The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2026

JW Marriott Starpass

Mar 6 - 11, 2026

JW Marriott Starpass

Tucson, United States

Mar 6 - 11, 2026

Tucson, United States

About the Conference

The 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. The Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

Subject Areas

Application areas Topics of interest

Keynote Speakers

Ravi Ramamoorthi

Ronald L. Graham Professor of Computer Science · University of California, San Diego

Dorin Comaniciu

Senior Vice President and Chief Expert for Healthcare AI · Siemens Healthineers

Hilde Kühne

Professor of Multimodal Learning · Tübingen AI Center

Important Dates

2026-03-06 Conference Dates · Friday March 6 - Tuesday March 10, 2026 CLOSED

2026-01-06 Early Registration Deadline CLOSED

2025-07-11 Round 1 Paper Registration Deadline · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-07-18 Round 1 Paper Submission Deadline · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-07-18 Round 1 Supplementary Material · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-09-05 Round 1 Reviews and Decisions to Authors CLOSED

2025-09-12 Round 2 New Paper Registration Deadline · Round 1 papers should not re-register CLOSED

2025-09-19 Round 1 Rebuttal and Revision Submission · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-09-19 Round 2 Paper Submission Deadline · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-11-06 Round 1 Final Decisions Released to Authors CLOSED

2025-11-06 Round 2 Reviews and Final Decisions to Authors CLOSED

2025-12-08 Camera Ready Paper Deadline · Anywhere on Earth for both rounds CLOSED

2025-09-13 Workshop Proposal Deadline · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-10-02 Workshop Acceptance Notification CLOSED

2025-12-07 Tutorial Proposal Deadline CLOSED

2025-12-15 Tutorial Notifications CLOSED

2025-11-22 Demo Submission Deadline · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-12-05 Demo Submission Notification CLOSED

2025-12-16 Broadening Participation Application Deadline · Anywhere on Earth CLOSED

2025-12-21 Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline CLOSED

2026-01-11 Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notifications CLOSED

Call For Papers

Application areas

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

Topics of interest

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

Publication & Indexing

PublisherIEEE

ProceedingsMachine Vision and Applications (special issue)

Conference Organization

Organized by

IEEE The Computer Vision Foundation

In cooperation with

IEEE Computer Society

Supported by

Adobe Encord Kitware Voxel 51 Edmund Optics

Committee

General Chairs

Rama Chellappa

Johns Hopkins

Vitomir Štruc

University of Ljubljana

Program Chairs

Brian Clipp

Motional

Naser Damer

TU Darmstadt/Fraunhofer IGD

Sharon X. Huang

Penn State University

Vlad Morariu

Adobe

Tutorial Chairs

Marta Gomez Barero

Universität der Bundeswehr München

Vishal Patel

Johns Hopkins University

Workshop Chairs

Scott McCloskey

Kitware

Sarah Ostadabbas

Northeastern University

Industry/Gov't Relations Chair

Katarina Doctor

US Naval Research Laboratory

Ombudsperson

Ryan Ferrell

Brigham Young University

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Ehsan Azimi

University of Arizona

Aparna Bharati

Lehigh University

Demo/Exhibition Chairs

Joel Brogan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Emanuela Marasco

Virginia Commonwealth University

Participation Broadening Chairs

Soma Biswas

Indian Institute of Science

"YZ" Yezhou Yang

Arizona State University

Finance Chair

Raghavendra Ramachandra

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Publications Chair

Srirangaraj Setlur

State University of New York at Buffalo

Publicity Chair

Abby Stylianou

Saint Louis University

Technical Chair

Yoshitomo Matsubara

Yahoo!

Conference Producer

Nicole Finn

Website

Lee Campbell

WACV