Effectively integrating a course on biometrics in a computer vision master´s degree

Computer biometrics has gained importance in recent years, both at the industrial and at the research level. Although there is an increasing need for graduates to know the fundamentals of this technology, there are still only few experiences reporting on what contents to include in courses on this discipline, or on how to teach at the master level. This paper reports the experience carried out at one Spanish university when teaching a one-semester computer biometrics course as part of a computer vision master. The related master´s courses provide the students multiple synergies with the necessary background on image processing and pattern recognition required to follow the subject. An effort is made in this paper to ensure that the theory, practices and evaluation parts of our experience are set out in sufficient detail to make this course reproducible by other institutions.