IET Biometrics

Call for Papers

SPECIAL ISSUE ON:
Biometrics as-a-Service: Challenges and
future perspectives
Editor-in-Chief: Michael Fairhurst, University of Kent, UK

While local authentication through biometrics has established its legacy, Biometrics as-a-service (BaaS) is an emerging
topic related to specific applications having complex protocols for human identification over the network. To obtain the
combined benefit of cloud computing and biometric security, BaaS is increasingly being adopted by organizations for
enrolling employees and customers over the network, thereby achieving streamlined customer service, and protecting
against fraudulent and malicious users. In this scenario, third party licensed biometrics engines can be integrated with
cloud resources and APIs installed on PCs, tablets or mobile phones.

This special issue will present some of the most advanced research and latest findings on Biometrics as-a-Service (BaaS).

Topics of interest:

• Traits/cues for BaaS • Smart services and affective environments for

• Computing architectures and configurable resources for BaaS BaaS
• Cloud infrastructures and support for BaaS • Database indexing, cohort selection, and
• Storage and APIs in BaaS ensemble systems for BaaS
• Mobile biometrics for cloud based BaaS • Evaluation protocols and parameters for BaaS
• Cancelable biometrics for BaaS • Protocols and standards for BaaS
• Cryptographic encryption and cryptanalysis methodologies for • Multimedia services for BaaS
BaaS • Liveness detection in cloud based BaaS
• Fusion schemes for BaaS • Legal, ethical, and regulation factors for BaaS
• Cyber physical systems for cloud based BaaS

Submit your paper to the manuscript submission and peer review site via the following link:
www.ietdl.org/IET-BMT

Guest Editors: Dakshina Ranjan Kisku

Publication Schedule: National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India
Guodong Guo (Lead Guest Editor) E: drkisku@cse.nitdgp.ac.in
Submission Deadline: West Virginia University, USA
E: guodong.guo@mail.wvu.edu Raul Sanchez-Reillo
15 March 2018 University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Publication Date: Sambit Bakshi E: rsreillo@ing.uc3m.es
Late 2018 National Institute of Technology
Rourkela, India Massimo Tistarelli
E: sambitbaksi@gmail.com University of Sassari, Italy
E: tista@uniss.it
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