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The 85-year-old president won 71.3 percent of the vote, beating nine other candidates in an election marred by violence and low vote turnout.
Biya was announced the winner of the tensely-contested election amid high-security presence in Yaounde and other major cities.
Riot police and security staff were deployed to major streets in Douala ahead of the announcement.
Security operators surrounded the homes of two opposition leaders Sunday, preventing them from attending a planned protest calling for the annulment of the polls.
Biya's win follows protests and petitions by opposition candidates, who allegedly the October 7 polling in the leader's favor.
Many voters in Cameroon's troubled booths and violence.
Ballot boxes in the southwest were half-empty as droves.
Biya has often recorded a landslide victory in past elections. He was declared the winner of the 2011 elections by the Supreme Court, which found that he got 77% of the vote, beating out 22 other contenders.
Biya maintains his grip on the Central African country despite a growing secessionist movement, which has worsened security in the nation.
People in the country's Anglophone provinces, who make up 20% of the country's population, say they have been marginalized by a French-speaking government that can be traced to Cameroon's post-colonial era.
But tension deteriorated into a full-blown crisis last year after protests in English-speaking countries turned violent, with armed separatists calling for a country of their own.
The human rights organization said 400 civilians have been killed in various parts of the country.
Biya, in the past, has condemned all "acts of violence regardless of their sources and their perpetrators."
Journalist Eyong Blaise reported from Yaounde and Bukola Adebayo wrote from Lagos.
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