Call for papers

Call for papers 

Submission CMT*: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CVforEO2026

Author guidelines (follow WACV main conference): https://wacv.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorReviewerGuides

• Author kit (.zip)

We invite two types of submissions:

• Full papers (up to 8 pages, including figures and tables) presenting mature, original research on computer vision for earth observation methods and applications. Submissions should follow WACV’s formatting and double-blind review guidelines, with accepted papers to appear in the WACV 2026 Workshop Proceedings.
  
• Short papers including position papers, abstracts on work-in-progress, industrial applications demos, or descriptions of workflows and best practices for CV4EO. Accepted short papers will be part of the lightning talks and poster sessions, but will not be in the Proceedings.
• Workshop takeaways and accepted short papers will be invited for compilation into an extended journal article submission to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations & Remote Sensing (JSTARS).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Foundation models for Earth observation applications, including custom and general architectural design, self-supervised learning strategies, and approaches for reasoning on heterogeneous spatiotemporal data.
• Data fusion and multimodal learning: integration of diverse sensing modalities (e.g., optical RGB/multispectral, SAR, LiDAR), tokenization strategies to promote cross/joint modal learning.
• Agentic AI in remote sensing. Integration of LLMs with computer vision techniques for reasoning and querying of Earth observation applications.
• Emerging advances: quantum machine learning for Earth observation, diffusion models for remote sensing data synthesis etc.
• Practical computer vision and machine learning for low resource Earth observation applications. Energy-efficient/lightweight architectures including mixture-of-experts for Earth observation application workflows.
• Benchmarking and evaluation protocols for CV4EO models: uncertainty quantification, trustworthiness, generalization, explainability, and application-oriented workflows.
• Ethical considerations (bias, privacy, fairness, accountability, reproducibility) and open challenges, case studies, and end-user application perspectives.
• Visual query answering, object detection, semantic/instance segmentation, classification techniques for applications in humanitarian assistance, precision agriculture, sustainable development goals, environment/wildlife monitoring etc.

Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: 30 Nov 2025 (Sun), AoE
• Notification to authors: 29 Dec 2025 (Mon)
• Camera-ready deadline (WACV defined):  Jan 09, 2026 11:59 PM PST

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* The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.