Introduction: Remote Authenticator for XSEC-2.1 can work across a network provided a server machine runs the XSEC Authentication Server. The requirements for a Machine for running XSEC remote Authenticator are:

A good quality Microphone.
A camera with resolution 320 X 240.

How to test Remote Authenticator?

Step I: Check if XSEC Authenticator server is running? If not, then user will have to run the XSEC Authentication Server manually.
Step II: Run Remote Authenticator. The panel shown below will be prompted. User will be required to supply the Login ID along with the XSEC Server IP. If the XSEC Server is running o the local computer then Server IP will be 127.0.0.1 else user will have to supply a valid Server IP. Status label will show the current status of the Remote Authenticator.

Stage III: After login data is submitted, Remote Recognizer will be open as shown below. Similar to the Training session, Authentication session also has two separate phases. Basis of the authentication will only be Face and voice features of the user. Hence, user is required to submit 1 picture and a voice sample. Please follow the steps stated below in order to complete the Authentication phase successfully.

1. Fix up the face as instructed in the training session.
2. Click on the "Take Face Snap Shot" button the take a snap-shot.
3. There is a sentence flashed on the text area whose words are separated by "-".
4. Click on the "Start Recording Voice" button to start recording the sentence while keeping the instructions stated in the training session in the mind.
5. Click on the "Submit" button to submit the feature data to the XSEC Server.

If the user has been Authenticated, then a positive message will appear in a message box, else a negative message will appear in the message box that will be flashed after the feature submission.