Image Watermaking With Biometric Data For Copyright Protection

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel digital image watermarking scheme that combines biometric data with cancelable biometrics to verify ownership, ensuring privacy and robustness against attacks without needing a trusted third party.

Contribution

It introduces a new watermarking approach integrating cancelable biometrics for copyright protection, enhancing privacy and attack resistance in digital content ownership verification.

Findings

Robust against intentional and unintentional attacks

Does not require a trusted third party

Provides privacy-compliant proof of identity

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the proof of ownership or legitimate usage of a digital content, such as an image, in order to tackle the illegitimate copy. The proposed scheme based on the combination of the watermark-ing and cancelable biometrics does not require a trusted third party, all the exchanges are between the provider and the customer. The use of cancelable biometrics permits to provide a privacy compliant proof of identity. We illustrate the robustness of this method against intentional and unintentional attacks of the watermarked content.