Implementing Visual Cryptography and Biometrics for Improved Stego Image Security

The main idea of this paper is to apply the Biometric template Encryption (encryption using biometric template) along with Visual cryptography to secure the authors' valuable stego images. In the proposed scheme visual cryptography is applied to the stego image to get the image divided into parts and each part is encrypted using users biometric template and generate the Biometrically Encrypted Visual cryptographic Shear (BEVS) image to provide an extra layer of authentication to the users and send through the communication channel. The original image is available only when each BVES image is decrypted by the users biometric template and each part do not reveal any information about the original image.