The IEEE Biometrics Council is pleased to announce its newly elected members of the Executive Committee. Maria De Marsico Vice President Conferences 2027-2028 Maria De Marsico is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests focus on biometric systems and multimodal interaction, and recently on the [...]
We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics 2027! When: 17–21 January 2027 Where: Shenzhen, China Theme: Next Generation of Biometrics and Behaviour Science: Multimodal Foundation Models, Generative and Agentic AI. Apply: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/wsb2027/ The Winter School will feature lectures, hands-on sessions, industry talks, and social [...]
Join us for an insightful webinar on “Beyond Pixels: Continuous Neural Representations for Biometrics” on September 24, 2026, at 9:00 AM US Eastern Time (3 pm CEST / 9:00 PM Beijing Time), via Zoom. Prof. Vishal M. Patel will present an emerging approach to biometrics based on Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), which model biometric traits [...]
The 3rd IAPR/IEEE LATAM Summer School on Advanced Biometric Techniques will take place 9–11 December 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a hybrid event. The school will bring together students, researchers, academics, and professionals for three days of lectures, hands-on sessions, mentoring, and scientific exchange covering recent advances in biometric recognition, security, and related ethical [...]
We are pleased to announce an IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM) Special Issue on Identity-Centric Foundation Models for Trustworthy Biometric Recognition. This special issue focuses on identity-centric foundation models for trustworthy biometric recognition. It seeks new methods, evaluations, and security mechanisms for identity representation, identity reasoning, identity recognition, and trustworthy deployment, [...]
Join us for an insightful webinar on “Identity Security in the Age of Deepfakes” on August 27, 2026, at 2 pm CEST (8:00 PM Hong Kong Time / 8:00 AM US Eastern Time), via Zoom. Prof. Siwei Lyu will present how deepfakes can affect different stages of the biometric pipeline, including synthetic identity creation, impersonation, morphing, [...]
Positions: Vice President (Publications), Vice President (Conferences) Deadline: 15th August 2026 In accordance with the Bylaws, IEEE Biometrics Council Past President Nasir Memon, in his capacity as Chair of the Councils’ Nominations Committee, invites nominations for the IEEE Biometrics Council Officer position of Vice President-Publications for the term 1 January 2027 - 31 December 2028, [...]
We are pleased to announce an IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM) Special Issue on Human Recognition in Aerial Surveillance, the first dedicated T-BIOM forum on biometric recognition under aerial and long-range sensing conditions. The call is open to everyone for papers by 15 Dec 2026 and there will also be papers [...]
The IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) is the premier international forum for research in image- and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. Its broad scope covers fundamental advances in computer vision, pattern recognition, computer graphics, machine learning, behavioral analysis, affective computing, and related applications. FG 2027 is the 21st [...]
The latest edition of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter (March, Volume 058) is now available here.
