Name of Subject  : IT FOR FORENSIC SCIENCES (5 IT 6.3)

Unit

Contents

Overview of Biometrics, Biometric Identification, Biometric Verification, Biometric Enrollment, Biometric, System

Security.

Authentication and Biometrics: Secure Authentication Protocols, Access Control Security Services, Authentication

Methods, Authentication Protocols, Matching Biometric Samples, Verification by humans.

I

Common biometrics: Finger Print Recognition, Face Recognition, Speaker Recognition, Iris Recognition, Hand

Geometry, Signature Verification, Positive and Negative of Biometrics. Matching: Two kinds of errors, Score

distribution, Estimating Errors from Data, Error Rate of Match Engines, Definition of FAR and FRR.

Introduction to Information Hiding: Technical Steganography, Linguistic Steganography, Copy Right Enforcement,

Wisdom from Cryptography Principles of Steganography: Framework for Secret Communication, Security of

II

Steganography System, Information Hiding in Noisy Data , Adaptive versus non-Adaptive Algorithms, Active and

Malicious Attackers, Information hiding in Written Text.

A Survey of Steganographic Techniques: Substitution systems and Bit Plane Tools, Transform Domain

Techniques: - Spread Spectrum and Information hiding, Statistical Steganography, Distortion Techniques, Cover

Generation Techniques.

III

Steganalysis: Looking for Signatures: - Extracting hidden Information, Disabling Hidden

Information.

Watermarking and Copyright Protection: Basic W atermarking, Watermarking Applications, Requirements and

IV

Algorithmic Design Issues, Evaluation and Benchmarking of Watermarking system.

Transform Methods: Fourier Transformation, Fast Fourier Transformation, Discrete Cosine Transformation, Mellin-