Preface

The 5th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2012), was held 29 March - 1 April 2012 in New Delhi, India. This IAPR flagship conference is sponsored by the IEEE and hosted by IIIT Delhi. The ICB conference series is one of the premier forums for presenting new research findings in the field of biometrics. In 2006, two highly reputed conferences, Audio- and Video-based Personal Authentication (AVBPA) series running since 1997 and International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA) series running since 2004 merged to launch the new ICB series, which is now considered one of the best gatherings of biometric researchers. This is not only a platform for presenting foremost biometric research papers, but it gives an opportunity for the best of biometric minds to mingle and share ideas. It is especially exciting to host the 2012 conference in India, the first in the history of this series (and its predecessors). With India´s UIDAI project already surpassing all other biometric deployments in the world in both scope and scale, we feel that it is an appropriate time for this meeting to be held in India.