Hiding a face in a fingerprint image

Author

Jain, Anil K. ; Uludag, Umut ; Hsu, Rein-Lien

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

756

Abstract

With the wide spread utilization of biometric identification systems, establishing the authenticity of biometric data itself has emerged as an important research issue. We present a fingerprint image watermarking method that can embed facial information into host fingerprint images. This scheme has the advantage that in addition to fingerprint matching, the recovered face during the decoding can be used to establish the authenticity of the fingerprint and the user. By computing the ROC curves on a fingerprint database of 160 individuals, we show the advantages of the proposed watermarking scheme. Further, our scheme does not introduce any significant degradation in the fingerprint matching performance.

Keywords

data encapsulation; decoding; fingerprint identification; image reconstruction; watermarking; authenticity; biometric systems; decoding; embed facial information; fingerprint image watermarking; fingerprint matching; image recovery; Bioinformatics; Biometrics; Cryptography; Data engineering; Data security; Decoding; Fingerprint recognition; Image matching; Information security; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 2002. Proceedings. 16th International Conference on

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1695-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2002.1048100

Filename

1048100