Research Interests:
  • Face Recognition
  • Synthetic Facial Aging
  • Age Estimation
  • Gender Classification
  • Race Classification
  • Mobile Biometrics
Publications:
Books & Chapters
  1. Ricanek, K.; Sethuram, A.; Patterson E.K.; Albert, A.M.; and Boone E.L. (2009) Craniofacial aging. In: Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security. J.G. Voeller (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ.

  2. Albert, A.M.; Sethuram, A. and Ricanek, K. (2010) Implications of Adult Facial Aging Factors on Biometrics. In “Biometrics”, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-953-7619-X-X, Intech October 2010.

Full Refereed Articles
  1. Amrutha Sethuram, Karl Ricanek, Jason Saragih, Chris Boehnen, “ Facial Landmarking: Comparing Automatic Landmarking Methods with Applications in Soft Biometrics”, ECCV 2012

  2. Amrutha Sethuram, Jason Saragih, Karl Ricanek, Benjamin Barbour, “Extremely Dense Face Registration: Comparing Automatic Landmarking Algorithms for General and Ethno-Gender Models”, IEEE Conference on BTAS (2012)

  3. Amrutha Sethuram, Karl Ricanek and Eric Patterson. (2010) “A Comparative Study of Active Appearance Model Annotation Schemes for the Face”, accepted at “Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)”, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

  4. Amrutha Sethuram, Karl Ricanek, Eric Patterson,“A Hierarchical Approach to Facial Aging”, in the Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Workshop on AMFG, in association with the 23th IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, June. 2010.

  5. Eric Patterson, Amrutha Sethuram, Karl Ricanek, Fred Bingham, “Improvements in Active Appearance Models based Synthetic Age Progression for Adult Aging”, in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS), Washington, D.C., September, 2009. (Best poster presentation award)

  6. A. Sethuram, E. Patterson, K. Ricanek, and A. Rawls,“Improvements and Performance Evaluation Concerning Synthetic Age Progression and Face Recognition Affected by Adult Aging”, in the Proceedings of the Third IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), Sardinia Italy, June 2009.

  7. Karl Ricanek Jr, Eric Patterson, and Amrutha Sethuram, “Diachronic Review of Facial Aging: Mechanisms and Algorithms”, in the Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Robust Biometrics: Understanding the Science and Technology (ROBUST), Waikiki, Hawaii, October 2008.

  8. E. Patterson, A. Sethuram, M. Albert, K. Ricanek, and M. King, “Aspects of Age Variation in Facial Morphology Affecting Biometrics,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications, and Systems, Washington, D.C., September, 2007.

  9. E. Patterson, A. Sethuram, M. Albert, and K. Ricanek, “Comparison of Synthetic Face Aging to Age Progression by Forensic Sketch Artist,” Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, ACTA Press, pages 247-252, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, August, 2007.

  10. K. Ricanek, R.B. Wilkins, A. Sethuram, and E. Patterson, “A Novel Cognitive-Psychology Based Face Recognition System for Improved Identification Rates for the Problem of Age- Progression” Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, ACTA Press, pages 289-294, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, August, 2007.

  11. V. Shankar; B. V. Nagaraja; R. Balasubramaniam; Amrutha Shree S; Skanda N. Muthaiah, “System Design for Active Vibration Control of Aerospace Structures”, Proceedings of ISSS- SPIE 2002, International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2002