Information systems and critical infrastructures often need to securely identify their users. It has long been recognised that alternatives are needed to textual passwords for access control. While tokens can still be stolen, or transferred to other persons, biometrics technology can provide reliable, cost-effective and user-friendly solutions, particularly for unsupervised authentication at a distance. By [...]

The main purpose of this document is to provide a useful description of the safety and security standards, procedures and technologies for the collection, transmission, storage and processing of personal data, that are adopted or taken into account by the OCTAVE project in developing its platform, in designing its connections to the End-User Applications, and [...]

This deliverable provides a cumulative overview of the Project’s dissemination activities that have been undertaken and carried out during the First Year. These activities have been executed as main consequence of the Dissemination Plan implementation (for further information about the Dissemination Plan, please check the deliverable D20 (Dissemination and communication plan). Firstly, information about OCTAVE [...]

This Deliverable opens the phase of the Project dedicated to the provision of the speech and audio data required for completion of laboratory tests aiming to assess the voice biometrics and enhancing modules of the TBAS, the Trusted Biometric Authentication Platform envisaged by OCTAVE. The subsequent Deliverables, namely “Corpora collection” and “Spoofing corpora”, will close [...]

This deliverable details the key considerations and requirements for the effective realisation and deployment of voice biometrics in the application scenarios within OCTAVE. As a main facet of the report, the effects of extrinsic and intrinsic nuisance factors (other than spoofing) on the speaker recognition performance are reviewed. These include variations in the acoustic environments [...]

This report provides an overview of speaker verification and its potential vulnerabilities, particularly with reference to the objectives within OCTAVE. The scope of the study covers the two individual modes of text-dependent and text-independent, which are considered in the formation of a complete voice biometric system for operating under unsupervised conditions. The report details the [...]

This deliverable is twofold: a report on the design of the OCTAVE website and the initial website itself (home page and some basic pages, as of delivery month, i.e. July 2015). The website is of course a living product, as it will be constantly informing the target audiences about the existence of the OCTAVE project [...]

This deliverable provides an evaluation of the potential commercial impact of “authentication as a service” provided by the OCTAVE TBAS (Trusted Biometric Authentication Service), leveraging not only on processes and solutions specified in the deliverables issued during the entire project life-cycle, but also on the results from on-field trials carried out for two business processes: [...]

This document presents the OCTAVE Individual Partners’ Exploitation Plans, as a follow-up of Deliverable D39, where an Exploitation analysis was carried out at project consortium level and yielded a list of Exploitable results, qualifying the position of each Partner with respect to each result. The focus of this Deliverable D47 is to provide evidence of [...]

This deliverable provides an overview of all dissemination activities that have been carried out during the duration of the OCTAVE project, mainly those carried out during its second period (June 2016-July 2017). The objective was two-fold: to create awareness of OCTAVE achievements and contributions to innovation in the area of biometrics for access control, and [...]