About this Journal

IET Biometrics publishes original research and review articles which can increase our understanding of biometric systems, signal future developments and applications for biometrics, or promote greater practical uptake for relevant technologies. 

While focusing on core technological issues, it is recognized that these may be inherently diverse and in many cases may cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The scope of the journal will therefore include topics where it can be shown that a paper can increase our understanding of biometric systems, signal future developments and applications for biometrics, or promote greater practical uptake for relevant technologies: 

• Development and enhancement of individual biometric modalities including the established and traditional modalities (e.g. face, fingerprint, iris, signature and handwriting recognition) and also newer or emerging modalities (gait, ear-shape, neurological patterns, etc.) 
• Multibiometrics, theoretical and practical issues, implementation of practical systems, multiclassifier and multimodal approaches 
• Soft biometrics and information fusion for identification, verification and trait prediction 
• Human factors and the human-computer interface issues for biometric systems, exception handling strategies 
• Template construction and template management, ageing factors and their impact on biometric systems 
• Usability and user-oriented design, psychological and physiological principles and system integration of biometric systems
• Sensors and sensor technologies for biometric processing 
• Database technologies to support biometric systems 
• Implementation of biometric systems, security engineering implications, smartcard and associated technologies in implementation, implementation platforms, system design and performance evaluation 
• Trust and privacy issues, security of biometric systems and supporting technological solutions, biometric template protection 
• Biometric cryptosystems, security and biometrics-linked encryption 
• Links with forensic processing and cross-disciplinary commonalities 
• Core underpinning technologies (e.g. image analysis, pattern recognition, computer vision, signal processing, etc.), where the specific relevance to biometric processing can be demonstrated 
• Applications of biometric systems and application-led considerations 
• Position papers on technology or on the industrial context of biometric system development 
• Adoption and promotion of standards in biometrics, improving technology acceptance, deployment and interoperability, avoiding cross-cultural and cross-sector restrictions 
• Relevant ethical and social issues relating to biometric systems

This journal is published by Hindawi as part of a publishing collaboration with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). It is a fully open access journal produced under the Hindawi and IET brands. 

The IET has a large scale publishing partnership with Wiley, who own Hindawi, and the Wiley IET Hub can be found here.

ISSN: 2047-4938 (Print)

ISSN: 2047-4946 (Online)

DOI: 10.1049/ietbm

Content published prior to July 2023 is hosted on the Wiley Online Library and the IET Digital Library. 

IET Biometrics is an open access journal. All articles are immediately available to read and reuse upon publication. More information about our Open Access policy can be found on our copyright page.

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