similarity as well as inter-subject dissimilarity. Here, in this paper, we propose an iris indexing scheme using real-valued deep iris features binarized to iris bar codes (IBC) compatible with the indexing structure. Firstly, for extracting robust iris features, we have designed a network utilizing the domain knowledge of ordinal filtering and learning their nonlinear combinations. Later these real-valued features are binarized. Finally, for indexing the iris dataset, we have proposed a loss that can transform the binary feature into an improved feature compatible with the Multi-Index Hashing scheme. This loss function ensures the hamming distance equally distributed among all the contiguous disjoint sub-strings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work in the iris indexing domain that presents an end-to-end iris indexing structure. Experimental results on four datasets are presented to depict the efficacy of the proposed approach.

Aman Kamboj, Rajneesh Rani, Aditya Nigam et al.

Biometric-based personal authentication systems have seen a strong demand mainly due to the increasing concern in various privacy and security applications. Although the use of each biometric trait is problem dependent, the human ear has been found to have enough discriminating characteristics to allow its use as a strong biometric measure. To locate an ear in a 2D side face image is a challenging task, numerous existing approaches have achieved significant performance, but the majority of studies are based on the constrained environment. However, ear biometrics possess a great level of difficulties in the unconstrained environment, where pose, scale, occlusion, illuminations, background clutter etc. varies to a great extent. To address the problem of ear localization in the wild, we have proposed two high-performance region of interest (ROI) segmentation models UESegNet-1 and UESegNet-2, which are fundamentally based on deep convolutional neural networks and primarily uses contextual information to localize ear in the unconstrained environment. Additionally, we have applied state-of-the-art deep learning models viz; FRCNN (Faster Region Proposal Network) and SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detecor) for ear localization task. To test the model's generalization, they are evaluated on six different benchmark datasets viz; IITD, IITK, USTB-DB3, UND-E, UND-J2 and UBEAR, all of which contain challenging images. The performance of the models is compared on the basis of object detection performance measure parameters such as IOU (Intersection Over Union), Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-Score. It has been observed that the proposed models UESegNet-1 and UESegNet-2 outperformed the FRCNN and SSD at higher values of IOUs i.e. an accuracy of 100\% is achieved at IOU 0.5 on majority of the databases.

Preethi Srinivasan, Prabhjot Kaur, Aditya Nigam et al.

Long acquisition time (AQT) due to series acquisition of multi-modality MR images (especially T2 weighted images (T2WI) with longer AQT), though beneficial for disease diagnosis, is practically undesirable. We propose a novel deep network based solution to reconstruct T2W images from T1W images (T1WI) using an encoder-decoder architecture. The proposed learning is aided with semantic features by using multi-channel input with intensity values and gradient of image in two orthogonal directions. A reconstruction module (RM) augmenting the network along with a domain adaptation module (DAM) which is an encoder-decoder model built-in with sharp bottleneck module (SBM) is trained via modular training. The proposed network significantly reduces the total AQT with negligible qualitative artifacts and quantitative loss (reconstructs one volume in approximately 1 second). The testing is done on publicly available dataset with real MR images, and the proposed network shows (approximately 1dB) increase in PSNR over SOTA.

Abhigyan Khaund, Daksh Thapar, Aditya Nigam

Online garment shopping has gained many customers in recent years. Describing a dress using keywords does not always yield the proper results, which in turn leads to dissatisfaction of customers. A visual search based system will be enormously beneficent to the industry. Hence, we propose a framework that can retrieve similar clothes that can be found in an image. The first task is to extract the garment from the input image (street photo). There are various challenges for that, including pose, illumination, and background clutter. We use a Generative Adversarial Network for the task of retrieving the garment that the person in the image was wearing. It has been shown that GAN can retrieve the garment very efficiently despite the challenges of street photos. Finally, a siamese based matching system takes the retrieved cloth image and matches it with the clothes in the dataset, giving us the top k matches. We take a pre-trained inception-ResNet v1 module as a siamese network (trained using triplet loss for face detection) and fine-tune it on the shopping dataset using center loss. The dataset has been collected inhouse. For training the GAN, we use the LookBook dataset, which is publically available.

Geetika Arora, Ranjeet Ranjan Jha, Akash Agrawal et al.

Singular points of a fingerprint image are special locations having high curvature properties. They can play a pivotal role in fingerprint normalization and reliable feature extraction. Accurate and efficient extraction of a singular point plays a major role in successful fingerprint recognition and indexing. In this paper, a novel deep learning based architecture is proposed for one shot (end-to-end) singular point detection from an input fingerprint image. The model consists of a Macro-Localization Network and a Micro-Regression Network along with three stacked hourglass as a bottleneck. The proposed model has been tested on three databases viz. FVC2002 DB1_A, FVC2002 DB2_A and FPL30K and has been found to achieve true detection rate of 98.75%, 97.5% and 92.72% respectively, which is better than any other state-of-the-art technique.

Daksh Thapar, Gaurav Jaswal, Aditya Nigam

Current finger knuckle image recognition systems, often require users to place fingers' major or minor joints flatly towards the capturing sensor. To extend these systems for user non-intrusive application scenarios, such as consumer electronics, forensic, defence etc, we suggest matching the full dorsal fingers, rather than the major/ minor region of interest (ROI) alone. In particular, this paper makes a comprehensive study on the comparisons between full finger and fusion of finger ROI's for finger knuckle image recognition. These experiments suggest that using full-finger, provides a more elegant solution. Addressing the finger matching problem, we propose a CNN (convolutional neural network) which creates a $128$-D feature embedding of an image. It is trained via. triplet loss function, which enforces the L2 distance between the embeddings of the same subject to be approaching zero, whereas the distance between any 2 embeddings of different subjects to be at least a margin. For precise training of the network, we use dynamic adaptive margin, data augmentation, and hard negative mining. In distinguished experiments, the individual performance of finger, as well as weighted sum score level fusion of major knuckle, minor knuckle, and nail modalities have been computed, justifying our assumption to consider full finger as biometrics instead of its counterparts. The proposed method is evaluated using two publicly available finger knuckle image datasets i.e., PolyU FKP dataset and PolyU Contactless FKI Datasets.

Anshul Thakur, Daksh Thapar, Padmanabhan Rajan et al.

This paper proposes multiscale convolutional neural network (CNN)-based deep metric learning for bioacoustic classification, under low training data conditions. The proposed CNN is characterized by the utilization of four different filter sizes at each level to analyze input feature maps. This multiscale nature helps in describing different bioacoustic events effectively: smaller filters help in learning the finer details of bioacoustic events, whereas, larger filters help in analyzing a larger context leading to global details. A dynamic triplet loss is employed in the proposed CNN architecture to learn a transformation from the input space to the embedding space, where classification is performed. The triplet loss helps in learning this transformation by analyzing three examples, referred to as triplets, at a time where intra-class distance is minimized while maximizing the inter-class separation by a dynamically increasing margin. The number of possible triplets increases cubically with the dataset size, making triplet loss more suitable than the softmax cross-entropy loss in low training data conditions. Experiments on three different publicly available datasets show that the proposed framework performs better than existing bioacoustic classification frameworks. Experimental results also confirm the superiority of the triplet loss over the cross-entropy loss in low training data conditions

Avantika Singh, Gaurav Jaswal, Aditya Nigam

At present spoofing attacks via which biometric system is potentially vulnerable against a fake biometric characteristic, introduces a great challenge to recognition performance. Despite the availability of a broad range of presentation attack detection (PAD) or liveness detection algorithms, fingerprint sensors are vulnerable to spoofing via fake fingers. In such situations, finger dorsal images can be thought of as an alternative which can be captured without much user cooperation and are more appropriate for outdoor security applications. In this paper, we present a first feasibility study of spoofing attack scenarios on finger dorsal authentication system, which include four types of presentation attacks such as printed paper, wrapped printed paper, scan and mobile. This study also presents a CNN based spoofing attack detection method which employ state-of-the-art deep learning techniques along with transfer learning mechanism. We have collected 196 finger dorsal real images from 33 subjects, captured with a Lytro camera and also created a set of 784 finger dorsal spoofing images. Extensive experimental results have been performed that demonstrates the superiority of the proposed approach for various spoofing attacks.

Daksh Thapar, Gaurav Jaswal, Aditya Nigam et al.

Designing an end-to-end deep learning network to match the biometric features with limited training samples is an extremely challenging task. To address this problem, we propose a new way to design an end-to-end deep CNN framework i.e., PVSNet that works in two major steps: first, an encoder-decoder network is used to learn generative domain-specific features followed by a Siamese network in which convolutional layers are pre-trained in an unsupervised fashion as an autoencoder. The proposed model is trained via triplet loss function that is adjusted for learning feature embeddings in a way that minimizes the distance between embedding-pairs from the same subject and maximizes the distance with those from different subjects, with a margin. In particular, a triplet Siamese matching network using an adaptive margin based hard negative mining has been suggested. The hyper-parameters associated with the training strategy, like the adaptive margin, have been tuned to make the learning more effective on biometric datasets. In extensive experimentation, the proposed network outperforms most of the existing deep learning solutions on three type of typical vein datasets which clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed method.

Avantika Singh, Ashish Arora, Shreya Hasmukh Patel et al.

Present world has already been consistently exploring the fine edges of online and digital world by imposing multiple challenging problems/scenarios. Similar to physical world, personal identity management is very crucial in-order to provide any secure online system. Last decade has seen a lot of work in this area using biometrics such as face, fingerprint, iris etc. Still there exist several vulnerabilities and one should have to address the problem of compromised biometrics much more seriously, since they cannot be modified easily once compromised. In this work, we have proposed a secure cancelable finger dorsal template generation network (learning domain specific features) secured via. Bio-Hashing. Proposed system effectively protects the original finger dorsal images by withdrawing compromised template and reassigning the new one. A novel Finger-Dorsal Feature Extraction Net (FDFNet) has been proposed for extracting the discriminative features. This network is exclusively trained on trait specific features without using any kind of pre-trained architecture. Later Bio-Hashing, a technique based on assigning a tokenized random number to each user, has been used to hash the features extracted from FDFNet. To test the performance of the proposed architecture, we have tested it over two benchmark public finger knuckle datasets: PolyU FKP and PolyU Contactless FKI. The experimental results shows the effectiveness of the proposed system in terms of security and accuracy.

Aditya Sharma, Prabhjot Kaur, Aditya Nigam et al.

Increasing demand for high field magnetic resonance (MR) scanner indicates the need for high-quality MR images for accurate medical diagnosis. However, cost constraints, instead, motivate a need for algorithms to enhance images from low field scanners. We propose an approach to process the given low field (3T) MR image slices to reconstruct the corresponding high field (7T-like) slices. Our framework involves a novel architecture of a merged convolutional autoencoder with a single encoder and multiple decoders. Specifically, we employ three decoders with random initializations, and the proposed training approach involves selection of a particular decoder in each weight-update iteration for back propagation. We demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms some related contemporary methods in terms of performance and reconstruction time.

Shreyas Malakarjun Patil, Aditya Nigam, Arnav Bhavsar et al.

In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning architecture combining stacked Bi-directional LSTM and LSTMs with the Siamese network architecture for segmentation of brain fibers, obtained from tractography data, into anatomically meaningful clusters. The proposed network learns the structural difference between fibers of different classes, which enables it to classify fibers with high accuracy. Importantly, capturing such deep inter and intra class structural relationship also ensures that the segmentation is robust to relative rotation among test and training data, hence can be used with unregistered data. Our extensive experimentation over order of hundred-thousands of fibers show that the proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results, even in cases of large relative rotations between test and training data.

Tushar Gupta, Shreyas Malakarjun Patil, Mukkaram Tailor et al.

The segregation of brain fiber tractography data into distinct and anatomically meaningful clusters can help to comprehend the complex brain structure and early investigation and management of various neural disorders. We propose a novel stacked bidirectional long short-term memory(LSTM) based segmentation network, (BrainSegNet) for human brain fiber tractography data classification. We perform a two-level hierarchical classification a) White vs Grey matter (Macro) and b) White matter clusters (Micro). BrainSegNet is trained over three brain tractography data having over 250,000 fibers each. Our experimental evaluation shows that our model achieves state-of-the-art results. We have performed inter as well as intra class testing over three patient's brain tractography data and achieved a high classification accuracy for both macro and micro levels both under intra as well as inter brain testing scenario.

Avantika Singh, Vishesh Mistry, Dhananjay Yadav et al.

Iris serves as one of the best biometric modality owing to its complex, unique and stable structure. However, it can still be spoofed using fabricated eyeballs and contact lens. Accurate identification of contact lens is must for reliable performance of any biometric authentication system based on this modality. In this paper, we present a novel approach for detecting contact lens using a Generalized Hierarchically tuned Contact Lens detection Network (GHCLNet) . We have proposed hierarchical architecture for three class oculus classification namely: no lens, soft lens and cosmetic lens. Our network architecture is inspired by ResNet-50 model. This network works on raw input iris images without any pre-processing and segmentation requirement and this is one of its prodigious strength. We have performed extensive experimentation on two publicly available data-sets namely: 1)IIIT-D 2)ND and on IIT-K data-set (not publicly available) to ensure the generalizability of our network. The proposed architecture results are quite promising and outperforms the available state-of-the-art lens detection algorithms.

Daksh Thapar, Divyansh Aggarwal, Punjal Agarwal et al.

Biometric identification systems have become immensely popular and important because of their high reliability and efficiency. However person identification at a distance, still remains a challenging problem. Gait can be seen as an essential biometric feature for human recognition and identification. It can be easily acquired from a distance and does not require any user cooperation thus making it suitable for surveillance. But the task of recognizing an individual using gait can be adversely affected by varying view points making this task more and more challenging. Our proposed approach tackles this problem by identifying spatio-temporal features and performing extensive experimentation and training mechanism. In this paper, we propose a 3-D Convolution Deep Neural Network for person identification using gait under multiple view. It is a 2-stage network, in which we have a classification network that initially identifies the viewing point angle. After that another set of networks (one for each angle) has been trained to identify the person under a particular viewing angle. We have tested this network over CASIA-B publicly available database and have achieved state-of-the-art results. The proposed system is much more efficient in terms of time and space and performing better for almost all angles.

Ranjeet Ranjan Jha, Daksh Thapar, Shreyas Malakarjun Patil et al.

Digital human identity management, can now be seen as a social necessity, as it is essentially required in almost every public sector such as, financial inclusions, security, banking, social networking e.t.c. Hence, in today's rampantly emerging world with so many adversarial entities, relying on a single biometric trait is being too optimistic. In this paper, we have proposed a novel end-to-end, Unified Biometric ROI Segmentation Network (UBSegNet), for extracting region of interest from five different biometric traits viz. face, iris, palm, knuckle and 4-slap fingerprint. The architecture of the proposed UBSegNet consists of two stages: (i) Trait classification and (ii) Trait localization. For these stages, we have used a state of the art region based convolutional neural network (RCNN), comprising of three major parts namely convolutional layers, region proposal network (RPN) along with classification and regression heads. The model has been evaluated over various huge publicly available biometric databases. To the best of our knowledge this is the first unified architecture proposed, segmenting multiple biometric traits. It has been tested over around 5000 * 5 = 25,000 images (5000 images per trait) and produces very good results. Our work on unified biometric segmentation, opens up the vast opportunities in the field of multiple biometric traits based authentication systems.