Research

Monographs

Iris Recognition: From Segmentation to Template Security

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

Volume 59 of Advances in Information Security. Springer, New York, 2012. ISBN: 978-1461455707

Journal Papers

Quality-based Iris Segmentation-level Fusion

P. Wild, H. Hofbauer, J. Ferryman and A. Uhl

EURASIP Journal on Information Security, 2016:25, 2016. EURASIP. doi: 10.1186/s13635-016-0048-x

Robust multimodal face and fingerprint fusion in the presence of spoofing attacks

P. Wild, P. Radu, L. Chen and J. Ferryman

Pattern Recognition, 50:17-25, February 2016. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.08.007

Impact of (Segmentation) Quality on Long vs. Short-Timespan Assessments in Iris Recognition Performance

P. Wild, J. Ferryman and A. Uhl

IET Biometrics, 4(4):227, 2015. The Institution of Engineering and Technology. doi: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2014.0073

Single-sensor multi-instance fingerprint and eigenfinger recognition using (weighted) score combination methods

A. Uhl and P. Wild

International Journal on Biometrics, 1(4):442-462, 2009. Inderscience. doi: 10.1504/IJBM.2009.027305

Footprint-based biometric verification

A. Uhl and P. Wild

Journal of Electronic Imaging, 17:011016, 2008. SPIE. doi: 10.1117/1.2892674

Transmission error and compression robustness of 2D Chaotic Map image encryption schemes

M. Gschwandtner, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

Journal on Information Security, 2007:048179, 2007. EURASIP. doi: 10.1155/2007/48179

Conference Papers

Optical Benchmarking of Security Document Readers for Automated Border Control

K. Valentin, P. Wild, S. Stolc, F. Daubner and M. Clabian

In Proc. SPIE 9995, Optics and Photonics for Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting, and Defence XII, 11 pages, Edinburgh, UK, September 26-29, 2016. SPIE doi: 10.1117/12.2241169

Cross-Eyed - Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Recognition database and competition

A. Sequeira, L. Chen, J. Ferryman, F. Alonso, J. Bigun, K. Raja, R. Ramachandra, C. Busch and P. Wild

In Proc. of the 15th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG’16), 12 pages, Darmstadt, Germany, September 22-23, 2016. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BIOSIG.2016.7736915

Compression Effects on Security Document Images

P. Wild, S. Stolc, K. Valentin, F. Daubner and M. Clabian

In Proceedings of the 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC’16), 4 pages, Uppsala, Sweden, August 17-19, 2016. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EISIC.2016.020

On Interoperability of Security Document Reading Devices

S. Stolc, P. Wild, K. Valentin, F. Daubner and M. Clabian

In Proceedings of the 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC’16), 7 pages, Uppsala, Sweden, August 17-19, 2016. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EISIC.2016.011

Robust and Interoperable Fingerprint Spoof Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks

E. Marasco, P. Wild and B. Cukic

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST’16), 6 pages, Waltham, MA, USA, May 10-12, 2016. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/THS.2016.7568925

Segmentation-level Fusion for Iris Recognition

P. Wild, H. Hofbauer, J. Ferryman and A. Uhl

In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG’15), p. 61-72, Darmstadt, Germany, September 9-11, 2015. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BIOSIG.2015.7314620

A Robust Sclera Segmentation Algorithm.

P. Radu, J. Ferryman and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory Applications and Systems (BTAS’15), 6 pages, Washington, DC, USA, September 8-11, 2015. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BTAS.2015.7358746

On Fusion for Multispectral Iris Recognition

P. Wild, P. Radu and J. Ferryman

In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB’15), p. 31-37, Phuket, Thailand, May 19-22, 2015. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICB.2015.7139072

Towards Anomaly Detection for Increased Security in Multibiometric Systems: Spoofing-resistant 1-Median Fusion Eliminating Outliers

P. Wild, P. Radu, L. Chen and J. Ferryman

In Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’14), 6 pages, Clearwater, Florida, USA, September 30 – October 2, 2014. IEEE. 10.1109/BTAS.2014.6996293

Effects of Severe Image Compression on Iris Segmentation Performance.

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’14), 6 pages, Clearwater, Florida, USA, September 30 – October 2, 2014. IEEE. 10.1109/BTAS.2014.6996281

A Ground Truth for Iris Segmentation

H. Hofbauer, F. Alonso-Fernandez, P. Wild, J. Bigun and A. Uhl

In Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’14), pp. 6pp., Stockholm, Sweden, August 24-28, 2014. IAPR/IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2014.101

Fusion of Iris Segmentation Results

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP’13), pages 310-317, Havana, Cuba, November 20-23, 2013. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41827-3_39

Iris-Biometric Fuzzy Commitment Schemes under Image Compression

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP’13), Havana, Cuba, November 20-23, 2013. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-41827-3_47

Experimental Evidence of Ageing in Hand Biometrics

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In C. Busch and A. Bromme, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG’13), Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-6.

Irisbiometrie in der Überwachung: Innovationen zu Segmentierung und Komparatoren

P. Wild

In Steffen Hölldobler et al., editors, Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2012, Dagstuhl, Germany, GI, May 5 – 8, 2013.

Combining Face with Face-Part Detectors under Gaussian Assumption

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In A. Campilho and M. Kamel, editors, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR’12), volume 7325 of LNCS, pages 80-89, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31298-4_10

Multi-stage Visible Wavelength and Near Infrared Iris Segmentation Framework

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In A. Campilho and M. Kamel, editors, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR’12), volume 7325 of LNCS, pages 1-10, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31298-4_1

Image Metric-based Biometric Comparators: A Supplement to Feature Vector-based Hamming Distance?

H. Hofbauer, C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG’12), volume 196 of LNI, 5 pages, Darmstadt, Germany, September 6-7, 2012. GI.

Iris Recognition in Image Domain: Quality-metric based Comparators

H. Hofbauer, C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In G. Bebis et al., editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’12), volume 7432 of LNCS, pages 1-10, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-33191-6_1

Iris-Biometric Comparators: Exploiting Comparison Scores towards an Optimal Alignment under Gaussian Assumption

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB’12), pages 297-302, New Delhi, India, March 29-April 1, 2012. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICB.2012.6199823

Weighted Adaptive Hough and Ellipsopolar Transforms for Real-time Iris Segmentation

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB’12), pages 283-290, New Delhi, India, March 29-April 1, 2012. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICB.2012.6199821

Iris-Biometric Comparators: Minimizing Trade-Offs Costs between Computational Performance and Recognition Accuracy

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP’11), 6 pages, London, UK, November 3-4, 2011. IET. doi: 10.1049/ic.2011.0110

Reliability-balanced Feature Level Fusion for Fuzzy Commitment Scheme

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’11), 7 pages, Washington, DC, USA, October 10-13, 2011. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCB.2011.6117535

Shifting Score Fusion: On Exploiting Shifting Variation in Iris Recognition

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC’11), pages 3-7, TaiChung, Taiwan, March 21-24, 2011. ACM. doi: 10.1145/1982185.1982187

On Combining Selective Best Bits of Iris-Codes

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In C. Vielhauer et al., editors, Proceedings of the Biometrics and ID Management Workshop (BioID’11), volume 6583 of LNCS, pages 227-237, Brandenburg on the Havel, Germany, March 8-10, 2011. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19530-3_21

Enhancing Iris Matching Using Levenshtein Distance with Alignment Constraints

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In G. Bebis et al., editors, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC’10), volume 6453 of LNCS, pages 469-479, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 29-December 1, 2010. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-17289-2_45

Incremental Iris Recognition: A Single-algorithm Serial Fusion Strategy to Optimize Time Complexity

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the IEEE 4th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS’10), 6 pages, Washington, DC, USA, September 27-29, 2010. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BTAS.2010.5634475

Computationally efficient serial combination of rotation-invariant and rotation compensating iris recognition algorithms

M. Konrad, H. Stögner, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP’10), volume 1, pages 85-90, Angers, France, May 17-21, 2010. SciTePress. doi: 10.5220/0002821100850090

Parallel versus Serial Classifier Combination for Multibiometric Hand-Based Identification

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In M. Tistarelli and M. Nixon, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Biometrics (ICB’09), volume 5558 of LNCS, pages 950-959, Alghero, Italy, June 2-5, 2009. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-01793-3_96

Comparing Verification Performance of Kids and Adults for Fingerprint, Palmprint, Hand-geometry and Digitprint Biometrics

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS’09), 6 pages, Washington, DC, USA, September 28-30, 2009. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BTAS.2009.5339069

Personal Recognition Using Single-Sensor Multimodal Hand Biometrics

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In A. Elmoataz et al., editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP’08), volume 5099 of LNCS, pages 396-404, Cherbourg-Octeville, France, July 1-3, 2008. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-69905-7_45

Personal identification using Eigenfeet, Ballprint and Foot geometry biometrics

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In Proceedings of the IEEE 1st International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS’07), 6 pages, Washington, DC, USA, September 27-29, 2007. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/BTAS.2007.4401924

Compression of Encrypted Visual Data

M. Gschwandtner, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

In H. Leitold and E. Markatos, editors, Proceedings of the 10th IFIP Open Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS’06), volume 4237 of LNCS, pages 141-150, Heraklion, Crete, October 19-21, 2006. Springer. doi: 10.1007/11909033_13

Book Chapters

Robust Iris Image Segmentation

P. Wild, H. Hofbauer, J. Ferryman and A. Uhl.

In C. Busch, C. Rathgeb, editors, Iris and Periocular Biometric Recognition, IET Advances in Biometrics, pp. 57-81, IET, 2017. doi: 10.1049/PBSE005E_ch3

Design Decisions for an Iris Recognition SDK

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, P. Wild and H. Hofbauer.

In Kevin Bowyer, Mark J. Burge, editors, Handbook of Iris Recognition, 2nd edition, Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 359-396, Springer, 2016. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-6784-6_16

Ageing Effects In Fingerprint Biometrics

A. Uhl and P. Wild

In Michael Fairhurst, editor, Age Factors in Biometric Processing, pp. 153-170, London, UK, IET, 2013. doi: 10.1049/pbsp010e_ch8

Technical Reports

Evaluating the Impact of Iris Image Compression on Segmentation and Recognition Accuracy

C. Rathgeb, A. Uhl, and P. Wild

Technical Report 2012-05, University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences, 10 pages, July, 2012

Theses

Advanced Segmentation and Comparators for Iris Biometric Surveillance

P. Wild

PhD Thesis, University of Salzburg, Austria, August, 2012

Single-sensor hand and footprint-based multimodal biometric recognition

P. Wild

Master’s Thesis, University of Salzburg, Austria, January, 2008