Recent Advances in Biometric Systems: A Signal Processing Perspective

Call for Papers

Biometrics a digital recognition technology that relies on highly
distinctive physical and physiological characteristics of an
individual is potentially a powerful and reliable method for personal
authentication. The increasing importance of biometrics is underscored
by the rapidly growing number of educational and research activities
devoted to this field; and by a large number of annually organized
Conferences and Symposia exclusively devoted to biometrics. Biometrics
is a multidisciplinary field with researchers from signal processing,
pattern recognition, computer vision, and statistics. Recently, a
number of new important directions have been identified for biometric
research, including processing and encoding of nonideal data,
biometrics at a distance, and data quality assessment. Problems in
nonideal biometric data include off-angle, occluded, blurred, and
noisy images. Biometrics at a distance is concerned with recognition
from video or snapshots of a biometric sample s captured from a
noncooperative moving individual. The goal of this special issue is to
focus on recent advances in signal processing of biometric data that
allow improved recognition performance through novel restoration,
processing, and encoding; matching techniques capable of dealing with
complexity and distortions in data acquired from a distance;
recognition from biometric data acquired from unconstrained
environments or complex experimental set ups; and the characterization
of quality and its relationship with performance.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Biometric-based recognition under unconstrained presentation and/or
complex environment using the following:
    o Face
    o Iris
    o Fingerprint
    o Voice
    o Hand
    o Soft biometrics

Multimodal biometric recognition using nonideal data

Biometric image/signal quality assessment:
    o Face
    o Iris
    o Fingerprint
    o Voice
    o Hand
    o Soft biometrics

Biometric security and privacy
    o Liveness detection
    o Encryption
    o Cancelable biometrics

The special issue will focus both on the development and comparison of novel signal/image processing approaches and on their expanding range of applications.

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal
Processing manuscript format described at the journal site
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should
submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due                 October 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews         January 1, 2009
Publication Date               April 1, 2009

Guest Editors

o Natalia A. Schmid, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; natalia.schmid@mail.wvu.edu
o Stephanie Schuckers, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA; sschucke@clarkson.edu
o Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standard and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA; jonathon@nist.gov
o Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; kwb@cse.nd.edu