March 6, 2026, JW Marriott Starpass, AZ Ballroom Salon 8
1:00 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. - Workshop Opening
1:05 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Keynote 1
1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Oral Presentations
GenEAva: Generating Cartoon Avatars with Fine-Grained Facial Expressions from Realistic Diffusion-based Faces, Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margriy Betke, Sarah Bargal
Towards Inclusive Biometrics: Synthetic Generation of Vitiligo Faces and Their Impact on Face Image Quality, André Dörsch, Andrea Laguna Liang, Christian Rathgeb, Christoph Busch
Faces of Deception - a multi-level analysis of lip-sync-based fake ads involving politicians and their impact on content semantics and recognition systems, Ewelina Bartuzi-Trokielewicz, Katarzyna Roszczewska, Alicja Martinek
Mitigating Longitudinal Performance Degradation in Child Face Recognition Using Synthetic Data, Afzal Hossain, Stephanie Schuckers
SynCAF: Synthetic Counterfactual Activations for Fairness in Facial Cognition Signals, Kushbu Agrawal, Nalin Rajput, Raghavendra Ramachandran, Sumarga Sahtyagi, Deepak Jain, Rahee Walambe, Ketan Kotecha
Orthogonal Projection Steering for Bias Mitigation and ICAO Compliance in Diffusion Transformers, Raghavendra Mudgalgundurao, Aryan Khurana, Patrick Schuch, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Kiran Raja
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. - Keynote 2
4:25 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. - Oral Presentations
Ignoring the Decoy: Exposing and Tackling Forensic Distractions in Image Forgery Localization using Masked Convolutions, Xander Staelens, Peter Lambert, Glenn Van Wallendael, Hannes Mareen
The SAFE Image Authenticity Challenge: Detecting and Localizing Partial and Fully Synthetic Manipulations, Tai Nguyen, Jill Crisman, Jesse Hostetler, Laura Cassani, Michael Davinroy, Peter Bautista, Matthew Stamm
4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Challenge Presentation
5:30 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. - Workshop Closing