Pioneers in AI Systems
4/13/20

Professor Govindaraju's work in handwriting recognition was at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the United States Postal Service.

Face and Facial Expressions
3/30/22
We are creating a new composite biometric that includes the static face appearance features as well as the behavioral expression features that will, in remote authentication applications, verify the humanness, liveness, and the identity of a user in a single interaction.
Historical Documents
3/30/22
We are exploring the development of computational methodologies and applications that will enable user-friendly digital access to literary and historical document images in Sanskrit.
Web Security
11/9/19
We are developing new technologies to beat the spambots by exploiting the difficulty that computers have with recognizing joined-up handwriting. The hope is that switching from text-based verification systems to systems that use computer-generated handwriting will make many web services more secure.
Cancelable Biometrics
3/30/22
Our focus is on Integrating Privacy Preserving Biometric Templates and Efficient Indexing Methods. While people are usually willing to submit their biometric information to government agencies, they are less likely to do so for commercial companies without a guarantee of privacy protection.
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Research Highlights

  • Best Paper Awards
    11/20/19

    Fei Xu and Bhargava Urala Kota, both PhD students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and part of UB’s Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS), received Best Paper Awards at the 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).

  • Mentoring Award
    11/9/19

    Dr. Govindaraju is the recipient of UB's “Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award.” The award is given to a member of the UB Graduate Faculty for "truly outstanding and sustained support and development of graduate students from course completion through research and subsequent career placement."

  • IPIAM 2019
    11/9/19

    CUBS is hosting the 8th International Program on Cyber Security for Banks and Financial Sector in Niagara Falls, NY.

  • Publication at BTAS
    11/6/19

    Congratulations to Devansh Arpit, Chetan Ramaiah, and Venu Govindaraju for their publication  "Subspace Learning via Low Rank Projections for Dimensionality Reduction" at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2016).

  • AI for Social Good
    11/6/19

    Govindaraju postal research highlighted in Keynote by Eric Horvitz at the Computing Community Consortium workshop on AI for Social Good. >> Watch on Youtube

  • Publication at CVPR
    11/9/19

    Congratulations to Rohit Pandey and Venu Govindaraju for their publication "Deep Secure Encoding for Face Template Protection" at the 2016 CVPR Biometrics Workshop.

  • Publications at ICML
    11/9/19

    Congratulations to Devansh Arpit, Yingbo Zhou, Bhargava U. Kota, Hung Ngo, and Venu Govindaraju for their publications in the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning titled "Why Regularized Auto-Encoders learn Sparse Representation?" and "Normalization Propagation: A Parametric Technique for Removing Internal Covariate Shift in Deep Networks"

  • Publication at DAS Workshop
    11/9/19

    Congratulations to Rathin R. Nair, Nishant Sankaran, Ifeoma Nwogu, and Venu Govindaraju for their publication "Understanding Line Plots Using Bayesian Network" at the 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems.

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