Biometrics

Effects of watermarking on iris recognition performance

Protection of biometric data and templates is a crucial issue for the security of biometric systems, and biometric watermarking is introduced for this purpose. However, watermarking introduces extra information into the biometric data (biometric …

Security enhancement of biometrics, cryptography and data hiding by their combinations

The security of multimedia information in general and the security of visual information in particular have increasingly become an issue of great concern in our networked society. Biometrics, cryptography and data hiding provide effective and often …