Background

Figure 1: The importance of computer security
 

This group has set out to create an user-friendly interface that would increase the security and privacy of users on their personal computers. In this day of age, hackers have developed ways in which they can contrive a user's password, and use it to log , and fingerprint recognition to enhance a user's securtiy profile on his/her computer accouinto his/her account. The interface that the group is working will integrate facial recognition, voice recognitionnt, and make it a lot more tedious, or maybe even impossible, for an external hacker to access a different user's account.

 

Figure 2: Crucial personal information can be accessed by unintended individuals if one's computer is left unprotected.

The motivation of this project is to create a system that would enhance the security and privacy for multiple users on their personal computers. The goal is to create an application that would utilize multiple biometric characteristics, such as facial features, voice, and fingerprints, to correctly identify an user and allow him/her to access his/her material on a computer. The technical challenges the group expects to face in the process of this project are creating a signal processing system that will make use of a webcam to identify facial features, a microphone to identify vocal patterns, and a fingerprint scanner to identify fingerprints. Another challenge is interfacing all of these signal processing systems together to function in identifying a person correctly. The final deliverable will be a MATLAB script that will be able to integrate a standard webcam, microphone, and fingerprint scanner to correctly identify a user and grant him/her access to his/her account on a computer.