Marina L. Gavrilova

Marina L. Gavrilova is an Associate Head and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary. Dr. Gavrilova research interests lie in the area of computational geometry, image processing, optimization, spatial and biometric modeling. Prof. Gavrilova is founder and co-director of two innovative research laboratories: the Biometric Technologies Laboratory: Modeling and Simulation and the SPARCS Laboratory for Spatial Analysis in Computational Sciences. Prof. Gavrilova publication list includes over 120 journal and conference papers, edited special issues, books and book chapters, including World Scientific Bestseller of the Month (2007) – “Image Pattern Recognition: Synthesis and Analysis in Biometric” and Springer book “Computational Intelligence: A Geometry-Based Approach”. Together with Dr. Kenneth Tan, Prof. Gavrilova founded ICCSA series of successful international events in 2001. She founded and chaired International Workshop on Computational Geometry and Applications since 2000, was Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Biometric Technologies BT 2004, Calgary; served as Overall Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering (ISVD) in 2006, was Organization Chair of WADS 2009 (Banff), and general chair of International Conference on Cyberworlds CW2011 (October 4-6, Banff, Canada). Prof. Gavrilova is an Editor-in-Chief of successful LNCS Transactions on Computational Science Journal, Springer-Verlag since 2007 and serves on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Computational Sciences and Engineering, CAD/CAM Journal and Journal of Biometrics. She has received numerous awards and was successful in obtaining major funding for her research program. Her research was profiled in newspaper and TV interviews, most recently being chosen together with other five outstanding Canadian scientists to be featured in National Museum of Civilization and National Film Canada production. Her greatest accomplishment, in her own words, is finding a delicate balance between a professional and personal life while striving to give her best to both. Together with her husband, Dr. Dmitri Gavrilov, she is a proud parent of two wonderful boys, Andrei and Artemy.

Publications

Multi-Modal Motion-Capture-Based Biometric Systems for Emergency Response and Patient Rehabilitation
Multi-Modal Motion-Capture-Based Biometric Systems for Emergency Response and Patient Rehabilitation
Marina L. Gavrilova, Ferdous Ahmed, A. S. M. Hossain Bari, Ruixuan Liu, Tiantian Liu, Yann Maret, Brandon Kawah Sieu, Tanuja Sudhakar. © 2021. 26 pages.
This chapter outlines the current state of the art of Kinect sensor gait and activity authentication. It also focuses on emotional cues that could be observed from human body and...
Cognitive Intelligence: Deep Learning, Thinking, and Reasoning by Brain-Inspired Systems
Cognitive Intelligence: Deep Learning, Thinking, and Reasoning by Brain-Inspired Systems
Yingxu Wang, Bernard Carlos Widrow, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Newton Howard, Sally Wood, Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar, Gerhard Budin, Christine W. Chan, Rodolfo A. Fiorini, Marina L. Gavrilova, Duane F. Shell. © 2020. 24 pages.
The theme of IEEE ICCI*CC'16 on Cognitive Informatics (CI) and Cognitive Computing (CC) was on cognitive computers, big data cognition, and machine learning. CI and CC are a...
Quality Estimation for Facial Biometrics
Quality Estimation for Facial Biometrics
Sanjida Nasreen Tumpa, Andrei Dmitri Gavrilov, Omar Zatarain Duran, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2020. 23 pages.
Over past decade, behavioral biometric systems based on face recognition became leading commercial systems that meet the need for fast and efficient confirmation of a...
Social Behavioral Biometrics in Smart Societies
Social Behavioral Biometrics in Smart Societies
Sanjida Nasreen Tumpa, K. N. Pavan Kumar, Madeena Sultana, Gee-Sern Jison Hsu, Orly Yadid-Pecht, Svetlana Yanushkevich, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2020. 24 pages.
Smart societies of the future will increasingly rely on harvesting rich information generated by day-to-day activities and interactions of its inhabitants. Among the multitude of...
Multi-Modal Motion-Capture-Based Biometric Systems for Emergency Response and Patient Rehabilitation
Multi-Modal Motion-Capture-Based Biometric Systems for Emergency Response and Patient Rehabilitation
Marina L. Gavrilova, Ferdous Ahmed, A. S. M. Hossain Bari, Ruixuan Liu, Tiantian Liu, Yann Maret, Brandon Kawah Sieu, Tanuja Sudhakar. © 2019. 25 pages.
This chapter outlines the current state of the art of Kinect sensor gait and activity authentication. It also focuses on emotional cues that could be observed from human body and...
Cognitive Informatics: Towards Cognitive Machine Learning and Autonomous Knowledge Manipulation
Cognitive Informatics: Towards Cognitive Machine Learning and Autonomous Knowledge Manipulation
Yingxu Wang, Newton Howard, Janusz Kacprzyk, Ophir Frieder, Phillip Sheu, Rodolfo A. Fiorini, Marina L. Gavrilova, Shushma Patel, Jun Peng, Bernard Widrow. © 2018. 13 pages.
Cognitive Informatics (CI) is a contemporary field of basic studies on the brain, computational intelligence theories and underpinning denotational mathematics. Its applications...
Biometric Pattern Recognition from Social Media Aesthetics
Biometric Pattern Recognition from Social Media Aesthetics
Samiul Azam, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2017. 16 pages.
Online social media (OSN) has witnessed a significant growth over past decade. Millions of people now share their thoughts, emotions, preferences, opinions and aesthetic...
Regression-Based Automated Facial Image Quality Model
Regression-Based Automated Facial Image Quality Model
Fatema Tuz Zohra, Andrei D. Gavrilov, Omar A. Zatarain, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2017. 19 pages.
Nowadays, biometric technologies became reliable and widespread means of unobtrusive user authentication in a variety of real-world applications. The performance of an automated...
Human Identification Using Gait Skeletal Joint Distance Features
Human Identification Using Gait Skeletal Joint Distance Features
Md Wasiur Rahman, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2017. 15 pages.
Gait not only defines the way a person walks, but also provides insights on an individual's daily routine, mental state or even cognitive function. The importance of...
Cognitive Intelligence: Deep Learning, Thinking, and Reasoning by Brain-Inspired Systems
Cognitive Intelligence: Deep Learning, Thinking, and Reasoning by Brain-Inspired Systems
Yingxu Wang, Bernard Widrow, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Newton Howard, Sally Wood, Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar, Gerhard Budin, Christine Chan, Rodolfo A. Fiorini, Marina L. Gavrilova, Duane F. Shell. © 2016. 20 pages.
The theme of IEEE ICCI*CC'16 on Cognitive Informatics (CI) and Cognitive Computing (CC) was on cognitive computers, big data cognition, and machine learning. CI and CC are a...
Feature and Rank Level Fusion for Privacy Preserved Multi-Biometric System
Feature and Rank Level Fusion for Privacy Preserved Multi-Biometric System
Padma Polash Paul, Marina Gavrilova. © 2015. 17 pages.
Privacy protection in biometric system is a newly emerging biometric technology that can provide the protection against various attacks by intruders. In this paper, the authors...
Online User Interaction Traits in Web-Based Social Biometrics
Online User Interaction Traits in Web-Based Social Biometrics
Madeena Sultana, Padma Polash Paul, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2014. 14 pages.
During the Internet era, millions of users are using Web-based Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter for communication needs. Social networking...
Multimodal Biometrics and Intelligent Image Processing for Security Systems
Multimodal Biometrics and Intelligent Image Processing for Security Systems
Marina L. Gavrilova, Maruf Monwar. © 2013. 232 pages.
Although it is a relatively new approach to biometric knowledge representation, multimodal biometric systems have emerged as an innovative alternative that aids in developing a...
Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing in Year 10 and Beyond
Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing in Year 10 and Beyond
Yingxu Wang, Robert C. Berwick, Simon Haykin, Witold Pedrycz, Witold Kinsner, George Baciu, Du Zhang, Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2013. 18 pages.
Cognitive Informatics (CI) is a transdisciplinary enquiry of computer science, information sciences, cognitive science, and intelligence science that investigates into the...
A Formal Knowledge Representation System (FKRS) for the Intelligent Knowledge Base of a Cognitive Learning Engine
A Formal Knowledge Representation System (FKRS) for the Intelligent Knowledge Base of a Cognitive Learning Engine
Yousheng Tian, Yingxu Wang, Marina L. Gavrilova, Guenther Ruhe. © 2013. 15 pages.
It is recognized that the generic form of machine learning is a knowledge acquisition and manipulation process mimicking the brain. Therefore, knowledge representation as a...
Perspectives on Cognitive Computers and Knowledge Processors
Perspectives on Cognitive Computers and Knowledge Processors
Yingxu Wang, Gabriele Fariello, Marina L. Gavrilova, Witold Kinsner, Fumio Mizoguchi, Shushma Patel, Dilip Patel, Fernando L. Pelayo, Victor Raskin, Duane F. Shell, Shusaku Tsumoto. © 2013. 24 pages.
Cognitive Informatics (CI) is a contemporary multidisciplinary field spanning across computer science, information science, cognitive science, brain science, intelligence...
Cancelable Fusion of Face and Ear for Secure Multi-Biometric Template
Cancelable Fusion of Face and Ear for Secure Multi-Biometric Template
Padma P. Paul, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2013. 15 pages.
Biometric fusion to achieve multimodality has emerged as a highly successful new approach to combat problems of unimodal biometric system such as intraclass variability...
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2012. 15 pages.
The constant demand for complex applications, the ever increasing complexity and size of software systems, and the inherently complicated nature of the information drive the...
A Novel Cross Folding Algorithm for Multimodal Cancelable Biometrics
A Novel Cross Folding Algorithm for Multimodal Cancelable Biometrics
Padma P. Paul, Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2012. 18 pages.
Multimodal biometric systems have emerged as highly successful new approach to combat problems of unimodal biometric system such as intraclass variability, interclass similarity...
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP)
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP)
Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak. Est. 2011.
The International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP) provides the latest industry findings useful to academicians, researchers, and practitioners regarding...
A Formal Knowledge Representation System (FKRS) for the Intelligent Knowledge Base of a Cognitive Learning Engine
A Formal Knowledge Representation System (FKRS) for the Intelligent Knowledge Base of a Cognitive Learning Engine
Yousheng Tian, Yingxu Wang, Marina L. Gavrilova, Guenther Ruhe. © 2011. 17 pages.
It is recognized that the generic form of machine learning is a knowledge acquisition and manipulation process mimicking the brain. Therefore, knowledge representation as a...
International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL)
International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL)
Lincoln C. Wood. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) disseminates supply chain management and applied logistic theories, technology development, innovation, and transformation...
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2009. 13 pages.
The constant demand for complex applications, the ever increasing complexity and size of software systems, and the inherently complicated nature of the information drive the...
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2009. 14 pages.
The constant demand for complex applications, the ever increasing complexity and size of software systems, and the inherently complicated nature of the information drive the...
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Adaptive Computation Paradigm in Knowledge Representation: Traditional and Emerging Applications
Marina L. Gavrilova. © 2009. 14 pages.
The constant demand for complex applications, the ever increasing complexity and size of software systems, and the inherently complicated nature of the information drive the...