Aim of this project is to implement a novel authentication scheme to establish Digital Rights Management (DRM) based on multimodal biometric verification and watermarking technique. Security of biometric system is a major concern. An attack on a biometric system can result in loss of privacy, monetary damage and security breach. Biometric system offer better security then existing approaches. T...

Biometric authentication, i.e. verifying the claimed identity of a person based on physiological characteristics or behavioral traits, has the potential to contribute to both privacy protection and user convenience. From a security point of view, biometric authentication offers the possibility to establish physical presence and unequivocal identification. However from a privacy point of view, t...

The robustness and security of the biometric watermarking approach can be improved by using a multiple watermarking. This multiple watermarking proposed for improving security of biometric features and data. When the imposter tries to create the spoofed biometric feature, the invisible biometric watermark features can provide appropriate protection to multimedia data. In this paper, a biometric...

Access control systems using biometric identification readers are becoming common within critical infrastructure and other high security applications. There is a perception that biometric, due to their ability to identify and validate the user, are more secure. However, biometric systems are vulnerable to many categories of attack vectors and there has been restricted research into such defeat ...

The increasing demand for high secure and reliable authentication schemes, led to improvement in unimodal biometric system and hence multimodal biometric system has emerged as a mean of more secure and reliable authentication scheme. Multimodal biometric fusion is very promising process to enhances the strengths and reduce the weaknesses of the individual measurements. In multimodal biometrics,...

Biometrics, the computer-based validation of a persons’ identity, is becoming more and more essential due to the increasing demand for high-security systems. A biometric system testifies the authenticity of a specific physiological or behavioral characteristic possessed by a user. New requirements over actual biometric systems as robustness, higher recognition rates, tolerance for imprecision a...

The intricate structure of the iris constitutes a powerful biometric utilized by iris recognition algorithms to extract discriminative biometric templates. In order to provide a rapid comparison of biometric templates the vast majority of feature extraction methods are designed to generate binary biometric templates, applying the Hamming distance as (dis-)similarity metric. Based on this concep...

Recognition of a person by means of the biometric characteristic is very important technology as biometric identifiers can’t be shared and they intrinsically represent individual’s bodily identity. Palm print is one of the important biometric characteristics with high user acceptance and it has gained much attention because of its good performance. Biometric characteristics are used to identify...

Biometric encryption is the basis for biometric template protection and information security. While existing methods are based on iris or fingerprint modality, face has so far been considered not reliable enough to meet the requirement for error correcting ability. In this paper, we present a novel biometric key binding method based on near infrared (NIR) face biometric. An enhanced BioHash alg...

As biometrics are gaining popularity, there is increased concern over the loss of privacy and potential misuse of biometric data held in central repositories. The association of fingerprints with criminals raises further concerns. On the other hand, the alternative suggestion of keeping biometric data in smart cards does not solve the problem, since forgers can always claim that their card is b...