Patents by Inventor Benjamin S. Riggan

Benjamin S. Riggan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230334899
    Abstract: A method and system for cross-spectrum face recognition is disclosed. The system for off-pose cross-spectrum to frontal visible face matching, which used modified base architectures to extract image representations along with a new sub-network to simultaneously learn pose and domain invariance using new joint-loss function that combines proposed pose-correction and cross-spectrum losses. The system and method demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art domain adaptation methods not only on pose conditions, but also on baseline and varying expressions. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Riggan, Cedric Nimpa Fondje
  • Patent number: 9671953
    Abstract: Systems and methods using drawings as security information are disclosed. According to an aspect, a computing device may include a touchscreen display configured to receive information for drawing a security picture. Further, the computing device may include a security manager configured to determine one or more characteristics associated with input of the gesture information. The security manager may also be configured to authenticate a user based on the drawn security picture and the one or more characteristics associated with input of the gesture information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Cliff Xiaogang Wang, Wesley E. Snyder, Benjamin S. Riggan
  • Publication number: 20140250522
    Abstract: Systems and methods using drawings as security information are disclosed. According to an aspect, a computing device may include a touchscreen display configured to receive information for drawing a security picture. Further, the computing device may include a security manager configured to determine one or more characteristics associated with input of the gesture information. The security manager may also be configured to authenticate a user based on the drawn security picture and the one or more characteristics associated with input of the gesture information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY ATTN: RDRL-LOC-1
    Inventors: Cliff Xiaogang Wang, Wesley E. Snyder, Benjamin S. Riggan