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Norway
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
17019
World Ranking
2333
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Busch is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on areas within computer science, with a strong emphasis on biometric identification and security, as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research fields include:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Artificial Intelligence

Key topics covered in their work are:

  • Biometric Identification and Security
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Recent notable publications by Christoph Busch include:

  • Face Morphing Attack Generation and Detection: A Comprehensive Survey, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
  • MIPGAN-Generating Strong and High Quality Morphing Attacks Using Identity Prior Driven GAN, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science
  • An overview of touchless 2D fingerprint recognition, 2021, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
  • Morphing Attack Detection -- Database, Evaluation Platform and Benchmarking, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biometrics in the Era of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Access
  • IET Biometrics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Biometrics Behavior and Identity Science

Several co-authors frequently collaborate with Christoph Busch, including:

  • Christian Rathgeb
  • Raghavendra Ramachandra
  • Juan Tapia
  • Kiran Raja
  • Pawel Drozdowski

In addition to articles, Busch has contributed to book publications. These include titles released by Springer International Publishing and Nomos:

  • Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection, 2022, Springer International Publishing
  • Soziale Marktwirtschaft in der digitalen Zukunft, 2023, Nomos

Best Publications

  • Unobtrusive User-Authentication on Mobile Phones Using Biometric Gait Recognition

    Mohammad Omar Derawi;Claudia Nickel;Patrick Bours;Christoph Busch

  • Demographic Bias in Biometrics: A Survey on an Emerging Challenge

    Pawel Drozdowski;Christian Rathgeb;Antitza Dantcheva;Naser Damer

  • Presentation Attack Detection Methods for Face Recognition Systems: A Comprehensive Survey

    Raghavendra Ramachandra;Christoph Busch

  • Ear biometrics: a survey of detection, feature extraction and recognition methods

    Anika Pflug;Christoph Busch

  • Presentation attack detection methods for fingerprint recognition systems: a survey

    Ctirad Sousedik;Christoph Busch

  • General Framework to Evaluate Unlinkability in Biometric Template Protection Systems

    Marta Gomez-Barrero;Javier Galbally;Christian Rathgeb;Christoph Busch

  • Face Recognition Systems Under Morphing Attacks: A Survey

    Ulrich Scherhag;Christian Rathgeb;Johannes Merkle;Ralph Breithaupt

  • Smartphone based visible iris recognition using deep sparse filtering

    Kiran B. Raja;R. Raghavendra;Vinay Krishna Vemuri;Christoph Busch

  • Transferable Deep-CNN Features for Detecting Digital and Print-Scanned Morphed Face Images

    R. Raghavendra;Kiran B. Raja;Sushma Venkatesh;Christoph Busch

  • Integer DCT-based reversible watermarking for images using companding technique

    Bian Yang;Martin Schmucker;Wolfgang Funk;Christoph Busch

  • Presentation Attack Detection for Face Recognition Using Light Field Camera

    R. Raghavendra;Kiran B. Raja;Christoph Busch

  • Detecting morphed face images

    R. Raghavendra;Kiran B. Raja;Christoph Busch

  • Digital watermarking: from concepts to real-time video applications

    C. Busch;W. Funk;S. Wolthusen

  • Reversible watermarking of 2D-vector data

    Michael Voigt;Bian Yang;Christoph Busch

  • Alignment-free cancelable iris biometric templates based on adaptive bloom filters

    C. Rathgeb;F. Breitinger;C. Busch

  • Authentication of Smartphone Users Based on the Way They Walk Using k-NN Algorithm

    Claudia Nickel;Tobias Wirtl;Christoph Busch

  • Using Hidden Markov Models for accelerometer-based biometric gait recognition

    Claudia Nickel;Christoph Busch;Sathyanarayanan Rangarajan;Manuel Mobius

  • On application of bloom filters to iris biometrics

    Christian Rathgeb;Frank Breitinger;Christoph Busch;Harald Baier

  • Towards Blind Detection of Robust Watermarks in Polygonal Models

    Oliver Benedens;Christoph Busch

  • Fake Face Detection Methods: Can They Be Generalized?

    Ali Khodabakhsh;Raghavendra Ramachandra;Kiran Raja;Pankaj Wasnik

  • Robust Scheme for Iris Presentation Attack Detection Using Multiscale Binarized Statistical Image Features

    R. Raghavendra;Christoph Busch

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiran B. Raja
Kiran B. Raja Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Christian Rathgeb
Christian Rathgeb Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Raymond N.J. Veldhuis
Raymond N.J. Veldhuis University of Twente
Andreas Uhl
Andreas Uhl University of Salzburg
Xiamu Niu
Xiamu Niu Harbin Institute of Technology
Sébastien Marcel
Sébastien Marcel Idiap Research Institute
Javier Galbally
Javier Galbally Autonomous University of Madrid
Arjan Kuijper
Arjan Kuijper Fraunhofer Society
Julian Fierrez
Julian Fierrez Autonomous University of Madrid

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