Prof. Dr. Hugo Proença received his master’s degree from the University of Porto in 2004 and his Ph.D. from the University of Beira Interior in 2007. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of
Computer Science, University of Beira Interior, Portugal, and has been researching mainly biometrics and visual surveillance. He is a member of the editorial board of the Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Access, and International Journal of Biometrics. Also, he served as a Guest Editor for the
Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Letters, Image and Vision Computing, and Signal, Image and Video Processing. He was the Coordinating Editor of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter and an Area Editor (ocular biometrics) of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium.
