Thomas Swearingen

Grad Student at MSU.

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Last month we bid farewell to Achsah Ledala as she finished her master’s degree. Congrats Achsah and good luck in Boston!

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Belated congratulations to @vmirly for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on the topic of Face Privacy.

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Two of our Ph.D. students recently defended their dissertations, Sudipta Banerjee on image forensics and @chowdh51 on speaker recognition. Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Banerjee and Dr. Chowdhury!

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Bidding farewell to Yuantao Feng over Zoom as he heads back home from MSU!

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Dr. Ross quoted in @NewYorker on #facerecognition and #privacy https://t.co/ibrFMciQsf #biometrics #adversarial

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Last week, our lab participated at the @IEEEBiometrics #BTAS2019. Sudipta Banerjee presented 2 papers on Image Forensics and Cunjian Chen co-organized a tutorial on Heterogeneous Face Recognition.

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On Friday, we said farewell to Vedrana Krivokuća from @Idiap_ch in Switzerland. Thanks for visiting our lab and collaborating with us Vedrana!

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We were happy to host @ABalowski from @GRPublicSchools in our lab as part of the @NSF RET program. His work was on the topic of iris spoofing. #biometrics #iris #science #spoofing

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Last night we celebrated the graduation of @ProfDBob after the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Dr. Bobeldyk!

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Today @missrdale presented her research “Leveraging Auto-Tuned Models in a Fusion Framework for Stem Cell Detection” at the first @RLadiesELansing Women in Data Science Symposium here at @michiganstateu. #WiDSEL2019 #AutoML

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Congrats to Sudipta Banerjee, @vmirly, and Dr. Ross on winning the best paper award at #ISBA2019 for their work on iris sensor spoofing. You can read the paper at https://t.co/UsfJ6kizH2 #biometrics #spoofing #iris #ImageForensics

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Today @vmirly presented his work with @rasbt and Arun Ross on soft-biometric privacy via semi-adversarial networks at the Ann Arbor Deep Learning Event. #privacy #biometrics #a2dlearn4 #a2dlearn

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Last week, @ProfDBob and @vmirly presented their work on predicting attributes from iris and biometric privacy at #WACV2019. Find their papers at https://t.co/XGjXYT3urV. #biometrics #privacy

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Tonight we celebrated the last week of our visiting student Olly Styles from @warwickuni. Thanks for visiting our lab for the last 3 months Olly!

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Could a fake fingerprint potentially fool your smartphone’s touch-based authentication system? Here's what a research team from #MSU and NYU, that includes CSE Professor Arun Ross, has found. https://t.co/PGMwEkdtbO

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Machine learning masters the fingerprint to fool biometric systems https://t.co/T2oIVlY1Pj #Biometrics #fingerprints #deepfakes

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Our paper on DeepMasterPrints received Best Paper Award at BTAS 2018. https://t.co/u8yz4xo5SO Collaboration between @iPRoBeLab and @nyutandon. Work was also discussed by the media: https://t.co/RdELIOpkxM
https://t.co/rbxQncU76w #fingerprints #deepfakes

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Our paper on fusing face and voice was presented at ICPR 2018 in Beijing, China: https://t.co/PUJbpAo3qy. The MSU-AVIS dataset can be downloaded from https://t.co/7kGmmKt038 #icpr2018 #Biometrics #FaceRecognition #SpeakerRecognition

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Cunjian Chen, Antitza Dantcheva, @thswear, and Dr. Ross performed a study to explore if makeup can be used to impersonate someone. Check out a video we made about that study here https://t.co/63PreTJFDN. #biometrics

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"It is likely that some of the data that we've provided in the past will come to haunt us.” @michiganstateu expert discusses risks associated with facial recognition.

https://t.co/lYrF6ivznY via @WSJ