Introduction -- Part I – New Methods in Biometrics -- Deep Biometrics: A Robust Approach to Biometrics in Big Data Issues -- Multimodal Biometric Fusion via Ensemble Learning -- Fuzzy Logic for Precise Biometric Systems -- Hierarchical Biometric Verification with Sparse Features -- Dynamic Programming for Biometric Verification -- Part II – New Advances in Various Biometric Technologies -- Paleographic Handwriting Analysis for Author Identification -- Palmprints versus Fingerprints: Rivals or Friends? -- A Survey on Soft Biometrics for Forensic Analysis -- Robust Biometric Verification with Low Quality Data -- Streamed Biometric Verification for Big Data Challenge -- Privacy-Protected Biometric Verification for Security Applications -- Part III – New Applications using Biometrics -- Biometric Key Generation using Fuzzy Extractor for Mobile Banking -- Securing Electronic Medical Records Using Biometric Authentication -- Body Biometrics from MRI Images for Medicine Advice -- Identify Invisible Persons in Social Network -- From Memory to Human Recognition in Cognitive Robots.