%0 Journal Article %A A. Kebbeb and M. Mostefai and F. Benmerzoug and Y. Chahir %D 2013 %J International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 84, 2013 %T New Approach for Constructing a Secure Biometric Database %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9996887 %V 84 %X The multimodal biometric identification is the combination of several biometric systems; the challenge of this combination is to reduce some limitations of systems based on a single modality while significantly improving performance. In this paper, we propose a new approach to the construction and the protection of a multimodal biometric database dedicated to an identification system. We use a topological watermarking to hide the relation between face image and the registered descriptors extracted from other modalities of the same person for more secure user identification. %P 1589 - 1592