MOBIO · Mobile Biometry

Portable personal devices (PDAs or mobile phones) are indeed widely used.<br/>They provide the mobile worker or the customer with portable computing and wireless access to Telecom networks. <br/>It is then possible to access many services (phone card reloading, remote purchase or telephone banking). <br/>The conventional means of identification (passwords, secret codes and PINs) can easily be compromised, shared, observed, stolen or forgotten. <br/>Determining the identities of users can be achieved through the use of biometrics.<br/><br/>Since more portable devices are equipped with a microphone and a video camera,<br/>MOBIO will focus on multiple aspects of biometric authentication based on face and voice authentication.<br/><br/>MOBIO will thus address several innovative aspects relative to bi-modal authentication systems in the framework of mobile devices:<br/>1. Researching joint bi-modal authentication algorithms to take advantage of temporal correlations between modalities,<br/>2. Investigating model adaptation techniques to reduce the degradation of biometric systems over time,<br/>3. Analysing the scalability of the proposed solutions,<br/>4. Providing common evaluation tools and baseline results.<br/><br/>The project will also address the development of demonstration systems, running either entirely on a mobile phone or partially on a server if resources needed to reach the required performance is too high.