Yunlian Sun

Yunlian Sun is currently an Associate Professor at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She received the B.S. degree from Northeast Normal University in 2008, the M.E. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Bologna (Italy) in 2014. During the Ph.D. study, she worked as a research fellow at University of Sassari (Italy). After the Ph.D. study, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include biometrics, pattern recognition, and computer vision. She has served as a reviewer for journals including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCSVT, PR, IVC, PRL, etc.[中文版]

★ Selected Publications

1. Yunlian Sun, Man Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan , Demographic Analysis from Biometric Data: Achievements, Challenges, and New Frontiers. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence，40(2), 332-351, 2018.

2. Yunlian Sun, Kamal Nasrollahi, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan , Complementary Cohort Strategy for Multimodal Face Pair Matching. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11(5), 937-950, 2015.

3. Massimo Tistarelli (PhD Advisor) , Yunlian Sun, Norman Poh. On the Use of Discriminative Cohort Score Normalization for Unconstrained Face Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 9 (12), 2036-2075, 2014.

4. Yu Guan, Yunlian Sun, Chang-Tsun Li, Massimo Tistarelli . Human Gait Identification from Extremely Low Quality Videos: an Enhanced Classier Ensemble Method. IET Biometrics, 3(2), 84-93, 2014.

5. Yunlian Sun, Massimo Tistarelli. Recent Advances in Unconstrained Face Recognition. Information Security: Foundations, technologies and applications. Ali Ismail Awad, Mi-chael Fairhurst, IET, 2018.

6. Massimo Tistarelli (PhD Advisor), Yunlian Sun. Cohort based Score Normalization. Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, 2nd Edition, Springer US, pp 1-9, 2014.

7. Massimo Tistarelli (PhD Advisor), Yunlian Sun. Sparse Representation for Face Recognition. Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, 2nd Edition, Springer US, pp 1-9, 2014.

8. Yunlian Sun, Massimo Tistarelli, Davide Maltoni. Structural Similarity based Image Quality Map for Face Recognition across Plastic Surgery. Proc. of IEEE Int.l Conf on Biometrics: Theory, Application and Systems (BTAS), 2013.

9. Yunlian Sun, Massimo Tistarelli, Norman Poh. Picture-Specific Cohort Score Normalization for Face Pair Matching. Proc. of IEEE Int.l Conf on Biometrics: Theory, Application and Systems (BTAS), 2013

★ Major Honors & Awards

2018             Innovative and Entrepreneurial Doctor of Jiangsu Province