Image Watermaking With Biometric Data For Copyright Protection
This addresses copyright protection for digital content providers and customers by offering a privacy-compliant solution, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing watermarking and biometric techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of proving ownership or legitimate usage of digital images to prevent unauthorized copying by proposing a scheme that combines watermarking with cancelable biometrics, eliminating the need for a trusted third party and ensuring privacy compliance, with demonstrated robustness against attacks.
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.