(CfP) CVPR 2026: 10th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)
Dimitris Kollias
- Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge
- Expression Recognition Challenge
- Action Unit Detection Challenge
- Fine-grained Violence Detection Challenge
- Emotional Mimicry Intensity Estimation Challenge
- Ambivalence/Hesitancy (AH) Video Recognition Challenge
The first 3 Challenges are based on an augmented version of the Aff-Wild2 database; the 4th Challenge is based on the DVD database; the 5th Challenge is based on the Hume-Vidmimic2 dataset; and the 6th Challenge is based on the BAH dataset. More details can be found here.
Call for Participation Announced, Team Registration Begins, Data Available: 31 January, 2026
Winners Announcement: 17 March, 2026
Final Paper Submission Deadline: 18 March, 2026
Review Decisions Sent to Authors / Notification of Acceptance: 7 April, 2026
(2): The Workshop is a premier platform highlighting the latest advancements in multimodal analysis, generation, modeling, and understanding of human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained environments.
Original high-quality contributions, in terms of databases, surveys, studies, foundation models, techniques and methodologies (either uni-modal or multi-modal; uni-task or multi-task ones) are solicited on -but are not limited to- the following topics:
i) facial expression (basic, compound or other) or micro-expression analysis
ii) facial action unit detection
iii) valence-arousal estimation
iv) physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis
v) face recognition, detection or tracking
vi) body recognition, detection or tracking
vii) gesture recognition or detection
viii) pose estimation or tracking
ix) activity recognition or tracking
x) lip reading and voice understanding
xi) face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding)
xii) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)
xiii) group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality)
xiv) video, action and event understanding
xv) digital human modeling
xvi) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)
xvii) violence detection
xviii) autonomous driving
xix) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases
xx) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases
xxi) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases
Accepted workshop papers will appear at CVPR 2026 proceedings.
Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK
Irene Kotsia, Cogitat Ltd, UK
Panagiotis Tzirakis, Hume AI
Alan Cowen, Google DeepMind
Eric Granger, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
Marco Pedersoli, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
Simon Bacon, Concordia University, Canada