Ronny Merkel - Publications

2017

Tobias Scheidat, Ronny Merkel, Volker Krummel, Andreas Gerlach, Michala Weisensee, Jana Zeihe, and Jana Dittmann: On the application of semantic technologies to the domain of forensic investigations in financial crimes. Proceedings of SPIE Security+Defence, Warsaw, Poland, 2017.
Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Stefan Reichmann, Martin Griesbacher: Sozio-technische Aspekte von Finanz- und Cyberkriminalität. In: Peter Schartner, Andrea Baumann (Hrsg.): DACH Security 2017, pp. 24-37, München, 2017.
Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: A First Public Research Collection of High-Resolution Latent Fingerprint Time Series for Short-and Long-Term Print Age Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12(10), pp. 2276 - 2291, 2017; doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2017.2705622; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7931576/.

2016

Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: Resource-Efficient Latent Fingerprint Age Estimation for Adhoc Crime Scene Forensics: Quality Assessment of Flat Bed Scans and Statistical Features. The Sixth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), pp.1-6, Oulu, Finland, 2016.
Heike Kampe: Auf den Spuren krimineller Datenflüsse - Mit der Intelligenz der Informatik gegen das organisierte Verbrechen. Artikel zum Interview mit Ronny Merkel. In: Guericke '16 - forschen, vernetzen, anwenden, pp. 26-33, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 2016.
Sven Kuhlmann, Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Barbara Colette Zitturi, Martin Griesbacher: Criminals Cash Flow Strategies in Financial Crime on the Example of Online and Offline Fraud. The European Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 2016: Official Conference Proceedings, pp. 61-71, Brighton, United Kingdom, 2016; ISSN: 2188-9627 http://iafor.org/issn-2188-9627-the-european-conference-on-psychology-the-behavioral-sciences-2016-official-conference-proceedings/.
Ronny Merkel, Christian Krätzer, Mario Hildebrandt, Stefan Kiltz, Sven Kuhlmann, Jana Dittmann: A Semantic Framework for a better Understanding, Investigation and Prevention of Organized Financial Crime. In: Michael Meier, Delphine Reinhardt, Steffen Wendzel (Hrsg.): Sicherheit 2016: Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit - Beiträge der 8. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für informatik e.V. (GI), pp.55-66, Bonn, Germany, 2016. ISSN 1617-5468. ISBN 978-3-88579-650-3.

2015

Ronny Merkel, Claus Vielhauer, Jana Dittmann, Robert Fischer, Mario Hildebrandt, Christian Arndt: From classical forensics to digitized crime scene analysis. 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Crime Scene Forensics for Fingerprint Acquisition and Processing (MM4CSF) in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp.1-6, Torino, Italy, 2015; doi: 10.1109/ICME.2015.7397313; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7397313&isnumber=7177375.
Ronny Merkel: Latent Fingerprint Aging from a Hyperspectral Perspective: First Qualitative Degradation Studies using UV/VIS Spectroscopy. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF2015), Magdeburg, Germany, 2015.
Ronny Merkel, Mario Hildebrandt, Jana Dittmann: Application of StirTrace Benchmarking for the Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Age Estimation Robustness. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2015), Gjøvik, Norway, 2015.

2014

Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Mario Hildebrandt: Latent Fingerprint Persistence: A new Temporal Feature Space for Forensic Trace Evidence Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, France, 2014.
Ronny Merkel: New Solutions for an Old Challenge: Chances and Limitations of Optical, Non-Invasive Acquisition and Digital Processing Techniques for the Age Estimation of Latent Fingerprints (Dissertation, O.-v.-G.-University Magdeburg). Logos, Berlin, 2014. ISBN 978-3-8325-3823-3.

2013

Ronny Merkel, Karen Otte, Robert Clausing, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer and Anja Bräutigam: First investigation of latent fingerprints long-term aging using chromatic white light sensors. In Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Information hiding and multimedia security (IH&MMSec '13), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 95-104, 2013. DOI=10.1145/2482513.2482519 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2482513.2482519.

2012

Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann and Claus Vielhauer: Novel fingerprint aging features using binary pixel sub-tendencies: A comparison of contactless CLSM and CWL sensors. In 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), pp.7-12, 2012. doi: 10.1109/WIFS.2012.6412617.
Maik Schott, Ronny Merkel and Jana Dittmann: Sequence detection of overlapping latent fingerprints using a short-term aging feature. In 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), pp.85-90, 2012. doi: 10.1109/WIFS.2012.6412630.
Ronny Merkel, Matthias Pocs, Jana Dittmann and Claus Vielhauer: Proposal of Non-invasive Fingerprint Age Determination to Improve Data Privacy Management in Police Work from a Legal Perspective Using the Example of Germany. In: Pietro, R.; Herranz, J.; Damiani, E. & State, R. (Hrsg.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7731 : Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security, pp. 61-74, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. doi=10.1007/978-3-642-35890-6_5.
Ronny Merkel and Claus Vielhauer: On using flat bed scanners for the age determination of latent fingerprints: first results for the binary pixel feature. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimedia and security (MM&Sec '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 39-46, 2012. DOI=10.1145/2361407.2361415 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2361407.2361415.
Ronny Merkel: Chancen und Potentiale der Altersbestimmung latenter Fingerspuren mittels kontaktloser Sensorik. In Georg Krempl et al. (Eds.): Tagungsband der 1. Doktorandentagung Magdeburger-Informatik-Tage (MIT), pp.35-42, 2012.
Ronny Merkel, Stefan Gruhn, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer, Anja Bräutigam: On non-invasive 2D and 3D Chromatic White Light image sensors for age determination of latent fingerprints. In Forensic Science International, Volume 222, Issues 1–3, 10 October 2012, Pages 52-70, ISSN 0379-0738, 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.05.001. (2012); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073812002095. Accpeted Author Manuscript (for scholarly purposes only).
Ronny Merkel, Andy Breuhan, Mario Hildebrandt, Claus Vielhauer and Anja Bräutigam: Environmental impact to multimedia systems on the example of fingerprint aging behavior at crime scenes. Proc. SPIE 8436, 84360Y (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.922701.
Ronny Merkel, Stefan Gruhn, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer and Anja Bräutigam: General fusion approaches for the age determination of latent fingerprint traces: results for 2D and 3D binary pixel feature fusion. Proc. SPIE 8290, 82900Y (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.908637.

2011

Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: How Contact Pressure, Contact Time, Smearing and Oil/Skin Lotion Influence the Aging of Latent Fingerprint Traces: First Results for the Binary Pixel Feature using a CWL Sensor. In Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security - WIFS'11, November 29th-December 2nd, 2011, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
Ronny Merkel, Christian Kraetzer, Robert Altschaffel, Eric Clausing, Maik Schott, Jana Dittmann: Fingerprint Forensics Application Protocol: Semi-Automated Modeling and Verification of Watermark-Based Communication Using CASPER and FDR. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, October 23th–26th, 2011.
Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: Approximation of a Mathematical Aging Function for Latent Fingerprint Traces Based on First Experiments Using a Chromatic White Light (CWL) Sensor and the Binary Pixel Aging Feature. In B. de Decker et al. (Eds.): CMS 2011, LNCS 7025, pp.59-71. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 2011.
Jana Fruth, Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann: Security warnings for children’s smart phones: a first design approach (Poster). In B. de Decker et al. (Eds.): CMS 2011, LNCS 7025, pp.241-243. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 2011.
Ronny Merkel, Anja Bräutigam, Christian Kraetzer, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: Evaluation of binary pixel aging curves of latent fingerprint traces for different surfaces using a chromatic white light (CWL) sensor. Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia and Security. pp. 41-50, DOI: 10.1145/2037252.2037262, Niagara Falls, NY, USA, Sept. 29-30, Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2011.
Christian Kraetzer, Ronny Merkel, Robert Altschaffel, Eric Clausing, Jana Dittmann: Semi-automated communication protocol security verification for watermarking - pros and cons illustrated on a complex application scenario. Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimedia and Security. pp. 93-102, DOI: 10.1145/2037252.2037270, Niagara Falls, NY, USA, Sept. 29-30, Publisher: ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2011.
Ronny Merkel, Andriy Krapyvskyy, Marcus Leich, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: A first framework for the development of age determination schemes for latent biometric fingerprint traces using a chromatic white light (CWL) sensor. Proceedings of SPIE Security+Defence, 2011.
Mario Hildebrandt, Stefan Kiltz, Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann: Detection of malicious traces in crime scene forensics: an enhanced optical dot pattern analysis for untreated traces of printed amino acid residues. In Proceedings of ISPA, 2011.
Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann: Resolution and Size of Measured Area Influences on the Short- and Long-Term Aging of Latent Fingerprint Traces Using the Binary Pixel Feature and a High-Resolution Non-Invasive Chromatic White Light (CWL) Sensor. In Proceedings of ISPA, 2011.
Martin Schäler, Sandro Schulze, Ronny Merkel, Gunter Saake, Jana Dittmann: Reliable Provenance Information for Multimedia Data Using Invertible FragileWatermarks. In Proceedings of BNCOD, 2011.
Mario Hildebrandt, Ronny Merkel, Marcus Leich, Stefan Kiltz, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: Benchmarking contact-Less surface measurement devices for fingerprint acquisition in forensic investigations: results for a differential scan approach with a chromatic white light sensor. In Proceedings of DSP, 2011.
Ronny Merkel, Christian Krätzer, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer: Reversible watermarking with digital signature chaining for privacy protection of optical contactless captured biometric fingerprints – a capacity study for forensic approaches. In Proceedings of DSP, 2011.
Mario Hildebrandt, Jana Dittmann, Matthias Pocs, Michael Ulrich, Ronny Merkel, Thomas Fries: Privacy preserving challenges: New Design Aspects for Latent Fingerprint Detection Systems with contact-less Sensors for Preventive Applications in Airport Luggage Handling. In C. Vielhauer et al. (Eds). BioID 2011, LNCS 6583, pp. 286-298, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2011.

2010

Ronny Merkel, Christian Kraetzer, Tobias Hoppe, Jana Dittmann: Gut erkannt - Ergänzung zu Signaturen: Statistische Schadcodeerkennung. In IX Spezial 03/2010 - Sicher im Netz. Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH & Co. KG : Hannover, pp. 104-107, Oktober 2010.
Christian Kraetzer, Ronny Merkel, Robert Altschaffel, Eric Clausing, Maik Schott, Jana Dittmann: Modelling Watermark Communication Protocols using the CASPER Modelling Language. Proc. of the 12th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security (MM&Sec'10), September 9th-10th, Rome, Italy, ACM, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0286-9, 2010.
Ronny Merkel, Tobias Hoppe, Christian Kraetzer, Jana Dittmann: Statistical Detection of Malicious PE-Executables for Fast Offline Analysis. In B. De Decker and I. Schaumüller-Bichl (Eds.): CMS 2010, LNCS 6109, pp.93-105. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 2010.

2009

Tobias Hoppe, Ronny Merkel, Christian Krätzer, Jana Dittmann: Statistische Schadcodedetektion in ausführbaren Dateien. In Tagungsband der Konferenz D-A-CH Security 2009 – Gemeinsame Arbeitskonferenz der GI, OCG, BITKOM, SI und TeleTrusT. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 19. und 20. Mai 2009.
Ronny Merkel: Statistische Merkmale zur Anomaliedetektion in ausführbaren Dateien. Diplomarbeit (Betreuer: Jana Dittmann, Tobias Hoppe, Christian Krätzer, Helmut Schwigon), Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 03.03.2009.

2008

Christian Krätzer, Ronny Merkel, Jana Dittmann: WLAN Steganographie: Neue Ansätze und deren Bewertung. In Tagungsband der Konferenz D-A-CH Security 2008 - Gemeinsame Arbeitskonferenz der GI, OCG, BITKOM, SI, TeleTrusT und TU Berlin. Technische Universität Berlin, 24. und 25. Juni 2008.
Christian Krätzer, Jana Dittmann and Ronny Merkel: WLAN Steganography Revisited. In Proceedings of the Security, Forensics, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents X. Electronic Imaging Conference 6819, IS&T/SPIE 20th Annual Symposium, San Jose, CA, USA, January 26th-31st, 2008.

2007

Ronny Merkel: Erweiterung von Steganographie und Steganalyse für WLANs mit dem Ziel der Effizienzsteigerung. Studienarbeit (Betreuer: Jana Dittmann, Christian Krätzer), Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 12.09.2007.