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Watermarking as a Means to Enhance Biometric Systems: A Critical Survey

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Watermarking is discussed as possible means to enhance biometric systems. Application scenarios for the employment of watermarks as found in literature are discussed and analysed with respect to required watermark properties, possible attacks, and eventual (cryptographic) alternatives.

This work has been partially supported by the Austrian Science Fund, TRP project no. L554.

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    Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl, Karl Raab & Andreas Uhl

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Hämmerle-Uhl, J., Raab, K., Uhl, A. (2011). Watermarking as a Means to Enhance Biometric Systems: A Critical Survey. In: Filler, T., Pevný, T., Craver, S., Ker, A. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6958. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24178-9_17

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