Call for Book Chapters

Advances in Biometrics for Secure Human Authentication and Recognition

To be published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis) http://www.crcpress.com/ (Confirmed)

Volume Editors:

Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Asansol Engineering College, India
Phalguni Gupta, IIT Kanpur, India
Jamuna Kanta Sing, Jadavpur University, India


Aims and Objectives:

This book will showcase the latest technologies and algorithms which have been used since the last two decades for human authentication and recognition. Recent developments made in pattern classification and image processing techniques motivate the researchers and practitioners to design cutting-edge biometric technologies and gain competitive advantages over conventional security applications by applying innovative thoughts and algorithms for real life authentication problems. The need of biometrics systems increasing tremendously in day to day activities such as airport security, medical diagnostics, ATM security, parenthood determination, border security control, electronic data security, E-commerce, online banking transactions, cellular phones, national ID card, driving license, corpse identification, criminal investigation, etc. The novel methods of biometric systems are evolving rapidly and boosting the research areas in new directions. The book will provide up-to-date reviews of intelligence techniques and theories used in biometric technologies for human authentication and identification. In particular, the comprehensive references of different biometric works and implementations will be found to be invaluable collections for biometric developers and organizations. The primary audience for the book includes researchers, scholars, graduate students, engineers, practitioners and developers who are interested in biometric research and security related issues. The book will be organized in self-contained chapters to provide readers great readability and flexibility.


Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

--Face, fingerprint, iris, palm, hand geometry, ear, gait, retina, DNA, footprint, dental biometrics, etc.
--Feature extraction, pattern classification, matching techniques for biometrics algorithms
--Biometrics systems for border control security
--Biometrics systems for verification and identification
--Database indexing techniques for biometrics systems
--Protocols, cryptography, biometric standards for biometrics systems
--Security and reliability assessment for biometrics systems
--Online and offline biometric systems
--Performance assessment and resource computation in biometrics systems
--Multi-classifiers fusion and score weighting schemes in biometrics
--Machine vision and soft computing techniques in biometrics fusion
--Match score level, feature level, rank level, sensor level fusions for biometrics systems
--Feature quality improvements, feature update, feature matching in biometrics
--Adaptive biometric systems
--Biometrics template security
--Biometrics in affective computing
--Emotion Recognition
--Action units recognition in biometric systems
--Extended features in biometrics
--Recognition at distance
--Biometrics alteration
--Heterogeneous biometrics systems
--Avatar recognition
--Age invariant biometrics recognition
--Matching sketch to photos
--Multibiometrics
--Soft biometrics


Submission Procedure

Authors, researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit a 2 page chapter proposal on or before October 30, 2012 to mail-id: drkisku@gmail.com / drkisku@in.com. The proposal will clearly be explaining the mission and motivation of their proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 15, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 10, 2012. All submitted chapters will be peer reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for the submitted chapters.


Publisher

The book is scheduled to be published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis). (Confirmed)
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466582422


Important Dates:

Proposal submission deadline: October 30, 2012 (Submission deadline has been extended from 15th October, 2012 to 30th October, 2012.)
Notification of acceptance of proposals: November 15, 2012
Full chapter submission: December 10, 212
Acceptance notification of full chapters: February 15, 2013
Submission of final camera ready chapter, checklist, copyright form and permission verification form: February 28, 2013
Publication of book: April 2013


Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded by e-mail to:

Dr. Dakshina Ranjan Kisku
Department of Information Technology,
Asansol Engineering College,
Vivekananda Sarani, Kanyapur, S. R. Road,
Asansol – 713305, Barddhaman, West Bengal, India
Email: drkisku@gmail.com
Cell: +91-9732111234


Editorial Advisory(Review) Committee:

Arnab Bhattacharya, IIT Kanpur, India
Pabitra Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, India
Massimo Tistarelli, University of Sassari, Italy
Mita Nasipuri, Jadavpur University, India
Phalguni gupta, IIT Kanpur, India
Jamuna Kanta Sing, Jadavpur University, India
Akash Kumar Singh, IBM California, USA
Cigdem Eroglu Erdem, Bahcesehir University, Turkey
Manuele Bicego, University of Verona, Italy
Mahua Bhattacharya, ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India
Chetna Hegde, RNS Institute of Technology, India
Hugo Filipe Silveira Gamboa, Plux Solutions, Portugal
Ajita Rattani, University of Cagliari, Italy
Oleg Ushmaev, Rassian Academy of Sciences, Russia
R. Raghavendra, IIT, Italy
Sambit Bakshi, NIT Rourkela, India
Gayatri Mirajkar, Shivaji University, India
Preety Singh, LNMIIT, Jaipur, India
Amin Dehghani, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Asansol Engineering College, India