Publications and Patents

• Journal papers
• *Zhiyuan Zhou, +Yueming Yin, Hao Han, Yiping Jia, Jun Hong Koh, Adams, Wai-Kin Kong and Mu, Yuguang, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2024. 
• ⁺ Yueming Yin, Hilbert Yuen In Lam, Yuguang Mu, Hoi Yeung Li, and Adams Wai Kin Kong, “Advancing Bioactivity Prediction through Molecular Docking and Self-Attention, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2024 
• ⁺ Yueming Yin, Haifeng Hu, Jitao Yang, Chun Ye, Wilson Wen Bin Goh, Adams Wai-Kin Kong and Jiansheng Wu, “OLB-AC: Towards Optimizing Ligand Bioactivities Through Deep Graph Learning and Activity Cliffs, Bioinformatics, 2024
•  Wenwei Song, Wenxiong Kang, Adams Wai Kin Kong, Yufeng Zhang, Yitao Qiao, " Linear Adaptive Additive Angular Margin Loss for Video-based Hand Gesture Authentication", International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024  

• *Yaning Li, Steven Thng and Adams Kong, "Bridging the Gap between Vitiligo Segmentation and Clinical Scores". IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023 (accepted)
• *Xiaobao Guo, Alex Kot and Adams Kong, "Pace-adaptive and Noise-resistant Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Feature Fusion". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2023 (accepted)
• ^vBingzhi Chen, Yishu Liu, Zheng Zhang, Guangming Lu and Adams Kong,"TransAttUnet: Multi-Level Attention-Guided U-Net With Transformer for Medical Image Segmentation". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2023 (accepted)
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  ⁺Thant Zin Oo and Adams Wai-Kin Kong, "Real-time Energy Management for Marine Applications using Markov Approximation" IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022


• ⁺Yan Ren, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, and Yi Wang, “Real-time Shipboard Power Management based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022
• ⁺Yanzhu Liu, Shreya Datta, Adams Wai-Kin Kong and Chai Kiat Yeo, “An Image Inpainting Approach to Short-term Load Forecasting”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022
• *Xiaobao Guo, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, and Alex Kot Deep Multimodal Sequence Fusion by Regularized Expressive Representation Distillation, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022
• *Xingpeng Xu, ⁺Shitala Prasad, ^vKuanhong Cheng and Adams Wai Kin Kong, “Using Double Attention for Text Tattoo Localization”, IET Biometrics, 2022

Zechen Wang, Liangzhen Zheng, Sheng Wang, Mingzhi Lin, Zhihao Wang, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Yuguang Mu, Yanjie Wei, Weifeng Li, “A fully differentiable ligand pose optimization framework guided by deep learning and a traditional scoring function“, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022

• Hai Tao Xue, Michael Stanley-Baker, Adams Wai Kin Kong, Hoi Leung Li, Wilson Wen Bin Goh, “Data considerations for predictive modelling applied to the discovery of bioactive natural products” , Drug Discovery Today, 2022

• ⁺Thant Zin Oo, ⁺Yan Ren, and Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Yi Wang, and Xiong Liu, “Power System Design Optimization for a Hybrid-Shaft Generator Ferry”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022
• ^$Pranjal Swarup, Peng Chen, Rong Hou, Pinjia Que, Peng Liu and Adams Wai Kin Kong, Peng Chen Giant Panda Behaviour Recognition Using Images, Global Ecology & Conservation, 2021
• Yanling Li, Adams Wai Kin Kong, and Steven Thng "Segmenting Vitiligo on Clinical Face Images using CNN Trained on Synthetic and Internet Images”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2021
• Yanzhu Liu, ^vYanan Wang and Adams Kong, "Pixel-wise ordinal classification for salient object grading", Image and Vision Computing, 2020.
• *Xingpeng Xu, *Matkowski Wojciech Michal and Adams Kong, “A portrait photo-to-tattoo transform based on digital tattooing”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020
• ⁺Yan Ren, Adams Kong, and Licheng Jiao, “A Survey on Image and Video Cosegmentation: Methods, Challenges and Analyses” Pattern Recognition, 2020
• Peng Chen, ^$Swarup Pranjal, *Wojciech Michal Matkowski, Adams Kong, Han Su, Zhihe Zhang, and Rong Hou, “A Large Scale Study on Giant Panda Recognition Based On Images”, Ecology and Evolution.
• *Wojciech Michal Matkowski, ^vTingting Chai, Adams Kong, "Palmprint Recognition in Uncontrolled and Uncooperative Environment", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2020.
• *Matkowski Wojciech Michal, *Frodo Kin Sun Chan and Adams Kong, “A Study on Wrist Identification for Forensic Investigation”, Image and Vision Computing, 2019
• ⁺Peicong Yu, *Xiaojie Li, *Yi Huang, ^#Hong Liang Tay, Adams Kong, Tomohiro Hakozaki, Ankur Purwar, "Inter- and intra-observer agreement in dermatologists’ diagnoses of hyperpigmented facial lesions and development of an algorithm for automated diagnosis" Skin Research and Technology, 2019
• ^#Joseph Toh, ^$Suman Bhoi, ^#Sai Yee Chuah, ^#Anjali Jhingan, Adams Kong, ^#Steven Thng, "Automated Scoring of Vitiligo Using Superpixel-Generated Computerized Digital Image Analysis of Clinical Photographs: A Novel and Consistent Way to Score Vitiligo", British Journal of Dermatology, 2018
• *Frodo Kin Sun Chan and Adams Kong, "A further study of low resolution androgenic hair patterns as a soft biometric trait", Image and Vision Computing, 2018
• *Frodo Kin Sun Chan, *Xiaojie Li and Adams Kong, "A Study of Distinctiveness of Skin Texture for Forensic Applications through Comparison with Blood Vessels", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2017
• *Xiaojie Li and Adams Kong, "A multi-model restoration algorithm for recovering blood vessels in skin images", Image and Vision Computing, 2017
• *Hengyi Zhang, *Chaoying Tang and Adams Kong, "Using multiple models to uncover blood vessel patterns in color images for forensic analysis", Information Fusion (accepted, Special issue on Information Fusion in Biometrics), vol. 23, pp. 26-39, 2016 [database]
• *Abhik Datta, Adams Kong and Kin Choong Yow, "Fully-automatic method for gridding bright field images of bead based microarrays", IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (accepted) 2016.
• *Arfika Nurhudatiana, Adams Kong, ^#Noah Craft, and ^#Hong Liang Tey, "Relatively Permanent Pigmented or Vascular Skin Marks (RPPVSM) for Identification: A Pilot Reliability Study", Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 52-58, 2016
• *Arfika Nurhudatiana and Adams Kong, "On Criminal Identification in Color Skin Images Using Skin Marks (RPPVSM) and Fusion with Vein Patterns", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 916-931, 2015 [database]
• Adams Kong, “A statistical analysis of IrisCode and its security implications", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 513-528, 2015.  (Highlighted by IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter, Nov 2015)
• ⁺Su Han and Adams Kong, "A study on low resolution androgenic hair patterns for criminal and victim identification", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 666-680, 2014 (the top 5 most frequently downloaded  articles in TIFS according to the monthly usage statistics of April 2014)
• *Arfika Nurhudatiana, Adams Kong, ^#Keyan Matinpour, ^#Deborah Chon, ^#Lisa Altieri, Siu-Yeung Cho, and ^#Noah Craft, "The individuality of relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin marks (RPPVSM) in independently and uniformly distributed patterns", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 998-1012, 2013
• Adams Kong, “Modeling IrisCode and its variants as convex polyhedral cones and its security implications”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1148-1160, 2013.
• Adams Kong, “IrisCode decompression based on the dependence between its bit pairs”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 506-520, 2012 (Selected as the Spotlight Paper for the March 2012 issue, with an 3-page online appendix).
• *Chaoying Tang, Adams Kong and ^#Noah Craft, “Using a knowledge-based approach to remove blocking artifacts in skin images for forensic analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1038-1049, 2011 .
• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “An analysis of IrisCode”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 522-532, 2010.
• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “A survey of palmprint recognition”, Pattern recognition, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1408-1418, 2009 (Honourable Mention, One of most cited articles published in Pattern Recognition since 2007, citation based on SciVerse Scopus, Feb 2012).
• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “Three measures for secure palmprint identification”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1329-1337, 2008.

• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “An analysis of brute-force break-ins of a palmprint authentication system”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1201-1205, 2006.

• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Guangming Lu, “A study of identical twins’ palmprint for personal verification”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2149-2156, 2006.

• Adams Kong, King-Hong Cheung, David Zhang, Mohamed Kamel and Jane You, “An analysis of Biohashing and its variants”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 1359-1368, 2006.

• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “Palmprint identification using feature-level fusion”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 478-487, 2006.

• Michael Wong, David Zhang, Wai-Kin Kong and Guangming Lu, “Real-time palmprint acquisition system design”, IEE Proceedings, Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol. 152, no. 5, Oct, pp. 527-534, 2005.

• David Zhang, Guangming Lu, Wai-Kin Kong and Michael Wong, “On-line palmprint identification system for civil application”, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 70-76, 2005.

• Jane You, Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang and King Hong Cheung, “On hierarchical palmprint coding with multi-features for personal identification in large databases”, IEEE Transactions on Circuit Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Image- and Video-Based Biometrics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 234-243, 2004.

• David Zhang, Wai-Kin Kong, Jane You and Michael Wong, “On-line palmprint identification”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 1041-1050, 2003.

• Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang and Wenxin Li, “Palmprint feature extraction using 2-D Gabor filters”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 36, no, 10, pp. 2339-2317, 20

• Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Detecting eyelash and reflection for accurate iris segmentation”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 17, no 6, pp. 1025-1034, 2003.

• Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Criteria-based eyelash detection model for accurate iris segmentation”, Information: An International Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 471-482, 2001.

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• Theses

• PhD Thesis: Palmprint Identification Based on Generalization of IrisCode,  the University of Waterloo, Canada

• MPhil Thesis: Using Texture Analysis on Biometric Technology for Personal Identification, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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• Patents

• Adams Wai Kin Kong, ^#Noah Ames Craft, *Chaoying Tang, and *Hengyi Zhang, “Method and apparatus for determining vein patterns from color images”, United States Patent No 9317761, June 2016,

• Adams Wai Kin Kong, ^#Noah Ames Craft, *Chaoying Tang, and *Hengyi Zhang, “Method and apparatus for extracting blood vessel patterns in color images for personal identification”, Singapore Patent No 190730, Oct 2014,

• Adams Wai Kin Kong, ^#Noah Ames Craft, *Chaoying Tang, and *Hengyi Zhang, “Method and apparatus for extracting blood vessel patterns in color images for personal identification”, PCT application No. PCT/SG2011/000429, 2011.

•  ^#Noah Ames Craft, Wai Kin Adams Kong, and *Arfika Nurhudatiana, “Use of relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin mark patterns in images for personal identification”, Provisional US Application, 61/479,795, April 27, 2011.

• Kong Wai Kin Adams and Naif Alajlan, “Method and apparatus for image generation”, US Patent No. 8,705,809, 2014.

• Zhang Dapeng, David, Niu Xuan, Lu Guang Ming, Kong Wai-Kin Adams, and Wong Ming Keung. “Method and apparatus for palmprint identification”, Japanese Patent No. 4246154 (IP-061D), 2009.

• Dapeng David Zhang, Jia Jane You, Wai Kin Adams Kong, Guangming Lu, and Xiangqian Wu. “Method of palmprint identification”, United States Patent No. 7,496,214 (IP-090B) 2009

• Dapeng Zhang and Wai-Kin Adams Kong, “Method for analyzing palmprint for the identification of an individual using Gabor analysis”, US Patent No. 7,466,846, December, 2008.

• Dapeng David Zhang, Jia Jane You, Wai Kin Adams Kong, Guangming Lu, and Xiangqian Wu, “Method of palmprint identification using geometry, line and/or texture features” Hong Kong Patent No. HK1062117 (IP-090A) -2004

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• Book Chapters

• Adams Wai Kin Kong, David Zhang, and Mohamed Kamel, “Introduction of the IrisCode Theory”, in Handbook of Iris Recognition, Springer 2013.

• Guangming Lu, David Zhang, Wai-Kin Kong and Michael Wong “A palmprint authentication system” in Handbook of Biometrics, Springer, 2008

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• Conference Papers 

•  Yi Huang, Mingzhi Lyu, Jeremy Andrew Styborski and Adams Kong, Leveraging Imperfect Restoration for Data Availability Attack, ECCV, 2024

   

  Jeremy Andrew Styborski, Mingzhi Lyu, Yi Huang and Adams Kong, Exploiting Supervised Poison Vulnerability to Strengthen Self-Supervised Defense, ECCV, 2024 

   

  Yan Ren, Yanling Li and Adams Kong, Adaptive Multi-task Learning for Few-shot Object Detection, ECCV, 2024

   

  *Jessica Sher En Loh, ^%Naheed Anjum Arafat, ^%Wei Xian Lim, Wai Lee Chan and Adams Kong “Finite Volume Features, Global Geometry Representations, and Residual Training for Deep Learning-based CFD Simulation”, ICML, 2024

   

  ^%Wei Xian Lim, ^%Naheed Anjum Arafat, Wai Lee Chan and Adams Kong, “Multi-Order Loss Functions for Accelerating Unsteady Flow Simulations with Physics-Based AI”, IEEE CAI 2024

  
  

  *Shilin Lu, ^MZilan Wang, ^MLeyang Li, Yanzhu Liu and Adams Kong, “MACE: Mass Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models”, CVPR, 2024

• *Mingzhi Lyu, ^%+Huang Yi and Adams Kong, “Adversarial Attack for Robust Watermark Protection Against Inpainting-based and Blind Watermark Removers”, ACM MM, 2023

• *Shilin Lu, Yanzhu Liu, and Adams Kong, “TF-ICON: Diffusion-Based Training-Free Cross-Domain Image Composition”, ICCV, 2023

• *Xiaobao Guo, Nithish Muthuchamy Selvaraj, Zitong Yu, Adams Kong, Bingquan Shen and Alex Kot “Audio-Visual Deception Detection: DOLOS Dataset and Parameter-Efficient Crossmodal Learning”, ICCV 2023

• Nithish Muthuchamy Selvaraj, *Xiaobao Guo, Adams Kong, Bingquan Shen and Alex Kot, "Adapter Incremental Continual Learning of Efficient Audio Spectrogram Transformers" INTERSPEECH 2023

• *Fan Wang and Adams Kong, “A Practical Upper Bound for the Worst-Case Attribution Deviations”, CVPR, 2023

• *Fan Wang and Adams Kong, "Exploiting the Relationship Between Kendall's Rank Correlation and Cosine Similarity for Attribution Protection", NeurIPS 2022
• *Yew Lee Tan,  Adams Kong, and Jung-jae Kim, "Pure Transformer with Integrated Experts for Scene Text Recognition", ECCV 2022
• *Yi Huang and Adams Kong, “Transferable Adversarial Attack based on Integrated Gradients” ICLR, 2022
• *Yew Lee Tan, *Ernest Chew, Adams Kong, Jung-jae Kim, Joo-Hwee Lim, "Portmanteauing Features for Scene Text Recognition", ICPR 2022

• *Xiaobao Guo, Adams Kong, Huan Zhou, Xianfeng Wang and Min Wang, “Unimodal and Crossmodal Refinement Network for Multimodal Sequence Fusion”, EMNLP 2021

• *Wojciech Michal Matkowski, and Adams Wai Kin Kong, “Gender and Ethnicity Classification based on Palmprint and Palmar Hand Images from Uncontrolled Environment”, IJCB 2020
• *Yi Huang, *Fan Wang, Adams Kong and Kwok Yan Lam, "“New Threats against Object Detector with Non-Local Block", ECCV, 2020 (accepted)
• *Yanzhu Liu, *Fan Wang and Adams Kong, “Probabilistic Deep Ordinal Regression Based on Gaussian Processes”, ICCV, 2019.
• Yi Huang, Adams Kong and Kwok Yan Lam, “Adversarial Signboard against Object Detector”, BMVC, 2019
• *Yi Huang, Adams Kong and Kwok Yan Lam, "Attacking Object Detectors without Changing the Target Object”, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.
• *Wojciech Michal Matkowski, Adams Kong, Han Su, Peng Chen, Rong Hou, Zhihe Zhang, ”Giant Panda Face Recognition Using Small Dataset”, ICIP, 2019
• *Wojciech Matkowski, Krzysztof Matkowski and Adams Kong, The Nipple-Areola Complex for Criminal Identification, ICB (Special Session), 2019
• ^$Pranjel Swarup and Adams Kong, "Palmprint Recognition Using Realistic Animation Aided Data Augmentation", BTAS, 2019

• Zhenyu Yan, Qun Song, Rui Tan, Yang Li and Adams Kong, “Towards Touch-to-Access Device Authentication Using Induced Body Electric Potentials”, The 25^th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2019 (ACM MobiCom)

• +Shitala Prasad and Adams Kong, "Using Object Information for Spotting Text", ECCV 2018

• *Yi Huang, Adams Kong and Kwok Yan Lam, "From the Perceptive of CNN to Adversarial Iris Image", BTAS 2018

• *Yanzhu Liu, Adams Kong and Chi Keong Goh, "A constrained deep neural network for ordinal regression", CVPR 2018

• +Peicong Yu and Adams Kong "A metra-recognition based skin marks matching algorithm with feature fusion for forensic identification", ICB 2018

• *Yanzhu Liu, Adams Kong and Chi Keong Goh, "Deep Ordinal Regression based on Data Relationship for Small Datasets", IJCAI, 2017

• *Yanzhu Liu, *Xiaojie Li, Adams Kong and Chi Keong Goh, "Learning from small data: a pairwise approach for ordinal regression", IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2016.

• ^MXingpeng Xu and Adams Kong, "A Geometric-based tattoo retrieval system", ICPR 2016

• ^$Huang Yi and Adams Kong, "Using a CNN ensemble for detecting pornographic and upskirt images", IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Sept 2016 (accepted)

• ^vQingyong Xu, ^uSoham Ghosh, ^MXingpeng Xu, ^$Huang Yi and Adams Kong, "Tattoo detection based on CNN and remarks on the NIST database", Internation Conference on Biometrics June 2016 (selected as the best reviewed paper, awarded rate 4/151). [database, code and presentation slides]

• ^$Huang Yi, +Peicong Yu, ^MXingpeng Xu  and Adams Kong, "The impact of tattoo segmentation on the performance of tattoo matching", IEEE International WIE (Women in Engineering) Conference on Electronical and Computer Engineering, 19-20, Dec 2015.

• *Xiaojie Li and Adams Kong, ''Identifying Critical Factors Influencing Quality of Blood Vessel Information in JPEG Compressed Skin Images", IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2015

• *Kin Sun Chan, and Adams Kong, "Using hair follicles with leg geometry to align androgenic hair patters", European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, 2015.

• ^$Nhat Quang Huynh, ^$Xingpeng Xu, Adams Kong and ^&Sathyan Subbiah, “A preliminary report on a full-body imaging system for effectively collecting and processing biometric traits of prisoners”, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2014.

• *Hengyi Zhang, *Chaoying Tang and Adams Kong, “A study of similarity between genetically identical body vein patterns”, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2014.

• *Yanzhu Liu, *Xiaojie Li and Adams Kong, “Speeding up the knowledge-based deblocking method for efficient forensic analysis”, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2014 [database]

• *Kin Sun Chan, and Adams Kong, “Using leg geometry to align androgenic hair patterns in low resolution images for criminal and victim identification”, ICPR 2014.

• +Hamid Reza Sharifzadeh, *Hengyi Zhang, and Adams Kong, “Vein pattern visualization through multiple mapping models and local parameter estimation for forensic investigation” ICPR 2014. [database]

• ^$Md. Rabiul Islam, *Kin Sun Chan, and Adams Kong, “A preliminary study of lower leg geometry as a soft biometric trait for forensic investigation”, ICPR 2014

• *Arfika Nurhudatiana, Adams Kong and ^#Hong Liang Tey, “Relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin marks(RPPVSM): skin based personal identification on digital evidence”, Proc. of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 66th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2014 (accepted, Extended abstract, Oral presentation).

• *Xiaojie Li and Adams Kong, "Restoring blood vessel patterns from JPEG compressed skin images for forensic analysis", IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security 2013 [database]

• *Abhik Datta, Adams Kong, ^Soumita Ghosh and ^Dieter Trau, "A fast point matching algorithm for robust spatially addressable bead encoding", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2013 (oral presentation, best student paper (5/84) )

• *Arfika Nurhudatiana, Adams Kong, ^#Lisa Altieri and ^#Noah Craft, “Automated identification of relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin marks (RPPVSM)”, proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2013.

• ^&Thomas Tesswin, ^&Sathyan Subbiah and Adams Kong, “Embedding information on metal surfaces by micro milling”, ASME 2013 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, 2013.

• *Hengyi Zhang, *Chaoying Tang, Adams Kong, and ^#Noah Craft, “Matching vein patterns from color Images for forensic investigation”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, pp. 77-84, 2012 (oral presentation, 8 pages, best reviewed paper (4/144) and Honeywell best student paper award (2/144)). [database]

• *Chaoying Tang, *Hengyi Zhang, Adams Kong, and ^#Noah Craft, “Visualizing vein patterns from color skin images based on image mapping for forensics analysis”, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 2387-2390, 2012.

• *Arfika Nurhudatiana, Adams Kong, ^#Keyan Matinpour, Siu-Yeung Cho, and ^#Noah Craft, “Fundamental statistics of relatively permanent pigmented or vascular skin marks”, Proc. of International Joint Conference on Biometrics, pp. 1-6, 2011 (oral presentation, acceptance rate of 10 % for oral, 6 pages). [database]

• *Chaoying Tang, Adams Kong and ^#Noah Craft, “Uncovering vein patterns from color skin images for forensic analysis”, Proc. of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 665-672, 2011 (oral presentation, acceptance rate of 3.5% for oral, 8 pages). [database]

• *Chaoying Tang, Adams Kong and ^#Noah Craft, “An knowledge-based algorithm to remove blocking artifacts in skin images for forensic analysis”, Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1928 – 1931, 2011.

• *Chaoying Tang, Adams Kong and ^#Noah Craft, “Removing JPEG artifacts in skin images for forensic analysis”, Proc. of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 63^rd Annual Scientific Meeting, 2011 (accepted, Extended abstract, Oral presentation).

• Adams Kong, “An alternative Gabor filtering scheme”, Proc. of International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 1925-1928, 2010.

• Adams Kong, “An analysis of Gabor detection”, Proc. of International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, (ICIAR), pp. 64-72, 2009.

• Adams Kong, “An evaluation of Gabor orientation as a feature for face recognition”, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 1-4, 2008 (acceptance rate for oral presentation=18.0%).

• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “An anatomy of IrisCode for precise phase representation”, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 4, pp. 429-432, 2006.

• King Hong Cheung, Adams Kong, David Zhang, Mohamed Kamel and Jane You, “Does EigenPalm work? A system and evaluation perspective”, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 4, pp. 445-448, 2006.

• Adams Kong, David Zhang and Guangming Lu, “A study of identical twins palmprints for personal authentication”, Proc. of International Conference on Biometrics, pp. 668-674, 2006. (LNCS 3832) (acceptance rate for regular oral presentation= 13%).

• King Hong Cheung, Adams Kong, David Zhang, Mohamed Kamel and Jane You, “Revealing the secret of FaceHashing”, Proc. of International Conference on Biometrics, pp. 106-112, 2006.

• King Hong Cheung, Adams Kong, David Zhang, Mohamed Kamel, Jane You and Toby Ho Wang Lam, “An analysis on accuracy of cancelable biometrics on Biohashing”, Proc. of 9^th International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering System KES, pp. 1168-1172, 2005.

• King Hong Cheung, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Jane You and David Zhang, “An analysis on invertibility of cancelable biometrics based on BioHashing”, Proc. of the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, pp. 40-45, 2005.

• Adams Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang and Mohamed Kamel, “A study of brute-force break-ins of a palmprint verification system”, Proc. of International Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, pp. 447-454, 2005.

• Adams Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Competitive coding scheme for palmprint verification”, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 1, pp. 520-523, 2004.

• Adams Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Feature-level fusion for effective palmprint authentication”, Proc. of International Conference on Biometric Authentication, pp. 761-767, 2004. (acceptance rate for oral presentation=22%, LNCS 3072).

• David Zhang, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Guangming Lu, Xiangqian Wu and Michael Wong, “Low-resolution palmprint for personal identification”, Workshop Proc. of Biometrics: Challenges arising from Theory and Practice, Cambridge, UK, pp. 1-4, August 22 2004.

• David Zhang, Guangming Lu, Adams Wai-Kin Kong and Michael Wong, “Palmprint authentication technologies: systems and applications”, Proc. of 5^th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, pp. 78-89, 2004 (LNCS 3338).

• King Hong Cheung, Jane You, Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “A study of aggregated 2D Gabor features on appearance-based face recognition”, Proc. of Third International Conference on Image and Graphics, pp. 310-313, 2004.

• Guangming Lu, David Zhang, Wai-Kin Kong and Kuanquan Wang, “Palmprint identification by fused wavelet characteristics”, Proc. of International Workshop on Biometric Technologies, pp. 164-170, 2004.

• Jane You, Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang and King Hong Cheung, “A new approach to personal identification in large database by hierarchical palmprint coding with multi-features”, Proc. of International Conference on Biometric Authentication, pp. 739-745, 2004. (LNCS 3072).

• David Zhang, Guangming Lu Wai-Kin Kong and Michael Wong, “Palmprint authentication system for civil applications”, Proc. ECCV 2004 International Workshop, BioAW, pp. 217-228, 2004 (LNCS 3087).

• King-Hong Cheung, Wai-Kin Kong, Jane You, and David Zhang, “An integration of principal component analysis and self-organizing map for effective palmprint retrieval”, Proc. of the 16^th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, pp. 101-104, 2003.

• Jane You, David Zhang, King-Hong Cheung and Wai-Kin Kong, “A new approach to personal Identification via hierarchical palmprint coding”, Proc. of International Conference on Image Science, System and Technology, vol. 2, pp. 531-537, 2003.

• King-Hong Cheung, Wai-Kin Kong, Jane You and David Zhang, “On effective palmprint retrieval for personal identification”, Proc. of International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, vol. 1, pp. 111-117, 2003.

• Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Palmprint texture analysis based on low-resolution images for personal authentication”, Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 807-810, 2002. (acceptance rate for oral presentation, 18%)

• Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Accurate iris segmentation based on novel reflection and eyelash detection model”, Proc. of International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing, pp. 263-266, 2001.

• Wai-Kin Kong and David Zhang, “Eyelash detection model for accurate iris segmentation”, Proc. of ISCA 16th International Conference on Computers and their Applications, pp. 204-207, 2001.

• Wai-Kin Adams Kong and David Zhang, “An effective coordinate system to solve tilting problem for iris recognition”, Proc. of First International Conference on Image and Graphics, pp. 373-375, 2000.

• * PHD students, ^V Visiting PhD students, ^M Master students, ^U Undergraduate students of Dr. Kong, # Medical researchers,  & Manufacturing engineering researchers,

• ^Chemical & biomolecular researchers, +Research fellow of Dr. Kong. $ Project officer/RA of Dr. Kong