My research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing, focused on biometric applications. I am currently working on fingerprint liveness detection.

Publications

• M. S. Varges, A. N. Marana, and A. A. Paulino, "On the importance of using high resolution images, third level features and sequence of images for fingerprint spoof detection", ICASSP, Brisbane, Australia, April 19-24, 2015. [pdf]

• A. A. Paulino, "Contributions to Biometric Recognition: Matching Identical Twins and Latent Fingerprints", Ph.D. Thesis, 2013. [pdf]

• A. A. Paulino, E. Liu, K. Cao, and A. K. Jain, "Latent Fingerprint Indexing: Fusion of Level 1 and Level 2 Features", BTAS, Washington, D.C., Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2013. [pdf]

• A. A. Paulino, J. Feng, and A. K. Jain, "Latent Fingerprint Matching using Descriptor-Based Hough Transform", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 31-45, January 2013. [pdf]

• A. A. Paulino, J. Feng, and A. K. Jain, "Latent Fingerprint Matching using Descriptor-Based Hough Transform", IJCB, Washington, DC, Oct. 11-13, 2011. [pdf]

• B. Klare, A. A. Paulino, and A. K. Jain, "Analysis of Facial Features in Identical Twins", IJCB, Washington, DC, Oct. 11-13, 2011. [pdf]

• A. A. Paulino, A. K. Jain, and J. Feng, "Latent Fingerprint Matching: Fusion of Manually Marked and Derived Minutiae," SIBGRAPI, Gramado, Brazil, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2010. Best Student Paper Award [pdf]

• Z. Sun, A. A. Paulino, J. Feng, Z. Chai, T. Tan, A. K. Jain, "A Study of Multibiometric Traits of Identical Twins," Proc of SPIE, Vol. 7667, 76670T, April 2010. [pdf]

Posters/Presentations

• "Latent Fingerprint Matching using Descriptor-Based Hough Transform", IJCB, Washington, DC, Oct. 11-13, 2011. [poster]

• "Latent Fingerprint Matching: Fusion of Manually Marked and Derived Minutiae," SIBGRAPI, Gramado, Brazil, Aug. 31st, 2010. [slides]

• "Multibiometric Traits of Identical Twins," IAI Conference, Spokane, WA, July 16th, 2010. [slides]