User-Centric Privacy and Security in Biometrics

Claus Vielhauer is a full Professor for IT Security at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences and a senior researcher at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany. His research interests are in biometrics, multimedia security and IT forensics with a specialisation in multimodal and behavioral-based recognition, biometric cryptography and applications of biometrics to multimedia, as well as Human-to-Computer Interaction (HCI). Additionally, he is exploring methods for biometric user authentication related to IT security problems such as digital watermarking, steganography or IT forensics. He serves as an editor for the IET Biometrics Journal, and the EURASIP Journal on Information Security and is member of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).

PART I: Introduction and interdisciplinary approaches

Chapter 1: The interplay of privacy, security and user-determination in biometrics
Chapter 2: Privacy of online handwriting biometrics related to biomedical analysis
Chapter 3: Privacy concepts in biometrics: lessons learned from forensics







PART II: Privacy and security of biometrics within general security systems

Chapter 4: Physical layer security: biometrics vs. physical objects
Chapter 5: Biometric systems in unsupervised environments and smart cards: conceptual advances on privacy and security
Chapter 6: Inverse biometrics and privacy
Chapter 7: Double-layer secret-sharing system involving privacy preserving biometric authentication







PART III: Security and privacy issues inherent to biometrics

Chapter 8: Biometric template protection: state-of-the-art, issues and challenges
Chapter 9: Handwriting biometrics - feature-based optimisation
Chapter 10: Presentation attack detection in voice biometrics
Chapter 11: Benford's law for classification of biometric images







PART IV: User-centricity and the future

Chapter 12: Random projections for increased privacy
Chapter 13: De-identification for privacy protection in biometrics
Chapter 14: Secure cognitive recognition: brain-based biometric cryptosystems using EEG
Chapter 15: A multidisciplinary analysis of the implementation of biometric systems and their implications in society
Chapter 16: Biometrics, identity, recognition and the private sphere where we are, where we go