[visionlist] [WACV 2026] Call for Papers

[Vitomir Struc]

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IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2026
6-10 March, 2026, Tucson, Arizona

Website: https://wacv.thecvf.com/

Submission deadline, 1st round: 18 July, 2025
Submission deadline, 2nd round: 19 September, 2025
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IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 
provides a forum for computer vision researchers working on practical 
applications and innovative algorithms to share their latest 
developments. WACV 2026 solicits high-quality, original submissions 
describing research in computer vision, with a particular emphasis on 
systems and applications with significant, interesting vision 
components. The conference will take place in Tucson Arizon, March 6th - 
10th, 2026. For more information, visit: https://wacv.thecvf.com/

Application areas include, but are not limited to:

• Agriculture
• Animals and Insects
• Arts, games, and social media
• Autonomous driving
• Biomedical, healthcare, and medicine
• Commercial and retail
• Education
• Embedded sensing and real-time techniques
• Environmental monitoring, climate change, and ecology
• Food science and nutrition
• Psychology and cognitive science
• Remote sensing
• Robotics
• Smartphones and end-user devices
• Social good
• Structural engineering and civil engineering
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Visualization

Authors are also encouraged to submit more traditional computer vision 
algorithms papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• 3D computer vision
• Adversarial learning, adversarial attack, and defense methods
• Biometrics, face, gesture, and body pose
• Computational photography
• Generative models for image, video, 3D, etc.
• Datasets and evaluations
• Explainable, fair, accountable, privacy-preserving, and ethical 
computer vision
• Image recognition and understanding (object detection, categorization, 
segmentation, scene modeling, visual reasoning)
• Low-level and physics-based vision
• Machine learning architectures, formulations, and algorithms 
(including transfer, low-shot, semi-, self-, and unsupervised learning)
• Video recognition and understanding (tracking, action recognition, etc.)
• Vision + language and/or other modalities
• Foundation models for downstream vision tasks

All submissions will be handled electronically through OpenReview.

Papers can be submitted to either the applications or the algorithms 
tracks, which will have different review criteria. Applications papers 
will be evaluated on systems-level innovation, novelty of the domain and 
comparative assessment. Algorithms papers will be evaluated according to 
the standard conference criteria including algorithmic novelty and 
quantified evaluation against current, alternative approaches.

**** Deadlines ***

Round 1
• Paper registration: July 11th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Paper submissions: July 18th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Supplementary material: July 18th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Reviews and Decisions to authors: Sept 3rd, 2025
• Rebuttal and Revision submission: Sept 19th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Final Decisions released to authors: Nov 5th, 2025

Round 2
• New paper registration: Sept 12th,  2025, 23:59 AoE
     o Round 1 papers should not re-register
• Paper submissions: Sept 19th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Supplementary material: Sept 19th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
• Reviews and Final Decisions to authors: Nov 5th, 2025

For additional questions, contact the WACV26 Program Chairs at 
wacv2026-pcs at googlegroups.com.

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Prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
URL: https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/

VP Technical Activities, IEEE Biometrics Council
Supervisory Board Member: European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
Vice-chair of IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4)

General Co-Chair: CVF/IEEE Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV 2026)
Program Co-Chair: IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025), https://ijcb2025.ieee-biometrics.org/