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    <p><font face="Calibri">Dear CV enthusiasts!</font></p>
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          University of Ljubljana and BITS Pilani are hosting the 2025
          Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC 2025), that
          focuses on the task of sclera segmentation based on synthetic
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          participants welcome! Registration is free and participants
          will be given the chance to be included as *** co-authors on
          the summary paper ***, which will be submitted to the
          International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025). Our
          previous iterations of the SSBC challenge have been published
          at previous IJCB conferences and you can find their summary
          papers here:</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); font-size: 14px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; white-space: pre !important; line-height: inherit !important;">
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          information about SSBC 2025, particularly regarding
          registration and participation, is available on the
          challenge's website:</span></font></p>
    <p><a href="https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/ssbc2025/home" class="url moz-txt-link-freetext" style="display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; text-indent:-2ch; margin-inline:2ch;" title="sites.google.com">https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/ssbc2025/home</a><font face="Calibri"><span class="white-space-pre" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); font-size: 14px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; white-space: pre !important; line-height: inherit !important;">
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    <p>With warm regards,</p>
    <p>Vitomir Štruc<br>
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Prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/">https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/</a> 

VP Technical Activities, IEEE Biometrics Council
Supervisory Board Member: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
Vice-chair of IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4) 

General Co-Chair: CVF/IEEE Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2026)
Program Co-Chair: IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025), <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ijcb2025.ieee-biometrics.org/">https://ijcb2025.ieee-biometrics.org/</a>
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