Walter Scheirer

Adaptive High Dynamic Range Imaging C2FUSE INSPECCT GPS-Based Tracking System for Trauma Patients Intelligent Imaging System NCIIA Network Security NSF Privacy ONR FAMME Privacy Enhanced Camera Projective Biometric Invariants Revocable Biometrics with Robust Distance Metrics SEE Port Semquest NEATR Trauma-Net UAV Underwater Imaging

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About me

I am a second year doctoral candidate here at UCCS, working towards a Ph.D. in computer science.

My primary research interest is computer and information security, with a focus on biometric systems. Specifically, I am interested in privacy enhancing technologies that overcome the obstacles inherent in biometrics (threat of identity theft, non-revocability, cross-database matching). Beyond the specifics of biometrics, I am interested in computer vision, multispectral imaging, and cryptographic systems. I have also dabbled in bioinformatics, linguistics, and general networking.

Previously, I was a member of the WINS group at Lehigh University, headed by Prof. Mooi Choo Chuah. There I investigated the potential of dynamic intrusion detection systems, leading to promising work in semantics-aware based methods. While at Lehigh, I earned a Master's degree in computer science, and a Bachelor's degree in computer science and international relations.

Recent publications

Cracking Fuzzy Vaults and Biometric Encryption: Walter J. Scheirer and Terrance E. Boult. In the proceedings of the 2007 Biometrics Symposium, September 2007.
Secure Revocable Fingerprint Biotokens: Terrance E. Boult, Walter J. Scheirer, and Robert Woodworth. In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2007.
A Bioinformatics Approach to Identify Recoding Events of A-to-I RNA Editing: Mark Strohmaier, Stefan Maas, Daniel Lopresti, Rikhi Kaushal, Walter Scheirer, and Steven Hookway. In the proceedings of the Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, August 2006.
Network Intrusion Detection with Semantics-Aware Capability: Walter Scheirer and Mooi Choo Chuah. In the proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2006.