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BIOSIG 2026
25th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group
November 25 and 26, 2026
Darmstadt, Germany
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Scope of the Conference:
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Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miss-use incidents we do observe a significant fraud in e-commerce and thus growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applications in areas like border control, national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale applications such as the upcoming European Union Entry Exit System (EES), the Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and reliability, interoperability, scalability, and usability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.
Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexing methods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally, quality of captured biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover, mobile biometrics is now a well-established area and biometrics-based smartphones can support deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.
However, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The relevant techniques in presentation attack detection (liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement biometric systems, in order to improve robustness to (deep) fakes and prevent potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft, etc.
The BIOSIG 2024 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications. The conference is jointly organized by the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (NBL), National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE), the Research Institute for Cyber Defence (CODE) of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, IET Biometrics Journal, and the special interest group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
We invite stakeholders and technical experts to submit original research papers. Industrial contributions presenting lessons learnt from practical usage, case study, and recent results of prototypes, are also welcomed.
Paper Submission Instructions:
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Submissions should be full papers (max. up to 8 pages of content + 2 pages of references) in English. Each paper will be subjected of a double blind peer review. Authors should follow the instructions given at:
https://biosig.de/paper-submission
Note that those contributions, which will be accepted as poster presentation, will be limited to 8+2 pages. Those contributions, which will be accepted as full research paper, might be extended to 10 pages of content and 2 pages of references. BIOSIG is supporting reproducible research (RR). All contributions are encouraged to:
– present experiments related to publicly available datasets as a first requirement for RR;
– make generated system scores openly available as a second requirement for RR.
Additionally, the sharing of plots or performance figures should align with the international standard ISO/IEC 19795-1. Moreover open source code of the proposed methods and detailed instructions to reproduce the experiments is strongly encouraged.
We are seeking a harmonised appearance of the conference proceedings and thus invite authors to align their manuscripts with the Harmonized Biometric Vocabulary, as published in the international standard ISO/IEC 2382-37:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:2382:-37:ed-3:v1:en
Important Dates:
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30.07.2026 Deadline for submissions – Extended!!
15.09.2026 Notification of authors via e-mail
15.10.2026 Deadline for final papers (ready for press)
25.-26.11.2026 Main Conference: Talks and Presentations
25.11.2026 EAB European Research and Industry Award
Topics of Interest:
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Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: Biometric standards and interoperability, multimodal and multi-biometrics, security analysis of biometric components or systems, on-card comparison, presentation attack detection, aging of reference data, template protection, de-identification, user interface design for biometric systems, biometric performance measurement, sample quality, best practices, usability, trustworthiness and explainability, continuous authentication, forensics, and other emerging applications, ethical, legal and socio-technological aspects, biometrics for public administrations.
