Miguel A. Ferrer received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree, in 1994, both from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. He belongs to the Digital Signal Procesing research group (GPDS) of the research institute for technological development and Communication Innovation (IDeTIC) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain where he is an Associate Professor since 1990. His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision, pattern recognition, biometrics, databases and audio quality evaluation.

Carlos M. Travieso received the M.Sc. degree in 1997 in Telecommunication Engineering at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; and Ph.D. degree in 2002 at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain). He is an Associate Professor from 2001 in ULPGC, teaching subjects on signal processing and learning theory. His research lines are biometrics, biomedical signals, data mining, classification system, signal and image processing, and environmental intelligence. He has researched in more than 32 International and Spanish Research Projects, some of them as head researcher. He is co-author of 2 books, co-editor of 4 Proceedings Book, Guest Editor for two international journals and up to 12 book chapters. He has over 180 papers published in international journals and conferences. He has been reviewer in different international journals and conferences since 2001. He is member of IASTED Technical Committee on Image Processing from 2007 and member of IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems from 2011. He will be INES 2013 General Chair, and was NoLISP 2011 General Chair, JRBP 2012 General Chair and Co-Chair on 39th Annual 2005 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology. Besides, he will be General Chair for IEEE INES 2013. He was Vice-Dean from 2004 to 2010 in Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers in ULPGC. Nowadays, he is a Vice-Dean of Head of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies from March 2013.

Jesús B. Alonso-Hernández received the Telecommunication Engineer degree in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in 2006 from University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain) where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Signal and Communications from 2002. His research interests include signal processing in biocomputing, biometrics, nonlinear signal processing, recognition systems, audio characterization and data mining. He was a guest editor of special issues for Springer in Cognitive Computation and for Elsevier Neurocomputing. He was head of excellent network in biomedical engineering in ULPGC. He is Vice-Dean from 2009 to 2013 in School of Telecommunications Engineering in ULPGC.

Santiago T. Pérez-Suárez received the M.Sc. degree in 2002 in Telecommunication Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain. He is a Permanent Teacher of Technical School from 1999 in ULPGC, teaching subjects on analog and digital communications, optical communications, radio technology, digital system design for communications and digital signal processing. His research lines are wireless optical communications, analog and digital communications and spread spectrum modulation. Actually he is working on field programmable gate array fast prototyping circuits over neural networks. He has researched in more than 20 European, International and Spanish Research Projects. He is co-author of 2 book chapters. He has over 17 papers published in international journals and conferences.

Aythami Morales Moreno received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2006 from Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He received his Ph.D degree from La Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2011. He performs his research works in the Digital Signal Processing Group (GPDS) at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University and he has performed research stays in the Biometric Research Laboratory at Michigan State University, the Biometric Research Center at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Biometric System Laboratory at University of Bologna. His research interests are focused on pattern recognition, computer vision, machine learning and biometrics signal processing. He is author of more than 30 scientific articles published in international journals and conferences. He has received awards from ULPGC, La Caja de Canarias, SPEGC, and COIT. He has participated in 7 National and European projects in collaboration with other universities and private entities such as UAM, UPM, EUPMt, Indra, Unión Fenosa, Soluziona,...

Cristina Carmona-Duarte received the Telecommunication Engineering degree in 2002 and de Ph.D. degree in 2012 from Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She has been an Auxiliar Professor at Universidad de Las Palmas and she is currently researcher. Her research areas include high resolution radar, pattern recognition and biometrics.

J. Francisco Vargas was born in Colombia in 1978. He received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering, in 2001, and M.Sc. degree in industrial automation, in 2003, both from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and the Ph.D. degree, in 2011, from Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Since 2004, he has been an Auxiliar Professor at Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. His research deals with offline signature verification.

Patricia Henríquez was born in Spain. She received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2006 from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D.degree. Her research areas include nonlinear processing,speech processing, condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and pattern recognition.