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Original Articles

Augmenting security of biometric with watermarking

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Pages 189-196 | Received 08 Jun 2012, Accepted 07 Aug 2012, Published online: 06 Dec 2013
 

Abstract

This paper presents a new blind biometric watermarking scheme based on discrete wavelet transform for biometric template protection. We are using fingerprint feature and iris feature as multiple watermarks instead of randomly generated Gaussian noise type watermark. Watermark embedding locations are selected by measuring power level of each coefficient which gives sensibility of human eye to local image perturbations. Though biometric features are embedded sequentially, care is taken that most significant features are embedded to those locations whose power level is maximum which provides more robustness. We embed watermark into mid-frequency sub-band by modifying the amplitude of selected coefficient based on comparison between original and estimated values. Estimated value of coefficient is calculated from average sub-band of the same resolution level of the cover image. A reliable watermark extraction scheme is developed for the extraction of watermark from distorted image. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed scheme is able to withstand a variety of attacks. We show that the proposed scheme also gives adjustability to the user for selecting P percentage of retained wavelet coefficients.

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