Implicit BIOmetric Authentication and Monitoring through Internet of Things

Motivations

According to reliable forecasts, the expected number of connected IoT devices could exceed 25 billions by 2020. An important fraction of this number includes last generations mobile and wearable devices featuring an arsenal of advanced sensors (high speed/depth/multi-focal cameras, finger imaging, accelerometers, gyros, etc.), up to 5G communication capability and growing computing power. These collection of features makes them particularly suited to capture both static and dynamic biometrics, to continuosly monitor health signals and/or to provide information about the operating context. In summary, these capabilities will enable a new generation of Internet of Biometric Things (IoBT) approaches which will greatly extend the range and the target of “mainstream” biometric applications. This Special Issue aims at gathering the latest research findings and applications for transparent acquisition and processing of biometrics and health signals in the context of ubiquitous IoBT-based user authentication and monitoring, outlining new application scenarios for mobile biometrics.

List of Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• IoBT enabled biometrics
• Ubiquitous user authentication/recognition
• Ubiquitous biometric monitoring
• Implicit IoBT-enabled authentication/recognition
• Implicit IoBT-enabled activity recognition
• Implicit IoBT-enabled context detection
• Dynamic biometrics capture and processing
• Implicit psychophysical assessment
• Deep Learning for IoBT applications
• Health signals analysis via mobile devices
• Elders monitoring through IoBT devices and approaches
• Privacy and IoBT

Important Dates

Start of submission period: September 1, 2020

Deadline for submission: September 30th, 2020

First review notification: December 1st, 2020

Revision submission: January 15th, 2021

Second review notification: February 15th, 2021

All submissions in final status: March 31st, 2021

Submission Guidelines

All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal Web Site at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/pattern-recognitionletters/0167-8655/guide-for-authors. Submissions should be sent through http://ees.elsevier.com/prletters/. Authors should select the acronym “VSI:I-BIO” as the article type, from the “Choose Article Type” pulldown menu during the submission process. The maximal length of a paper is 7 pages in the PRLetters layout and may become 8 in the revised version if referees explicitly request significant additions. The submitted papers should not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If one submission is the extended work of one conference paper, the original work should be included and a description of the changes should be provided. The PRLetters submission should include at least 30% new contribution of high relevance (more experiments, proofs of theorems not included in the conference paper, more comparisons with other methods in the literature and so on); and the title of the PRLetters paper should be different, the same figures cannot be used and the common part of the conference paper and of the extended version cannot be verbatim the same.

Review Process

The review process will follow the standard PRLetters scheme. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two referees and that, in general, only two reviewing rounds will be possible, out of which major revision is possible for the first reviewing round. Submissions will probably being rejected if major revision is still required after the second reviewing round.

Contacts

For inquiries regarding the special issue, send an email to the managing guest editor at: stefano.ricciardi@unimol.it

Guest Editors

Dr. Stefano Ricciardi (Managing Guest Editor)

University of Molise, Italy

E-mail: stefano.ricciardi@unimol.it 

Prof. Modesto Castrillon-Santana (Guest Editor)

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

E-mail: mcastrillon@siani.es