[CfP] Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS) Workshops @ CVPR 2026

[MAPS]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce the Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS) workshop at CVPR 2026, featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers. This workshop will bring together researchers from CV, NLP, HCI, social sciences, and humanities, recognizing that pluralistic multimodal AI systems demand both technical expertise and an understanding of human values.

We invite you to:

1. Participate in our challenge. We host a challenge on Machine Translation for Vision, which focuses on adapting images to fit different cultures while keeping their meaning. We offer two tracks: open (using open-sourced models only) and proprietary (any use of proprietary models). More details on the dataset and the task can be found in the paper, which won the Best Paper award at EMNLP 2024! The challenge will be hosted on Hugging Face challenges. The results of the challenges and winning entries will be presented at the workshop. Participate here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/cmu-lti/MachineTranslationforVision

Start date: March 3, 2026
End date: April 10, 2026

2. Submit your papers of up to 4 pages that discuss but are not limited to identifying effective evaluation tasks, benchmarks, and metrics to assess cultural awareness and alignment in VLMs; new methodology for improving cultural authenticity, pluralism, and fairness of AI systems; and new techniques for capturing multiple cultural perspectives and building multimodal models that can amplify underrepresented communities and handle low-resource data at scale. For more details see the Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr/call-for-papers.

Useful links:
Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr
Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr/call-for-papers
Challenges: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr/challenges 

Please feel free to share this with colleagues who may be interested. We look forward to your participation.

For any workshop-related queries including the challenge, please drop an email at maps...@gmail.com.

Yours sincerely,
Workshop organizers