Biometric Access Control for Digital Media Streams in Home Networks

Author

Corcoran, Peter ; Iancu, Claudia ; Callaly, Frank ; Cucos, Alex

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway

Volume

53

Issue

3

fYear

2007

Firstpage

917

Lastpage

925

Abstract

Methods for controlling access to digital media content in the home environment using biometric sensing techniques are described. A wireless rebroadcast system for IP-TV content was retrofitted with a combination of fingerprint authentication and face recognition modules. Family members are enrolled and new individuals may be added to the system by a master user. Access to content requires fingerprint based authentication from a wireless PDA and the system also checks dynamically if it can recognize enrolled uses amongst those \´\´sitting on the couch ".

Keywords

authorisation; face recognition; fingerprint identification; home computing; local area networks; media streaming; message authentication; mobile computing; multimedia computing; notebook computers; IP-TV content; biometric access control; biometric sensing techniques; digital media streams; face recognition modules; fingerprint authentication; home networks; wireless PDA; wireless rebroadcast system; Access control; Authentication; Biometrics; Encoding; Face recognition; Fingerprint recognition; Home automation; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2007.4341566

Filename

4341566