[Free IEEE Biometrics Council Webinar]: Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) - June 16, 2026 at 2:00 pm CEST (8:00 PM CST, 8:00 AM EDT)
Vito Struc
IEEE Biometrics Council Webinar
Title: Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA): Recent Advancements and Future Challenges
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Vitomir Štruc, University of Ljubljana
When: June 16, 2026 at 2:00 pm CEST (8:00 PM CST, 8:00 AM EDT)
Where: Online (Zoom)
Registration (free, but required): https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wOkSoc9rSLO8U_ykCYEesQ#/
Abstract:
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.
About The Speaker:
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.