Multimodal Fusion for Robust Identity Authentication: Role of Liveness Checks -- Multimodal Biometric Person Recognition System Based on Multi-Spectral Palmprint Features Using Fusion of Wavelet Representations -- Audio-Visual Biometrics and Forgery -- Face and ECG Based Multi-Modal Biometric Authentication -- Biometrical Fusion – Input Statistical Distribution -- Normalization of Infrared Facial Images under Variant Ambient Temperatures -- Use of Spectral Biometrics for Aliveness Detection -- A Contactless Biometric System Using Palm Print and Palm Vein Features -- Liveness Detection in Biometrics -- Fingerprint Recognition -- A Gender Detection Approach -- Improving Iris Recognition Performance Using Quality Measures -- Application of LCS Algorithm to Authenticate Users within Their Mobile Phone Through In-Air Signatures -- Performance Comparison of Principal Component Analysis-Based Face Recognition in Color Space -- Block Coding Schemes Designed for Biometric Authentication -- Perceived Age Estimation from Face Images -- Cell Biometrics Based on Bio-Impedance Measurements -- Hand Biometrics in Mobile Dices.