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A door silently opens, activated by a video camera and a face recognition system. Computer access is granted by checking a fingerprint. Access to a security vault is allowed after an iris check. Are these scenes from the latest Hollywood spy thriller? Perhaps, but soon it could be in your office or on your desktop. Biometric authentication technologies such as face, finger, hand, iris and speaker recognition are commercially available today and are already coming into wide use. Recent advances in reliability and performance and cost drops make these technologies attractive solutions for many computer and network access, protection of digital content and physical access control problems.