IEEE TIFS Special Issue on Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures

Guest Editors

Nicholas Evans EURECOM, France 

Sébastien Marcel Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland 

Arun Ross Michigan State University, USA 

Stan Z. Li Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

While biometrics technology has revolutionized approaches to person authentication and has evolved to play a critical role in personal, national and global security, the potential for the technology to be fooled or ‘spoofed’ is widely acknowledged. Efforts to study such threats and to develop countermeasures are now well underway resulting in some promising solutions. While progress with respect to each biometric modality has attained varying degrees of maturity, there are some notable shortcomings in research methodologies... read the full CfP.