Hugo Pedro ProençaHugo Proença B.Sc. (2001), M.Sc. (2004), Ph.D. (2007) and Habilitation (Agregado, 2016) is an Associate Professor and the current Head of the Department (2015-2017) of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior. He has been researching mainly abot biometrics and visual-surveillance, particularly in developing human recognition solutions able to work in degraded data, resulting from unconstrained data acquisition protocols. He is an associate editor of the Image and Vision Computing Journal, the coordinating editor of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter and the area editor (ocular biometrics) of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium Journal. Also, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Biometrics and served as Guest Editor of special issues of the Pattern Recognition Letters, Image and Vision Computing and Signal, Image and Video Processing journals. Read More Read Less