Digital watermarking algorithm based on iris features

Abstract

Combined with the biometric identification technology and digital watermarking technology, a digital watermarking algorithm based on iris features is proposed. A secret key is used to generate the pseudorandom sequence which would have the cryptography in the sense of security. Through the two-scale wavelet transform and the combination of singular value decomposition, the robustness of the watermark can be improved. The experimental result shows that the watermarking algorithm is fit for iris feature and has strong robustness in noise resistance, geometric transform, compression and other aspects. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.