Maritime Computer Vision Workshop @ CVPR 2026

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers and Challenge deadlines will follow the schedule below. The plan launches the CFP immediately after the expected workshop acceptance notification, ensuring the review and camera-ready phases align with the official CVPR 2026 timeline.

Accepted papers will appear in the CVPR 2026 Workshops proceedings and follow the standard CVPR review process and formatting guidelines.

Papers with the following topics will be solicited:

  • Object detection and tracking
  • Multi-modal image fusion
  • Multi-modal learning
  • Multi-modal vision sensors (IR, depth, Hyper-/Multi-spectral) for UAVs and USVs
  • (Video) Anomaly detection
  • Activity recognition
  • Instance/Semantic segmentation
  • Scene understanding for drones
  • Synthetic data generation
  • Transfer learning and domain adaptation
  • Remote sensing for detection and classification
  • Embedded vision algorithms for UAVs and USVs
  • Real-time deep inference
  • Visual autonomous navigation and SLAM
  • Visual collision avoidance
  • Collaborative visual monitoring for UAVs and USVs
  • Applications of computer vision for UAVs and USVs
  • Embodied vision: Active agents, simulation
  • Explainable computer vision
  • Generative AI for maritime (Image and video synthesis)
  • Physics-based vision and shape-from-X
  • Vision + graphics
  • Representation learning

Important Dates

Note: All deadlines are tentative and subject to change. Please check this page regularly for updates.

Event Date
Workshop acceptance notification 21.12.2025 (Sunday)
Call for Papers launch 23.12.2025 (Tuesday)
Challenge start 29.12.2025 (Monday)
Challenge end 15.03.2026 (Sunday)
Paper submission deadline 07.03.2026 (Saturday)
Paper acceptance notification 19.03.2026 (Thursday)
Final camera-ready deadline 31.03.2026 (Tuesday)
Workshop date 03.06.2026 (Wednesday)