IEEE Biometrics Council

15/01/2025

Last chance to submit a paper for ! Second-round paper submissions are due on January 25.

The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. Co-sponsored by IEEE Biometrics Council and IEEE Computer Society, the 19th installment will take place May 26-30, 2025, in Clearwater, Florida.

Help define the conversation at FG 2025 by sharing your research. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
> Action recognition
> Body motion analysis and synthesis
> Gesture recognition, analysis and synthesis
> Face recognition, analysis and synthesis
> Psychological and behavioral analysis

Key Dates: Round 2
Paper submission: January 25, 2025
Notifications to authors: March 3, 2025
Camera Ready (for all papers): April 21, 2025

For more information, visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/

07/01/2025

Deadline alert! Tutorial proposals for are due in one week.

Anyone planning to submit a proposal to lead a tutorial during the 2025 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition should do so by January 15, 2025. This year’s FG conference will take place at the end of May in Clearwater, Florida.

Don’t miss this chance to share your research and perspective with FG attendees from around the world.

Key Dates
Tutorial proposals due: January 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2025

For more details on how to submit, please visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/participate/tutorials/

03/01/2025

Be part of our upcoming T-BIOM special issue!

The Biometrics Council extends an invitation to submit papers for the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science Special Issue on Generative AI and Large Vision-Language Models for Biometrics, which has an estimated publication date of Q1 2026.

The proposed T-BIOM special issue will provide a platform to discuss the latest advancements and technical achievements related to Generative AI and large vision-language models when applied to problems in biometrics.

Some topics of interest for the special issue include (but are not limited to):

> Novel generative AI models for responsible synthesis of biometric data
> Biometrics interpretability and explainability through large language-vision models (LVMs)
> Few-shot learning from large LVMs
> Generative AI and LVMs for detecting attacks on biometrics systems
> Generative AI-based image restoration
> Information leakage of synthetic data
> Data factories and label generation for biometric models
> Quality assessment of AI generated data
> Synthetic data for data augmentation
> Watermarking AI generated content
> Ethical considerations regarding the use of generative AI methods for biometrics, among many others!

Key Dates
Submission deadline: May 31, 2025
First round of reviews completed (first decision): August 2025
Second round of reviews completed: October 2025
Final papers due: December 2025
Publication date: Q1 2026

For more details about this issue, including relevant topics and instructions on how to submit, please visit: https://ieee-biometrics.org/call-for-papers-ieee-tbiom-special-issue-on-generative-ai-and-large-vision-language-models-for-biometrics/

12/12/2024

Planning to attend ? Second-round paper submissions are due January 25.

The 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition will take place May 26-30, 2025, in Clearwater, Florida. The call for papers—both short and long formats—is still open in all areas of face and gesture recognition. Biometrics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
> Action recognition
> Body motion analysis and synthesis
> Gesture recognition, analysis and synthesis
> Face recognition, analysis and synthesis
> Psychological and behavioral analysis

Key Dates
Round 1 (Now Closed)
Notifications to authors: December 13, 2024

Round 2
Paper submission: January 25, 2025
Notifications to authors: March 3, 2025
Camera Ready (for all): April 21, 2025

For more information, visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/

09/12/2024

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The Council is committed to staying in touch with as many of our worldwide members as possible, and Facebook is an excellent way to do so. We are so pleased to know that our followers see our updates about major conferences, webinars, calls for Council positions, and more!

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Looking forward to another year of making exceptional discoveries together!

05/12/2024

Mark your calendar: FG 2025 tutorial proposals are due January 15, 2025.

The 2025 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is now accepting proposals for tutorials for the May event, which will take place in Clearwater, Florida.

Tutorials complement and enhance FG 2025’s scientific program by providing authoritative and comprehensive overviews of themes related to the conference topics and state-of-the-art developments in the field. Interdisciplinary topics that could attract a significant cross-section of attendees are highly encouraged.

Proposals will be evaluated based on their estimated benefit to the community and factors such as relevance, timeliness, importance, and audience appeal. Accepted tutorials will be held on either May 26 or May 30, 2025, in the same venue in Clearwater, FL, as the main conference.

Key Dates
Tutorial proposals due: January 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2025

For more details on how to submit, please visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/participate/tutorials/

03/12/2024

Looking to polish your writing skills?

Join us for the upcoming webinar “Power Papers: Some Practical Pointers,” tomorrow, December 4, 2024, via Zoom at 4:00 pm Beijing Time (9:00 am CET, 3:00 am EST). Hosted by the Biometrics Council, the webinar is free to attend but requires advance registration.

Hone your approach to writing a good research paper with Dr. Terence Sim, an associate professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Drawing from his own personal experience, Dr. Sim will highlight the common mistakes many researchers make and offer practical pointers to pack more punch into your paper. The webinar will cover two major sections of a technical paper: the title and introduction.

Register for free here:

Title: Power Papers: Some Practical Pointers Speaker: Dr. Terence Sim, National University of Singapore When: December 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm Beijing Time (9:00 am CET, 3:00 am EST) Where: Online (Zoom) Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZPYFN0VTRdObat4LmrewUw (Free, but required)...

12/11/2024

Another great free learning opportunity, coming your way!

The Biometrics Council invites you to join us for “Power Papers: Some Practical Pointers” on December 4, 2024, via Zoom at 4:00 pm Beijing Time (9:00 am CET, 3:00 am EST). The webinar is free to attend but requires advance registration.

Tune in to hear Dr. Terence Sim, an associate professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, tackle the topic of how to write a good research paper, drawing from his own personal experience. Dr. Sim will highlight the common mistakes many researchers make, and offer practical pointers to pack more punch into your paper. The webinar will cover two major sections of a technical paper: the title and introduction.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your writing skills. Seasoned writers are encouraged to share their experience of how they improved their writing.

Register for free here: https://ieee-biometrics.org/event/power-papers-some-practical-pointers/

08/11/2024

Deadline approaching: Workshop proposals for FG 2025 are due in 5 days.

Help bring interactivity and learning to the 2025 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, which will take place next May in Clearwater, Florida. Organizers especially encourage workshop proposals relating to emerging fields or application domains of face and gesture analysis and synthesis.

KEY DATES

Workshop proposals due: November 13, 2024
Notification of acceptance: November 20, 2024

Accepted workshops will be held on either May 26 or May 30, 2025, in the same venue as the FG 2025 main conference.

For additional information and queries regarding the workshop proposal procedure, please visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/participate/workshops/.

05/11/2024

The call for FG 2025 tutorial proposals is now out!

Tutorials complement and enhance FG 2025’s scientific program by providing authoritative and comprehensive overviews of themes related to the conference topics and state-of-the-art developments in the field.

Please consider submitting a proposal on any topic of interest to the FG community for the 2025 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Interdisciplinary topics that could attract a significant cross-section of attendees are highly encouraged.

Proposals will be evaluated based on their estimated benefit to the community and factors such as relevance, timeliness, importance, and audience appeal. Accepted tutorials will be held on either May 26 or May 30, 2025, in the same venue in Clearwater, FL, as the main conference.

Key Dates
Tutorial proposals due: January 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2025

For more details on how to submit, please visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/participate/tutorials/

31/10/2024

Calling all student researchers and PhD candidates: interested in generative AI and foundation models?

Join us at the 2025 Winter School on Biometrics, hosted by IEEE and IAPR, to learn the latest developments in the field. The program will take place from January 12 to 16, 2025, in Shenzhen, China. It will include challenging subjects such as mobile biometrics, anti-spoofing, template protection, and the fundamentals of different biometric modalities.

Develop your own personal and professional connections while learning from some of the leading experts in advanced biometric technology today.

Lectures will be presented by Rama Chellappa (JHU), Shouhong Ding (Tencent), Matteo Ferrara (Univ. of Bologna), Josef Kittler (Surrey), Ajay Kumar (HK PolyU), Xiaoming Liu (MSU), Chen Change Loy (NTU), Sébastien Marcel (Idiap), Karthik Nandakumar (MBUZAI), Mark Nixon (Soton), Vishal Patel (JHU), Norman Poh (Malta), Arun Ross (MSU), Zhenan Sun (CASIA), Tieniu Tan (NJU), P C Yuen (HKBU), and Kaiyang Zhou (HKBU).

Applications are due November 15, 2024. and IEEE are pleased to provide up to $1,000 (USD) per person as student travel grants.

Find more details and contact information at https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb2025/.

28/10/2024

Get the update on all things biometrics in the most recent Biometrics Council Newsletter, now available on IEEE-Biometrics.org.

The October 2024 edition is full of the latest in biometrics research, news from around the world, and updates from the Council. So, what’s inside this fall issue?

> Take in the editor’s letter with greetings from editor-in-chief Andrew Teoh.

> Relive the highlights of recent events in the Council News Meetings Round-Up, with reports from: ‬
- The 18th IEEE FG Conference, held in Istanbul in May
- The 21st ‭International Summer School for‬‭ Advances in Biometric Authentication, which took place this June in Alghero, Italy
‭- September’s IJCB, held in Buffalo, New York, with a look inside this year’s Doctoral Consortium and a list of the‭ 2024 IJCB Award Winners‬

> Gain ‬an‭ “Expert Perspective with a Twist: Interviewing ChatGPT” in a Special Feature‭ in which Roma Tre‬‭ University assistant professor Emanuele‬‭ Maiorana finds out what ChatGPT knows about‬ biometrics. ‬

> Meet “Researcher on the Rise” Athira Nambiar, a research assistant professor in the Department of Computational Intelligence at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai who currently serves as a principal investigator for 3 national research projects funded by the Government of India.

> Read an interview with “Biometrics Pioneer” Tieniu Tan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Automation who has authored more than 600 research papers during his career and served as founding chair‬ of the IAPR Technical Committee on‬ Biometrics.

> Trace the roots of modern biometrics through history in a Lecture Notes tutorial with Mark Nixon as he contemplates the potential origins of our field.

> Keep current on the latest from the field, with a featured paper on ‬large-scale fully unsupervised re-identification, a look at VRBIOM, a new periocular dataset for biometric applications of‬‭ head-mounted display, and more!

Read the Full Newsletter
https://ieee-biometrics.org/publications/newsletter/

25/10/2024

Webinar alert!

The Biometrics Council invites you to join us for “Qualitative Methods for Biometrics Research: Exploring User Behavior and System Design” on November 14, 2024, via Zoom at 1:00 pm EST. The webinar is free to attend but requires advance registration.

Listen as Dr. Tempestt Neal, an associate professor at the University of South Florida, discusses the importance of qualitative research in biometrics. In her insightful webinar, Dr. Neal will delve into how qualitative methods, which focus on understanding individuals’ direct experiences, can shed light on complex issues such as bias in biometric systems and user acceptability. By exploring subjective experiences and social dynamics, this approach provides researchers with the tools to address ethical concerns and improve the effectiveness of biometric technologies.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a foundational understanding of how qualitative research can enhance the development and deployment of biometric systems.

Register for free here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-iyWaOA1Tpmx9r6CQU2t0g

16/10/2024

Get ready to spend winter in Shenzhen with IEEE and IAPR!

The 2025 IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics will be held January 12 to 16 at the SUSTech Campus in Shenzhen, China. The theme this year is Generative AI and Foundation Models for Biometrics.

The Winter School program is designed for young researchers and PhD students and includes lectures, hands-on sessions, talks from industry and a social component.

and are pleased to provide up to $1,000 (USD) per person as student travel grants. Applications are due November 15, 2024.

Find more details and contact information at https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb2025/.

09/10/2024

Ready to help bring interactivity and learning to FG 2025?

The call is now open for workshop proposals for the 2025 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, taking place next May in Clearwater, Florida.

Accepted workshops will be held on either May 26 or May 30, 2025, in the same venue as the main conference. We especially encourage workshop proposals relating to emerging new fields or new application domains of face and gesture analysis and synthesis.

Workshop proposals should include the following information:

> Workshop title
> Workshop motivation, expected outcomes, and impact
> List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and a short bio
> Tentative length of the workshop (half-day or full-day)
> Style of the workshop and related activities, e.g., poster/oral paper presentations, invited talks, round tables, competition, hackathon, etc.
> Tentative paper submission and review schedule
> Planned advertisement, website hosting, potential sponsorships
> Paper submission procedure (submission website), if applicable
> Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, the pool of reviewers, etc.)
> Tentative program committee, and invited speakers, if any
> Estimated number of submissions and acceptance rate

KEY DATES
Workshop proposals due: November 13, 2024
Notification of acceptance: November 20, 2024

For additional information and queries regarding the workshop proposal procedure, please visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/participate/workshops/.

04/10/2024

Time for another year of good-natured research competition at FG 2025!

After the success of the past few years, a new edition of the competition track will be held at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Conference organizers solicit competition proposals on any topic of interest to the FG community with an emphasis on emerging fields or new application domains related to FG. Interdisciplinary topics that will attract a significant cross-section of the community are highly encouraged.

Two Types of Competitions

> Standard data science competitions, where participants will compete to obtain the best score on a machine learning task of interest to the FG community based on a problem and data defined and released by the organizers of the competition.

> Live competitions, which will be held in a “science-fair” manner at FG 2025. Participants will present live demos at FG 2025 which apply methodology to an application domain defined by the organizers of the live competition.

There will be a competition track at FG 2025, co-located with the conference workshops, where competition results will be presented and discussed. Competition organizers will be asked to propose a tentative schedule for presentation of the competition and its results during an assigned time slot.

Standard data science and live competition proposals must both be submitted via CMT at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2025

KEY DATES

Competition proposal submission deadline: October 16, 2024
Acceptance notification: November 4, 2024
Competition track: May 2025

Find more details on the review and selection process at https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/participate/competitions/.

02/10/2024

Catch this IJCB 2024 highlight!

On September 17, Elham Tabassi, chief AI advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), gave a keynote presentation at the 2024 International Joint Conference on Biometrics, titled, “The AI Risk Management Framework and Ongoing NIST Work on AI.”

Tabassi is the principal architect of NIST Fingerprint Image Quality, an international standard for measuring fingerprint image quality that has been deployed in many biometric applications worldwide and, more recently, was named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in AI.”

In her talk, she addressed the NIST AI Innovation Lab’s efforts to cultivate trust in design, development, deployment, and use of AI systems, which, as are all aware, have the intrinsic risk of negatively impacting individuals, groups, organizations, communities, society, the environment, and the planet.

Thank you to Elham for this insightful presentation. The full recording and transcript are now available for all to view.

Watch the keynote:

IJCB 2024 KeynoteTitle: The Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework and Ongoing NIST Work on AISpeaker: Elham TabassiAbstract: Artificial intellige...

20/09/2024

Is this the year you win a Best Paper Award?

Did you know that at the IEEE FG conference series, awards are presented to the best papers? Your submission could win!

> Best paper award
> Best student paper award
> Test-of-time award

In addition, a selection of best-reviewed papers from FG 2025 will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (IEEE TBIOM).

The 19th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition will take place May 26-30, 2025, in Clearwater, Florida. The call is out for papers—both short and long formats—in all areas of face and gesture recognition.

Key Dates
Round 1
Paper submission: September 23, 2024
Notifications to authors: December 13, 2024

Round 2
Paper submission: January 25, 2025
Notifications to authors: March 3, 2025
Camera Ready (for all): April 21, 2025

For more information, visit: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/