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Call For Papers</strong></h1>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">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.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Application
areas include, but are not limited to:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Agriculture</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Animals and Insects</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Arts, games, and social media</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Autonomous driving</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Biomedical, healthcare, and
medicine</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Commercial and retail</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Education</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Embedded sensing and real-time
techniques</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Environmental monitoring,
climate change, and ecology</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Food science and nutrition</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Psychology and cognitive
science</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remote sensing</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Robotics</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Smartphones and end-user
devices</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Social good</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Structural engineering and
civil engineering</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Virtual and augmented reality</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Visualization</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Authors
are also encouraged to submit more traditional computer vision
algorithms papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:</p>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">3D computer vision</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adversarial learning,
adversarial attack, and defense methods</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Biometrics, face, gesture, and
body pose</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Computational photography</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Generative models for image,
video, 3D, etc.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Datasets and evaluations</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Explainable, fair,
accountable, privacy-preserving, and ethical computer vision</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Image recognition and
understanding (object detection, categorization, segmentation,
scene modeling, visual reasoning)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Low-level and physics-based
vision</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Machine learning
architectures, formulations, and algorithms (including transfer,
low-shot, semi-, self-, and unsupervised learning)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video recognition and
understanding (tracking, action recognition, etc.)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vision + language and/or other
modalities</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Foundation models for
downstream vision tasks</li>
</ul>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">All
submissions will be handled electronically through OpenReview: <a href="http://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2026/Conference" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 148, 224); text-decoration: underline;">https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2026/Conference</a></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">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.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Authors
should follow the Author Guidelines and use the WACV 2026 Author
Kit (Templates to be provided), when preparing their papers for
review.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The<span> </span><a href="https://wacv.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorReviewerGuides" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 148, 224); text-decoration: underline;">Author
Guidelines</a> contains additional information on submission,
ethics, plagiarism, the review process, the publishing process,
and use of LLMs.</p>
<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exo; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Deadlines:</h2>
<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exo; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 1.75rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Round
2</h3>
<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Exo; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">New paper registration: Sept
12<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</sup>,
2025, 23:59 AoE</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paper submissions: Sept 19<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</sup>,
2025, 23:59 AoE</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Supplementary material: Sept
19<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</sup>,
2025, 23:59 AoE</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reviews and Final Decisions to
authors: Nov 5<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">th</sup>,
2025</li>
</ul>
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Prof. Vitomir Struc, PhD
Laboratory for Machine Intelligence
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/">https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/vitomir-struc/</a>
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), <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ijcb2025.ieee-biometrics.org/">https://ijcb2025.ieee-biometrics.org/</a>
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