Dustin van der Haar Associate Professor University of Johannesburg

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Dustin van der Haar is an Associate Professor in the Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Johannesburg. He has published articles both nationally and internationally in biometric applications and sustainability, which includes aspects of human action recognition, biometric antispoofing and automated media content analyis. His research interests include biometrics, computer vision and machine learning and has collaborated with multiple universities. The vision of his research intends on empowering users by bridging the gap of interaction between people and technology in their daily lifestyle using pattern recognition.

@inproceedings{van2009facial,
  title={Facial Authentication in Video Conferencing},
  author={Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference},
  year={2009},
  pages={},
}

@MastersThesis{van2011face,
  author = {Dustin Van der Haar},
  title  = {Face recognition-based authentication and monitoring in video telecommunication systems},
  organization = {University of Johannesburg},
  school = {Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering},
  year   = {2011},
  type    = {mathesis},
  url = {},
  month   = apr  
}

@inproceedings{van2013biometric,
  title={Are Biometric Web Services a Reality? A Best Practice Analysis for Telebiometric Deployment in Open Networks},
  author={Dustin van der Haar and Basie von Solms},
  booktitle={10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography},
  pages={494--499},
  year={2013},
  doi={10.5220/0004521704940499}
}

@inproceedings{van2013tag,
  title={Tag you’re it: A Look at Privacy Issues in Social Media Sharing},
  author={Dustin van der Haar and Basie von Solms},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on World wide web applications},
  pages={4--12},
  year={2013}
}

@inproceedings{van2014poor,
  title={The poor man's biometric: Identifying cost-effective biometric system criteria for SMMEs},
  author={Dustin Van Der Haar and Basie Von Solms},
  booktitle={IST-Africa Conference Proceedings, 2014},
  pages={1--10},
  year={2014},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880598}
}

@inproceedings{van2014cobi,
  title={CoBI: A Collective Biosignal-Based Identification Model},
  author={Dustin van der Haar and Basie von Solms},
  booktitle={Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC)},
  pages={357--362},
  year={2014}
}


@PhdThesis{van2014collective,
  author = {Dustin van der Haar},
  title  = {Collective human biological signal-based identification and authentication in access control environments},
  organization = {University of Johannesburg},
  school = {Academy of Computer Science and Software Engineering},
  year   = {2014},
  type   = {phdthesis},
  month  = may,
  url ={http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12392}
}

@inproceedings{van2015canvis,
  title={Canvis: A cardiac and neurological-based verification system that uses wearable sensors},
  author={Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications (DINWC), 2015 Third International Conference on},
  pages={99--104},
  year={2015},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/DINWC.2015.7054225}
}

@inproceedings{van2015camera,
  title={Camera-Based Heart Rate Estimation for Improved Interactive Gaming},
  author={Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={International Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia \& Allied Technology (CGAT). Proceedings},
  pages={75},
  year={2015},
  organization={Global Science and Technology Forum}
}

@inproceedings{van2016graphical,
  title={Graphical gesture-based authentication for non-contact access control},
  author={Shaun van Wyk and Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech), 2016},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2016},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/RoboMech.2016.7813151}
}

@inproceedings{van2017affective,
  title={Affective user threat profiling using computer vision-based heart rate estimation in profile-based surveillance environments},
  author={Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 2017 3rd International Conference on},
  pages={696--700},
  year={2017},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/ICCAR.2017.7942786}
}

@inproceedings{van2017multimodal,
  title={A multimodal gesture-based virtual interactive piano system using computer vision and a motion controller},
  author={Shaun van Wyk and Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS), 2017 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2017},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/ACIRS.2017.7986054}
}

@inproceedings{mhou2017face,
  title={Face spoof detection using light reflection in moderate to low lighting},
  author={Kudzaishe Mhou and Dustin van der Haar and Wai Sze Leung },
  booktitle={Intelligent Robot Systems (ACIRS), 2017 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on},
  pages={47--52},
  year={2017},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/ACIRS.2017.7986063}
}

@inproceedings{van2017portable,
  title={Portable computer vision-based cardiac estimation as a teaching aid},
  author={Dustin van der Haar},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Communication and Information Processing},
  pages={439--443},
  year={2017},
  organization={ACM},
  doi={10.1145/3162957.3163006}
}

@InProceedings{vanWest2018,
  author    = {Egbert Johannes van der Westhuizen and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {A wearable device-based framework for determining player effectiveness on the football pitch},
  booktitle = {6th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET)},
  year      = {2018},
          pages={},
}

@InProceedings{maeko2018,
  author    = {Elisa Maeko and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {A Framework for User Awareness and Acceptance of Smart Card and Fingerprint-Based Access Control to Medical Information Systems in South Africa},
  booktitle = {IST-Africa},
  year      = {2018},
          pages={},
}

@Article{obodoekwe2018,
  author  = {Nnaemeka Obodoekwe and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {A Critical Analysis of the Application of Data Mining Methods to Detect Healthcare Claim Fraud in the Medical Billing Process},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  year    = {2018},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}

@Article{bhango2019,
  author  = {Zibusiso Bhango and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Eigennose: Assessing Nose-Based Principal Component Analysis for Achieving Access Control with Occluded Faces},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2019},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}

@Article{byun2019,
  author  = {Jihyun Byun and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Pronunciation detection for foreign language learning using MFCC and SVM},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2019},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}

@Article{fourie2019,
  author  = {Margaux Fourie and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Ballet Pose Recognition: a Bag-of-Words Support Vector Machine Model for the Dance Training Environment},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2019},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}

@Article{mhou2019,
  author  = {Kudzaishe Mhou and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {A review of threat profiling techniques for use in concealed weapon detection systems},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2019},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}

@Article{moodley2019,
  author  = {Tevin Moodley and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Comparisons in drinking water systems using K-means and A-priori to find pathegenic bacteria genera},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2019},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@InProceedings{wessels2018,
  author    = {Steven Wessels and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {A Part-of-Speech Tagging Performance Review For NLP Using Time Trace Analysis},
  booktitle = {Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference},
  year      = {2018},
  pages={206-210}
}
@InProceedings{taljaard2018,
  author    = {Wihan Taljaard and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {Visa outcome prediction with Naïve Bayes classification: A scalable implementation for a distributed platform},
  booktitle = {Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference},
  year      = {2018},
  pages={176-181}
}
@Article{van2019,
  author  = {Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Real-Time Face Antispoofing Using Shearlets},
  journal = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
  year    = {2019},
}

@Article{maeko2019,
  author  = {Elisa Maeko and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {A Critical Analysis of Requirements and Recommendations for Multi-Modal Access Control in Hospitals},
  journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  year    = {2019},
}

@Article{obodoekwe2019,
  author  = {Nnaemeka Obodoekwe and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {A comparison of machine learning methods applicable to healthcare claims fraud detection},
  journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  year    = {2019},
}

@InProceedings{wessels2019,
  author    = {Steven Wessels and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {Gait-Based Authentication Using Android Smartphone Accelerometer and Gyroscopic Sensors},
  booktitle = {45th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science},
  year      = {2019},
}

@Article{vanderhaar2019,
  author  = {Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Student Emotion Recognition in Computer Science Education: A Blessing or Curse?},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  year    = {2019},
}
@Article{van2019b,
  author  = {Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Face Antispoofing Using Shearlets: An Empirical Study},
  journal = {SAIEE Africa Research Journal (ARJ)},
  year    = {2019},
}
@Article{bhango2019,
  author  = {Zibusiso Bhango and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Inebriation detection using computer vision},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)},
  year    = {2019},
 }
 @Article{sithungu2019,
  author  = {Siphesihle Philezwini Sithungu and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Real-Time Age Detection Using a Convolutional Neural Network},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)},
  year    = {2019},
 }
 @InProceedings{leroux2019,
  author    = {Johan le Roux and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {Analysis of Object Detection Methods to Detect Traffic Flow},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD)},
  year      = {2019},
}
@Article{aly2020,
  author  = {Elton Shah Aly and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Slang Based Text Sentiment Analysis In Instagram},
  journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  year    = {2020},
}
@Article{slogrove2020,
  author  = {Kayleigh Slogrove and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Handwriting Analysis of the Character ‘Y’ Through Geometric Principles and Ratios},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@Article{moodley2020,
  author  = {Tevin Moodley and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Cricket Stroke Recognition using Computer Vision Methods},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@Article{wessels2020,
  author  = {Steven Wessels and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Applying Deep Learning for the Detection of Abnormalities in Mammograms},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@Article{vanderhaar2020,
  author  = {Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Student Sentiment Recognition using Computer Vision as an Assistive Technology for Education},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@Article{lang2020,
  author  = {Dane Lang and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Recommendations for Biometric Access Control System Deployment in a Vehicle Context in South Africa},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@Article{fourie2020,
  author  = {Marguax Fourie and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {A feature importance study in ballet pose recognition with OpenPose},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
@Article{moodley2020,
  author  = {Tevin Moodley and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {CASRM: Cricket automation and stroke recognition model using OpenPose},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  year    = {2020},
          pages={},
          volume={},
          number={}
}
 @Article{slogrove2020,
  author  = {Kayleigh Slogrove and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Specific Language Impairment Detection through Voice Analysis},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)},
  year    = {2020},
 }
  @Article{fourie2020b,
  author  = {Marguax Fourie and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Computer vision for the ballet industry: a comparative study in pose recognition},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)},
  year    = {2020},
 }
  @Article{moodley2020b,
  author  = {Tevin Moodley  and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Scene recognition using AlexNet to recognize significant events within cricket game footage},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
  year    = {2020},
 }
  @Article{spijkerman2020,
  author  = {Ruan Spijkerman  and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Video Footage Highlight Detection in Formula 1 Through Vehicle Recognition with Faster R-CNN Trained On Game Footage},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
  year    = {2020},
 } 
 @Article{williams2021,
  author  = {Ivan Williams and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {A study on behavioural agents for StarCraft 2},
  journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  year    = {2021},
}
@Article{farrukh2021,
  author  = {Wardah Farrukh and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Computer Assisted Self Training for Kyudo Posture Rectification using Computer Vision Methods},
  journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  year    = {2021},
}
@Article{shaikjee2021,
  author  = {Waseem Shaikjee and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Analysis of Traditional Computer Vision Techniques Used for Hemp Leaf Water Stress Detection and Classification},
  journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
  year    = {2021},
}
 @InProceedings{jappie2021,
  author    = {Thauriq Jappie and Basie von Solms and Jaco Du Toit and Dustin van der Haar},
  title     = {A model for protecting personal information using Blockchain},
  booktitle = {IST-Africa},
  year      = {2021},
}
  @Article{moodley2021,
  author  = {Tevin Moodley  and Dustin Terence van der Haar},
  title   = {Cricket Scene Analysis using the RetinaNet architecture},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
  year    = {2021},
 }
 @Article{wessels2021,
  author  = {Steven Wessels and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {Using particle swarm optimization with gradient descent for parameter learning in convolutional neural networks},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  year    = {2021},
}
 @Article{orfao2021,
  author  = {Jarred Orfao and Dustin van der Haar},
  title   = {A comparison of computer vision methods for the combined detection of Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy and Cataracts},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  year    = {2021},
}