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Classical biometric system are prone to compromise at several points. Two of the vulnerable points are : 1. biometric database 2. biometric feature matcher subsystem. We propose a two level watermarking scheme to secure these vulnerable points. Watermark W1 is used for database authentication and made resistive to lossy compression. It is derived using block based singular values (SV’s) of a fingerprint image. W1 establish linkages between watermark and fingerprint image. Watermark W2 is used to secure feature matcher subsystem. It is computed using second and third order moments of the fingerprint image. W2 is made resistive to mild affine transformation and lossy compression to incorporate practical aspects of biometric fingerprint system. The proposed watermarking method not only provides protection to database and matcher subsystem, it also gives security against copy attack.
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Joshi, M.V., Joshi, V.B., Raval, M.S. (2013). Multilevel Semi-fragile Watermarking Technique for Improving Biometric Fingerprint System Security. In: Agrawal, A., Tripathi, R.C., Do, E.YL., Tiwari, M.D. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia. IITM 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37463-0_25
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