Biometric Systems
Identification Capacity, Searching, and
Performance of Biometric Systems
Co-workers: Jasper Goseling, Ton Kalker, Jean-Paul Linnartz.
PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS:
- Frans Willems,
Ton Kalker, Jasper Goseling and Jean-Paul Linnartz, "On the Capacity of a Biometrical
Identification System," Proc. 2003 IEEE Int. Symp.
Inform. Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June 29 - July 4, 2003, p. 82. Presentation.
NOTE: Prof. Jody O'Sullivan (Washington University, St. Louis, MO)
informed us at ISIT2003 that he had reported about capacity results for
biometrical identification systems before at the 40th Allerton
Conference, Oct. 2002. His paper (joint work with Natalie Schmidt)
appeared in the Proceedings of the Allerton
Conference which came out early 2003.
- Frans M.J.
Willems, "Searching Methods for
Biometric Identification Systems: Fundamental Limits," Proc. 2009
IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Seoul, South
Korea, June 28 - July 3, 2009. Presentation.
- Frans M.J.
Willems, “Information Theory and Biometrics,”
Keynote Lecture at the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent
Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, October 15-17, 2010,
Darmstadt, Germany. Updated version (Thanks Xuebing!).
Privacy Leakage in Biometric Systems
Co-worker: Tanya
Ignatenko (Ph.D. student, now Postdoc, TU/e)
PUBLICATIONS
- Tanya Ignatenko
and Frans Willems, "On the Security of the XOR-Method
in Biometric Authentication Systems," Twenty-Seventh Symposium on
Information Theory in the Benelux, Noordwijk,
The Netherlands, June 8-9, 2006, pp. 197 - 204.
- Tanya Ignatenko
and Frans Willems, "Privacy Leakage in Biometric Secrecy
Systems," presented at Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton
Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Sept. 23-28, 2008, Allerton Retreat Center, Monticello, Illinois. Contribution for proceedings.
- Frans M.J.
Willems and Tanya Ignatenko, "Quantization
Effects in Biometric Systems", ITA 2009, San Diego, February
8-13, 2009. Presentation.
- Tanya Ignatenko
and Frans M.J. Willems, “Biometric
Systems: Privacy and Secrecy Aspects,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Forensics
and Security, pp. 956 – 973, Vol. 4, Dec. 2009.
- Tanya Ignatenko
and Frans M.J. Willems, “Information
Leakage in Fuzzy Commitment Schemes,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Forensics
and Security, pp. 337 – 348, Vol. 5, June 2010.
- Frans M.J.
Willems and Tanya Ignatenko, “Identification
and Secret-Key Generation in Biometric Systems with Protected Templates,”
12th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security, September 9-10,
2010, Roma, Italy. Proceedings, pp. 63-66.
- Frans M.J.
Willems, “Effects of Quantization in
Biometric Systems,” lecture at Mini-Workshop on Biometric Template
Protection, October 1, 2010, University of Twente.
Organizer: Raymond Veldhuis.
- Frans M.J.
Willems and Tanya Ignatenko, “Identification
and Secret-Key Binding in Binary-Symmetric Template-Protected Biometric
Systems,” IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security,
WIFS’10, Seattle, December 12-15, 2010.
- Frans M.J.
Willems (joint with Tanya Ignatenko), “Limits and Codes
for Authentication Systems Based on Gaussian Biometrics,” presentation
at the Symposium “Security with Noisy Data,” which was held at TU/e on
January 21, 2011.
- Frans M.J.
Willems, “Privacy Leakage: Tanya’s Contribution
to Biometrics,” goodbye lecture given at Micro-Symposium “Biometric
Template Protection,” TU/e, February 28, 2011.
- Frans M.J. Willems
and Tanya Ignatenko, “Authentication Based on Secret Sharing,”
BIRS Workshop 12w5119 Interactive Information Theory, Banff, Alberta,
Canada, Jan. 15 – 20, 2012.
2011 BEST PAPER AWARD
from the SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY
Tanya Ignatenko and Frans M. J. Willems for
the paper entitled, " Biometric Systems: Privacy and Secrecy Aspects
," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security, Volume 4, Number 4, December 2009. The award was
presented at ICASSP 2012 in Kyoto, Japan, March 27.
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