the breadth of activities in current biometrics research. Face, fingerprint, iris, voice, handwriting,
and multimodal biometrics are all represented. We are also fortunate in the way that these
… We sincerely hope that you enjoy reading the papers in this special section and that you
will find them useful and a good representation of the state of the art in biometrics. Thanks
to the referees and to the authors for promptly completing reviewing tasks and revisions of …