Sunpreet Singh Arora

Director

Team: Identity and machine learning security

Research Areas: Biometrics, Security, and Machine Learning

Sunpreet Arora, Visa Research scientist.

Thesis

  1. Arora, S.S. (2016). Fingerprint Recognition: Contributions to Latent Matching and 3D Fingerprint Target Generation. Michigan State University, Ph.D. thesis.
  2. Arora, S.S. (2012). Emerging Challenges in Iris Recognition. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi, B.T. thesis.

Journals

  1. Engelsma, J., Arora, S. S., Jain, A. K., & Paulter, N. G. (2018). Universal 3D Wearable Fingerprint Targets: Advancing Fingerprint Reader Evaluations. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 13(6), 1564-1578.
  2. Arora, S. S.,  Jain, A. K., and Paulter, N. G. (2017) "Gold Fingers: 3D Targets for Evaluating Capacitive Readers", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 12 (9), 2067-2077.
  3. Jain, A. K., Arora, S. S., Cao, K., Best-Rowden, L., & Bhatnagar, A. (2017). Fingerprint Recognition of Young Children. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 12(7), 1501–1514.
  4. Arora, S. S., Cao, K., Jain, A. K., & Paulter, N. G. (2016). Design and Fabrication of 3D Fingerprint Targets. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11(10), 2284–2297.
  5. Arora, S. S., Liu, E., Cao, K., & Jain, A. K. (2014). Latent Fingerprint Matching: Performance Gain via Feedback from Exemplar Prints. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 36(12), 2452–2465.

Conferences

  1. Chugh, T., Arora, S., Jain, A., & Paulter, N. (2017). Benchmarking Fingerprint Minutiae Extractors. International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG).
  2. Arora, S. S., Jain, A. K., & Paulter, N. G. (2016). 3D Whole Hand Targets: Evaluating Slap and Contactless Fingerprint Readers. International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG).
  3. Jain, A. K., Arora, S. S., Best-Rowden, L., Cao, K., Sudhish, P. S., Bhatnagar, A., & Koda, Y. (2016). Giving Infants an Identity. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD).
  4. Arora, S., Cao, K., Jain, A., & Michaud, G. (2015). Crowd Powered Latent Fingerprint Identification: Fusing AFIS with Examiner Markups. International Conference on Biometrics (ICB).
  5. Jain, A. K., Cao, K., & Arora, S. S. (2014). Recognizing infants and toddlers using fingerprints: Increasing the vaccination coverage. IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB).
  6. Arora, S. S., Cao, K., Jain, A. K., & Paulter, N. G. (2014). 3D Fingerprint Phantoms. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
  7. Liu, E., Arora, S., Cao, K., & Jain, A. (2013). A Feedback Paradigm for Latent Fingerprint Matching, IAPR/IEEE 6th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB).
  8. Arora, S., Vatsa, M., Singh, R., & Jain, A. (2012). On Iris Camera Interoperability, IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS).
  9. Arora, S. S., Vatsa, M., Singh, R., & Jain, A. (2012). Iris recognition under alcohol influence: A preliminary study. IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB).

Technical reports

  1. Jain,, A. K., Pankanti, S., Nandakumar, K., Prabhakar, S., Arora, S. S., Namboodiri, A. M., & Ross, S. (2018). Global ID: Biometrics for Billions of Identities. MSU Technical Report, MSU-CSE-18-2.
  2. Jain, A. K., Arora, S. S., Best-Rowden, L., Cao, K., Sudhish, P. S., & Bhatnagar, A. (2015). Biometrics for Child Vaccination and Welfare: Persistence of Fingerprint Recognition for Infants and Toddlers. MSU Technical Report, MSU-CSE-15-7.

Pending patents

  1. Arora, S. S., Wagner, K., Sheets, J., & Best-Rowden, L. (2019). A dynamic learning system for intelligent authentication. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2019014331. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  2. Starr, E., Olson, D. F., Dawson, A., Jimenez, J., Sisodiya, A.. … Lohtia, S. (2019). Authentication Based on Biometric Identification Parameter of an Individual for Payment Transaction. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2019013151. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  3. Wagner, K., Arora, S. S., & Best-Rowden, L. (2018). Privacy protecting de-duplication. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2018052393. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  4. Sheets, J. F., Wagner, K., Arora, S. S., Best-Rowden, L., & Jiang, C. (2018). Server-assisted privacy protecting biometric comparison. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2018043656. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  5. Sheets, J. F., Arora, S. S., Best-Rowden, L., & Wagner, K. (2018). Facial anti-spoofing method using variances in image properties. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2018041795. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  6. Arora, S. S., Wagner, K., & Sheets, J. F. (2018). Efficient hands-free interaction using biometrics. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2018044139. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  7. Blackhurst, K., Wagner, K., Sheets, J. F., Jiang, C., & Arora, S. S. (2018). Use of biometrics and privacy preserving methods to authenticate account holders online. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2018043872. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  8. Arora, S. S., Best-Rowden, L., & Wagner, K. (2018). Distributed biometric comparison framework. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2018023365. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  9. Arora, S. S., & Wagner, K. (2017). System, method and computer program product for authenticating identification documents. U.S. Patent No. PCT US2017054898. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.