A new SAFR tool for face recognition using EGVLBP-CMI-LDA wrapped with secured DWT based steganography

Abstract

Face recognition technique nowadays is emerging as the most significant and challenging aspects in terms of security for identification of images in various fields viz. banking, police records, biometric etc. other than an individual's thumb and documented identification proofs. Till date for efficient net banking to be initiated, one has to provide the appropriate user name and password for purpose of authentication. This project introduces a vehicle to take a step forward in easy and more reliable authentication of an individual by providing Face Image along with User Name and Password to the system. In this an individual's face is identified by biometric authentication support with which, only a person whose account is, can access it. However while transferring this sensitive data of user image, from client machine to bank server it has to be protected from hackers and intruders from manhandling it, hence it is transferred using covert communication called Wavelet Decomposition based steganography. As face images are affected by different expressions, poses, occlusions, illuminations and aging over a period of time and it differs from the same person than those from different ones is the main difficult task in face recognition. Whenever image information is jointly co-ordinated in three aspects viz. image space, scale and orientation domains they carry much higher clues than seen in each domain individually. In the proposed method combination of Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Gabor features are used to increase the face recognition performance significantly to compare individual's face presentations. Hence face recognition and representation of Gabor faces are done using E-GV-LBP and CMI-LDA based feature recognition method. Gabor faces uses space, scale and orientation to support accurate face recognition, making net banking easier, authentic, reliable and user friendly.