Dr. M.A.C Akmal Jahan, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2025, held in Osaka, Japan. The IJCB is a premier, top-tier venue for biometric research, ranked as a B-category conference by the CORE ranking system. It organised by the IEEE Biometrics Council and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) by merging the IEEE BTAS and IAPR ICB conferences, focusing on Artificial Intelligence advancements in biometric technologies, security, and privacy.

The award-winning paper, “AG-VPReID-VIR: Bridging Aerial and Ground Platforms for Video-based Visible–Infrared Person Re-Identification,” presents a novel approach to person re-identification by integrating aerial and ground platforms across visible and infrared modalities. The research was conducted in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) AI Research team and represents a significant contribution to advancing biometric and computer vision research with AI technologies.