with an increasing emphasis on security, automated personal identification based on biometrics has been receiving extensive attention. iris recognition, as an emerging biometric recognition approach, is becoming a very active topic in both research and practical applications. in general, a typical iris recognition system includes iris imaging, iris liveness detection, and recognition. this rese...

Public sector applications e.g. the process of application of a biometric visa are connected to different kinds of technical, organisational, and legal requirements. But how can those requirements and recommendations be retrieved, analysed and described? The German federal government has taken part in the European pilot project BioDEV II in order to gain comprehensive experiences regarding the ...

Individual authentication technologies are essential for electronic systems as social infrastructures. Especially, biometrics-based authentication has been receiving increasing attention and is expected to be implemented on systems with portable devices such as mobile phones for realizing more useful services. The most important problem in biometrics-based authentication is to prevent a leakage...

Cancelable biometrics and secure sketches have been introduced with the same purpose in mind: to protect the privacy of biometric templates while keeping the ability to match this protected data against a reference. The paradigm beyond cancelable biometrics is to perform an irreversible transformation over images and to make matching over transformed images. On one hand, a drawback of this tech...

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While some biometrics, such as fingerprints, handwritten signatures or facial photographs, have been used in forensics for a good century or longer, modern biometric technology, both for person authentication and for forensic applications, has come to the fore as part of the rapidly expanding capabilities of computer technology in the final decades of the 20th century. A recent review of the hi...

The IEEE Biometrics Council Publications Committee has approved the appointment of nine new AEs. We are delighted to welcome Associate Editors appointed for two years starting January 2023. They very well respected and experts in many areas relevant scope Transactions on Biometrics, Identity Behavior. Please join me welcoming them board.

by Karen P. Hollingsworth Iris biometrics is used in a number of different applications, such as frequent flyer programs, identification of prisoners, and border control in the United Arab Emirates. However, governments interested in using iris biometrics have still found difficulties using it on large populations. Further improvements in iris recognition are required in order to enable this te...