Keystroke dynamics is a behavioural biometry which allows to authenticate individuals through there way of typing on a keyboard. Such systems are cheap, as they do not need specific devices different from the keyboard of the computer. They are also well accepted by the user. We are mainly interested in static systems where the text typed by the user is known in advance by the machine. Sadly, the performance of this modality are rather mediocre because of the high variability of the biometric data which comes from emotional state of the individual, the learning of they way to type, ... In this thesis, we propose various contributions which allow to improve the recognition performance of keystroke dynamics systems. We also do an analysis of the public datasets allowing to evaluate the performance of new recognition systems. One contribution is the creation of a system which allows the authentication of users with a shared password. Then, we study the biometric fusion with face recognition and keystroke dynamics in order to increase the performance of the two systems. We show, on two different datasets, that it is possible to guess the gender of an individual through its way of typing to a keyboard. Finally, we present a new template update method which allows to take into account the ageing of the biometric data in order to not observe a decrease of performance overtime.
