Biot, Côte d’Azur, Frankreich  /  April 23, 2026  -  June 24, 2026

14th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics

IWBF 2026

The International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics will take place in Riot, France, from April 23 to 24, 2026, bringing together experts from industry and academia as well as end users to present the latest research findings in the fields of multimedia forensics, biometric authentication, surveillance, and forensics.

Fraunhofer IDMT will participate in IWBF 2026 with a presentation on synthetic speech detection.

Neural Encoding Detection is Not All You Need for Synthetic Speech Detection

Luca Cuccovillo, Milica Gerhardt, Patrick Aichroth (Fraunhofer IDMT), Xin Wang (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

This paper reviews the current state and emerging trends in synthetic speech detection. It outlines the main data-driven approaches, discusses the advantages and drawbacks of focusing future research solely on neural encoding detection, and offers recommendations for promising research directions. Unlike works that introduce new detection methods or datasets, this paper aims to guide future state-of-the-art research in the field and to highlight the risk of overcommitting to approaches that may not stand the test of time.

Speaker: Luca Cuccovillo
April 24, 2026, 14:15 to 15:15 Uhr "Oral Session 6 — Position Papers: Challenges and Perspectives"