Project 174008

Advanced Techniques of Cryptology, Image Processing and Computational Topology for Information Security

Leader: Dr. Miodrag Mihaljević

Abstract

The project is dedicated to research activates on advanced techniques for information security regarding data secrecy and authentication control. Accordingly, the main goals of the project are at the following directions:

The main expected outcomes of the project are within domains of cryptology, image processing and computational topology and include the following:

Aims and Objectives

The project is dedicated to the research activates on advanced techniques for information security regarding data security and authentication control. Accordingly, the main goals of the project are at the following directions:

The planned research activities for realization of the goals (i)-(v) are in the following domains:
Also, we point out that the activities within the project include an extensive international collaboration and education of yang researchers (Ph.D. students). The planned international collaboration is mainly a continuation of the existing one which has appeared as a fruitful one and yields a solid background for the further joint activities. The planned international collaboration should provide a framework for achieving top level results and it will be mainly related to the following institutions: Research Center for Information Security (RCIS), National institute AIST, Tokyo, Japan; University of Exeter, U.K.; University of Manchester, U.K., Centre for Image Analysis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Technical University (TU) Berlin. The educational dimension of the project will be focused towards the following issues: Education of yang researchers (Ph.D. students) and their involvement in research activities in the domains relevant for the current and future information security systems, which appear as a priority on the national as well as international level.

Research Impact

The proposed project belongs to the area of information-communications technologies (ICT) and addresses one of the hot topics within ICT - information security which has been recognized as one of the priority topics in the strategic research agenda in Republic Serbia as well as on the lists of research priorities in EU, US and Japan, for example.
The importance of the proposed project is a direct implication of the information security significance and its position on the lists of research and social priorities from the international and national points of view. As an illustration, it is worth noting that one of EU FP7 priorities is development of trustful and secure information society. Accordingly, importance of the proposed research activities appears as a direct consequence of importance of cryptology, biometric and certain topics of mathematics for developing advanced mechanisms for information security which reduces the overheads introduced by the information security requirements.
An additional benefit of the proposed project appears as a consequence of integration of the research activities of cryptology, image processing and particular topics of "pure" mathematics on the benefits of all these disciplines because the application oriented ones are provided with certain sophisticated mathematical tools and "pure" mathematics is related to certain practical and novel challenges.
Particular technical research impacts of the project include the following:

Ten Selected References from the Project Proposal