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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)

US20210279492A1. Skin reflectance image correction in biometric image capture. (link)

US20210279499A1. Detection of skin reflectance in biometric image capture. (link)

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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