Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes

Stockton Emeritus
Stockton
Office
Anderson 206
Email Address
khughes@pacific.edu
Education

BS, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), 1985

MS, Computer Science, University of South Florida, 1990

PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, 1994

Teaching Interests

Microprocessors and microcontrollers
Computer organization and architecture
Digital systems

Research Focus

Computer graphics
Iris biometrics

Selected Publications

K. Hughes and K. Bowyer.  "Detection of Contact-Lens-Based Iris Biometric Spoofs Using Stereo Imaging", 46th Hawaii International Conference on Biometrics Compendium, pp 1762-1772,  Jan 7-10, 2013.

E. Ortiz, R. Hasegawa, K. Bowyer, L. Stark, P. Flynn, and K. Hughes. "Synthetic Eye Images for Pupil Dilation Mitigation",  Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics Compendium, pp 339 - 345, Sept 23-27, 2012.

R. R. Murphy, A. Marzilli, K. Hughes, and E. Noll. "Integrating Explicit Path Planning with Reactive Control of Mobile Robots using Trulla'', Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 1999, Vol 27, pp 225-245.

R. R. Murphy, K. Hughes, and E. Noll. "An Explicit Path Planner to Facilitate Reactive Control and Terrain Preferences'', 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2067-2072, April 22-28, 1996, Minneapolis, MN.