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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:  Christian
Lastname:  Rathgeb
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Christian Rathgeb

 
 

About Me:
Christian Rathgeb finished his PhD thesis entitled "Iris Biometrics: Template Protection and Advanced Comparators" in April, 2012.

 
 

Research Interests:

  • Biometrics (Iris Recognition)
  • Biometric Cryptosystems
  • Biometric Template Security
  • Cancellable Biometrics

 
 

Publications:

    Books

    1. [Rathgeb12e  ] Iris Recognition: From Segmentation to Template Security Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild Advances in Information Security, Springer Verlag, 2013

    Edited Proceedings

    1. [Broemme22a  ] Proceedings of the 21st International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'22) Arslan Brömme, Naser Damer, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Kiran Raja, Christian Rathgeb, Massimiliano Todisco, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-329, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2022
    2. [Broemme21a  ] Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'20) Arslan Brömme, Christoph Busch, Naser Damer, Antitza Dantcheva, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Kiran Raja, Christian Rathgeb, Ana F. Sequeira, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-315, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2021
    3. [Broemme20a  ] Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'20) Arslan Brömme, Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Kiran Raja, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-306, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2020
    4. [Broemme19a  ] Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'19) Arslan Brömme, Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-296, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2019
    5. [Broemme18a  ] Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'18) Arslan Brömme, Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-282, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2018
    6. [Busch17a  ] Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'17) Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-270, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2017
    7. [Broemme16a  ] Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'16) Arslan Bröme, Christoph Busch, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-260, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2016
    8. [Broemme15a  ] Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'15) Arslan Bröme, Christoph Busch, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-245, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2015

    Journal Articles

    1. [Rathgeb20a   ] PRNU-based Detection of Facial Retouching Christian Rathgeb, Angelika Botaljov, Fabian Stockhardt, Sergey Isadskiy, Luca Debiasi, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch IET Biometrics 9:4, pp. 154-164, 2020
    2. [Debiasi19c   ] Detection of Face Morphing Attacks based on PRNU Analysis Ulrich Scherhag, Luca Debiasi, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch, Andreas Uhl IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (TBIOM) 1:4, pp. 302-317, 2019
    3. [Rathgeb17a   ] Methods for Accuracy-preserving Acceleration of Large-Scale Comparisons in CPU-based Iris Recognition Systems Christian Rathgeb, Nicolas Buchmann, Heinz Hofbauer, Harald Baier, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch IET Biometrics 7:4, pp. 356-364, 2018
    4. [Rathgeb12d ] Statistical Attack against Fuzzy Commitment Scheme Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl IET Biometrics 1:2, pp. 94-104, IET, 2012
    5. [Rathgeb11e   ] A Survey on Biometric Cryptosystems and Cancelable Biometrics Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl EURASIP Journal on Information Security 2011:3, Springer Verlag, 2011
    6. [Rathgeb11g ] Context-based Biometric Key-Generation for Iris Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl IET Computer Vision (Special Issue on Future Trends in Biometric Processing) 5, pp. 389-397, IET, 2011

    Book Chapters

    1. [Uhl21c  ] Biometric Encryption Andreas Uhl, Christian Rathgeb In Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, Moti Yung, editors, Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, pp. 1-6, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021
    2. [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
    3. [Rathgeb16a   ] Design Decisions for an Iris Recognition SDK Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild, Heinz Hofbauer In Kevin Bowyer, Mark J. Burge, editors, Handbook of Iris Recognition, Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer, 2016
    4. [Wild17a   ] Robust Iris Image Segmentation Peter Wild, Heinz Hofbauer, James Ferryman, Andreas Uhl In Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch, editors, Iris and Periocular Biometrics, pp. 57-83, London, UK, IET, 2016
    5. [BRathgeb13a ] Ageing Effects And Implications For Biometric Template Protection Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch In Michael Fairhurst, editor, Age Factors in Biometric Processing, pp. 321-341, London, UK, IET, 2013
    6. [Rathgeb11c  ] The State-of-the-Art in Iris Biometric Cryptosystems Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In J. Yang, L. Nanni, editors, State of the art in Biometrics, pp. 179-202, InTech, 2011

    Conference Papers

    1. [Drozdowski20a   ] Demographic Bias: A Challenge for Fingervein Recognition Systems? Pawel Drozdowski, Bernhard Prommegger, Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch In 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 825-829, Amsterdam, The Nederlands, 2021
    2. [Debiasi19b   ] On the Detection of GAN-based Face Morphs using Established Morph Detectors Luca Debiasi, Naser Damer, Alexandra Moseguí Saladié, Christian Rathgeb, Ulrich Scherhag, Christoph Busch, Florian Kirchbuchner, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP2019), pp. 1-11, Trento, Italy, September 9 - September 13, 2019
    3. [Debiasi18c    ] PRNU Variance Analysis for Morphed Face Image Detection Luca Debiasi, Christian Rathgeb, Ulrich Scherhag, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch 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
    4. [Debiasi18a    ] PRNU-based Detection of Morphed Face Images L. Debiasi, U. Scherhag, C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, C. Busch In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF'18), pp. 1-7, Sassari, Italy, June 7 - June 8, 2018
    5. [Ribeiro17b  ] Exploring Texture Transfer Learning via Convolutional Neural Networks for Iris Super Resolution Eduardo Ribeiro, Andreas Uhl In Arslan Brömme, Christoph Busch, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, editors, Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'17), Darmstadt, Germany 2017, LNI, GI / IEEE, 2017
    6. [Drozdowski17a  ] Towards Pre-alignment of Near-infrared Iris Images P. Drozdowski, C. Rathgeb, H. Hofbauer, J. Wagner, A. Uhl, C. Busch In Proceedings of the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB'17), pp. 8, 2017
    7. [Rathgeb16b   ] TripleA: Accelerated Accuracy-preserving Alignment for Iris-Codes Christian Rathgeb, Heinz Hofbauer, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch In Proceedings of the 9th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB'16), pp. 1-8, 2016
    8. [Hofbauer15b  ] Investigation of Better Portable Graphics Compression for Iris Biometric Recognition Heinz Hofbauer, Christian Rathgeb, Johannes Wagner, Andreas Uhl, Christoph Busch In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'15), pp. 8, Darmstadt, Germany, September 9 - 11, 2015
    9. [Rathgeb14a ] Effects of Severe Image Compression on Iris Segmentation Performance (Best Poster Award) C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, P. Wild In Proceedings of the IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB'14)2014
    10. [Rathgeb13c ] Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes under Image Compression C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, P. Wild In Proceedings of the 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP'13), pp. 374-381, Havana, Cuba, Springer LNCS, 8259, November 20-23, 2013
    11. [Hofbauer12b  ] Image Metric-based Biometric Comparators: A Supplement to Feature Vector-based Hamming Distance? Heinz Hofbauer, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG'12), pp. 1-5, Darmstadt, Germany, September 6 - 7, 2012
    12. [Hofbauer12a  ] Iris Recognition in Image Domain: Quality-metric based Comparators Heinz Hofbauer, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'12), pp. 1-10, Crete, Greece, July 16 - 18, 2012
    13. [Rathgeb12c ] Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes under Signal Degradation Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In A. Elmoataz, D. Mammass, O. Lezoray, F. Nouboud, D. Aboutajdine, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP'12), pp. 217-225, Agadir, Morocco, Springer LNCS, 7340, June 28 - 30, 2012
    14. [Rathgeb12a  ] Iris-Biometric Comparators: Exploiting Comparison Scores towards an Optimal Alignment under Gaussian Assumption Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the 5th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB'12), pp. 1-6, New Delhi, India, March 29 - April 1, 2012
    15. [Rathgeb11h  ] Iris-Biometric Comparators: Minimizing Trade-Offs Costs between Computational Performance and Recognition Accuracy Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, ICDP '11, pp. 1-6, London, UK, November 3 - 4, 2011
    16. [Rathgeb11f  ] Reliability-balanced Feature Level Fusion for Fuzzy Commitment Scheme (Best Poster Paper Award) Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB'11), pp. 1-7, Washington DC, DC, USA, October 10 - 13, 2011
    17. [Rathgeb11d  ] Statistical Attack against Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Biometrics Council Workshop on Biometrics (CVPRW'11), pp. 25-32, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, June 20 - 24, 2011
    18. [Rathgeb11a  ] Shifting Score Fusion: On Exploiting Shifting Variation in Iris Recognition Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'11), pp. 1-5, TaiChung, Taiwan, March 21 - 24, 2011
    19. [Rathgeb11b  ] On Combining Selective Best Bits of Iris-Codes Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In C. Vielhauer, J. Dittmann, A. Drygajlo, M. Fairhust, editors, Proceedings of the Biometrics and ID Management Workshop (BioID'11), pp. 227-237, Brandenburg on the Havel, Germany, Springer LNCS, 6583, March 8 - 10, 2011
    20. [Rathgeb10h  ] Incremental Iris Recognition: A Single-algorithm Serial Fusion Strategy to Optimize Time Complexity Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Application, and Systems 2010 (IEEE BTAS'10), pp. 1-6, Washington DC, DC, USA, IEEE Press, September 27 - 29, 2010
    21. [Rathgeb10c  ] Secure Iris Recognition based on Local Intensity Variations Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl 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
    22. [Rathgeb10d  ] Two-Factor Authentication or How to Potentially Counterfeit Experimental Results in Biometric Systems Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl 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
    23. [Rathgeb10b  ] Privacy Preserving Key Generation for Iris Biometrics Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl 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
    24. [Rathgeb10a  ] Context-based Template Matching in Iris Recognition Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl 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
    25. [Rathgeb10e  ] Attacking Iris Recognition: An Effcient Hill-Climbing Technique Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), pp. 1217-1220, Istanbul, Turkey, August 23 - 26, 2010
    26. [Rathgeb10i  ] Bit Reliability-driven Template Matching in Iris Recognition Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, pp. 70-75, Singapore, November 14 - 17, 2010
    27. [Rathgeb10f  ] Iris-Biometric Hash Generation for Biometric Database Indexing Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10), pp. 2848-2851, Istanbul, Turkey, August 23 - 26, 2010
    28. [Rathgeb10g  ] Adaptive Fuzzy Commitment Scheme based on Iris-Code Error Analysis (Second Best Student Paper Award) Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP'10), pp. 41-44, Paris, France, July 5 - 7, 2010
    29. [Rathgeb09c  ] Context-based Texture Analysis for Secure Revocable Iris-Biometric Key Generation Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, ICDP '09London, UK, December 3rd, 2009
    30. [Rathgeb09b  ] An Iris-Based Interval-Mapping Scheme for Biometric Key Generation Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, ISPA '09Salzburg, Austria, September 16 - 18, 2009
    31. [Rathgeb09a  ] Systematic construction of iris-based fuzzy commitment schemes Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl In M. Tistarelli, M.S. Nixon, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB'09), pp. 940-949, Alghero, Italy, LNCS, 5558, Springer Verlag, June 2 - 5, 2009

    Technical Reports

    1. [Rathgeb12f ] Evaluating the Impact of Iris Image Compression on Segmentation and Recognition Accuracy Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of SalzburgSalzburg, Austria, Technical Report 2012-05, July 2012, Available at http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/tr.
    2. [Rathgeb11i  ] Template Protection under Signal Degradation: A Case-Study on Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of SalzburgSalzburg, Austria, Technical Report 2011-04, Nov. 2011, Available at http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/tr.
    3. [Rathgeb11j  ] Image Compression in Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of SalzburgSalzburg, Austria, Technical Report 2011-05, Nov. 2011, Available at http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/tr.

    Theses

    1. [Rathgeb12b  ] Iris Biometrics: Template Protection and Advanced Comparators Christian Rathgeb PhD thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 2012
    2. [Rathgeb08a  ] Iris-Based Biometric Cryptosystems Christian Rathgeb Master thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria, November, 2008