C. Vielhauer

Claus Vielhauer is an Assistant Researcher at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany, where he has joined the department of Computer Science in 2003 as the Leader of the biometrics research group as part of the Advanced Multimedia and Security Lab (AMSL). In addition, he is working for the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) of Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, since 1999, where he also received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering. His research interests are in biometrics with specialization in handwriting recognition and quality evaluation. His main activities are concentrated on the algorithm design for hardware-independent signature verification systems and key management for PKI using biometrics. He has a great number of international publications in the area of signature verification and biometric test criteria. Furthermore, he is a member of technical program committees of international conferences of great importance to biometrics (ICME, ICBA) and has been organizing and cochairing a number of special sessions on biometrics (ICME, SPIE). Additionally, since 2000, he is the Managing Director of Platanista GmbH, a spinoff company focusing on IT security.

Biography Updated on 9 September 2003