Kevin W. Bowyer

Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor of Computer Science and Engineering



Professor Bowyer is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), for distinguished contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition, biometrics, object recognition and data science, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images, and Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition and biometrics, and received an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics. Professor Bowyer has served as Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Open-Set Iris Presentation Attack Detection (TIFS 2023)

Cyborg: Blending human saliency into the loss ... (WACV 2023)

Consistency and accuracy of CelebA attributes (2023 VDU Workshop Best Paper)

What causes "gender bias" in face recognition? (TIFS 2021)

The "criminality-from-face" illusion (TTS 2020)

Google Scholar profile

Aug 2023 - Ethics at Work podcast.

May 2021 - Promise and perils of face rec.

April 2021 - "Identity crisis"

April 2021 - "Recommended readings".

March 2021 - "QAnon is worse".

June 2020 - "AI phrenology".

Nov 2019 - Biometrics on smart phones.

Nov 2019 - stolen fingerprint?

Sep 2019 - Social impact of face rec.

Sep 2019 - Cataracts in iris rec.

Aug 2019 - biometric state of the art.

Jul 2019 - Face recognition security

Jul 2019 - Bias in face rec?

Apr 2019 - Bias in face rec?

Jan 2019 - Bias in face rec?

Feb 2018 - Face recog on mobile.

Jan 2018 - Comments on health from face image.

Nov 2017 - FaceTec 3D face.

Nov 2017 - Iris-based voter registration.

Nov 2017 - Iris-based voter registration.

Nov 2017 - Iris-based voter registration.

Nov 2017 - Iris-based voter registration.

Nov 2017 - Iris-based voter registration.

Oct 2017 - Comments on 3D face.

Sep 2017 - Comments on 3D face.

Feb 2017 - Comments on biometrics at the border.

Jan 2017 - Biometrics and identical twins.

Jan 2017 - Iris aging "debate".

Aug 2016 - Media forensics.

Aug 2016 - Iris aging "debate".

Aug 2016 - Pitfalls of "big data".

July 2016 - Biometrics and identical twins

June 2016 - comments on child fingerprints.

May 2016 - "Photoshopped" face images.

Apr 2016 - Newstalk FutureProof podcast.

Feb 2016 - Iris aging "debate".

Feb 2016 - Comments on "smart guns".

Jan 2016 - Comments on "smart guns".