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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshop Program Chairs: Mei Chen, Erik.Blasch, Brian Clipp, Sharon Huang, Andreas Savakis, Humphrey Shi

Proposal Deadline: Nov 03, 2025 AOE (firm)

Notification by: December 21, 2025

Email: workshops-cvpr-2026@googlegroups.com - please use this email for all questions and concerns

 

We are soliciting proposals for workshops to be held together with the 2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026). The workshops will take place on June 3rd and 4th at the same venue as the main conference in Denver, USA. The purpose of the workshops is to provide a comprehensive forum on topics that will not be fully explored during the main conference and to encourage in-depth discussion of technical, application, and community issues. We welcome workshops aiming to create and strengthen communities (such as affinity workshops) as well as workshops focusing on the societal impact of computer vision.  

In the past few years, the number of workshop proposals has been increasing rapidly. Due to space and time limitations, as well as to encourage a wide range of topic coverage, we will only be able to retain a limited number of proposals. Therefore, we encourage the workshop organizers to submit proposals that are specific and detailed in justifying relevance, viability and uniqueness. 

New (Workshop Tracks): This CVPR, to improve the organization of workshops on similar broad topics, we additionally ask submissions to identify a primary subject area (see list of potential tracks) that they belong to, as well as up to 5 secondary subject areas. This information will be used to create a “track” structure with workshops on cohesive topics. Workshop organizers will be asked to work closely with others in their track as to avoid overlap in content and speakers to the extent possible. Not every workshop will be assigned to a track – in fact, we encourage submission of workshops on emerging topics which will not be part of any particular track. 

Tracks:

  • 3D from multi-view and sensors
  • 3D from single images
  • Active learning
  • Adversarial attack and defense
  • Affinity groups
  • Autonomous driving
  • Biometrics
  • Computational imaging
  • Computer vision theory
  • Deep learning architectures and techniques
  • Document analysis and understanding
  • Efficient, edge, and scalable vision
  • Egocentric vision
  • Embodied vision: Active agents, simulation
  • Event-based cameras
  • Explainable computer vision
  • Foundation models (LLM, VLM, VLA, etc.)
  • Generative models
  • Human modeling & understanding: Face, body, pose, gesture, movement
  • Image and video synthesis and generation
  • Low-level vision
  • Machine learning (other than deep learning)
  • Medical and biological vision, cell microscopy
  • Multimodal detection, recognition, segmentation
  • Multimodal learning
  • Reinforcement learning and reasoning
  • Open world learning
  • Optimization methods (other than deep learning)
  • Photogrammetry and remote sensing
  • Physics-based vision and shape-from-X
  • Recognition: categorization, detection, retrieval
  • Representation learning
  • Robot perception 
  • Scene analysis and understanding
  • Segmentation, grouping and shape analysis
  • Self-, semi-, meta- and unsupervised learning
  • Synthetic data for vision
  • Transfer/ low-shot/ continual/ long-tail learning
  • Transparency, safety, fairness, accountability, and ethics in vision
  • Video: Action and event understanding
  • Video: Low-level analysis, motion, and tracking
  • Vision and graphics
  • Vision for accessibility 
  • Vision for healthcare
  • Vision for privacy and security
  • Vision for scientific discovery
  • Vision for societal good
  • Vision for XR, AR, VR
  • Vision, language, and reasoning
  • Vision applications and systems
  • World models
  • Emerging topics - other

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

  • Workshops will follow the format of CVPR 2026 (in-person and hybrid). More information will be disseminated closer to the conference date.  There will be no fully virtual workshops.
  • If workshop organizers intend to peer-review and publish accepted papers in conjunction with CVPR 2026 proceedings, please note the following:
    • Last day for workshop camera-ready submission will be April 11 2026 (tentative)
    • Last day for finalized workshop program will be April 18 2026 (tentative)
  • Sponsorship money for workshops and any award money offered must be managed by Workshop organizers
  • Workshop proposals will be submitted in PDF format and via OpenReview. Proposals should be submitted through OpenReview at this url: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop_Proposals. Please list all workshop organizers as authors, along with their OpenReview profiles. Follow the instructions for creating an OpenReview profile here: https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/CompleteYourORProfile Please do not directly email proposals to the chairs. 

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Workshop proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria. Their order below does not reflect their importance. We encourage, and expect, broad representation in the organizing team and invited speakers, and a wide range of opinions represented during a workshop.

  • Excitement and Relevance
    • We are looking for workshops which complement the main conference, reflect the CVPR community’s interest in a topic, as well as those that generate new discussion and momentum.
    • We strongly encourage workshops aimed at creating or improving community, workshops focusing on the societal impact of computer vision, interdisciplinary workshops, and workshops on emerging topics not sufficiently represented at CVPR.
  • Wide range of topics and formats
    • We strive for a wide range of topics, especially relevant topics that are not well covered in the main conference.
    • We strive for different workshop formats, such as invited speakers, challenges, community building, etc.
    • There should be minimal overlap in invited speakers between workshops. Workshop organizers are strongly encouraged to invite speakers who are uniquely relevant to their topics, and to think broadly about inviting speakers beyond those that commonly speak at CVPR workshops.
  • Societal impact and ethical consideration 
    • Computer vision may be useful both in positive and negative ways, so we expect workshop organizers to articulate the potential impact of their topics in the proposal and to incorporate those considerations into the workshop itself.
    • We encourage workshops focusing specifically on the societal impact of computer vision.
  • Organization
    • The level of experience of the organizing team and the dedication of the main organizers will be taken into account. 
    • The proposal should clearly articulate plans for engaging the audience in the workshop’s intended format (in-person or hybrid)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Workshop proposals are limited to 8 standard pages, minimum 11 point font in Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman, single spaced with 1 inch margins.  Figures count toward the page count.  References do not count toward the page count. Proposals should include the following:

TOPIC

  1. Workshop title
  2. Workshop acronym
  3. Topics that will be covered in the workshop.
  4. Abstract of no more than 100 words which will be included in the workshop schedule booklet and website.
  5. Broader impact statement: Describe why the workshop is relevant to the community and how relevant the topics or discussion are beyond the CVPR audience.
  6. Ethical considerations around the topic (if any)
  7. Relationship to previous workshops: Describe how this proposal relates to previous workshops held at CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/etc. in the last three years.
  8. If you are aware of other workshop proposals being submitted to CVPR'26 that may be suitable to form a "workshop track" please mention this in your proposal (see details above on workshop tracks).

ORGANIZERS AND SPEAKERS

  1. List of organizers.
  2. One primary and one secondary organizer responsible for liaising with the CVPR Workshop Program Chairs with their email addresses
  3. Organizing team’s experience and background: Information that supports the organizers’ ability to run a workshop, and appropriateness to a workshop on this topic, including brief bios for the main organizers.
  4. List of invited speakers: Please list only speakers that have confirmed or tentatively confirmed their attendance, and who are willing to deliver a virtual talk if necessary. For each speaker, (a) please indicate if confirmation is tentative or final, (b) provide a link to their homepage, and (c) explain their relevance to the workshop. We strongly recommend finding invited speakers who will not give the same talk at multiple workshops.

FORMAT AND LOGISTICS

  1. Format: CVPR 2026 will be in-person.  To support hybrid format and accommodate potential overflow, every workshop will be provided a Zoom room.  
  2. Expected workshop size: Small (< 100 attendees), Medium (100-300 attendees), Large (>300 attendees)
  3. Request for full-day workshop (optional): all workshops will be half-day (up to 4-5 hours) by default; if a full-day event is necessary, provide a short justification.  
  4. Schedule: Provide a preliminary schedule for your workshop. 
  5. If including paper submissions, provide: (a) Tentative program committee, (b) Paper review timeline, (c) Will these papers be published in proceedings? Note that paper submissions must adhere to the CVPR 2026 paper submission style, format, length restrictions, and camera-ready timeline.
  6. If the workshop hosts a competition, describe it and: (a) Explain which datasets will be used, (b) Whether the datasets are already available or not; in the latter case, provide an estimate when the datasets will be available and describe your contingency plan in case of delays; (c) Ethical considerations for the datasets, (d) How submissions will be evaluated, (e) The timeline for the competition (start, submission deadline, decisions to participants).
  7. If in-person posters are included, how many are expected?
  8. Special space or equipment requests, if any.

Proposals failing to comply with the guidelines will be desk-rejected.  

UPON ACCEPTANCE

  • The CVPR 2026 organizers will collect workshop registrations, provide facilities, and distribute electronic copies of the workshop proceedings.
  • Workshops will be required to prepare their own websites, separate from the CVPR 2026 webpage. These pages will include workshop details, organizers, dates, submission instructions, and, once finalized, the workshop program.
  • Workshop organizers will be provided a Zoom link only, other hybrid arrangements should be requested by April 15, 2026.  No Zoom links should be posted outside of the virtual site. 
  • Workshop organizers are expected to respond in a timely manner to requests from the CVPR 2026 organizers (e.g., by providing the workshop website url, the workshop program to be included in the main distribution materials).  Failure to respond in a timely manner may result in your workshop’s acceptance being withdrawn at the workshop program chairs’ discretion.
  • Workshop organizers should appoint a primary organizer who will serve as the main point of contact between the workshop program chairs and the workshop organizers. 
  • Program requests must be made by April 1, 2026 (including poster boards)
  • Note that everyone must be registered in advance to attend (even speakers). Workshop organizers will be provided with a limited number of free full registrations and workshop passes to use as they see fit.  Last minute requests for registrations will not be granted, even in emergencies.
  • NEW for CVPR 2026:  if workshop organizers anticipate certain invited speaker(s) to draw large crowds of >300 people, please inform CVPR workshop program chairs by April 1, 2026. This is crucial to allow CVPR Chairs to effectively assign rooms and manage crowds.

QUESTIONS

For any questions, please contact the workshop program chairs, Mei Chen, Erik.Blasch, Brian Clipp, Sharon Huang, Andreas Savakis, Humphrey Shi, at workshops-cvpr-2026@googlegroups.com.