Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Image- and Video-Based Biometrics

This special issue intends to collate the efforts and major achievements of scientists working on different biometric authentication techniques in an attempt to contribute to robust solutions to the many challenging problems in the area. We are very pleased with the quite large number of submissions, 41 in all. In order to accommodate all the high quality manuscripts, we divide the accepted papers into two special issues. Ten papers are included in this first issue. Eight more papers will be published in the December issue of the IEEE CSVT. This first issue focuses more on traditional biometrical technologies, such as face, iris, and fingerprint recognition. The second issue studies relatively newer technologies including gait, human body dynamics, palmprint, palm-dorsa vein-patterns, and multi-modal algorithms.