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Project Description

This is "The Multimedia Signal Processing and Security Lab", short WaveLab, website. We are a research group at the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Salzburg. The short name "WaveLab" already indicates that wavelets are among our favorite tools - we have 15 years of experience in this area. Our research is focused on Multimedia Security including Watermarking, Image and Video Compression, Medical Image Classification, and Biometrics.
   

Sample Data Compression and Encryption in Biometric Systems (BioComp)

 

Project Description:

BioComp (FWF TRP project L554) is a project on how to store and handle sample data in biometric systems where these data have been acquired in the form of visual data (e.g. fingerprints, iris and retina scans, face recognition, .....). Specific emphasis is given to efficient lossy compression techniques based on JPEG and JPEG2000 with low impact on recognition performance and to lightweight encryption schemes allowing for search in encrypted biometric datasets in order to protect the privacy of the enrolled users.

 
 

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Timeframe:

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
  
 

Publications:

  1. [Haemmerle10a] J. Hämmerle-Uhl, K. Raab, A. Uhl, "Experimental Study on the Impact of Robust Watermarking on Iris Recognition Accuracy (Best Paper Award, Applications Track)", In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1479-1484, 2010
  2. [Rathgeb10f] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Iris-Biometric Hash Generation for Biometric Database Indexing", In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23 - 26, 2010, to appear
  3. [Rathgeb10g ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Adaptive Fuzzy Commitment Scheme based on Iris-Code Error Analysis (Second Best Student Paper Award)", In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP'10), pp. 41-44, Paris, France, July 5 - 7, 2010
  4. [Rathgeb10d ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Two-Factor Authentication or How to Potentially Counterfeit Experimental Results in Biometric Systems", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR'10), pp. 296-305, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, Springer LNCS, 6112, June 21 - 23, 2010
  5. [Rathgeb10c ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Secure Iris Recognition based on Local Intensity Variations", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR'10), pp. 266-275, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, Springer LNCS, 6112, June 21 - 23, 2010
  6. [Rathgeb10a ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Context-based Template Matching in Iris Recognition", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10), pp. 842-845, Dallas, TX, USA, March 14 - 19, 2010
  7. [Rathgeb10e] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Attacking Iris Recognition: An Effcient Hill-Climbing Technique", In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23 - 26, 2010, to appear
  8. [Faerberboeck10a] Peter Färberböck, Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl, Dominik Kaaser, Elias Pschernig, Andreas Uhl, "Transforming Rectangular and Polar Iris Images to Enable Cancelable Biometrics", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR'10), pp. 276-386, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, Springer LNCS, 6112, June 21 - 23, 2010
  9. [Rathgeb10h] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild, "Incremental Iris Recognition: A Single-algorithm Serial Fusion Strategy to Optimize Time Complexity", In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Application, and Systems 2010 (IEEE BTAS'10), Washington DC, DC, USA, IEEE Press, September 27 - 29, 2010, to appear
  10. [Muehlbacher10a] B. Mühlbacher, T. Stütz, A. Uhl, "JPEG2000 Part 2 wavelet packet subband structures in fingerprint recognition", In P. Frossard, H. Li, F. Wu, B. Girod, S. Li, G. Wei, editors, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2010 (VCIP'10), pp. 77442C-1-77442C-10, Huang Shan, China, Proceedings of SPIE, 7744, SPIE, July 2010
  11. [Stuetz10b ] Thomas Stütz, Bernhard Mühlbacher, Andreas Uhl, "Best Wavelet Packet Bases in a JPEG2000 Rate-Distortion Sense: The Impact of Header Data", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME '10, Singapore, IEEE, July 19 - 23, 2010, accepted
  12. [Rathgeb10b ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Privacy Preserving Key Generation for Iris Biometrics", In B. De Decker, I. Schaumüller-Bichl, editors, Proceedings of the 11th Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, CMS '10, pp. 191-200, Linz, Austria, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer LNCS, 6102, May 31 - June 2, 2010
  13. [Konrad10a] Mario Konrad, Herbert Stögner, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild, "Computationally efficient serial combination of rotation-invariant and rotation compensating iris recognition algorithms", In P. Richard, J. Braz, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, VISAPP'10, pp. 85-90, Angers, France, 1, May 17 - 21, 2010
  14. [Haemmerle09a] J. Hämmerle-Uhl, C. Prähauser, T. Starzacher, A. Uhl, "Improving compressed iris recognition accuracy using JPEG2000 RoI coding", In M. Tistarelli, M.S. Nixon, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB'09), pp. 1102-1111, LNCS, 5558, Springer Verlag, 2009
  15. [Haemmerle09b] J. Hämmerle-Uhl, E. Pschernig, A. Uhl, "Cancelable iris Biometrics using Block Re-mapping and Image Warping", In P. Samarati, M. Yung, F. Martinelli, C.A. Ardagna, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Information Security Conference (ISC'09), pp. 135-142, LNCS, 5735, Springer Verlag, 2009
  16. [Konrad09a] Mario Konrad, Herbert Stögner, Andreas Uhl, "Custom Design of JPEG quantization tables for compressing iris polar images to improve recognition accuracy", In M. Tistarelli, M.S. Nixon, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB'09), pp. 1091-1101, LNCS, 5558, Springer Verlag, 2009
  17. [Rathgeb09a ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Systematic construction of iris-based fuzzy commitment schemes", In M. Tistarelli, M.S. Nixon, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB'09), pp. 940-949, LNCS, 5558, Springer Verlag, 2009
  18. [Rathgeb09c ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "Context-based Texture Analysis for Secure Revocable Iris-Biometric Key Generation", In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, ICDP '09, London, UK, December 3rd, 2009
  19. [Konrad09b] Mario Konrad, Herbert Stögner, Andreas Uhl, "Evolutionary Optimization of JPEG Quantization Tables for Compressing Iris Polar Images in Iris Recognition Systems", In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA '09, Salzburg, Austria, September 16 - 18, 2009
  20. [Rathgeb09b ] Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, "An Iris-Based Interval-Mapping Scheme for Biometric Key Generation", In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA '09, Salzburg, Austria, September 16 - 18, 2009
  21. [Weinhandel09a] Georg Weinhandel, Herbert Stögner, Andreas Uhl, "Experimental Study on Lossless Compression of Biometric Sample Data", In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA '09, Salzburg, Austria, September 16 - 18, 2009
  22. [Kostmajer09a] G.S. Kostmajer, H. Stögner, A. Uhl, "Custom JPEG Quantization for Improved Iris Recognition Accuracy", In D. Gritzalis, J. Lopez, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust. Proceedings of the 24th IFIP International Information Security Conference 2009 (IFIP SEC'09), pp. 76-86, IFIP AICT, 297, Springer Verlag, May 2009
  23. [Fuhrmann09a] Thomas Fuhrmann, Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl, Andreas Uhl, "Usefulness of retina codes in biometrics", In Advances in Image and Video Technology: Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT '09, pp. 624-632, Tokyo, Japan, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5414, Springer, January 13 - 16, 2009
  24. [Rathgeb08a ] C. Rathgeb, "Iris-Based Biometric Cryptosystems", Master thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria, November, 2008
  25. [Jenisch08a] Stefan Jenisch, Stefan Lukesch, Andreas Uhl, "Comparison of compression algorithms' impact on iris recognition accuracy II: revisiting JPEG", In Proceedings of SPIE, Security, Forensics, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents X, pp. 68190M ff., San Jose, CA, USA, 6819, January 27 - 31, 2008
  26. [Matschitsch07a] S. Matschitsch, M. Tschinder, A. Uhl, "Comparison of Compression Algorithms' Impact on Iris Recognition Accuracy", In S.-W. Lee, S.Z. Li, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biometrics 2007 (ICB'07), pp. 232-241, LNCS, 4642, Springer Verlag, 2007
  27. [Mascher07a] A. Mascher-Kampfer, H. Stögner, A. Uhl, "Comparison of compression algorithms' impact on fingerprint and face recognition accuracy", In C.W. Chen, D. Schonfeld, J. Luo, editors, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2007 (VCIP'07), pp. 650810-1-65050N-10, San Jose, CA, USA, Proceedings of SPIE, 6508, SPIE, Jan. 2007
 
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