Biometric Recognition [electronic resource] : 7th Chinese Conference, CCBR 2012, Guangzhou, China, December 4-5, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Wei-Shi Zheng, Zhenan Sun, Yunhong Wang, Xilin Chen, Pong C. Yuen, Jianhuang Lai.

Patch-Based Bag of Features for Face Recognition in Videos -- Fusion of Local Features for Face Recognition by Multiple Least Square Solutions -- Complete Gradient Face: A Novel Illumination Invariant Descriptor -- A Face Authentication Scheme Based on Affine-SIFT(ASIFT) and Structural Similarity (SSIM) -- A Study on the Effective Approach to Illumination-Invariant Face Recognition Based on a Single Image -- Weighted Group Sparse Representation Based on Robust Regression for Face Recognition -- 3D Face Pose Estimation Based on Multi-template AAM -- 3D Aided Face Recognition across Pose Variations -- Comparing Studies of Learning Methods for Human Face Gender Recognition -- Fusion of mSSIM and SVM for Reduced-Reference Facial Image Quality Assessment -- A Survey of Face Hallucination -- Active Shape Model Based on Sparse Representation -- On the Influence of Fingerprint Area in Partial Fingerprint Recognition -- Fingerprint Identification Based on Semi-supervised FSS -- A Performance Improvement Method for Existing Fingerprint Systems -- The Location Method of the Main Hand-Shape Feature Points -- Palmprint Feature Extraction Based on Improved Gabor Wavelet Combing LBP Operator -- The Research of Multi-spectral Hand Texture Fusion Method under a Non-constraint Condition -- Rotation Invariant Finger Vein Recognition -- Hand Dorsal Vein Recognition Based on Hierarchically Structured Texture and Geometry Features -- Hand Vein Recognition Based on Feature Coding -- Contact-Less Palm Vein Recognition Based on Wavelet Decomposition and Partial Least Square -- Iris Image Deblurring Based on Refinement of Point Spread Function -- Super Resolution Reconstruction and Recognition for Iris Image Sequence -- Fusion of Iris and Periocular Biometrics for Cross-Sensor Identification -- A Review of Advances in Iris Image Acquisition System -- 3D Pure Ear Extraction and Recognition -- Multimodal Ear Recognition Based on 2D+3D Feature Fusion -- Toward Emotional Speaker Recognition: Framework and Preliminary Results -- Orthogonal Subspace Combination Based on the Joint Factor Analysis for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition -- Exploration of Phase and Vocal Excitation Modulation Features for Speaker Recognition -- Cross-View Action Recognition Based on Statistical Machine Translation -- A Comparative Study of Several Feature Extraction Methods for Person Re-identification -- Improving Biometric Verification Systems by Fusing Z-norm and F-norm -- Biometric Identification System's Performance Enhancement by Improving Registration Progress -- Ethnicity Classification Based on a Hierarchical Fusion -- An Algorithm for Retina Features Extraction Based on Position of the Blood Vessel Bifurcation -- Recognition of Petechia Tongue Based on LoG and Gabor Feature with Spatial Information -- Human Age Estimation Using Ranking SVM -- Distance Entropy as an Information Measure for Binary Biometric Representation -- Kernel Sparse Locality Preserving Canonical Correlation Analysis for Multi-modal Feature Extraction -- Kernel Based Enhanced Maximum Margin Criterion for Feature Extraction -- A Novel Variance Minimization Segmentation Model -- Robust Integrated Locally Linear Embedding -- Estimating the Total Variability Space Using Sparse Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis -- A Competitive Model for Semi-supervised Discriminant Analysis.