About

Background, goals, and organizing institutions for the LivDet Face 2026 competition.

What is LivDet?

LivDet (Liveness Detection) is an international competition series aimed at evaluating biometric presentation attack detection systems under standardized and reproducible protocols. LivDet Face 2026 focuses on face PAD and encourages solutions that generalize across sensors, subjects, and diverse spoof instruments.

Key Goals

• Standardized benchmarking
• Sequestered testing
• Transparent metrics
• Reproducible evaluation

Organizers

Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), University of North Carolina Charlotte & Clarkson University.