Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Biometric Technologies: face, fingerprint, DNA, ear, hand, handwriting, gait, gesture, iris, ocular, handprint/footprint, vascular, voice, other modalities, multimodalities, soft biometrics, and novel sensing technologies.

• Biometric System Designs & Standards: anti-spoofing, cancelable template and protection, encryption, large-scale identification and big data, mobile and remote biometrics, security and privacy, smart card, standardization, template selection and update.

• Biometric Applications: border and access control, civil registry, e-payment, forensics, law enforcement, health care, mobile and internet, social networking.

• Biometric Evaluations: aging effects, confidence interval estimation, databases, environment impacts, performance modeling and prediction, protocol and benchmarking, social impacts, and usability studies.