ABS 2026 is a half-day workshop focused on population-aware biometrics across visual, physiological and behavioral modalities. The goal is to move from average-user pipelines to adaptive systems designed for diverse real-world users and conditions.

Submission Guidelines

Visual and signal-based biometric systems are increasingly deployed in surveillance, healthcare, assisted living, education, and human-computer interaction. Yet most pipelines still assume one-size-fits-all behavior and are optimized for an implicit average user. ABS 2026 focuses on population-aware biometrics: sensing, representation, learning, and evaluation protocols tailored to specific user groups and operational constraints.

The workshop invites work on adaptive modeling, multimodal fusion, benchmarking, bias and failure analysis, and real-world deployment across face, gait, person re-identification, ECG, EEG, inertial, and wearable data.

The paper submission templates are available on IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates

Registration

Each accepted paper must be covered by at least one registered author. Registration can be for the FULL event (4 days) at a REGULAR rate (whether the attending author is a student or not) or just for Workshop/Tutorial (1 day) depending on the willingness of the registrant to attend also the main conference or not.

When registering, the authors of Workshop papers MUST specify the “Name_of_the_Workshop” and the paper ID (provided by the workshop organizers at the submission time) they are covering.

Papers with no associated author registration will not be included in the workshop program and the AVSS2026 program and IEEEXplore Conference proceedings.

List of Topics

• Population-Specific Modeling
• Behavior and Multimodality
• Signal-Based Biometrics
• Data and Benchmarks
• Reliability and Fairness
• Ethics and Applications

Committees

Program Committee

• Imad Rida (UTC, France)
• Fei Hao (Shaanxi Normal University, China)
• David Freire-Obregon (ULPGC, Spain)
• Jose J. Lorenzo Navarro (ULPGC, Spain)
• Modesto F. Castrillon Santana (ULPGC, Spain)
• Hao Wang (Xidian University, China)
• Federico Becattini (University of Siena, Italy)
• Fabio Narducci (University of Salerno, Italy)
• Michele Nappi (University of Salerno, Italy)
• Zhiyuan Tan (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
• Shaohua Wan (UESTC, China)
• Maria De Marsico (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Florin V. Pop (UPB, Romania)
• Zhiwei Gao (Northumbria University, UK)
• Haroon Elahi (SUSTech, China)
• Md Z. A. Bhuiyan (Fordham University, USA)
• Oana Geman (Stefan Cel Mare University, Romania)
• Daniele Lozzi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
• Enrico Mattei (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

Organizing committee

• Lucia Cimmino: lucia.cimmino@unipegaso.it
• Carmen Bisogni: cbisogni@unisa.it
• Chiara Pero: c.pero@unilink.it
• Marco Cascio: m.cascio@unilink.it

Publication

Please note that papers accepted for presentation during the workshops will be published by IEEE in the AVSS 2026 Proceedings.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Convitto Palmieri, Lecce, Italy.

The main conference will be held in Charles V Castle, Lecce, Italy.

Contact

For workshop-specific requests, contact any organizer directly.