Paper submissions are closed. Challenge submissions remain open until October 27, 2026, 23:59 AoE. Explore the Diver3D, EURS and Maritime Visual Odometry challenges for datasets, rules and submission instructions.
MaCVi @ CVPR 2026 has concluded. Workshop summary, recordings and proceedings.
The Maritime Computer Vision initiative connects research above and below the water: open benchmarks, shared challenges and a community that puts methods to the test.
From aerial search and rescue to autonomous vessels and underwater observation, MaCVi brings datasets, evaluation tools and people together.
Discuss research, find collaborators, share resources and get challenge support.
Cite the workshop report or dataset relevant to your work. BibTeX entries are grouped below, newest first.
@InProceedings{Kiefer_2026_CVPR,
author = {Kiefer, Benjamin and Augustin, Jan Lukas and Muhovi\v{c}, Jon and Jeong, Mingi and Wiliem, Arnold and Pers, Janez and Kristan, Matej and Li, Alberto Quattrini and Ter\v{s}ek, Matija and \v{S}ari\'c, Josip and Vats, Arpita and Hildebrand, Dominik and Rahim, Rafia and Karaaslan, Mahmut and Kaya, Ersin and Mashrur, Akib and Tang, Tze-Hsiang and Tsai, Chun-Ming and Hsieh, Jun-Wei and Chang, Ming-Ching and Jo, Wonwoo and Lee, Doyeon and Cao, Yusi and Li, Lingling and Nageli, Vinayak and Jamal, Arshad and Subrahmanyam, Gorthi Rama Krishna Sai and Maeng, Jemo and Lee, Seongju and Lee, Kyoobin and Liu, Xu and Jiao, Licheng and Sheikh, Jannik and Weinmann, Martin and Martinovi\'c, Ivan and Persch, Jose Mateus Raitz and Cheppally, Rahul Harsha and E Belviranli, Mehmet and Gahtidis, Dimitris and Chun, Hyewon and Lee, Sangmun and Gorczak, Philipp and Kim, Hansol and Jeon, Jeeyeon and Perez, Borja Carrillo and Wang, Jiahui and Park, Sangmin and Michel, Andreas and Kuester, Jannick and Felten, Bettina and Gross, Wolfgang and Feng, Yuan and Davis, Justin},
title = {4th Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi): Challenge Overview},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2026},
pages = {8146-8156}
}@InProceedings{Kiefer_2025_WACV,
author = {Kiefer, Benjamin and Zust, Lojze and Kristan, Matej and Pers, Janez and Tersek, Matija and Mudenagudi, Uma and Desai, Chaitra and Wiliem, Arnold and Kreis, Marten and Akalwadi, Nikhil and Zhong, Zhiqiang and Zhang, Zhe and Liu, Sujie and Chen, Xuran and Yang, Yang and Fabijanic, Matej and Ferreira, Fausto and Lee, Seongju and Yao, Shanliang and Kumar, Himanshu and Marcus, Aurelius and Novak, Gregor and Feng, Yuan and Cheng, Annie and Nguyen, Thien and Sheikh, Jannik and Saric, Josip and Li, Zhuoxiao and Lu, Yutang and Lin, Yipeng and Yang, Xiang and Cheng, Ching-Heng and Awad, Ali and Muhovi\v{c}, Jon and Quan, Yitong and Lee, Junseok and Lee, Kyoobin and Guan, Runwei and Huang, Xiaoyu and Ni, Yi and Lin, Tzu-Yu and Lee, Chia-Ming and Hsu, Chih-Chung and Michel, Andreas and Gross, Wolfgang and Jiang, Nan and Feng, Fei and Lucas, Evan and Saleem, Ashraf and Lin, Yu-Fan and Weinmann, Martin},
title = {3rd Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2025: Challenge Results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops},
month = {February},
year = {2025},
pages = {1542-1569}
}@InProceedings{Kiefer_2024_WACV,
author = {Kiefer, Benjamin and \v{Z}ust, Lojze and Kristan, Matej and Per\v{s}, Janez and Ter\v{s}ek, Matija and Wiliem, Arnold and Messmer, Martin and Yang, Cheng-Yen and Huang, Hsiang-Wei and Jiang, Zhongyu and Kuo, Heng-Cheng and Mei, Jie and Hwang, Jenq-Neng and Stadler, Daniel and Sommer, Lars and Huang, Kaer and Zheng, Aiguo and Chong, Weitu and Lertniphonphan, Kanokphan and Xie, Jun and Chen, Feng and Li, Jian and Wang, Zhepeng and Zedda, Luca and Loddo, Andrea and Di Ruberto, Cecilia and Vu, Tuan-Anh and Nguyen-Truong, Hai and Ha, Tan-Sang and Pham, Quan-Dung and Yeung, Sai-Kit and Feng, Yuan and Thien, Nguyen Thanh and Tian, Lixin and Michel, Andreas and Gross, Wolfgang and Weinmann, Martin and Carrillo-Perez, Borja and Klein, Alexander and Alex, Antje and Solano-Carrillo, Edgardo and Steiniger, Yannik and Rodriguez, Angel Bueno and Kuan, Sheng-Yao and Ho, Yuan-Hao and Sattler, Felix and Fabijani\'c, Matej and \v{S}imunec, Magdalena and Kapetanovi\'c, Nadir},
title = {2nd Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2024: Challenge Results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops},
month = {January},
year = {2024},
pages = {869-891}
}@InProceedings{Kiefer_2023_WACV,
author = {Kiefer, Benjamin and Kristan, Matej and Per\v{s}, Janez and \v{Z}ust, Lojze and Poiesi, Fabio and Andrade, Fabio and Bernardino, Alexandre and Dawkins, Matthew and Raitoharju, Jenni and Quan, Yitong and Atmaca, Adem and H\"ofer, Timon and Zhang, Qiming and Xu, Yufei and Zhang, Jing and Tao, Dacheng and Sommer, Lars and Spraul, Raphael and Zhao, Hangyue and Zhang, Hongpu and Zhao, Yanyun and Augustin, Jan Lukas and Jeon, Eui-ik and Lee, Impyeong and Zedda, Luca and Loddo, Andrea and Di Ruberto, Cecilia and Verma, Sagar and Gupta, Siddharth and Muralidhara, Shishir and Hegde, Niharika and Xing, Daitao and Evangeliou, Nikolaos and Tzes, Anthony and Bartl, Vojt\v{e}ch and \v{S}pa\v{n}hel, Jakub and Herout, Adam and Bhowmik, Neelanjan and Breckon, Toby P. and Kundargi, Shivanand and Anvekar, Tejas and Tabib, Ramesh Ashok and Mudenagudi, Uma and Vats, Arpita and Song, Yang and Liu, Delong and Li, Yonglin and Li, Shuman and Tan, Chenhao and Lan, Long and Somers, Vladimir and De Vleeschouwer, Christophe and Alahi, Alexandre and Huang, Hsiang-Wei and Yang, Cheng-Yen and Hwang, Jenq-Neng and Kim, Pyong-Kun and Kim, Kwangju and Lee, Kyoungoh and Jiang, Shuai and Li, Haiwen and Ziqiang, Zheng and Vu, Tuan-Anh and Nguyen-Truong, Hai and Yeung, Sai-Kit and Jia, Zhuang and Yang, Sophia and Hsu, Chih-Chung and Hou, Xiu-Yu and Jhang, Yu-An and Yang, Simon and Yang, Mau-Tsuen},
title = {1st Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2023: Challenge Results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops},
month = {January},
year = {2023},
pages = {265-302}
}Please also check the relevant dataset page for its current citation and licence.
@inproceedings{varga2022seadronessee,
title={Seadronessee: A maritime benchmark for detecting humans in open water},
author={Varga, Leon Amadeus and Kiefer, Benjamin and Messmer, Martin and Zell, Andreas},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision},
pages={2260--2270},
year={2022}
}@article{bovcon2021mods,
title={MODS--A USV-oriented object detection and obstacle segmentation benchmark},
author={Bovcon, Borja and Muhovi{\v{c}}, Jon and Vranac, Du{\v{s}}ko and Mozeti{\v{c}}, Dean and Per{\v{s}}, Janez and Kristan, Matej},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems},
year={2021},
publisher={IEEE}
}@InProceedings{Zust2023LaRS,
title={LaRS: A Diverse Panoptic Maritime Obstacle Detection Dataset and Benchmark},
author={{\v{Z}}ust, Lojze and Per{\v{s}}, Janez and Kristan, Matej},
booktitle={International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
year={2023}
}