Information for Authors
The 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2025) will be held on April 24-25, 2025, in Munich (Germany). IWBF is an international forum devoted to facilitating synergies in research and development among the areas of multimedia forensics, forensic biometrics, and forensic science. State-of-the-art research in areas such as biometrics, forensic science, surveillance, and multimedia forensics will be presented.
The 13th edition of IWBF will be a meeting place for those concerned with the use of advanced biometric technologies in forensic applications, attracting participants from industry, research, academia, and end-users.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Biometrics
- Attacks to biometric recognition systems
- Multimodal biometrics
- Soft biometrics
- Mobile biometrics
- Biometric analysis of crime scenes
- Forensic Science
- Multimedia forensics
- Integrity verification
- Anonymization & Data Privacy
- Data de-identification
- Surveillance
- Ethical and societal implications of biometrics and forensics
- Information Theoretic Security
- Adversarial Signal Processing for biometrics and forensics
- Case studies on the aforementioned topics
Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
You can download the call for papers in pdf format here.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: January 31, 2025 February 9, 2025
- Decision to authors: February 28, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: March 15, 2025
- Workshop: April 24 and 25, 2025
Paper Submission
The IWBF 2025 Technical Program Committee invites submissions of original and unpublished work, in English, with up to 6 pages including results, figures, and references (overlength submissions will not be reviewed). Accepted papers should be presented by one of the authors as a condition for publication. At least one of the authors must register at the standard registration rate (i.e., no PhD/Master Student discounts) before the camera ready deadline. Each author registration covers only one paper. Additional authors can benefit from some discount.
For the submission, please use the IEEE conference templates, which can be downloaded from the IEEE website
Papers are to be submitted via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IWBF2025
Double-blind Review Policy
The reviewing process will be double blind. Violations of this policy will lead to a desk reject, with no reviews.
- Remove author names, affiliations, email addresses, etc. from the paper.
- Remove personal acknowledgments.
- When reporting experiments on data collected in your lab, consider stating this as “This experiment was conducted using data acquired at Mars University”. Do not state this as “This experiment was conducted using data that was collected in our labs at Mars University”.
- When citing your own work, ensure that the narrative does not reveal your identity.
- Simultaneous submissions to arXiv without mentioning IWBF are allowed.
Camera Ready Instructions
Camera-ready papers should be prepared taking into consideration the reviewers' comments, while keeping the same format requirements of the original submission. The submission deadline is on March 15, 2025.
During camera-ready submission, the copyright form will have to be accessed and filled in using the service provided by IEEE eCF, and then downloaded and uploaded into CMT. You can find the link to access the IEEE eCF site on Microsoft CMT.
Before uploading the final manuscript, it is required to check paper compliance to IEEE format requirements using IEEE PDF eXpress. Please register at IEEE PDF eXpress by creating a new account, using 63717X as Conference ID, and providing your email address and password. Then access the system, provide your personal information, and submit your final paper, checking for its compliance with IEEE requirements.
After having received an acknowledge of acceptance from IEEE PDF eXpress, submit the approved camera ready and the copyright form to Microsoft CMT.