Secured access to terminals and teleservices using biometrics verification

This paper presents a typical application of secured access to a terminal and/or teleservices using biometrics (speech and frontal face) verification. This application is one of the prototype developed in the European ACTS project « M2VTS » which stands for Multi Modal Verification for Teleservices and Security Applications. The primary goal of this project was to address the issue of secured access to local and centralised services in a multimedia environment. The main objective was to extend the scope of application of network-based services by adding novel and intelligent functionalities, enabled by automatic verification systems combining multimodal strategies (secured access based on speech, image or other information). The objectives of the project were also to show that limitations of individual technologies (speaker verification, frontal face authentication, profile identification,...) can be overcome by relying on multi-modal decisions (combination or fusion of these technologies). Some of the Major results of M2VTS are presented in this paper.