The accelerated evolution in consumer smartphone cameras has increased the industry's interest in mobile biometric verification systems. The ability to reach customers remotely for services such as e-commerce, digital banking, and general fintech requires robust systems for remote identity verification.

One approach for this remote verification is using an official identity document (i.e. Machine Readable Travel Document - MRTD), such as a national ID card/Passport, and comparing the data with a frontal face photograph (selfie) of the person in question, also provided remotely by the user.

Today, many attackers use a fake ID to impersonate another subject and obtain economic or social benefits. Because of that, the number of attacks on these MRTD reading and processing systems is increasing every day, while the number of images available for training and testing is limited because of privacy concerns. As a result, we have many solutions that are over-trained on intra-dataset without generalization capabilities.

Based on the success of the first and second challenges, we launch the third version, focused on Document forgery detection of ID cards and Passports. 

PAD-ID Card 2026, will be the offering: (a) an independent assessment of the current state-of-the-art on ID Card/Passport Presentation Attack Detection algorithms and (b) an evaluation protocol, including attacks and bona fide ID card images that can be followed by researchers after the competition is closed to benchmark their solutions with challenge winners and baselines. Today, this competition is one of the most challenging and independent cross-dataset evaluation that allows us to assess the state-of-the-art.

It is essential to highlight that the goal of the IJCB 2024-2025-2026 competition is focus on results for research purposes only.

• March 04, 2026, Call for participation, website release.

• March 04, 2026, Registration open track 1 and track 2.

• March 04, 2026, GitHub instructions release.

• March 10, 2026,  Released datasets for track 1, only for registered teams. 

• To be announced, April: Platform release only for evaluation tracks 1 and 2. 

• May 19, 2026- Firm Deadline for Algorithm evaluation on the platform. 

• May 21, 2026 - Notification to authors of summary papers and winning teams. 

• May 30, 2026 - Submission of summary papers.

• July 23, 2026 - Camera-ready papers.

• September 1-4, 2026 - IJCB conference.

**** All models will be deleted after the competition  ****