Call for Papers
We invite students and researchers from developing countries, regardless of their current location, to submit their work to the 3rd Workshop on Computer Vision for Developing Countries (CV4DC), held in conjunction with ACCV 2026 in Osaka, Japan. The workshop aims to highlight research that is either conducted in or particularly relevant to developing regions, spanning new ideas, ongoing projects, practical applications, and previously published work (within the last year).
CV4DC seeks to foster collaboration, inclusion, and impact in the global vision community by showcasing contributions that address local and global challenges. Participation is open to all, but in the abstract we strongly encourage highlighting contributions from researchers affiliated with developing countries, especially the presenting author.
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics in computer vision and pattern recognition, including but not limited to:
- Vision for social good / global development
- Vision applications in agriculture, healthcare, climate change, disaster response, education
- Dataset development and annotation in low-resource settings
- Low-power and efficient computer vision
- Remote sensing, photogrammetry for developing regions
- Document analysis (e.g., handwritten, multilingual, low-quality)
- Biomedical image analysis and diagnostics
- Generative models and data augmentation for scarce data
- Vision + Language / Multimodal Learning
- Any core vision topics, including:
- 3D Computer Vision
- Motion and Tracking
- Recognition, Categorization, Retrieval
- Segmentation and Grouping
- Deep Learning Techniques
- Optimization and Statistical Methods
- Low-Level Vision & Image Processing
- Robotics, Autonomous Systems
- Fairness, Transparency, and Ethics in CV
Submission Tracks
We offer two submission tracks:
1. Proceedings Track
- Format: Up to 14 pages (excluding references), using the official ACCV 2026 LNCS style files.
- Submissions will be double-blind reviewed.
- Accepted papers will be published in the official ACCV 2026 Workshop Proceedings.
- Suitable for well-developed, original research contributions.
2. Non-Proceedings Track
- Format: 4–7 pages (excluding references), using the official ACCV 2026 LNCS style files.
- Welcomes work-in-progress, preliminary findings, insightful negative results, opinion pieces, novel datasets, papers published within the last year, and method reports from the CV4DC Challenge.
- Submissions in this track will not be included in the official ACCV proceedings, allowing authors to share their work without affecting eligibility for journal or conference publication elsewhere.
- Suitable for researchers seeking community feedback, visibility, and collaboration opportunities on evolving or recently completed work.
Submission Guidelines
- All submissions must be uploaded via OpenReview. The submission portals for both tracks will be announced here shortly.
- Both tracks follow the ACCV 2026 paper format. The LNCS style files and the author kit are available via the ACCV 2026 Author Guidelines. References do not count towards the page limit.
- Reviews will be double-blind. All accepted papers will be presented in a poster session, and a select number will be chosen for oral presentations.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
1. Proceedings Track
(For papers to be published in the official ACCV 2026 Workshop Proceedings)
- Submission Deadline: September 25th, 2026 (AOE)
- Author Notification: October 20th, 2026 (AOE)
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 6th, 2026 (AOE)
- Workshop Dates: December 14-15, 2026
2. Non-Proceedings Track
(For work-in-progress, published papers, or other non-archival submissions)
- Submission Deadline: October 30th, 2026 (AOE)
- Author Notification: November 20th, 2026 (AOE)
- Workshop Dates: December 14-15, 2026
Travel Support
Subject to sponsorship, we intend to offer a number of travel grants to help authors of accepted papers offset the cost of attending, with priority given to authors from developing countries. Details and the application process will be announced after the acceptance notifications.
Registration
CV4DC is an official ACCV 2026 workshop.
All accepted papers must be registered through the ACCV 2026 conference site. Please ensure your registration includes access to workshops.
Note: Papers without valid ACCV registration will not be included in the final program.
Contact: cv4dc@googlegroups.com
