A DWT based approach for steganography using biometrics

DSDE 2010 - International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 39-43

  Shejul, Anjali A ^a   Kulkarni, U L ^b  

^a Mumbai University   (India)

^b Konkan Gyanpeeth College of Engineering   (India)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Cropping; DCT; DWT; PSNR; Security; Skin tone detection

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRIC FEATURES; COLOR SPACE; CROPPING; DATA HIDING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACHES; HIGH FREQUENCY; OBJECT ORIENTED; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SECRET DATA; SECURE LOCATION; SKIN TONE; SKIN TONE DETECTION; SUB-BANDS; TRANSMISSION MEDIUM;

BIOMETRICS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STEGANOGRAPHY;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 77952633687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSDE.2010.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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