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  EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

  Special Issue on

  Advanced Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition Methods for Biometrics

  Call for Papers

  Biometric identification has established itself as a very important research
  area primarily due to the pronounced need for more reliable and secure
  authentication architectures in several civilian and commercial applications.
  The recent integration of biometrics in large-scale authentication systems such
  as border control operations has further underscored the importance of conducting
  systematic research in biometrics. Despite the tremendous progress made over the
  past few years, biometric systems still have to reckon with a number of problems,
  which illustrate the importance of developing new biometric processing algorithms
  as well as the consideration of novel data acquisition techniques. Undoubtedly,
  the simultaneous use of several biometrics would improve the accuracy of an
  identification system. For example the use of palmprints can boost the performance
  of hand geometry systems. Therefore, the development of biometric fusion schemes
  is an important area of study. Topics related to the correlation between biometric
  traits, diversity measures for comparing multiple algorithms, incorporation of
  multiple quality measures, and so forth need to be studied in more detail in the
  context of multibiometrics systems. Issues related to the individuality of traits
  and the scalability of biometric systems also require further research.
  The possibility of using biometric information to generate cryptographic keys is
  also an emerging area of study. Thus, there is a definite need for advanced signal
  processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition techniques to bring the current
  biometric systems to maturity and allow for their large-scale deployment.

  This special issue aims to focus on emerging biometric technologies and comprehensively
  cover their system, processing, and application aspects. Submitted articles must not
  have been previously published and must not be currently submitted for publication
  elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  o Fusion of biometrics
  o Analysis of facial/iris/palm/fingerprint/hand images
  o Unobtrusive capturing and extraction of biometric information from images/video
  o Biometric identification systems based on face/iris/palm/fingerprint/voice/gait/signature
  o Emerging biometrics: ear, teeth, ground reaction force, ECG, retina, skin, DNA
  o Biometric systems based on 3D information
  o User-specific parameterization
  o Biometric individuality
  o Biometric cryptosystems
  o Quality measure of biometrics data
  o Sensor interoperability
  o Performance evaluation and statistical analysis


  Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal's
  site http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=ASP. Prospective authors should submit an
  electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's Manuscript
  Tracking System at journal's web site, according to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            May 1, 2007
  Acceptance Notification   September 1, 2007
  Final Manuscript Due      December 1, 2007
  Publication Date          1st Quarter, 2008

  Guest Editors:

  Nikolaos V. Boulgouris, Department of Electronic Engineering, Division of Engineering,
  King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; nikolaos.boulgouris@kcl.ac.uk

  Juwei Lu, EPSON Edge, EPSON Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario M1W 3Z5, Canada; juwei@ieee.org

  Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical
  and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4,
  Canada; kostas@dsp.utoronto.ca

  Arun Ross, Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, West Virginia
  University, Morgantown WV, U.S.A 26506; Arun.Ross@mail.wvu.edu