Call for Participation: ImageEval 2026 Shared Task at ArabicNLP 2026

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Firoj Alam

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Jun 20, 2026, 2:44:35 AM (5 days ago) Jun 20

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Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite researchers and practitioners to participate in ImageEval 2026: Cultural Grounding in Arabic Multimodal Generation and Understanding, a shared task organized as part of ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026.

ImageEval 2026 focuses on Arabic language varieties and culturally specific visual content from the MENA region. The shared task provides dedicated tracks for building, evaluating, and comparing multimodal systems on culturally grounded Arabic image understanding and generation.

The shared task includes two tracks:

Task 1: Culturally Grounded Arabic Visual Question Answering and Hallucination Detection
Task 2: Cultural Accuracy Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation

Participants are invited to develop systems, submit predictions, and write system description papers for inclusion in the ArabicNLP 2026 proceedings.

Website: http://imageeval2026.github.io/
Data/Code: https://github.com/ImageEval2026/ImageEval2026-tasks

Registration: https://shorturl.at/utvGK

Join on slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/mm-eval/shared_invite/zt-3bnucib8h-YSHi512GQ9cvQUhiQe2Z4w

Important Dates

July 20, 2026: Registration deadline and release of blind test data
July 30, 2026: Final results announcement
August 15, 2026: Shared task system paper submission due
August 25, 2026: Notification of acceptance
September 5, 2026: Camera-ready version due
October 24-29, 2026: ArabicNLP main conference

We warmly encourage participation from the NLP, multimodal AI, computer vision, and Arabic language technology communities.

Please feel free to share this call with colleagues, students, and researchers who may be interested.