WasteVision 2026 - International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring Call for Papers

=== Call for submissions ===
WasteVision 2026 - International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring
The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2026
Friday, March 6 - Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - Tucson, Arizona (USA)

Workshop Website: https://mivia.unisa.it/wastevision2026/
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=== Important dates ===
Paper submission deadline: December 10th, 2025 (11:59 PM, AoE)
Paper submission deadline for contest participants: December 15th, 2025 (11:59 PM, AoE)
Decision notification: December 23rd, 2025
Camera-ready: January 9th, 2026 (11:59 PM, PT)
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=== Call for papers ===
The growing global concern around waste management, illegal dumping,
and environmental pollution highlights the urgent need for intelligent
monitoring solutions. Advances in computer vision, guided by the
impressive progress in artificial intelligence technologies, offer
promising opportunities to address these challenges. However, the
scientific literature in this field points out that key research gaps
remain, including the lack of robust detection methods for diverse
environments, limited datasets and benchmarks, and the need for
solutions that can be deployed in real systems with limited
computational resources running in real time.

The International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring (WasteVision)
will provide a unique forum for researchers and companies to present
and discuss novel contributions in this emerging field. The workshop
seeks to advance the state of the art in smart waste monitoring,
illegal dumping detection, and environmental pollution surveillance
while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

We invite original research contributions in (but not limited to) the following areas:
* Image analysis for waste detection and classification
* Video analysis for waste tracking and management
* Computer vision methods for detecting illegal waste disposal
* Multimodal systems for dumping identification
* Remote sensing and UAV-based waste monitoring
* Video and image analytics for pollution tracking
* Datasets and benchmarks for waste and pollution monitoring
* Applications and case studies (real-world deployments in urban and rural contexts)

The workshop will also host the first edition of the Illegal Waste
Dumping Detection (IWDD) contest
(https://mivia.unisa.it/iwddcontest2026/), in which the participants
will receive a novel dataset for training their approaches for illegal
waste dumping detection: the methods will be evaluated on a private
test set, in order to ensure a fair comparison on unpublished
videos. We welcome scientific papers describing the methods and
results obtained during the contest, including innovative approaches,
system designs, and comparative analyses.

We will accept the submissions of regular papers with more than 5
pages, whose template must follow the same formatting guidelines
required by the main conference. All the accepted papers will be
published in the proceedings alongside the main conference. More
details are provided on the workshop website
(https://mivia.unisa.it/wastevision2026/). The submission can be done
through CMT https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WasteVision2026.
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The organizers,
Antonio Greco, University of Salerno, Italy
Carlo Sansone, University of Naples - Federico II, Italy
Bruno Vento, University of Naples - Federico II, Italy