[CFP and Challenges] PRAW@WACV2026 - 3rd Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW)

[Rocco Pietrini]

Call for papers and participations to challenges in the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2026 - 3rd Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW)! 

WACV 2026 - 3rd Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW)
🌐 Workshop website: https://grocery-vision.github.io
🕑 Time and date: March 6-7, 2026 - Tucson, Arizona, USA


Important dates

Workshop Paper Submissions:
Paper Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2026/Workshop/PRAW
📅 Paper submission deadline: 12/19/2025 (23:59 anywhere on earth)
📅 Notification of acceptance: 12/26/2025
📅 Camera-ready deadline: 1/09/2026


Grocery Vision Challenges (GV26):
Challenge website: https://grocery-vision.github.io

Track 3 participation on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/physical-retail-ai-workshop-track-3-wacv-2026
To register for participation: please send email to retailvisio...@amazon.com

💪 challenge registration deadline and training data release: 12/12/2025
💪 challenge results submission deadline: 01/16/2026
💪 challenge winner notification: 01/30/2026

Overview

The Physical Retail AI workshop in WACV 2026 connects researchers and practitioners interested in the way computer vision is shaping the world of retail. We are now accepting paper submissions and challenge participants. 


About the Physical Retail AI Workshop:
This is the 3rd installment of the Physical Retail AI Workshop, which focuses on the unique challenges and opportunities that arise when applying computer vision and machine learning to the physical retail domain. This is the 3rd year of the workshop in WACV, building on top of successes in WACV 2025 and WACV 2024. In this year, we have new collaboration between Amazon and Standard AI, where we co-organize the workshop and share 2 public datasets, namely the Grocery Vision dataset from Amazon, as well as the RetailAction dataset from Standard AI. And we have 3 challenges to participate in Grocery Vision Challenge (GV26). See details for challenge section. 


About the Grocery Vision Challenge (GV26)
The Grocery Vision Challenge is a yearly challenge, aims to bring together computer vision and AI scientists from both academic and industry backgrounds, focusing on pioneering advancements in physical retail AI, particularly within the grocery sector. In 2026, we will have 3 tracks of challenges: 

• Track 1: Shopping Cart Video Temporal Action Localization (SC-TAL) and Spatial Temporal Action Localization (SC-STAL)
• Track 2: Multi-modal Product Retrieval (MPR). 
• Track 3: Top-View Spatial Temporal Action Localization (TV-STAL) - hosted on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/physical-retail-ai-workshop-track-3-wacv-2026

The GV challenges were organized in WACV24 (part of 1st Physical Retail AI Workshop), CVPR 2024 (part of RetailVision workshop), WACV 2025 (part of 2nd Physical Retail AI workshop), and ICCV 2025 (part of RetailVision workshop). See more details: https://grocery-vision.github.io

Best regards,

WACV 2026 Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW) Organizers

Rocco Pietrini (Mercatorum University)
Bruno Abbate (Standard AI)
David Woollard (Standard AI)
Davide Mazzini (Standard AI)
Quanfu Fan (Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores)
Sean Ma (Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores)
Shun Miao (Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores)
Weijian Li (Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores)

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