[visionlist] [IEEE FG 2025]: Call for Doctoral Consortium Participants

[Vitomir Štruc]

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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 at ufl.edu)
+ Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 
(vitomir.struc at fe.uni-lj.si)

-- 
Prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
URL: https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/

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