IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics 2026

Lecturers

(Listed in alphabetical order.)

Josef Kittler

Josef Kittler

University of Surrey, UK

Self-supervised Learning
Ajay Kumar

Ajay Kumar

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Contactless Palmprint Recognition
Xiaoming Liu

Xiaoming Liu

Michigan State University, US

Biometric Recognition at a Distance
Chen Change Loy

Chen Change Loy

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Generative AI
Mark Nixon

Mark Nixon

University of Southampton, UK

Gait Recognition
Arun Ross

Arun Ross

Michigan State University, US

Privacy in Biometrics
Zhenan Sun

Zhenan Sun

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Iris Recognition
Tieniu Tan

Tieniu Tan

Nanjing University, China
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Overview on Biometrics Data Analysis
Massimo Tistarelli

Massimo Tistarelli

University of Sassari, Italy

Multimodal LLM for Faces
Dong Xu

Dong Xu

The University of Hong Kong

Diffusion-based Image Generation
P C Yuen

P C Yuen

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Face Biometrics System Security
Kaiyang Zhou

Kaiyang Zhou

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Prompt Learning