Biometric Security and Privacy

1. Fingerprint Quality Assessment: Matching Performance and Image Quality
Zhigang Yao, Jean-Marie Le Bars, Christophe Charrier, Christophe Rosenberger

2. A Novel Perspective on Hand Vein Patterns for Biometric Recognition: Problems, Challenges, and Implementations
Septimiu Crisan

3. Improving Biometric Identification Performance Using PCANet Deep Learning and Multispectral Palmprint
Abdallah Meraoumia, Farid Kadri, Hakim Bendjenna, Salim Chitroub, Ahmed Bouridane

4. Biometric Acoustic Ear Recognition
Mohammad Derawi, Patrick Bours, Ray Chen

5. Eye Blinking EOG Signals as Biometrics
Sherif N. Abbas, M. Abo-Zahhad

6. Improved Model-Free Gait Recognition Based on Human Body Part
Imad Rida, Noor Al Maadeed, Gian Luca Marcialis, Ahmed Bouridane, Romain Herault, Gilles Gasso

7. Smartphone User Authentication Using Touch Dynamics in the Big Data Era: Challenges and Opportunities
Lijun Jiang, Weizhi Meng

8. Enhanced Biometric Security and Privacy Using ECG on the Zynq SoC
Amine Ait Si Ali, Xiaojun Zhai, Abbes Amira, Faycal Bensaali, Naeem Ramzan

9. Offline Biometric Signature Verification Using Geometric and Colour Features
Abdelaali Hassaine, Somaya Al Maadeed, Ahmed Bouridane

10. Non-cooperative and Occluded Person Identification Using Periocular Region with Visible, Infra-Red, and Hyperspectral Imaging
Muhammad Uzair, Arif Mahmood, Somaya Ali Al-Maadeed

11. Robust Face Recognition Using Kernel Collaborative Representation and Multi-scale Local Binary Patterns
Muhammad Khurram Shaikh, Muhammad Atif Tahir, Ahmed Bouridane

12. Recognition of 3D Faces with Missing Parts Based on SIFT and LBP Methods
Narimen Saad, NourEddine Djedi

13. Face Anti-spoofing in Biometric Systems
Zinelabidine Boulkenafet, Zahid Akhtar, Xiaoyi Feng, Abdenour Hadid

14. Biometric Template Protection: A Systematic Literature Review of Approaches and Modalities
Mulagala Sandhya, Munaga V. N. K. Prasad

15. A Survey on Cyber Security Evolution and Threats: Biometric Authentication Solutions
Leila Benarous, Benamar Kadri, Ahmed Bouridane

16. Data Protection and Biometric Data: European Union Legislation
Pedro Miguel Freitas, Teresa Coelho Moreira, Francisco Andrade

Keywords: Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Biometrics, Big Data/Analytics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Security Science and Technology, Systems and Data Security