Fusion of Digital Signature & Fingerprint Watermarking using Bit plane slicing

In recent years, internet revolution resulted in an explosive growth in multimedia applications. The rapid advancement of internet has made it easier to send the data/image accurate and faster to the destination. Besides this, it is easier to modify and misuse the valuable information through hacking at the same time. Digital watermarking is one of the proposed solutions for copyright protection of multimedia data.[2] Digital image watermarking provides copyright protection, by hiding appropriate ownership information in digital images. This ownership information may be in the form of logo called as 'watermark'. The image formed after hiding 'watermark' in original image is called 'watermarked image'.[3]