FG Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers

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Call for Doctoral Consortium (DC) Participants

IEEE Face and Gesture 2025
Doctoral Consortium Date: 26 May 2025
Application Deadline: 14 April 2025, 23:59pm PST

Website: https://fg2025.ieee-biometrics.org/
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*** Overview ***

The aim of the FG’25 Doctoral Consortium is to provide a forum for
Ph.D. students to discuss their research and career objectives with
other students and senior researchers working in relevant fields and
get effective and timely feedback from the international research
community. The FG’25 Doctoral Consortium also aims to:

Provide a networking environment that will enable the doctoral
students to establish new contacts and collaborations with other
international junior and senior researchers;

Equip the new generation of bright researchers with career options and
inform them about the possibilities in academia and industry.

The Doctoral Consortium will be a half-day event that will take place
in parallel to the tutorials and workshops on the first day of the
conference on 26 May 2025. The event will feature networking
opportunities with established senior researchers, presentations by
the accepted PhD students, Q&A sessions and a joint lunch. Accepted
PhD students will also be given the opportunity to present their work
during a poster session of the main conference, helping to increase
the visibility of the PhD research. Attendance to the consortium is
strictly by invitation.



*** Eligibility ***

We invite eligible students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium, with
the expectation that successful applicants will actively participate
in the entire program in-person.

Eligible students are those pursuing a Ph.D. who have made progress in
their dissertation, with some results already published or nearing
publication. We value diversity and equality in terms of research
topics, participating institutions, and individuals involved. We
particularly encourage women and individuals from underrepresented
groups to apply. We do not expect more than two students to be invited
from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Although having a
paper appearing in FG’25 is not a prerequisite for participation,
it is highly encouraged for applicants to have a paper associated with
the conference, whose topics could be summarized during the DC.


*** Submission ***

To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, please submit:


+ A research statement summarizing the thesis research topic, the
working plan, and the progress to date (max 2 pages).

+ A CV (max 1 page). The CV should highlight any publications and
conference presentations that are related to the thesis topic.

+ A supporting letter from the thesis advisor that endorses the
student's application to this Doctoral Consortium and briefly
describes the progress or status of the student’s thesis work.

All materials should be prepared in a single PDF file and submitted
through the Doctoral Consortium Track of the FG 2025 CMT instance:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FG2025


*** Review and Selection Process ***

Applications will be evaluated based on:

+ Quality of the application and thesis topic.
+ Anticipated benefits (current/potential contributions to science) of the student's research.
+ Student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, methodology, etc.
+ Endorsement by the thesis advisor.

There will be no papers published from the Doctoral Consortium in the
proceedings of FG 2025.


*** Financial Support ***

The students selected to participate in the Doctoral Consortium may be
considered for financial support. However, the availability and extent
of financial support are subject to the availability of funds and are
not guaranteed. Applicants should be prepared to attend FG’25
without financial support in the event that funds are not
available. It is important to note that the lunch session with senior
mentors will be fully covered by the conference anyway, and no
expenses associated with lunch will be incurred by the Doctoral
Consortium participants or mentors.


*** Important Dates ***

Submission deadline:         April 14, 2025
Notification of acceptance:     April 21, 2025
Doctoral consortium date:     May 26, 2025


*** Questions? ***

For questions and queries regarding the DC, please contact the
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

+ Diego Guarin, University of Florida, United States (d.guarinlopez@ufl.edu)
+ Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (vitomir.struc@fe.uni-lj.si)