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This is "The Multimedia Signal Processing and Security Lab", short WaveLab, website. We are a research group at the Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) Department of the University of Salzburg led by Andreas Uhl. Our research is focused on Visual Data Processing and associated security questions. Most of our work is currently concentrated on Biometrics, Media Forensics and Media Security, Medical Image and Video Analysis, and application oriented fundamental research in digital humanities, individualised aquaculture and sustainable wood industry.
 
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Firstname:  Christof
Lastname:  Kauba
Room No: 0.27
Telephone: (+43) 662 8044 - 6334
Mail: ckauba [at] cosy [dot] sbg [dot] ac [dot] at
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Christof Kauba

 
 

About Me:
I am a post-doc researcher in the WaveLab group. My main research interests include electronics, biometric sensor design, as well as vein biometrics (hand- and finger-veins).

 
 

Research Interests:

  • Biometric sensor hardware
  • Electronics
  • Biometric sensor forensics
  • Vascular pattern based biometrics
  • Feature extraction and image representation

 
 

Publications:

    Journal Articles

    1. [Kauba21d  ] Towards practical cancelable biometrics for finger vein recognition Christof Kauba, Emanuela Piciucco, Emanuele Maiorana, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Bernhard Prommegger, Patrizio Campisi, Andreas Uhl Information Sciences 585, pp. 395-417, 2022
    2. [Kauba22a  ] Three-Dimensional Finger Vein Recognition: A Novel Mirror-Based Imaging Device C. Kauba, M. Drahanský, M. Nováková, A. Uhl, Š. Rydlo Journal of Imaging (Section Biometrics, Forensics, and Security) 8:5, pp. 148, 2022
    3. [Kirchgasser21a   ] The PLUS Multi-Sensor and Longitudinal Fingerprint Dataset: An Initial Quality and Performance Evaluation Simon Kirchgasser, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 4:1, pp. 43-56, 2022
    4. [Kauba21b  ] Inverse Biometrics: Generating Vascular Images from Binary Templates Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Vahid Mirjalili, Andreas Uhl, Arun Ross IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 3:4, pp. 464-478, 2021
    5. [Kauba21a   ] Towards Using Police Officers' Business Smartphones for Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition and Enabling Fingerprint Comparison against Contact-Based Datasets Christof Kauba, Dominik Söllinger, Simon Kirchgasser, Axel Weissenfeld, Gustavo Fernández Domínguez, Bernhard Strobl, Andreas Uhl Sensors (Special Issue Biometric Sensing) 21:7, pp. 1-42, 2021
    6. [AguadoMartinez20a  ] Document scanners for minutiae-based palmprint recognition: a feasibility study Manuel Aguado-Mart\'inez, Jos\'e Hern\'andez-Palancar, Katy Castillo-Rosado, Rodobaldo Cupull-G\'omez, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl Pattern Analysis and Applications, pp. 1-14, Springer, 2020
    7. [Galdi20a  ] PROTECT: Pervasive and useR fOcused biomeTrics bordEr projeCT – a case study Chiara Galdi, Jonathan Boyle, Lulu Chen, Valeria Chiesa, Luca Debiasi, Jean-Luc Dugelay, James Ferryman, Artur Grudzień, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Marcin Kowalski, Michael Linortner, Patryk Maik, Kacper Michoń, Luis Patino, Bernhard Prommegger, Ana F. Sequeira, Łukasz Szklarski, Andreas Uhl IET Biometrics 9:6, pp. 297-308, 2020
    8. [Kirchgasser19d   ] Finger Vein Template Protection based on Alignment-Robust Feature Description and Index-of-Maximum Hashing Simon Kirchgasser, Christof Kauba, Yen-Lung Lai, Jin Zhe, Andreas Uhl IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 2:4, pp. 337-349, 2020
    9. [Kauba19c   ] Combined Fully Contactless Finger and Hand Vein Capturing Device with a Corresponding Dataset Christof Kauba, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl Sensors (Special Issue Biometric Systems) 19(22):5014, pp. 1-25, 2019
    10. [Prommegger19a     ] Longitudinal Finger Rotation - Deformation Detection and Correction Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Michael Linortner, Andreas Uhl IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science 1:2, pp. 123-138, 2019
    11. [Kauba16f   ] Fingerprint Recognition under the Influence of Sensor Ageing Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl IET Biometrics 4:6, pp. 245-255, 2016

    Book Chapters

    1. [Kirchgasser19b   ] Cancellable Biometrics for Finger Vein Recognition - Application in the Feature Domain Simon Kirchgasser, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch, Sebastien Marcel, Raymond Veldhuis, editors, Handbook of Vascular Biometrics, pp. 507-525, Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
    2. [Kirchgasser19a   ] Towards Understanding Acquisition Conditions Influencing Finger-Vein Recognition Simon Kirchgasser, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch, Sebastien Marcel, Raymond Veldhuis, editors, Handbook of Vascular Biometrics, pp. 177-199, Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
    3. [Prommegger19b   ] Different Views on the Finger — Score-Level Fusion in Multi-Perspective Finger Vein Recognition Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch, Sebastien Marcel, Raymond Veldhuis, editors, Handbook of Vascular Biometrics, pp. 261-305, Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
    4. [Kauba19b   ] An Available Open-Source Vein Recognition Framework Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch, Sebastien Marcel, Raymond Veldhuis, editors, Handbook of Vascular Biometrics, pp. 113-142, Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
    5. [Kauba19a   ] OpenVein - An Open-Source Modular Multipurpose Finger Vein Scanner Design Christof Kauba, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl In Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch, Sebastien Marcel, Raymond Veldhuis, editors, Handbook of Vascular Biometrics, pp. 77-111, Cham, Switzerland, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019
    6. [Kauba18b   ] Robustness of Finger-Vein Recognition Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Martin Drahanský, editor, Hand-Based Biometrics: Methods and technology, pp. 193-216, London, UK, IET, 2018
    7. [Debiasi17b   ] Identifying Iris Sensors from Iris Images Luca Debiasi, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch, editors, Iris and Periocular Biometric Recognition, pp. 359-382, London, UK, IET, 2017

    Conference Papers

    1. [Kirchgasser23a  ] On the Feasibility of Post-Mortem Hand-Based Vascular Biometric Recognition Simon Kirchgasser, Christof Kauba, Bernhard Prommegger, Fabio Monticelli, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, pp. 121–126, New York, NY, USA, IH&MMSec '23, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023
    2. [Schuiki23d   ] Limiting Factors in Smartphone-Based Cross-Sensor Microstructure Material Classification Johannes Schuiki, Christof Kauba, Heinz Hofbauer, Andreas Uhl In 22th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW'23), pp. 000-000, Jinan, China, Springer LNCS, 0000, November 25 - November 26, 2023
    3. [Schuiki23b   ] Cross-Sensor Micro-Texture Material Classification and Smartphone Acquisition do not go well together Johannes Schuiki, Christof Kauba, Heinz Hofbauer, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF'23), pp. 1-6, Barcelona, Spain, April 20 - April 21, 2023
    4. [Prommegger22b ] Finger Rotation Estimation and Correction in Finger Vein Biometrics Bernhard Prommegger, Georg Wimmer, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research, and Industry Awards 2022, pp. 1-6, Salzburg, Austria, September 15, 2022
    5. [Kauba21c ] Assessment of Sensor Ageing-Impact in Air Travelled Fingerprint Capturing Devices Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Robert Jöchl, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE 20th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2021), pp. 1-8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 15 - September 17, 2021
    6. [Kirchgasser21b ] Assessment of Synthetically Generated Mated Samples from Single Fingerprint Samples Instances Simon Kirchgasser, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS2021), pp. 1-6, Montpellier, France, December 7 - December 10, 2021
    7. [Makrushin21a ] General requirements on synthetic fingerprint images for biometric authentication and forensic investigations Andrey Makrushin, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Stefan Seidlitz, Christian Kraetzer, Andreas Uhl, Jana Dittmann In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec'21), pp. 1-11, Brussels, Belgium (held Online due to Covid), June 22 - June 25, 2021
    8. [Kauba20a  ] Inverse Biometrics: Reconstructing Grayscale Finger Vein Images from Binary Features Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Vahid Mirjalili, Arun Ross, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB2020), pp. 1-8, Houston, Texas, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2020
    9. [Debiasi20a  ] Presentation Attacks and Detection in Finger- and Hand-Vein Recognition Luca Debiasi, Christof Kauba, Heinz Hofbauer, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the Joint Austrian Computer Vision and Robotics Workshop (ACVRW'20), pp. 65-70, Graz, Austria, September 17 - September 18, 2020
    10. [AguadoMartinez19a   ] On using document scanners for minutiae-based palmprint recognition Manuel Aguado-Martínez, José Hernández-Palancar, Katy Castillo-Rosado, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 24th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2019), pp. 219-229, Havanna, Cuba, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 11896, October 28 - October 31, 2019
    11. [Prommegger19c      ] On the Extent of Longitudinal Finger Rotation in Publicly Available Finger Vein Data Sets Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 12th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB'19), pp. 1-8, Crete, Greece, June 4 - June 7, 2019
    12. [Debiasi18b    ] Near-Infrared Illumination Add-On for Mobile Hand-Vein Acquisition Luca Debiasi, Christof Kauba, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl In 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), pp. 1-9, Los Angeles, California, USA, October 22 - October 25, 2018
    13. [Sequeira18a   ] PROTECT Multimodal DB: a multimodal biometrics dataset envisaging Border Control Ana F. Sequeira, James Ferryman, Lulu Chen, Chiara Galdi, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Valeria Chiesa, Andreas Uhl, Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Simon Kirchgasser, Artur Grudzien, Marcin Kowalski, Lukasz Szklarski, Patryk Maik, Piotr Gmitrowicz In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'18), pp. 1-8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 27 - 28, 2018
    14. [Kauba18d    ] The Two Sides of the Finger - An Evaluation on the Recognition Performance of Dorsal vs. Palmar Finger-Veins Christof Kauba, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'18), pp. 1-8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 27 - 28, 2018
    15. [Prommegger18b     ] Longitudinal Finger Rotation - Problems and Effects in Finger-Vein Recognition Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'18), pp. 1-11, Darmstadt, Germany, September 27 - 28, 2018
    16. [Kauba18c     ] Focussing the Beam - A New Laser Illumination Based Data Set Providing Insights to Finger-Vein Recognition Christof Kauba, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl In 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), pp. 1-9, Los Angeles, California, USA, October 22 - October 25, 2018
    17. [Prommegger18a      ] Multi-Perspective Finger-Vein Biometrics Bernhard Prommegger, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), pp. 1-9, Los Angeles, California, USA, October 22 - October 25, 2018
    18. [Kauba18a    ] Shedding Light on the Veins - Reflected Light or Transillumination in Hand-Vein Recognition Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 11th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB'18), pp. 1-8, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, February 20 - February 23, 2018
    19. [Schraml17a    ] On the feasibility of classification-based product package authentication Rudolf Schraml, Luca Debiasi, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS'17), pp. 6, Rennes, FR, December 2017
    20. [Kauba17a    ] Identifying the Origin of Iris Images Based on Fusion of Local Image Descriptors and PRNU Based Techniques Christof Kauba, Luca Debiasi, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB'17), pp. 294-301, Denver, Colorado, USA, October 1 - October 4, 2017
    21. [Kauba16e    ] Advanced Variants of Feature Level Fusion for Finger Vein Recognition Christof Kauba, Emanuela Piciucco, Emanuele Maiorana, Patrizio Campisi, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'16), pp. 1-12, Darmstadt, Germany, September 21 - 23, 2016
    22. [Kauba16d   ] Towards Drug Counterfeit Detection Using Package Paperboard Classification Christof Kauba, Luca Debiasi, Rudolf Schraml, Andreas Uhl In Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- Proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM'16), pp. 136-146, Xi'an, CHINA, Springer LNCS, 9917, September 15 - September 16, 2016
    23. [Kauba16c   ] PRNU-Based Image Alignment for Defective Pixel Detection Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE Eighth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS2016), pp. 1-6, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New York, USA, September 6 - September 9, 2016
    24. [Kauba16b   ] Image Segmentation Based Visual Security Evaluation Christof Kauba, Stefan Mayer, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec 2016), pp. 1-6, Vigo, Spain, June 20 - June 23, 2016
    25. [Piciucco16a  ] Cancelable Biometrics for Finger Vein Recognition Emanuela Piciucco, Emanuele Maiorana, Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl, Patrizio Campisi In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sensing, Processing and Learning for Intelligent Machines (SPLINE 2016), pp. 1-6, Aalborg, Denmark, July 6 - July 8, 2016
    26. [Kauba16a   ] Fingerprint Recognition under the Influence of Sensor Ageing Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF'16), pp. 1-6, Limassol, Cyprus, March 3 - March 4, 2016
    27. [Kauba15a   ] Sensor Ageing Impact on Finger-Vein Recognition Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 8th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB'15), pp. 1-8, Phuket, Thailand, May 19 - May 22, 2015
    28. [Kauba15b   ] Robustness Evaluation of Hand Vein Recognition Systems Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'15), pp. 1-8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 9 - 11, 2015
    29. [Kauba14a  ] Pre-processing cascades and fusion in finger vein recognition Christof Kauba, Jakob Reissig, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'14)Darmstadt, Germany, September 10 - 12, 2014

    Technical Reports

    1. [Kauba20b   ] Enabling Fingerprint Presentation Attacks: Fake Fingerprint Fabrication Techniques and Recognition Performance Christof Kauba, Luca Debiasi, Andreas Uhl CoRR, Technical Report arXiv abs/1608.06709, 2020
    2. [Kauba15d  ] Fingerprint Recognition under the Influence of Sensor Ageing Christof Kauba, Andreas Uhl Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austriahttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/tr, Technical Report 2015-10, 2015

    Theses

    1. [Kauba18e ] Recognition Performance Related Factors in Hand-Based Biometric Systems Christof Kauba PhD thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA, September 2018
    2. [Kauba15c  ] Impact of Sensor Ageing on Finger-Image based Biometric Recognition Systems Christof Kauba Master thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria, January 2015