Workshop on Interactive Physical AI Call for Papers

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Event: Workshop on Interactive Physical AI 
Location: Denver, Colorado (CVPR 2026) 
Date: 3rd or 4th June, 2026
Workshop Website: 
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/projects/IPA/2026/
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Workshop Overview: Interactive Physical AI

Advances in multimodal learning, embodied intelligence, and
conversational AI are transforming how humans interact with
intelligent AI systems in our physical world. These Interactive
Physical AI (IPA) systems can simultaneously perceive humans and
scenes with multimodal signals, communicate with verbal and nonverbal
behaviors, and act safely and effectively under physical-world
constraints in shared spaces. Embodiments of IPA include robots,
physically-grounded and environment-aware avatars (e.g., AR
telepresence), and on-device audio-visual agents that interact with
humans in the physical world.

This workshop will bring together researchers from computer vision,
robotics, and multimodal AI to discuss the full scope of interactive
physical AI systems and research challenges to advance this
frontier. The program will include invited talks from speakers, as
well as posters and spotlight talks of accepted papers.


Call-for-Papers 

We invite authors to submit unpublished papers (8-page CVPR format) to
our workshop, to be presented at a poster session upon acceptance. All
submissions will go through a double-blind review process. All
contributions must be submitted on OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/IPA

Accepted papers will be published in the official CVPR Workshops
proceedings and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) Open Access
archive.

Note: Authors of previously rejected main conference submissions are
also welcome to submit their work to our workshop. When doing so, you
must submit the previous reviewers' comments (named as
previous_reviews.pdf) and a letter of changes (named as
letter_of_changes.pdf) as part of your supplementary materials to
clearly demonstrate the changes made to address the comments made by
previous reviewers.

Topics of interest for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Human-AI interaction in physical environments
    Embodied conversational AI and multimodal learning
    Full-duplex multimodal conversational models
    Social intelligence and communication for robots and avatars
    Egocentric vision and first-person perception
    Real-time audio-visual processing for interactive systems
    Safe and cooperative human-robot interaction
    Personalization and lifelong learning for physical AI
    Privacy-aware learning in interactive settings
    Physically authentic perception and generation for avatars and agents


Important Dates

    Deadline: February 28, 2026
    Notification: March 20, 2026

    Camera-Ready: April 10, 2026


Organizing Committee

    Seonwook Park (NVIDIA)
    Amrita Mazumdar (NVIDIA)
    Shengze Wang (NVIDIA)
    Leena Mathur (Carnegie Mellon University) 
    Koki Nagano (NVIDIA)
    Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA)


Contact 
If you have any questions about the workshop, please email Seonwook
Park at seonwookp@nvidia.com