5th Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi)
MaCVi @ WACV 2027
Tuesday, January 5, 2027, afternoon (Orlando local time), per WACV’s draft schedule. Exact times and room to be confirmed.
Papers and publication
Paper submissions are closed. Reviews and decisions are being finalised. Accepted authors should follow the publication schedule below and the instructions from CPS.
The workshop covers original research and applied work on computer vision in maritime environments. Submissions may address underwater, surface, aerial, coastal, offshore, or remote-sensing settings, and may focus on algorithms, multimodal systems, datasets, evaluation, deployment, or scientific applications.
Submitted papers use the anonymous format, with up to 8 pages excluding references, from the official WACV 2027 author kit. Supplementary material is permitted. Submissions and reviews are handled through the MaCVi workshop venue on OpenReview.
Topics of Interest
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Object detection, recognition, tracking, and re-identification in maritime scenes
- Semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation above and below water
- Underwater image and video restoration, enhancement, and color correction
- Surface-vessel perception, obstacle detection, collision avoidance, and navigation
- Aerial and remote-sensing vision for search and rescue, monitoring, and mapping
- Marine animal, habitat, pollution, and environmental monitoring
- Multimodal learning and sensor fusion using optical, thermal, sonar, radar, depth, acoustic, or AIS data
- Visual localization, mapping, SLAM, heading estimation, and state estimation
- Low-light, adverse-weather, turbid-water, and long-range perception
- Domain adaptation, transfer learning, self-supervised learning, and few-shot learning
- Foundation models, vision-language models, and generalist maritime perception
- Synthetic data, simulation, generative models, and sim-to-real transfer
- Embedded, efficient, and real-time vision for maritime robots and sensor platforms
- Reliability, uncertainty, explainability, robustness, and safety evaluation
- Datasets, benchmarks, annotation methods, evaluation protocols, and reproducibility
- Field deployments and applications of maritime computer vision
Important Dates for Papers
Regular submissions closed on October 16, 2026, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12). WACV extended the metadata and camera-ready deadlines on October 27. CPS will contact accepted authors with camera-ready submission instructions.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Paper submission deadline (closed) | October 16, 2026, 23:59 AoE |
| Target: paper acceptance notification | October 30, 2026 |
| Accepted-paper metadata handoff to WACV / IEEE (organizers) | November 7, 2026, noon Pacific Time (21:00 Berlin) |
| Camera-ready deadline for archival papers | November 25, 2026 (follow CPS instructions) |
| Workshop | Tuesday, January 5, 2027, afternoon (Orlando local time; draft schedule) |
All authors need an active OpenReview account. Please create or activate profiles well before submitting; profile activation can take up to two weeks. The November 7 metadata handoff is handled by the organisers; accepted authors must complete any requested corrections beforehand.
Challenge entries follow the separate challenge schedule. The dates above reflect the latest workshop-chair update; general guidance is in the official workshop information.