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Cook, C. M., Howard, J. J., Rabbitt, L. R., Shuggi, I. M., Sirotin, Y. B., Tipton, J. L., & Vemury, A. R. (2024). Colorimetric skin tone scale for improved accuracy and reduced perceptual bias of human skin tone annotations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21005. (link)

I.M. Shuggi, J.J. Howard, L.R. Rabbitt, Y.B. Sirotin. A Framework for Human-Algorithm Teaming in Biometric Identity Workflows. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, October 2023, pages 523-528. (link)

Cook, C. M., Howard, J. J., Sirotin, Y. B., Tipton, J. L., & Vemury, A. R. (2023). Demographic effects across 158 facial recognition systems. Technical report, DHS. (link)

Barragan, D., Howard, J. J., Rabbitt L. R., & Sirotin, Y. B. (2022). COVID-19 Masks Increase the Influence of Face Recognition Algorithm Decisions on Human Decisions in Unfamiliar Face Matching. PLOS One. 17(11), e0277625. (link)

Howard, J. J., Sirotin, Y. B., Tipton, J. L., & Vemury, A. R. (2021). Reliability and Validity of Image-Based and Self-Reported Skin Phenotype Metrics. IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, doi: 10.1109/TBIOM.2021.3123550. (link)

Howard, J. J., Sirotin, Y. B., Tipton, J. L., & Vemury, A. R. (2021). Quantifying the Extent to Which Face and Gender Features Determine Identity in Commercial Face Recognition Algorithms.  DHS S&T Technical Paper Series. (link)

Howard, J. J., Rabbitt, L. R., & Sirotin, Y. B. (2020). Human-algorithm teaming in face recognition: How algorithm outcomes cognitively bias human decision-making. PloS One, 15(8), e0237855. (link)

Cook, C. M., Howard, J. J., Sirotin, Y. B., Tipton, J. L., & Vemury, A. R. (2019). Demographic Effects in Facial Recognition and Their Dependence on Image Acquisition: An Evaluation of Eleven Commercial Systems. IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 1(1), 32-41. (link)

Howard, J. J., Blanchard, A. J., Sirotin, Y. B., Hasselgren, J. A., & Vemury, A. R. (2018, October). An investigation of high-throughput biometric systems: Results of the 2018 department of homeland security biometric technology rally. In 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. (link)

Howard, J. J., Blanchard, A. J., Sirotin, Y. B., Hasselgren, J. A., & Vemury, A. R. (2018, October). On efficiency and effectiveness tradeoffs in high-throughput facial biometric recognition systems. In 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) (pp. 1-7). IEEE. (link)

Sirotin, Y. B., Hasselgren, J. A., & Vemury, A. (2016, September). Usability of biometric iris-capture methods in self-service applications. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 2019-2023). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications. (link)

Vemury, Arun, et al. "Methods and systems for establishing accurate phenotype metrics." U.S. Patent No. 12,067,750. 20 Aug. 2024. 

Vemury, Arun R., et al. "Skin reflectance image correction in biometric image capture." U.S. Patent No. 12,142,098. 12 Nov. 2024. 

Sirotin, Y. B., & Das, A. (2009). Anticipatory haemodynamic signals in sensory cortex not predicted by local neuronal activity. Nature, 457(7228), 475. (link)

Wojcik, P. T., & Sirotin, Y. B. (2014). Single scale for odor intensity in rat olfaction. Current Biology, 24(5), 568-573. (link)

Sirotin, Y. B., Costa, M. E., & Laplagne, D. A. (2014). Rodent ultrasonic vocalizations are bound to active sniffing behavior. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 8, 399. (link)

Shusterman, R., Sirotin, Y. B., Smear, M. C., Ahmadian, Y., & Rinberg, D. (2018). Sniff invariant odor coding. eNeuro, 5(6). (link)

Sirotin, Y. B., Hillman, E. M., Bordier, C., & Das, A. (2009). Spatiotemporal precision and hemodynamic mechanism of optical point spreads in alert primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(43), 18390-18395. (link)

Sirotin, Y. B., Kimball, D. R., & Kahana, M. J. (2005). Going beyond a single list: Modeling the effects of prior experience on episodic free recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(5), 787-805. (link)

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