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M2VTS Project:
MULTI-MODAL BIOMETRIC
PERSON AUTHENTICATION

ACTS Project 102

Among the different European ACTS projects, the M2VTS project (Multi Modal Verification for Teleservices and Security applications) deals with access control by the use of multimodal identification of human faces. The goal of using a multimodal recognition scheme is to improve the recognition efficiency by combining single modalities, namely face and voice features.


Objectives of the Project
Partners
Outputs - Commercial Products

Objectives of the Project

The objectives of the M2VTS project is to address the issue of secured access to local and centralised services in a multimedia environment. The major problem in user authentification is to achieve on the one hand toll performance : false acceptance rate as low as possible (minimise access to impostors), and false rejection rate as low as possible (a registered user should access to his system in any case), and on the other hand stand the wide range of conditions of use of such systems as well as provide ergonomically viable solutions. The use of multiple modalities will help to overpass potential technical limitations of individual modalities as well as take benefit of the emerging multimedia environment : workstations, network computers, smart phones are more and more equiped with audio and video capabilities. The research is driven by the application needs and user requirements. Therefore, work has essentially been driven by three main goals :

Take a look at the current status of the M2VTS project.

M2VTS Partners

Matra Communication (France)
Ibermatica SA (Spain)
Cerberus AG (Switzerland)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne [LTS][LAMI] (Switzerland)
Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
University of Surrey (UK)
University of Neuchatel (Switzerland)
Renaissance (Belgium)
Institut Dalle molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (Switzerland)
Unidad Tecnica Auxiliar de la Policia (Spain)
Compagnie Européenne de Télésécurité (France)
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (Spain)
Universidad Carlos III (Spain)


Outputs - Commercial Products

M2VTS considers modalities including face recognition. Links to similar problems and essentially facial expression recognition are available at ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories.

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Last modified Oct 5, 1998.
Author: Stéphane Pigeon