IWDD Contest 2026 – Call for Submissions

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IWDD Contest 2026 – Call for Submissions

International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring (WasteVision) @ WACV 2026

The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2026
Friday, March 6 – Tuesday, March 10, 2026 • Tucson, Arizona (USA)

Workshop Website Contest Website

Important Dates

Method Submission Deadline: 10th December, 2025
Contest Paper Deadline: 15th December, 2025
Decision notification: December 23rd, 2025
Camera-ready: January 9th, 2026 (11:59 PM, PT)

Contest

The Illegal Waste Dumping Detection (IWDD) contest is an international competition organized to encourage participants to develop advanced methods for real-time illegal waste dumping detection in videos captured by fixed CCTV cameras, runnable on smart cameras or embedded systems. Illegal dumping poses a major global issue, burdening cities with cleanup costs, harming ecosystems, and threatening public health.

We provide the participants with the MIVIA-IWDD dataset: 200 positive samples (100 static + 100 dynamic) and 200 negative samples. Each positive video includes precise timestamp annotations for fine-grained temporal localization and early detection training.

The private test set includes both positive and negative samples. The winner will be selected by the highest F1-Score on the test set. To emphasize real-time applicability, we also evaluate detection speed and computational efficiency to identify methods suitable for resource-constrained surveillance environments while maintaining high accuracy.

Full details: https://mivia.unisa.it/iwddcontest2026/

Rules

The deadline for method submissions is 10th December, 2025. Submit via email with trained model, code, and report (attachments or links).

Request the training set and annotations by emailing iwddcon...@unisa.it and include your team name.

External data may be used to improve performance.

Submit your trained model and evaluation code.

Participants are strongly encouraged to submit a contest paper to WASTEVISION 2026 by 15th December, 2025. Use the official WACV 2026 Author Kit (see workshop website). Accepted papers will appear in the WACV 2026 Workshops Proceedings.

Useful Links:
Workshop Website: https://mivia.unisa.it/wastevision2026/
Contest Website: https://mivia.unisa.it/iwddcontest2026/