A hybrid biometric approach embedding DNA data in fingerprint images

Citation:
Ghany, K. K. A., G. Hassan, A. E. Hassanien, H. A. Hefny, G. Schaefer, M. Ahad, and A. Rahman, "A hybrid biometric approach embedding DNA data in fingerprint images", Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2014 International Conference on, Dhaka, 23-24 May 2014. copy at www.tinyurl.com/y3lwnv6l

Date Presented:

23-24 May 2014

Abstract:

In this paper, we present a robust image watermarking approach to hide DNA sequence data into fingerprint templates for copyright protection based on the discrete wavelet transform. A multi-bit watermark, based on DNA data, is embedded into the low frequency sub-band of the fingerprint image. During the inverse process, we employ DNA decoding to extract the image signature from the watermarked image. We evaluate our proposed method using statistical measures including mean squared error, peak signal-to-noise-ratio, and structural similarity index, and the experimental results confirm that the watermarks generated using our approach are invisible.