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<p>IEEE Biometrics Council Webinar</p>
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text1">Title</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#E03E2D">Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA): Recent Advancements
and Future Challenges</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#616161"></span></p>
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line-height:115%;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1">Speaker</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">:<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#236FA1">Prof. Dr. Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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line-height:115%;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:
text1">When</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">:<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:#843FA1">June 16, 2026 at 2:00 pm CEST (8:00 PM CST, 8:00 AM EDT)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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text1">Where</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;
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Online (Zoom)</span></p>
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line-height:115%;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
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text1">Registration</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
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(free, but required): </span></strong><span style="color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wOkSoc9rSLO8U_ykCYEesQ"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wOkSoc9rSLO8U_ykCYEesQ#/</span></b></a></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Abstract: </span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Understanding the
quality characteristics of facial images is of key importance
for various face-related applications, ranging from biometric
verification systems and problems in surveillance and security
to applications in human-machine interaction and affective
computing. In this talk, I will first talk about the general
problem of Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) and discuss how
it differs from the more perceptually driven Image Quality
Assessment (IQA) task that is used for quality assessment of
arbitrary natural images. I will then elaborate on the most
interesting trends and solutions towards face image quality
assessment and present a few of our recent models for this task,
i.e., (i) FaceQAN that predicts quality based on the analysis of
adversarial noise, (ii) DifFIQA and eDiffFIQA that use
probabilistic denoising diffusion models to estimate face image
quality, and (iii) FROQ, which is an efficient FIQA method with
limited computational overhead. Finally, I will share some
insights with respect to FIQA techniques and highlight some open
issues and future research directions in this space.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;line-height:115%"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">About The
Speaker: </span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white">Vitomir Štruc is
a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His
research interests include problems related to biometrics,
computer vision, image processing, and machine learning. He
(co-)authored more than 250 research papers for leading
international peer reviewed journals and conferences in these
and related areas. Vitomir is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, a
Subject Editor for Elsevier’s Signal Processing and an Associate
Editor-in-Chief for Pattern Recognition. He regularly serves on
the organizing committees of visible international conferences.
He was a Program Co-Chair for IJCB 2020, IEEE FG 2024, IEEE WIFS
2024, IJCB 2025 and WACV 2025, and General Co-Chair for IJCB
2023 and WACV 2026. He currently serves as a Tutorial Co-Chair
for CVPR 2026 and Program Co-Chair for ICVPRv 2027 and WIFS
2027. Dr. Štruc is a Senior member of the IEEE, a member of
IAPR, Slovenia’s ambassador for the European Association for
Biometrics (EAB) and the former president and current
supervisory board member of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition
Society. Vitomir also served as the VP Technical Activities for
the IEEE Biometrics Council 2022-2025, and currently serves as
the vice-chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics
(TC4) and a member of the Supervisory Board of the EAB. He is
also a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Face and
Gesture and CVF/IEEE WACV conference series.</span></p>
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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>
Supervisory Board Member: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
Vice-chair of IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4)
Program Co-Chair: IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (virtual) (ICPR(v) 2027)
Program Co-Chair: IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2027)
Tutorial Co-Chair: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2027)
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