Dual Factor Lip-Based Biometric User Authentication Call for Papers

 Call for Papers & Participation 
Biometric Authentication Challenge @ ICIAP 2025

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to participate in the Dual Factor
Lip-Based Biometric User Authentication Workshop and Challenge, which
will be held in conjunction with ICIAP 2025.

This event focuses on cutting-edge approaches to biometric
authentication using a unique dataset of lip movement
videos. Participants will develop systems that combine visual and
audio cues—specifically, lip dynamics and spoken passphrases—to
verify user identity under open-set conditions. The challenge pushes
the boundaries of multimodal biometrics, encouraging research in
feature extraction, cross-modal learning, privacy-preserving AI, and
robustness across devices and conditions.

The training set will be released on April 30, 2025, and the test
set "available after abstract submission" will be released by May
20, 2025, at the latest. The final deadline to submit a paper to the
workshop is July 10, 2025.

All accepted workshop papers will be published in a dedicated volume
of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) as part of
the ICIAP 2025 proceedings.

Top-performing teams will be invited to present their work at the
workshop, and selected contributions will be invited to submit an
extended version of their paper to the MDPI Applied Sciences Special
Issue on "Recent Advances in Biometrics and Multimodal User
Authentication":
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/XV7PJA0Y89

Submissions will be evaluated based on Equal Error Rate (EER) and
authentication accuracy. Whether you are working on deep learning,
computer vision, speech processing, or privacy-aware AI, this is an
excellent opportunity to benchmark your solutions and contribute to
the development of secure, interpretable biometric systems.

To register your team for the competition, access the dataset, and
learn more, please visit:
https://www.dmi.unict.it/spata/BiovidChallenge/

Please don't hesitate to contact us at biometric.dataset.25@gmail.com
for any further information.

We look forward to your participation!

Best regards,  
The Organizing Committee  
Massimo Orazio Spata, Georgia Fargetta, Alessandro Ortis  
University of Catania

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