Registration Open for 29th BMVA Computer Vision Summer School @ Durham University : 13th - 17th July 2026

[Stuart James]

Registration for CVSS 2026 is open: https://cvss.bmva.org/attending/registration/

Important dates:

• Early bird registration until: 31st May 2026

• Summer school: 13th – 17th July 2026

The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) runs an annual Computer Vision Summer School aimed primarily at PhD students (especially in their first and second year), while also benefiting other early-career researchers and professionals in industry. Attendees from both UK and non-UK institutions are welcome. Places are limited to support strong interaction, particularly in lab classes.

CVSS 2026 will take place at Durham University between 13th and 17th July 2026, and will consist of an intensive week of lectures and lab sessions spanning key topics across modern computer vision, together with networking opportunities to connect with peers and leading researchers.

Themes (CVSS 2026 educational material)

1. Image and Video Synthesis

   • Computer vision theory; deep learning architectures; representation learning; optimisation methods; explainable computer vision; transparency, fairness, accountability, privacy and ethics in vision; generative modelling

2. 3D, Geometry, and Physical Understanding

   • 3D from multi-view and sensors; 3D from single images; low-level vision; segmentation; scene analysis and understanding; geometry/scene-grounded image and video synthesis

3. Vision for X

   • Vision for robotics; embodied vision (active agents, simulation); autonomous driving; video (low-level analysis, motion, tracking); humans (face, body, pose, gesture, movement); recognition (categorisation, detection, retrieval)

4. Multimodal Learning, Vision, Language, and Reasoning

   • Transfer/low-shot/continual/long-tail learning; self-, semi-, meta- and unsupervised learning; multimodal learning
     
     

Speakers will be confirmed soon (programme schedule updates will be posted on the website: https://cvss.bmva.org/)

Organisers:

Dr Amir Atapour-Abarghouei, Dr Stuart James, Dr Ulrik Beierholm, Dr Cuong Nguyen, Dr Nikos Mavrakis, Dr Carlos Moreno-Garcia, Dr Aiden Durrant, Prof Georgios Leontidis, Prof Toby Breckon, Dr Andrew Gilbert