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November 2003 (Vol. 25, No. 11)
pp. 1494-1498
Hiding Biometric Data
Anil K. Jain, IEEE
Umut Uludag, IEEE
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With the wide spread utilization of biometric identification systems, establishing the authenticity of biometric data itself has emerged as an important research issue. The fact that biometric data is not replaceable and is not secret, combined with the existence of several types of attacks that are possible in a biometric system, make the issue of security/integrity of biometric data extremely critical. We introduce two applications of an amplitude modulation-based watermarking method, in which we hide a user's biometric data in a variety of images. This method has the ability to increase the security of both the hidden biometric data (e.g., eigen-face coefficients) and host images (e.g., fingerprints). Image adaptive data embedding methods used in our scheme lead to low visibility of the embedded signal. Feature analysis of host images guarantees high verification accuracy on watermarked (e.g., fingerprint) images.
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Index Terms- Biometrics, data hiding, face, fingerprint, minutiae, steganography, watermarking.
Citation:
Anil K. Jain, Umut Uludag,
"Hiding Biometric Data,"
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
vol. 25,
no. 11,
pp. 1494-1498,
Nov.,
2003
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