14th International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2026) Call for Papers

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ECCV2026 - 
14th International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2026)

Malmö, Sweden, a day between Sep 8 and Sep 9, 2026

In conjunction with ECCV2026 - European Conference on Computer Vision

 Web: https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2026/ Contact: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Full Paper Submission: 10/07/2026 (extended)

Doctoral Consortium Submission: 31/07/2026

Abstract Submission: 31/07/2026

Notification of Acceptance Full Paper: 10/07/2026

Camera-Ready Paper Due: 10/08/2026

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Designing systems with humans in the loop able to assist the user is
an active research area, with the potential for impact on society at
large. Investigations in this area require a large set of innovations,
tools, and evaluation criteria, even when compared to research on
fully autonomous systems. Implementing such kinds of systems requires
a lot of effort to reach an adequate level of reliability and
introduces challenging satellite issues related to usability, privacy,
and acceptability. Besides, multidisciplinary competencies are
required to adapt algorithms to industrial, social, medical, and
economic constraints. The goal is to provide, year by year, a view of
how recent findings in computer vision and robotics are changing
assistive technologies, with emphasis on the related additional issues
and how they have been addressed by the researchers working in the
different research areas involved. Contributed papers presenting
assistive systems and describing how the related issues have been
addressed are expected. Submissions describing the outcome of
nationally or internationally funded research projects on the topics
of the workshop are also welcome. We encourage the presentation of new
data benchmarks for the workshop-related fields, and we also expect
competition proposals from emerging fields or new application
scenarios relevant to the workshop.

The workshop will host a doctoral consortium to also give a unique
opportunity to students, who are close to finishing or who have
recently finished their doctorate, to discuss their ongoing research
and to interact with experienced researchers.

Contributions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

    Symbiotic Human-Machine Systems;
    Computer Vision to aid Industrial Processes;
    Augmented and Mixed Reality;
    Computer Vision to Improve the safety of workers;
    Human-Robot Interaction;
    Home Healthcare;
    Technology for Cognition;
    Automatic Emotional Hearing and Understanding;
    Activity Monitoring Systems;
    Manipulation Aids;
    Smart Environments;
    Safety and Security;
    Ambient Assistive Living;
    Privacy-preserving systems;
    Robot assistants;
    Quality of Life Technologies;
    Navigation Systems;
    Mobile and Wearable Systems;
    Applications for the Visually Impaired;
    Sign language recognition and applications for hearing impaired;
    Applications for the Ageing Society;
    Personalized Monitoring;
    Egocentric and First-Person Vision;
    Applications to improve the health and wellbeing of children and elderly;
    Autonomous Driving;
    Driver Assistance Systems;
    Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for Assistive Systems;
    Multi-modal Human-Centered Systems;
    Environment Monitoring.

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INVITED SPEAKERS (CONFIRMED)

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Dima Damen, University of Bristol, UK https://dimadamen.github.io/

Katerina Fragkiadaki, Carnegie Mellon University, US 
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~katef/   
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SUBMISSION AND REVISION

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Full paper submissions will be handled electronically via Open Review: 
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/ECCV/2026/Workshop/ACVR

Abstracts and Doctoral Doctoral Consortium must be sent by email:
ACVR.workshop@gmail.com

The format for paper submission is the same as the ECCV 2026 main
conference. Please refer to ECCV 2026 submission policies
(https://eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuide)

See the instructions and guidelines on the following page: 
http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2026/submission.html
 

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

ACVR2026 paper reviewing will be double-blind; Authors will not know
the names of the area reviewers of their papers, and area reviewers
will not know the names of the authors. Three experts will revise each
submitted paper.

The paper length should match the intended final publication
length. Papers are limited to 14 pages (excluding references),
including figures and tables. Additional pages must contain only cited
references. While there is no limit to the number of references,
reviewers are instructed to check for pertinence. Citation of any of
the co-authors’ published work must be done in the third
person. Reference to unpublished work can be made by anonymizing it,
including it as supplementary material, and referencing it as
Anonymous.


Authors may optionally submit additional material that could not be
included in the main paper due to constraints of format (e.g., a
video), space (e.g., a proof of a theorem or an extra figure or table)
or anonymity.

Papers that are not blind, do not use the template, or have more than
14 pages (excluding references) will be rejected without review.

ABSTRACTS

Authors may also submit abstracts describing published or ongoing
works. The abstract should follow the same format as contributed
papers and should be at least 2 pages and at most 4 pages long,
including references. Authors of accepted abstracts will be given the
possibility to present their work during the workshop. The abstract
will not be published in the workshop proceedings. The accepted
abstracts will be published online on the workshop website upon
consensus agreement provided by the authors.


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The doctoral consortium is intended to be a discussion forum for PhD
students and recent PhD graduates who wish to present, discuss, and
receive feedback on their research activity. Eligible applicants are
researchers who were awarded their PhD within the past year, PhD
candidates, and PhD students who are expected to graduate within two
years. Applicants should submit a document describing their research
activity, at most 4 pages long (excluding references). The document
will not be published in the workshop proceedings, and it may contain
ongoing work and already published material. Eligible submissions will
be selected by the workshop organizers and given the possibility to
present and discuss their work during the workshop event in Paris. We
expect submissions to cover aspects relevant to the aims and topics of
the workshop. The submitted documents should follow the same format as
the contributed papers.

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

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Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, IT
Marco Leo, CNR-Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, IT
Francesco Ragusa, University of Catania, IT
Gerard G. Medioni, University of Southern California, US
Mohan Trivedi, University of California, San Diego, US
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ENDORSERS

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CVPL - Associazione Italiana in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition
andMachine Learning

http://www.cvpl.it/

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CONTACTS

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Email: ACVR.workshop@gmail.com  

Website:  https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2026/