Biometric Security & 3D Face Reconstruction Research — KED/KDD Lab, UNC Charlotte

Current Research Projects

• Towards 3D Contactless Fingerprint and Face Matching (Ongoing)
  This project aims to collect high-quality 2D/3D face and fingerprint data, process it with automated feature extraction and manual quality checks, and develop modern deep-learning models supported by an open, unified multimodal dataset.
• 3D Face Mask Generation & Deepfake Identity Preservation (Ongoing)
  Building and evaluating 2D→3D reconstruction pipelines; fabricating physical masks; assessing identity preservation for biometric spoofing/anti-spoofing.
• Early Autism Detection in Infants via AI Video Analysis (Ongoing)
  Exploring motion/behavioral pattern analysis in infant videos using AI to assist early screening.

Past Research Projects

• NIR-Based Infant Iris Scanner (Published)
  Designed a portable NIR infant iris acquisition system on Jetson Nano; evaluated usability and imaging performance. (IEEE EMBC 2024)
• Synthetic Contactless Palmprint Biometrics with StyleGAN (Published)
  Generated realistic palmprint samples for training/augmentation and analyzed biometric viability. (Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2024)
• Voice Pre-Processing & Quality Assessment Dataset (VPQAD) (Published)
  Curated and released a real-world, noisy voice dataset to evaluate enhancement and ASR pipelines. (IEEE DataPort)
• Audio Denoising for Speaker Recognition (Wave-U-Net, CMGAN, U-Net) (Under review)
  Built denoising pipelines and tested downstream speaker recognition robustness (e.g., with VeriSpeak).
• Noise-Resilient Voice Data via Kalman Filtering (Preprint/Manuscript Ready)
  Open-source pipeline for speech denoising using Kalman filters; prepared for publication.
• Electrochemical Measurement with BLE Microcontroller (Published)
  Implemented chronoamperometry and cyclic voltammetry with LMP91000 and Arduino/BLE stack (UEMCON 2025).
• Biometric Aging in Children (Data Collection)
  Collected longitudinal multimodal biometrics (fingerprint, palmprint, iris, footprint, face, audio) from young participants.

Publications

For a complete and up-to-date list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

• Ema, E.A.N.; Khondkar, M. J. A.*; Sobuz, M.M.H., Masud, M., and Mohidul, I. “Exploring the Effectiveness of ViT B16 for Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Mammogram Mastery” 11th IEEE International Women in Engineering Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE 2025) DOI
• S. Kukla, B. Uzunoglu, M. J. Alam Khondkar, T. Sweeney-Fanelli, S. Andreescu and M. Imtiaz “Lessons Learned from Designing a Wireless Universal Electrochemical Sensing System” 2025 IEEE 16th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, 2025, pp. 0143-0149. DOI
• Chowdhury, A. M. M.*; Khondkar, M. J. A.*; Imtiaz, M. H. “Advancements in Synthetic Generation of Contactless Palmprint Biometrics Using StyleGAN Models.” Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2024, 4(3):663–677. DOI
• Khondkar, M. J. A.; Sarker, M. A. B.; Imtiaz, M. H.; Schuckers, S. “Development of a NIR-based Infant Iris Scanner.” IEEE EMBC 2024, Orlando, FL, pp. 1–4. DOI
• Ahmed, A.; Khondkar, M. J. A.; Herrick, A.; Imtiaz, M. H. “Descriptor: Voice Pre-Processing and Quality Assessment Dataset (VPQAD).” IEEE DataPort, Sept. 12, 2024. DOI
• Imtiaz, M. H.; Hossain, S. M. S.; Khondkar, M. J. A. “Prospects of Solar Power Satellite in Bangladesh.” Global Journals Inc., 2013. PDF
• Khondkar, M. J. A.; Imtiaz, M. H.; Rafique, S. “Online Mapping of Coastal Morphological Changes in Bangladesh.” BES Journal, 2013. Link

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