Introduction

Competitions

Competition Coordinators:	Dario Maio, University of Bologna, Italy, dmaio@deis.unibo.it

	James Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, csnkliu@comp.polyu.edu.hk

	Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, tieniu.tan@mail.ia.ac.cn

	FVC2004 (Fingerprint)	FAC2004 (Face)	SVC2004 (Signature)
Ref. Person	Davide Maltoni University of Bologna, ITALY maltoni@csr.unibo.it	Josef Kittler University of Surrey, UK j.kittler@eim.surrey.ac.uk	Dit-Yan Yeung HK University of Science and Technology, HK dyyeung@cs.ust.hk
Team	Dario Maio University of Bologna, ITALY dmaio@deis.unibo.it	Kerion Messer University of Surrey, UK K.Messer@surrey.ac.uk	Susan George University of South Australia, Australia susan.george@unisa.edu.au
	Raffaele Cappelli University of Bologna, ITALY cappelli@csr.unibo.it	Rachel Gartshore University of Surrey, UK R.Gartshore@surrey.ac.uk	Ramanujan Kashi Avaya Labs Research, USA ramanuja@research.avayalabs.com
	Anil K. Jain Michigan State University, USA jain@cse.msu.edu		Takashi Matsumoto Waseda University, Japan takashi@mse.waseda.ac.jp
	Jim L. Wayman San Josè State University, USA JLWayman@aol.com		Gerhard Rigoll Munich University of Technology , Germany rigoll@ei.tum.de