IEEE TBIOM Special Issue: Generative AI in Biometrics

IEEE TBIOM is inviting submissions for a special issue on Generative AI and Large Vision-Language Models for Biometrics, covering topics from data synthesis to security and ethical considerations.

The IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM) is inviting submissions for a special issue on Generative AI and Large Vision-Language Models for Biometrics. This special issue aims to explore the latest advancements and technical achievements in these areas, particularly their applications in biometrics.

Key topics include:

• Novel generative AI models for responsible synthesis of biometric data
• Generative models for conditional data synthesis
• Biometrics interpretability and explainability through large language-vision models
• Few-shot learning from large language-vision models
• Generative AI and LVMs for detecting attacks on biometric systems
• Information leakage of synthetic data
• Data factories and label generation for biometric models
• Quality assessment of AI-generated data
• Synthetic data for data augmentation
• Detection of generated AI contents
• Bias mitigation using synthetic data
• LLMs and VLMs for biometrics
• Watermarking AI-generated content
• New synthetic datasets and performance benchmarks
• Security and privacy issues regarding the use of generative AI methods for biometrics
• Ethical considerations regarding the use of generative AI methods for biometrics
• Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of VLMs for biometrics applications

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: 31 May 2025
• First round of reviews completed: August 2025
• Second round of reviews completed: October 2025
• Final papers due: December 2025
• Publication date: Q1 2026

Papers should be submitted through the TBIOM submission portal using the TBIOM journal templates and selecting the article type: “Generative AI and Large Vision-Language Models for Biometrics”.

Guest editors include Fadi Boutros, Hu Han, Tempestt Neal, Vishal M. Patel, Vitomir Štruc, and Yunhong Wang.

Tags: Generative AI, Biometrics, Vision-Language Models, IEEE TBIOM, Special Issue, Data Synthesis, AI Security