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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:  Simon
Lastname:  Kirchgasser
Born: 05.03.1989
Room No: 0.25
Telephone: (+43) 662 8044 - 6310
Mail: skirch [at] cosy [dot] sbg [dot] ac [dot] at

Simon Kirchgasser

 
 

About Me:
I am a PhD student in the WaveLab group.

 
 

Research Interests:

  • Fingerprint biometrics
  • Vascular biometrics
  • Biometric template protection
  • Visual security metrics

 
 

Publications:

    Journal Articles

    1. [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
    2. [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
    3. [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
    4. [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
    5. [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
    6. [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

    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

    Conference Papers

    1. [Soellinger22a ] Can point-cloud based neural networks learn fingerprint variability? Dominik Söllinger, Robert Jöchl, Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE 21th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2022), pp. 1-8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 14 - September 16, 2022
    2. [Kirchgasser22a ] Template Protection: On the need to adapt the current Unlinkability Evaluation Protocol Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE 21th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2022), pp. 1-8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 14 - September 16, 2022
    3. [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
    4. [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
    5. [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
    6. [Hofbauer21a     ] Highly Efficient Protection of Biometric Face Samples with Selective JPEG2000 Encryption Heinz Hofbauer, Yoanna Martínez-Díaz, Simon Kirchgasser, Heydi Méndez-Vázquez, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP '21, pp. 5, 2021
    7. [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
    8. [Kirchgasser20a   ] Template Protection on Multiple Facial Biometrics in the Signal Domain under Visible and Near-Infrared Light Simon Kirchgasser, Luca Debiasi, Rudolf Schraml, Heinz Hofbauer, Andreas Uhl, Jonathan Boyle, James Ferryman In Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF'20), pp. 1-6, Porto, Portugal, April 29 - April 30, 2020
    9. [Chowdhury20   ] Can a CNN Automatically Learn the Significance of Minutiae Points for Fingerprint Matching? Anurag Chowdhury, Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl, Arun Ross In The IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pp. 1-9, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA, March 1 - March 5, 2020
    10. [Kirchgasser20b  ] Is Warping-based Cancellable Biometrics (still) Sensible for Face Recognition ? Simon Kirchgasser, Yoanna Martínez Díaz, Heydi Mendez-Vazquez, 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
    11. [Debiasi19d    ] Biometric Template Protection in the Image Domain Using Non-invertible Grey-scale Transforms Luca Debiasi, Simon Kirchgasser, Bernhard Prommegger, Andreas Uhl, Grudzien Artur, Kowalski Marcin In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS2019), pp. 1-6, Delft, Netherlands, December 9 - December 12, 2019
    12. [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
    13. [Kirchgasser19c   ] Finger-Vein Template Protection based on Alignment-Free Hashing Simon Kirchgasser, Yen-Lung Lai, Jin Zhe, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS2019), pp. 1-9, Tampa, Florida, USA, September 23 - September 26, 2019
    14. [Kirchgasser18a   ] Fingerprint Template Ageing Revisited - It's the Quality, Stupid ! Simon Kirchgasser, Katy Castillo-Rosado, David Estevez-Breso, Emilio Rodriguez-Hernandez, Jose Hernandez-Palancar, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS2018), pp. 1-8, Los Angeles, California, USA, October 22 - October 25, 2018
    15. [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
    16. [Kirchgasser17a   ] Template Ageing and Quality Analysis in Time-Span separated Fingerprint Data Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA '17), pp. 1-8, New Delhi, Indien, February 22 - 24, 2017
    17. [Kirchgasser17b   ] Template Ageing in non-minutiae Fingerprint Recognition Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF '17), pp. 1-6, Coventry, United Kingdom, April 4 - 5, 2017
    18. [Kirchgasser17c   ] Fingerprint Template Ageing vs. Template Changes Revisited Simon Kirchgasser, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'17), pp. 1-12, Darmstadt, Germany, September 20 - 22, 2017
    19. [Kirchgasser16b   ] Biometric Menagerie in Time-Span separated Fingerprint Data Simon Kirchgasser, 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

    Theses

    1. [Kirchgasser16a  ] Ageing Effects in Fingerprint Recognition Simon Kirchgasser Master thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria, January 2016