Publications

Patents:

“SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING FINGERPRINT BASED USER AUTHENTICATION USING IMAGERY CAPTURED USING MOBILE DEVICES”, United States Patent#9361507, February 6th, 2015.

“SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC PROTOCOL STANDARDS”, United States Patent application#20160373440, August 22nd, 2016.

“SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING HYBRID BIOMETRICS IDENTIFIERS”, Pending Patent.

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Book Chapters:

Asem Othman and John Callahan, “A Protocol for Decentralized Biometric-based Self-Sovereign Identity Ecosystem ”, in Securing Social Identity in Mobile Platforms, Thirimachos Bourlai, Panagiotis Karampelas, Vishal M. Patel (Eds.), Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer Publishing, 2020.

Asem Othman and John Callahan, “The Horcrux Protocol: A Distributed Mobile Biometric Self-sovereign Identity Protocol ”, in Selfie Biometrics, Ajita Rattani, Reza Derakhshani, Arun Ross (Eds.), Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer Publishing, 2019.

Asem Othman, Francis Mather, and Hector Hoyos, “Chapter11: 4F^TM-ID: Mobile Four-Fingers Biometrics System”, in Mobile Biometrics, Guodong Guo and Harry Weschler (Eds.), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2017.

Asem Othman and Arun Ross, “De-identifying Biometric Images”, in Biometric Security, David Ngo, Andrew Teoh, and Jiankun Hu (Eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Encyclopedia Entries:

Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Stan Z. Li and A. K. Jain (Eds.), Second Edition, Springer, 2015 (ISBN 978-3-642-27733-7):

"Mixing Fingerprints", by A. Othman and A. Ross

"Visual Cryptography", by A. Othman and A. Ross

Journals:

D. Hardman, L. Harchandani, A. Othman and J. Callahan, "Using Biometrics to Fight Credential Fraud," in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 39-45, December 2019.

A. Othman and A. Ross, "On Mixing Fingerprints," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol.8, Issue 1, pp. 260 - 267, January 2013.

A. Ross and A. Othman, "Visual Cryptography for Biometric Privacy," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 70 - 81, March 2011.

A. Othman, A. El-Beialy, S. Fawzy, A. Kandil, A. El-Bialy, and Y. Mostafa, "Methods for managing 3-dimensional volumes," American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, vol. 137, no. 2, pp. 266–273, February 2010.

Conferences:

A. Othman and John Callahan, "The Horcrux Protocol: A Method for Decentralized Biometric-based Self-sovereign Identity," Proc. of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Blockchain Research and Applications session, (Rio de Janerio, Brasil), July 2018.

L. Carney*, J. Kane, J. F. Mather, A. Othman, A. Simpson, A. Tavanai, R. Tyson and Y. Xue, "A Multi-Finger Touchless Fingerprinting System: Mobile Fingerphoto and Legacy Database Interoperability," Proc. of International Conference on Biometric Engineering and Forensics (ICBEF 2017), (Seoul, South Korea), November 2017. *Authors are in alphabetical order.

A. Othman and A. Ross, "Fingerprint + Iris = IrisPrint," Proc. of SPIE Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification XII, (Baltimore, USA), April 2015.

A. Othman and A. Ross, "Privacy of Facial Soft Biometrics: Suppressing Gender But Retaining Identity," Proc. of ECCV Workshop on Soft Biometrics, (Zurich, Switzerland), September 2014.

A. Othman and A. Ross, "Mixing Fingerprints For Generating Virtual Identities," Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), (Foz do Iguacu, Brazil), November/December 2011. Best Student Paper Award (Gold)

A. Ross and A. Othman, "Mixing Fingerprints for Template Security and Privacy," Proc. of the 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), (Barcelona, Spain), August/September 2011.

A. Ross and A. Othman, “Visual cryptography for face privacy,” Proc. of SPIE Conference on Biometric Technology for Human Identification VII, (Orlando, USA), April 2010.

A. Othman, A. Martin, D. Butterstein and M. Abouelhoda, "VisCHAINER: Visualizing Genome Comparison," Proc. of IEEE Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), (Cairo, Egypt), December 2008.