3rd Workshop on Human-inspired Computer Vision Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

3rd Workshop on Human-inspired Computer Vision

8th or 9th September 2026

ECCV 2026, Malmö, Sweden
https://sites.google.com/view/hcvworkshop2026

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AIMS AND SCOPE

The primary goal of the Human-Inspired Computer Vision (HCV) workshop
is to bridge the gap between machine perception and biological systems
by integrating findings from neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive
science. Although modern computer vision achieves impressive results
in many tasks, it still lacks the robustness and contextual
flexibility inherent to human vision, and the relationship between
artificial and human vision remains unclear. Investigating such a
relationship is timely and important for two reasons:

Improving machine vision: Insights from psychology, cognitive science,
and neuroscience can inform current research towards developing
computer vision models that operate in a human-like fashion. This
cross-disciplinary approach can help us systematically identify and
tackle the performance and generalization gaps between humans and
machines in key research areas.

Understanding and enhancing human vision: Modeling biological vision
is a hot topic in computational cognitive neuroscience. By developing
interpretable computer vision models, we create powerful tools to
explain neuroscientific and behavioral observations and to enhance
human vision and cognition, e.g. in the presence of sensory or
neurodevelopmental disorders.

TOPICS

We encourage the submission of research outcomes at the intersection
of computer vision with neuroscience and cognitive science, as well as
new dataset benchmarks related to the topics listed below.

Computational Vision

    Biomimetic vision systems

    Building on visual representations (e.g., internal motivation,
    intention, and curiosity)

    Cortical networks of visual recognition

    Neuronal dynamics and image processing

    Probabilistic inference and Bayesian priors in visual perception

    Computational models of visual attention and applications

    Automated image aesthetics

    Multi-modal sensory fusion and modulation for vision

    Visual motion processing and human tracking behavior

Biological Vision

    Bioinspired vision sensing

    Retinal processing: from biology to models and applications

Cognitive Aspects

    Adaptive systems

    Cognitive architectures

    Memory modulation in vision

    Understanding and modeling vision in a social context

    Planning and motor control for vision


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    TBA


IMPORTANT DATES

Regular Paper Submission (Archival Track): June 26th, 2026 (23:59 AoE)

Extended Abstract Submission (Non-Archival Track): August 14th, 2026

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The workshop includes an archival track and a non-archival track.
Accepted papers of both tracks will be presented during the workshop.

Papers must be prepared according to the ECCV 2026 template and
submitted as PDF documents, following ECCV Submission Policies.

At the time of submission, authors must indicate to which track the
paper is submitted.

Only papers accepted to the archival track will be published in the
ECCV workshop proceedings.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    Lucia Schiatti (University of Genoa - Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)

    Mengmi Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

    Yen-Ling Kuo (University of Virginia, USA)

    Vittorio Cuculo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

    Andrei Barbu (Amazon, USA)


For more details, please visit 
https://sites.google.com/view/hcvworkshop2026