Dr. Karl Ricanek, Jr. (Associate Professor) curriculum vita Director of Face Aging Group (http://faceaginggroup.com) University of North Carolina Wilmington Computer Science Dept, CIS Building Rm. 2042 voice: (910) 962-4261 fax: (910) 962-7457 email: ricanekk AT uncw.edu facebook: ricanekk skype: karl.ricanek

Teaching

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3:40 - 4:30 pm, other times available upon request. Students may use Outlook to schedule appointments or email or call (x24261).

Fall 2011

• CSC-242 Computer Organization, Digital Logic, and Assembly, BR 165 M/W 2:00 – 3:40 pm (Blackboard)
  All course materials can be found on Blackboard (C).
• CSC-491 Directected Independent Study, CIS 2042/2035 R 2 pm.
• CSC-475/592 Biometrics, CIS 1006, T 3:30 – 5:15 pm. (Blackboard)
  

Prior Courses

Spring 2011

• CSC-242 Computer Organization, Digital Logic, and Assembly, BR 165 T/R 2:00 – 3:40 pm (calendar) (Blackboard)
  Final Exam: Thursday, May 5th 3 - 6 pm, Bear 165

Fall 2010

• CSC-275.02 Android Mobile Phone Development, CI Digital Arts Lab, T/R 11:00 – 12:15 pm (Blackboard (C))

• CSC-475/592 Biometrics, CIS 1006, T/R 3:30 – 4:45 pm. (calendar)
• CSC-591 Directed Independent Study
• CSC 591 Directed Independent Study

Spring 2010 (CIS Building Computer Lab Hours: Sun - Thurs 7 - 10 pm)

• CSC-133 Discrete Structures, CI 1012, T/R 8:00 – 9:40 am (calendar) (Blackboard (C))

• CSC-491 Directed Independent Study: Biometrics for Ugrads/Grads
• CSC-491 Directed Independent Study

Fall 2009

• CSC-242 Computer Organization, Digital Logic, and Assembly, CI 2006 M 9:00 – 10:40 am and WF 10 – 10:50 am (calendar)
  (Blog)

• CSC-595 Biometric Seminar, CI Conf Room Wed 9-9:50 am

Spring 2009

• CSC-100 Orientation to Computer Science, CI 1008, F 10:00 – 10:50 am
• CSC-342 Operating Systems, CI 1006, MWF  11:00 - 11:50 am
• CSC-591 Directed Independent Study: Face Detection and Recognition with in Face Book (tm)

• CSC-594 Capstone Project: Advancement of Academic Research at UNCW
• CSC-599 Thesis: Using 3D Video Game Scenarios and Artificial Neural Networks to Classify Brain States for a Brain Computer Interface

Fall 2008

• CSC-242 Computer Organization, Digital Logic, and Assembly, CI 2006 M 9:00 – 10:40 am and WF 10 – 10:50 am
• CSC-520 Digital Image Processing, CI 1006, TR  4:30-5:45 pm
• CSC-591 Directed Independent Study: Virtualized Computing Implementation for Academic Research Computing

• CSC-591 Directed Independent Study: Technology Transfer to Social Networking Sites

Spring 2008

• CSC-242 Computer Organization, Digital Logic, and Assembly, CI 2006 TR 3-4:40 pm
• CSC-577   Pattern Recognition, CI 1006, T  6-8:40 pm
• CSC-491  Directed Independent Study: Analysis and Evaluation of Iris Biometric

Fall 2007
CSC-105-14 "Introduction to Computers and Computing Applications" BR 165 MWF 2-2:50 pm

• CSC-242-01 "Computer Organization, Digital Logic, and Assembly" CI 2006 MW 9-10:40 am
• CSC-495-01 "Seminar in Computer Science" CI 1006 F 10-10:50 am

Presentations

• IEEE ROBUST (Biometric) Workshop, November 2-5 2008, Diachronic Review of Facial Aging: Mechanisms and Algorithms.

• Guest lecture MIS 534 (Information Security) Spring 2008, Biometrics, Security, and You.

• Guest lecture CSC 100 Spring 2008, Biometrics for the Aging Face.
• UNCW Board of Trustees Fall 2007, The Aging Face: UNCW Face Recognition Research, Wilmington, NC 25 November 2007.
• UNCW Board of Trustees Fall 2007, Digital Face Aging System Movie, Wilmington, NC 25 November 2007.
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2007, Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis Using a Bayesian Framework, Orlando, Florida 13-16 August 2007. 
• International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing 2006, Craniofacial Aging Impacts on the Eigenface Biometric, Palma de Majorca, Spain, August 2006.
• International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing 2006, Automatic Representation of Adult Aging in Facial Images, Palma de Majorca, Spain, August 2006.
• IEEE International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition 2006, Southampton, UK
• UNCW Visitation Day 2006: Many Faces of Computer Science
• ACM Chapter Wilmington: Biometrics with Topics in Face Recognition
• HICS 2005:  Statistical Measures for Face Recognition

Research

Age estimation, Gender and Race Classification, Biometric Systems: Face Recognition, Ocular / Periocular, Iris, Forensic Face
Computer & Machine Vision (image recognition to precision metrology systems)
Machine Intelligence (neural networks, mean field annealing, evolutionary systems, etc.)

See www.faceaginggroup.com to learn more about my research, publications, and contracts in the Biometrics arena.

Computer Science Dept.
UNCW