The 70 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as Fingerprint, Palmprint and Vein Recognition; Face Detection, Recognition and Tracking; Gesture and Action Recognition; Affective Computing and Human-Computer Interface; Speaker and Speech Recognition; Gait, Iris and Other Biometrics; Multi-modal Biometric Recognition and Fusion; Quality Evaluation and Enhancement of Biometric Signals; Animal Biometrics; Trustworthy, Privacy and Personal Data Security; Medical and Other Applications.