Call for Papers

The ECCV 2026 Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics invites submissions of original research papers exploring the development, application, and evaluation of foundation and generative models in biometric recognition, analysis, and security. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of ECCV Workshops.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Foundation and Generative Models for:
  • Biometric Recognition,
  • Face, Gesture, and Biometric Analysis,
  • Deepfake Generation and Detection,
  • Attack Generation against Biometric Systems,
  • Biometric Security and Attack Detection,
  • Template Security.
• Large Language Models, Reasoning, and Interpretability for Biometrics.
• Self Supervised Models and Scalable Models for Biometrics.
• Generating Synthetic Image/Video of Face, Human Body, Fingerprint, Iris, etc.
• Unlearning and Concept Erasure in foundation and generative models.
• Privacy and Ethical Aspects of Leveraging Foundation Models to Biometrics.

Submission Guidelines

Paper formatting: Papers are limited to 14 pages, including figures and tables, in the ECCV 2026 style (LNCS style of Springer). Additional pages containing only cited references are allowed. Please download the ECCV 2026 Submission Template for detailed formatting instructions.

Papers that are not properly anonymized, or do not use the template, or have more than 14 pages (excluding references) will be rejected without review.

Submission and review process: Review process is double-blind. We will be using OpenReview to manage submissions. Similar to the review process for ECCV 2026 conference, submissions under review will be visible only to their assigned members of the program committee. The reviews and author responses will never be made public, and we will not be soliciting comments from the general public during the reviewing process.

Authors may optionally submit additional supplementary material that was ready at the time of paper submission but could not be included due to constraints of format or space. Note that no Appendices are permitted in the main submission. The authors should refer to the contents of the supplementary material appropriately in the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to look at the supplementary material, but are not obligated to do so. Consequently, the paper must stand on its own in that the contributions of the work are sufficiently supported by the content in the main paper. Supplementary material may include videos, proofs, additional figures or tables, more detailed analyses of experiments presented in the paper

Anyone who plans to submit a paper as an author or a co-author will need to create (or update) their OpenReview profile by the paper submission deadline. We recommend you to use institution emails to register your account on Openreview, as non-institution emails can take upto two weeks to register. By submitting a paper to this workshop, the authors agree to the review process and understand that papers are processed by the OpenReview system to match each manuscript to the best possible area chairs and reviewers.

OpenReview author instructions can be found here.

Submission Process

All submissions should be made through the workshop’s OpenReview portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/ECCV/2026/Workshop/FoundGen-Bio

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: July 10, 2026
• Paper notification: August 10, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: August 15, 2026
• Workshop date: September 8/9, 2026