Face Detection and Modeling for Recognition - Biometrics Research ...
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<strong>for</strong> providing the range datasets; to Dr. Wey-Shiuan Hwang <strong>for</strong> providing his face<br />
recognition software; <strong>and</strong> to Dennis Bond <strong>for</strong> his help in creating a graphical user<br />
interface <strong>for</strong> face editing.<br />
Thanks are also due to Cathy M. Davison, Linda Moore, Starr Portice, <strong>and</strong> Beverly<br />
J. Wallace <strong>for</strong> their assistance in the administrative tasks. Special thanks to all the<br />
Prippies: Lin Hong, Aditya Vailaya, Nicolae Duta, Salil Prabhakar, Dan Gutchess,<br />
Paul Albee, Arun Ross, Anoop Namboodiri, Silviu Minut, Umut Uludag, Xiaoguang<br />
Lu, Martin Law, Miguel Figueroa-Villanue, <strong>and</strong> Yilu Zhang <strong>for</strong> their help during my<br />
stay in the PRIP Lab in the Department of Computer Science <strong>and</strong> Engineering at<br />
MSU. I would also like to thank Michael E. Farmer <strong>for</strong> giving me an opportunity to<br />
work on human tracking research.<br />
I would like to thank Mark H. McCullen <strong>for</strong> mentoring me to be a teaching assistant<br />
in CSE232; Dr. Jeffrey A. Fessler at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,<br />
<strong>for</strong> his valuable help during my transfer to the Dept. of Computer Science at Michigan<br />
State University; <strong>and</strong> Dr. Yung-Nien Sun <strong>and</strong> Dr. Chin-Hsing Chen in Taiwan<br />
<strong>for</strong> their encouragement <strong>and</strong> spiritual support.<br />
Special thanks to NASA, Philips<br />
<strong>Research</strong>-USA, Eaton corporation, <strong>and</strong> ONR (grant NO. N00014-01-1-0266) <strong>for</strong> their<br />
financial support during my Ph.D studies.<br />
Finally, but not the least, I would like to thank my parents, my wife, Dr. Pei-jing<br />
Li, <strong>and</strong> my son, Alan, <strong>for</strong> all the happiness they have shared with me.<br />
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