**Meet the editors**

Dr. Jucheng Yang is a special professor of Haihe Scholar in College of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China. He is a special professor of Tianjin City, too. He received his B.S. degree from South-Central University for Nationalities, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Chonbuk National University, Republic of

Korea. He did his post-doc at the Advanced Graduate Education Center of Jeonbuk for Electronics and Information Technology-BK21 (AGEC-JEIT-BK21), Republic of Korea. He was a professor in Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China, and was a visiting fellow in the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published over 50 papers in related international journals and conferences, and served as editor or review. He has applied nine Chinese patents and was awarded two Chinese patents of biometrics. His research interests include biometrics, image processing, pattern recognition and neural networks.

Dr. ShanJuan Xie received her B.S. degree from South-Central University for Nationalities, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea. She is a post-doc at the Advanced Graduate Education Center of Jeonbuk for Electronics and Information Technology-BK21 (AGECJEIT-BK21), Republic of Korea. Her areas of interest are biometrics,

pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning, in which she has authored almost 30 papers in related international journals and conferences. She has served as reviewer of many conferences. She was awarded the best paper in the 4th Conference on Information and Communication Technology and two Chinese patents of biometrics.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Theory and Method 1**

Homayoon Beigi

Chapter 2 **3D and Thermo-Face Fusion 31**

Svetlana Yanushkevich

**Optical Model 59**

**Biometrics 77**

**Section 2 Performance Evaluation 127**

Rosenberger

Chapter 7 **Evaluation of Biometric Systems 149**

Chapter 5 **Genetic & Evolutionary Biometrics 101**

Chapter 1 **Speaker Recognition: Advancements and Challenges 3**

Chapter 3 **Finger-Vein Image Restoration Based on a Biological**

Jinfeng Yang, Yihua Shi and Jucheng Yang

Miroslav Bača, Petra Grd and Tomislav Fotak

Gerry Dozier, Kelvin Bryant and John Kelly

Chapter 6 **Performance Evaluation of Automatic Speaker Recognition Techniques for Forensic Applications 129** Francesco Beritelli and Andrea Spadaccini

Mohamad El-Abed, Christophe Charrier and Christophe

Chapter 4 **Basic Principles and Trends in Hand Geometry and Hand Shape**

Aniesha Alford, Joseph Shelton, Joshua Adams, Derrick LeFlore, Michael Payne, Jonathan Turner, Vincent McLean, Robert Benson,

Štěpán Mráček, Jan Váňa, Radim Dvořák, Martin Drahanský and
