ABSTRACT

A single multi application smart card can be used to replace the various cards people now carry for use in public transport, driving license, health insurance cards, national identity cards etc.,. Important challenges in the implementation and deployment of multi application smart cards are the protection of privacy of the card holder, security, Authentication and efficient storage of data. Smart cards can be used anywhere by medical emergency crew to quickly learn about previous ailments even if the affected person is incapable to interact with anybody. In this paper we investigate lossy compression algorithms on images typically used in multi application smart card including finger print images, facial images and medical images which have their own degree of importance in each of their individual applications.