[visionlist] [WACV 2026] Call for Papers - Paper submission in now open

[Vitomir Štruc]

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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
OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2026/Conference
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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: 
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2026/Conference

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/