[WACV 2026] Call for Papers

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*** WACV 2026 Call For Papers ***

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.

Application areas include, but are not limited to:

    + Agriculture
    + Animals and Insects
    + Arts, games, and social media
    + Autonomous driving
    + Biomedical, healthcare, and medicine
    + Commercial and retail
    + Education
    + Embedded sensing and real-time techniques
    + Environmental monitoring, climate change, and ecology
    + Food science and nutrition
    + Psychology and cognitive science
    + Remote sensing
    + Robotics
    + Smartphones and end-user devices
    + Social good
    + Structural engineering and civil engineering
    + Virtual and augmented reality
    + Visualization

Authors are also encouraged to submit more traditional computer vision
algorithms papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    + 3D computer vision
    + Adversarial learning, adversarial attack, and defense methods
    + Biometrics, face, gesture, and body pose
    + Computational photography
    + Generative models for image, video, 3D, etc.
    + Datasets and evaluations
    + Explainable, fair, accountable, privacy-preserving, and ethical
computer vision
    + Image recognition and understanding (object detection,
categorization, segmentation, scene modeling, visual reasoning)
    + Low-level and physics-based vision
    + Machine learning architectures, formulations, and algorithms
(including transfer, low-shot, semi-, self-, and unsupervised learning)
    + Video recognition and understanding (tracking, action
recognition, etc.)
    + Vision + language and/or other modalities
    + Foundation models for downstream vision tasks

All submissions will be handled electronically through OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2026/Conference

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.

Authors should follow the Author Guidelines and use the WACV 2026 Author
Kit (Templates to be provided), when preparing their papers for review.

The Author Guidelines contains additional information on submission,
ethics, plagiarism, the review process, the publishing process, and use
of LLMs.

*** Deadlines ***

    + New paper registration: Sept 12th,  2025, 23:59 AoE
    + Paper submissions: Sept 19th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
    + Supplementary material: Sept 19th, 2025, 23:59 AoE
    + Reviews and Final Decisions to authors: Nov 5th, 2025