TBIOM Special Issue on “Best Reviewed Papers From IJCB 2020—Editorial”

Recent years have seen considerable advances in biometric recognition techniques leading to a wide-spread deployment of biometric technology across a number of application domains, ranging from security, border control, and criminal investigations to entertainment, social media, autonomous driving and even health services. To highlight some of these advancements and present the latest research achievements related to biometrics, the 4th IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) was organized in 2020. IJCB combines two major biometrics research conferences, the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) conference, and the International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) and is made possible through a special agreement between the IEEE Biometrics Council and the IAPR TC-4. Because IJCB has (so far) only been organized every three years, it represents a particularly prestigious and selective event, where only the highest-quality research is presented.