Partners and International Organizations
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Matra Communication (F), Ibermatica (E), Unidad Tecnica de Policia (E), Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (E), Université catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve (B), University of Surrey (UK), Renaissance (B), Aristotle University of Thessanoliki (GR), Universad Carlos III (E), CERBERUS (CH, EPFL (CH), Université de Neuchâtel (CH), IDIAP (CH)
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Abstract
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The primary goal of the M2VTS project is to provide new - original - technological solutions (algo-rithms, hardware/software platforms, ergonometric user-interfaces) for :
1) Secured access to local and centralized services in multimedia environments (Teleservices);
2) Advanced alarm verification and access control facilities for Security/Surveillance Systems.
The originality of the project is in proposing a multimodal approach for the person authentication based on joint audio and video-based biometric person authentication technologies (voice+face verification).
In the project, IMT Uni-NE was closely working together with SIEMENS Building Technologies SA (CERBERUS Division) in the field of alarm verification and access control for Surveillance/Security Systems. The third and last year of the project was devoted to :
- Firmware development (interfaces, etc.) for the hardware prototype platform developed at SBT CERBERUS, consisting of two DSP-boards called Cyberguard80 and VisionPoint80, respectively (these two boards are based on a reference design provided by Precision Digital Images Inc., USA, and support the H.320 videoconferencing standard, image and audio acquisition/restitution, and voice/face recognition); this activity was driven jointly by IMT, IDIAP, and SBT CERBERUS.
- Integration of sphericity based speech verification algorithms onto the mentioned prototype platforms, including finite wordlength and real-time implementation.
- Comparative performance study between Texas Instruments' TMS320C80 and Philips' Trimedia processors.
- Contribution to Deliverables No 421b, 422b, 423, 431, and 512 (as mentioned on page 21 of the 3rd Annual Report, Part A2).
Moreover, IMT Uni-NE contributed to publishing two papers during the last year [Rich99, Besa99], and recently organized an International COST 254 Workshop on Intelligent Communication Technologies and Applications, with Emphasis on Mobile Communications (Neuchâtel, May 5-7, 1999), where the results achieved in the frame of the ACTS-M2VTS project were presented by several consortium partners in the scope of invited talks and demonstrations.
[Rich99] G. Richard & al., Multi-Modal Verification for TeleServices and Security Applications (M2VTS), to be published in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems '99, Florence, Italy, June 7-11, 1999.
[Besa99] L. Besacier & al., Experimental Evaluation of Text-Independent Speaker Verification on Laboratory and Field Test Databases in the M2VTS Project, to be published at Eurospeech'99, Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 5-9, 1999.
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