BIOMETRIE GOES ARMENIEN

Application of security to biometrics and communications

Cooperation

University of Duisburg-Essen and American University of Armenia

Supported by the VW foundation

The project intends to support and develop the research at the American University in Armenia in the field of coding, information theory and security.

It is especially focused on talented Ph.D. students to give them the opportunity to get in contact with leading scientists in the field.

The research concentrates on biometric verification, processing of biometric data, constructing fault tolerant passwords from noisy observations,

secrecy of storing and processing private data, implementation with real data, coding and biometric authentication.

Participants:

Essen: Prof. A.J. Han Vinck, Prof. Trung van Tran, Julia Chen

Yerevan: Prof. G. Khachatryan, Dr. Melsik Kuregyan, V. Balakirsky

Meetings:

1st Meeting: Yerevan, Armenia, June 16, 2011

2^nd Meeting: Boppard, Germany, July 28, 2011

Contacts:

Universität Duisburg-Essen
Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik
Prof. Dr. Han Vinck
Ellernstraße 29, 45326 Essen, Germany
Tel.: 0201 183 7650; Fax: 0201 183 7663
Homepage: http://www.iem.uni-due.de/mmdd1/

American University of Armenia, Yerevan College of Engineering
Prof. Dr. Gurgen Khachatrian
40 Marshal Bagramian Avenue, Yerevan 0019
ARMENIEN

Exchange:

Guests in Essen, Germany:

Anna Asmangulyan, April-June, 2011

Vladimir Balakirsky, July-August, 2011

Gurgen Khachatryan, July 2011

Guests in Yerevan, Armenia:

Han Vinck, June 12-19, 2011

NEWS:

University Duisburg-Essen announcement

Further results:

Publications:

Performance of the verification for binary memoryless channels

Security Comm. Networks (2010), Published online in Wiley Online Library

(wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/sec.263

Vladimir B. Balakirsky and A. J. Han Vinck

vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 1212--1225, 2011.

``Adaptive fault--tolerant hashing algorithms for noisy verification''.

Proc. Int. Conf. "Computer Science and Information Technologies", Yerevan, Armenia, pp. 103--106, 2011.

ISBN: 978-5-8080-0797-0

V. B. Balakirsky and A. R. Ghazaryan,

``Information--theoretic analysis of privacy protection for noisy identification based on soft fingerprinting''.

Proc. Int. Conf. "Computer Science and Information Technologies",

Yerevan, Armenia, pp. 107--110, 2011. ISBN: 978-5-8080-0797-0

V. B. Balakirsky, S. Voloshynovskiy, O. Koval, T. Holotyak,

``Block Coding Schemes Designed for Biometric Authentication'',

Invited chapter in : "Biometrics: Methods, Applications and Analysis", NOVA Publisher, ISBN 978-1-60876-412-9,

Eds.: H. Schuster, W. Metzger, pp. 217-240, 2010.

V. B. Balakirsky, A. R. Ghazaryan, and A. J. Han Vinck,

``Block Coding Schemes Designed for Biometric Authentication''

Invited chapter in : "Advanced Biometric Technologies", InTech Publisher, ISBN 978-953-307-487-0,

Eds.: G. Chetty and J. Yang, pp. 299-324, August 2011.

V. B. Balakirsky and A. J. Han Vinck,